What should I do for my third floor?
“What should I do for my third floor Gairy?
Gairy glances up from the rune he is carving into his staff. “Oh, make a series of 15 rooms, and have a Meg every 3 rooms, and a squad of Cancuns, in each as well. Slowly make the squads bigger.”
I glance around. “That's boring. Tell you what, I'm going to make two different ways to get through, one will have Megs, and one will have lots of Cancuns.”
Gairy shrugs. “Unusual, but ok.”
I smile, and begin working. The first route will be long, but easier, with Cancuns. It will have 5 Cancuns, in the first room, and I'll add 3 more Cancuns, for every room. I'll have 12 rooms, with plus 3 Cancuns, for every room.
The second route will only have 3 rooms, the first room, with one Meg, , the second room, with 1 Meg and 3 Cancuns, and the last room, with 2 Megs.
The biggest question of what I should make the boss room? Maybe, I just supersize a Meg, and drop it in there?
I consult with Gairy. “What should I do for the boss room? I don't know what to do, so I'm considering just making a super sized Meg.”
Gairy nods. “You could do that. Or you could try to make something completely new from scratch.”
I grimace. “What Soul would I use for that?”
Gairy blinks, “Just mash together a bunch of weaker souls, and make something stronger.”
I blink. “I can do that?”
Gairy chuckles, “yup.”
I begin the process of making the creature I want for the floor boss. I want to model it off, Heracles, so I basically just make a snake, but huge, almost 10 feet long. But he struggles to move, because I must have messed something up, in his creation.
I quickly call in Gairy to Cull my monstrosity.
I begin to work again. My creature ends up being nearly 10 feet long, and I give up making it be wormy, and instead give it legs. give a multitude of limbs that extend every half a foot. Each arm taken from Goblin, I give it 20 arms in total, 10 on each side. Instead of Giving it a snake head, I plant on the head of a Goblin, and give it a couple crude weapons, to grip in its front hands, like a heavy brittle dagger, or a stone spear, even a light buckler, with a sharp little spike on the front of it.
I smile, and zoom, out to view my creation, I flesh toned snake, 10 feet long, with humanoid arms extending every half a foot, the front couple of hands, are holding crude weaponry, and at the front of the snake, is the Head of a Goblin, that for creepy point, I dissected the skull, and used string, and small nails to peel away the skin revealing the brain to open air.
My creature is in constant pain, and screams, and cries like so.
I implemented it into the boss room, and showed Gairy.
Gairy pales. “Might… Be a little much for the third floor?”
I purse my imaginary lips. “Nah… If it ends up taking out too many people, I'll move it.
Gairy shudders. “First time, I've ever felt pity for those damn humies.”
Milo
Milo clutches his short sword close to the tower shield. “Shit, this stuff is heavy.”
Luther chuckles, and swishes a curved serrated knife back, and forth. “Yup, that's why I don't wear none of that shit. Just a little beast leather is enough for me.” He gestures to his outfit, a loose robe, covering most of his body, with openings, and folds to hide knives, poisons, and crossbows.
This is the first time Milo will be entering the dungeon, for real, and this time, with Luther's, party!
Luther, of course, being a sort of rogue, who uses sharp poisoned knives, but actually uses a variety of crossbows, as well as a short re-curve bow, hidden away on his person. He is actually far more dangerous outside of the dungeon, specializing in horseback combat, while using his bow.
The damage dealer, Harkon, a tall, and exceedingly skinny man, nearly 7 feet tall, he wears light chain mail, with some spots protected by thin steel armor. He uses a fearfully difficult to control looking weapon, he calls a chain whip. It has a handle like a sword, and then it has a series of metal segments, before right at the end there is a sharp double edged blade, that from my understanding he uses simple wind magic to control the whole thing better.
“How do you control that damned thing?” Milo gestures to Harkon's weapon.
Harkon smirks. “I use wind magic to direct things the way I want them to go, but I also have some EXTENSIVE training from my family.”
Milo opens his mouth to ask about his family. Luther gives him a gentle sucker punch to the arm before shaking his head no. So Milo leaves it be.
