Pandora and the party talked for an hour on things as Valoria got an understanding of what is outside her dungeon. Safe to say, she'll be get Delvers sometime in a week due to how a capital city is right nextdoor. Valoria decides to throw herself into work in the meantime.
First is the second floor, a relatively simple affair as she decided on a theme of a toy store/storage facility. With that in mind, she got to work.
She made the floor a bit of a maze made of shelves containing decoys and enemies alike, hiding experimental minions she had made before those party crashers came in. As a bonus, she made the labyrinth be made with a combo of what could qualify as room encounters and ambush hallways that shifted randomly between runs.
The minions for the floor were mostly a testing ground for the new Manakin types and the Valentine Plushies. But as she looked at the raging Nuclear Manakin she made earlier, she decided to place him in the maze as a roaming Boss and named him Adam Bombastic. The name gave him some new abilities, but Valoria told him to show her when the Delvers come.
Name: Adam Bombastic
Race: Nuclear Manakin
Level: 1/50
STR: 35 INT: 75
CON: 50 WIS: 30
DEX: 40 LUC: 1
Skills: Radioactive Aura, Pyrokinetic Crystals, Nuclear Flames, Raging Crystal Heart, Detonate Crystals, Emotional Fires, Go Ballistic!, Time Bomb Description: A living time bomb. Tick tock, intruders, he's gonna blow!
As she assigned the drops for the floor, she tried to think of a good Boss idea. She went with a puppet.
'First a humanoid shape, lets make this one male. Next his theme, an artist maybe? Give him the hat, some paint splashes...but something's missing from the idea. Hm.' Valoria's thoughts drifted as she began placing 4 giant canvases that took up most of the walls they were on, and placed smaller one on stands on the ground and hanging by threads from the ceiling. 'There! Now for the infusion!'
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Infusing the puppet and his oversized paintbrush with the Emotion Mana of Hatred, Fear, and Calmness. With a bonus of a little Life Mana, the puppet floated to the center of the art room as its from shifted.
The result looked like a tall, pale emo teenager. They could even be described as a twink. Valoria was running out of possible name ideas and just decided to name the 2nd Floor's boss as Lani for now.
Name: Lani
Race: Puppet
Level: 1/50
STR: 20 INT: 50
CON: 20 WIS: 45
DEX: 50 LUC: 5
Skills: Soul Strings, Thread Manipulation, Living Art, Ink Production, Drawing Description: A puppet of his own emotions, and they're all against you, intruding on his creative space.
Valoria wondered why Lani was weaker than Adam, but as she looked through the skills she managed to figure it out. The Soul Strings are manipulating the puppet body and aren't noticable if you don't have some sort of special sight. Combine that with what's basically flight and hyper versatile magic, it's a pretty good Boss.
The second floor only took about 5 hours to complete, so Valoria continued to do what Dungeons do best.
Valoria decided to take inspiration from other kinds of toys other than plushies and dolls. But first there were her dungeon chests and mimics! Her chests would look like gift boxes of various colors instead of those wood and metal containers.
The mimics? Same thing, with the only difference being noticable when you shake them. Normal gifts you can hear what's inside making the sound, mimics have none. When sprung, the inside of the mimic looks like a gridder with two springy arms that try to throw the nearest person inside to be crushed.
Race: False Gift
Level: 1/25
STR: 35 INT: 5
CON: 35 WIS: 5
DEX: 5 LUC: 0 Skills: Surprise Attack, Stealth, Charming Visage, For The Horde!, Immobile Immunity, Crushing Maw, Mechanical Make-up
Description: Like a normal Mimic, False Gifts are mostly dungeon only creatures. But unlike mimics, they are (slightly) more intelligent and will run if it can't keep a hold on its prey.
That horde skill allowed False Gifts to gain the effects of any item it consumed, while Immobile Immunity made it hyper resistant to damage while still. Most of the other skills were self explanatory.
These and normal gifts were placed at a 1:5 ratio on floor One and a 1:4 ratio on Two, with their exact positions on those floors randomized. The mimics were assigned something Valoria called a Skill Scroll for loot. These would allow people to learn a random skill from any of the creatures from the dungeon. Well, most of the skills will work the same, some are reworked to actually work for Delvers.
Now Valoria was stuck on brainstorming the next toys to innovate on. She decided to let her mind make what it wanted for a little bit and the results were...odd to say the least.