Milo
Luther swings a knife and beheads Frosty, the boss of the sixth floor; he drops some money, and some other decent loot.
We quickly peek through and into the seventh floor. I immediately notice my miners camp. When I arrive there the camp is empty so I travel to the mine where I find the miners working, having already filled almost a cart load of ore.
I congratulate them, and tell them to retrieve their pay at the secretaries office. The foreman was keeping track of how long people were working for, he had soaked everything in water so as not to cause any explosion, and all in all seemed to be being very safe.
He does pull me aside and speaks to me.
“One of the boys wanted to see what was on the other side of this whole landscape so he took a trip over, and found another floor open. You should go check it out.”
I nod, and thank him before informing the rest of my team.
They all agree to at least go check it out.
We walk through the gate guiding us from this floor, and onto the next. We round a corner, and find ourselves completely surrounded by tall grass. Its all very dry, and tan colored by very tall making it impossible to see anyone.
I chop my sword, and cut down a swath of the stuff, and quickly reconvene with the rest of the party. “What do we think? Try to get to the end or… leave?”
Luther shrugs. “Let's try it, why not.”
I agree and we venture forward in a new formation with Harkon at the front, clearing the way with his sword whip thing.
All of a sudden as we are walking Theo pulls us down into a crouch and points up. High above in the fake sky flies a flock of snakes. I mean a literal flock of snakes with little feathery wings sprouting from their sides.
Two of the snakes fight over a corpse of something as they fly. All of a sudden Aeryn cries out, and swings her hatchet as one of the flying snakes dive bombs her, she swipes it away, and its corpse falls to the ground, while the wings flap lifelessly.
Another snake dive bombs Harkon, who slices through its body before it gets close to him.
We hear a cry, and turn to find Theo with a snake latched onto his bicep. He tears it off with one hand leaving tiny little red holes on his arm. His face turns red, and the area where he was bit becomes inflamed.
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“Holy Hell that hurts like a mother.” Theo pushes out through clenched teeth.
Luther nods his head, and grabs him by the shoulders, “Let's turn back, knowing dungeons that poison is probably lethal, we need to get him to check him out.”
We quickly rush out, speeding back through the floors.
DC
I chuckle as I watch them panic, and rush out. The snake venom is very painful, and could be compared to fire running through your veins, and it causes a pretty bad fever.
Nothing a powerful, and stout warrior couldn't fight through, but definitely makes it more difficult, kind of like a debuff in video games.
As they pass through the seventh floor I notice that all of the miners are only eating rations, jerky, pemmican, dried things. All in all, nothing that looks good.
Which makes sense as there is literally no animals to eat, and no plants to eat from. To remedy this I plant Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, and Blueberries all over the place, as well as adding some species of animals.
First I change a horse to make something akin to a sheep, but they are far smaller, and closer in size to a medium sized dog, but also produce a lot of wool, and have very tasty meat. I once again changed a horse to make something akin to a cow but it is smaller, roughly the size of a sheep.
I add a moose, which is semi-dangerous but I don't modify it, so it should be no more dangerous than a moose outside. I was considering adding grey wolves, but the space is too small so I worry they would hunt everything to extinction, and then turn on the humans.
I add some rabbits, and squirrels who can hide in the sparse trees scattered throughout. I also add some Stallhorns, but I make them much smaller, and closer in size to a regular goat, and I basically give them a lobotomy to make them much more chill.
I also had something very similar to a weasel which Gairy called a stoat, so I added that in, I added in a variety of birds, and even some grouse, which I put into a pond, that I spontaneously made near the back of the area, as well as some fish like Salmon.
Shortly after that I decided to add in some bees, which I'm uncertain how those will handle in this environment, but hopefully well.
And to make it so that they could actually eat them I set the loot they dropped, as their corpse. This would give away a lot of free meat I could use to make more creatures, So I made a pixie sweatshop basically that would just be transmuting stone into flesh for use.
Perfect. I smile as a bee swarms around looking for flowers to pollinate, and honey to make.
The miners leave the mine for the day, and are astonished when a bee flies by, one of the miners points off to where a miniature cow stands, and takes a bite of grass. A tiny goat jumps from down a craggy hill, and pulls a weed from a crack in the rocks.
I chuckle at their astonishment. They surround the cow, pickaxes in hand, and they swing at the same time, killing it very quickly. They all murmur in astonishment, apparently they expected mobs. But instead they got food. They carried the cow off, and butchered it very roughly, before carrying it off, and cooking it over top of a campfire.
They eat it all, and love it.