Next, we have Theo. Theo is almost as tall as Harkon, but quite a bit wider, he was the party's tank, and will now be spending a lot of time teaching Milo how to use his armor.
Lastly we have Aeryn, an older woman, looking about as old as Ivan. Further consultation, apparently she started cultivating when she was 50, and is now closer to 80, she actually is also a damage dealer/mage, being a respectable 5 foot 8, but with a heavy, and wide frame. She uses a large axe, and earth magic to support the group, mostly. She can also do some minor healing, but is unskilled at it, and so avoids it as much as possible.
Theo grunts, and scratches at his armor, being completely redundant because he can't reach the skin beneath, but it seems to make him feel better. Theo leads the way into the dungeon, shoulder to shoulder with Harkon, Milo right behind them, standing next to Luther, who mostly supports them, and finally behind them, is Aeryn.
Luther swings his knife back, and forth, seeming to be something he enjoys doing, he smiles, and flashes his bright white teeth to the group.
Aeryn, unphased, by the ambiance of entering the dungeon grunts, and scratches at her graying hair. “Let's get this over with. Newbie, just don’t die ok.”
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Milo chuckles nervously. As they get further into the cavern they find it widens, out, and gains height being nearly 20 feet tall, and nearly twice as wide, and almost 80 feet long. They enter the room, to find a small cobblestone, and dirt path leading through the forested part.
Theo chuckles, as a Cancun rushes from a bush, which he punts off into a far wall.
“FUCK! Now we either got to go all the way over there to get the loot, or we gotta just leave it!” He lectures Theo. He rolls his eyes, “keep going.”
They continue onward into the dungeon, to find the first floor is not very dangerous. The Cancuns try their best, but they are uncoordinated, and small.
As so, they pretty much just release Milo, into the first floor, to kill things by himself, while one of them keeps an eye on him at all times, and everyone else cultivates.
*Shlink* Harkin boredly dissects a poor Cancun that was sneaking up on Milo.
“Can we move on to the next floor?” He groans, and turns to Luther, who stands.
“Yeah, the mana density in this one has dropped, probably for the best.”
They strut forward to the boss room, a narrow granite hallway forces them to walk in a line, with Theo at the front, and Harken shortly behind him.
They poke their heads out of the hallway into a circular room, with cool little squiggly designs on the wall. There is a pile of rocks sitting directly in the center of the room.
Theo steps forward, and nears the rocks. He turns and looks back at the group. “Nothin.”
Theo is alerted by the grinding of stone, but is too slow, and before he can turn. A hollow clang echoes through the room, from where the big ol’ chunk of granite collides with the back of Theos knee, surprising him, and dropping him to his knees.
Harken steps forward, and swing his whip, the links extend, and the sharp blade at the end clatters against the granite of the 4 foot tall Golem standing at the center of the room.
“Shit,” Luther steps forward, and kicks the Golem pushing it back, and allowing Theo to stand.
Theo quickly stands, turns around, and punches the Golem, the blow shattering the granite making up its body, and it crumbles to dust.
“Thats fuckin annoying. The only one here that really uses blunt damage is Theo, so if there are a lot of Golems later on, that's gonna be a problem.”
Milo, steps forward, “The limbs were connected by some sort of plant matter, we probably could have just cut that.”
Luther quickly agrees with Milo. “Oh… Yeah…”
They continue deeper into the dungeon, and find the second floor being a series of rooms. The first room, having 3 Cancuns working together, which they quickly killed. The next room, having 5 Cancuns, which they once again slaughter, and the last room, having 8 Cancuns. Which once again, was very easy, Harkon practically soloing all of this, his blades being perfect for finding, and dissecting weak points in armor.
They quickly enter the Boss room.
“Fuck its dark in here.” Luther steps forward, and swings a crossbow back, and forth in front of him.
They step in, and quickly Theo lights a torch, and steps forward.
*HISS* A giant Opposum dives forward, attacking Milo, having identified him as the weak link.
“AAHHH!” Milo swings his shiels like a lost child, and manages to completely luckily block the giant creature.
Two crossbow bolts in quick succession, bury themselves in the side of the creature, with a thud, It hisses, and retreats, injured, but still dangerous. As It retreats into the darkness, before it can get there, a stone spike rises from the floor, spearing the poor thing in the belly.
Aeryng grins, steps forward, and beheads it, with her axe. “Easy loot.” She chuckles, and collects the copper coins dropped by it, as well as a pair of small stilettos seemingly made from the claws on said giant Opposum.
“Mine.” Luther quickly snatches the knives, and drops them into a sackcloth bag, which he quickly squirrels away into his coat.
Harkon snorts. “Greedy much, you little man.”
Milo chuckles, Very few people can call Luther little. He is nearly 6 foot 4, but Harkon is far taller.
Luther glares. “Not everybody is shitting money, like you are, and it's not like any of you are going to use them, they’re stilettos.”
Aeryn waves her hand. “Calm down ya little shit, we get it.”
Theo, grunts, and taps at the stone. “Found something.”
Harkon, strides forward, quickly crossing the distance with his long strides. “Staircase, next floor, come on.”
Milo, runs forward. “Oh, yay!”
They quickly walk forward, down the spiraling staircase, and find themselves in a moderately sized room, with two warm glowing lanterns hanging from the ceiling illuminating a sign, one arrow points to one hallway, another arrow points to a second hallway.
The arrow on the left has a long line next to it, and one skull.
The arrow on the right has a short line on it, but 2 skulls.
Luther steps forward, and grins, he taps the sign with a knife. His teeth practically casting a glow over the room, his neck length long blonde hair swings. “I don't really feel like being in here for longer than I need to, let's just take the one with 2 skulls.”
They step forward, once again in something like an arrow position, with Milo, completely messing up the arrow position, not to any fault of his.
As they step out of the hallway they find another dimly lit, small circular room. They venture inward, and quickly discover Meg, this fight ending much slower than the last, as they forced Milo to the front to get some experience. The only experience he got was painful bruising, as well as finally getting a solid hit, on one of the more powerful mobs.
“That fucking hurt.” Milo complains.
“Oh, get over it ya bitch.” Luther quips back smiling.
They continue onward, and step into the second room.
They jump as a Cancun hisses, jump from the darkness, and lands on Milo's face. “AAAAAHHHH!”
They chuckle, and Theo steps forward, and ends it by giving the Cancun a good whack.
Milo steps back, “AAH!” He screams, as he steps backwards stepping on something uneven, and fleshy, he falls backwards, before he hits the ground, another Meg dives forward, tears Milos helmet off, gets a good swipe right on his face.
A wet Schlink spreads through the room, as Luther beheads the offending creature. The knife burying itself in its neck, before Luther continues to saw, using the serrations in his knife for their purpose.
“AAHH!” Milo shrieks, and cries holding his face. “I CANT FUCKING SEE!”
“Stop crying you fuckin baby.” Aeryn spouts before grabbing Milo, and pinning him down. “Ill fix ya up, don't worry.”
*HISS!* They once again jump in surprise as another Cancun, jumps from the darkness with a footprint on its back, and dives towards Aeryn. Aeryn grunts and casually swings her axe beheading the poor creature, and begins to work on Milo.
Milo screams even louder when Aeryn starts to heal him, as it feels like his eyes have been replaced by Pumice, and are grinding the inside of his head to dust. Then it's gone. He has his vision back, and the pain is slowly fading.
Luther walks up to Milo, and pats him on the head. “You’ll get used to it buddy.”
Milo shudders.
They continue onward, to find a second room. Harkon steps forward, and before we can identify what is in this room, he swings his whip forward, and a wet splattering noise can be heard throughout the room.
However, he only got one, and the second one, jumps from the shadows, and attacks Harkon, who like he has done it a million time, steps to the side, just in time for a crossbow bolt to pass next to him, and embeds itself into the skull of the creature.
“Yippee!” Milo jumps celebrating.
Luther chuckles. “Boss room now.”
They turn, and enter the hallway to begin their adventure to the boss room.
They step closer, and Theo peers around the corner. “What, in the fuck is that?”