A short perspective.
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Sitting in the corner of a silent tower at night, a scientist with a book in one hand, is stirred by the blaring, repetitive alarm of his artifact. An old passed down telescope that could see the mana along the rings of the planet, and tonight may be his lucky night! Waking up and stumbling to his telescope he sees something. Finally he would get to study a fabled Ring Flash, the hypothetical birth of a dungeon core in the asteroid ring around their planet Vesna. Barely understood and rarely observed one had to be diligent to catch a glimpse of the event and its preceding's.
Focusing on the area and starting his instrument to record, Cleant Avio gets ready for a career starting observation! maybe he could get a word into the dean if he got a good observation, but an anomaly would be even better! having a unique discovery could always get a foot or two into the door. Wondering absently, maybe this would break the longest recorded observation of 2 minutes. surely that would gain him some recognition..
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High above the planet
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Wa.. What's happening?
Did the doctors get me patched up after the crash? Would of been hard with what they were telling me before I passed out, Maybe I Can Still make to my last semester..
Welcome to the world of Vesna! You have been born as a dungeon core, in the region of (Belt C).
Uhh, OK.. that's one way to hallucinate, maybe I didn't wake up and I'm vividly dreaming? well if my dreams a game might as well play. lets start with the basics I guess, help, commands, status..
Name Spencer Male Dungeon Core Amber Size .01 Meter Level 1 Exp. 0/50 Mana 20/20 1/HR Solar Health 50/50 Afflictions 1 Skills 2 Active 1 Abilities 3 Active 0
Well that's something. pretty Detailed too, lets check out my skill and abilities and see if this makes sense. though there is a nagging feeling. Like I'm being watched, but much more sinister..
Skills
Absorb-material Sentient
Abilities
Sense-mana Shape-mana Shape-material
Nice, of course it has to re iterate that I'm sentient, ok then. Lets take myself for a test drive! activating my Sense-mana I Start to take a peek at my surroundings, I'm a small little amber colored gem shaped like a dodecahedron, just take two pyramids and join them at the base. As nice as i look I realize there isn't much around I seem to have and area that my senses cant go past and seems like I'm on a nice round pile of rocks. some of the rocks I'm on have are saturated with mana and deeper the mana seems to thin out. Its also bright, like Really bright. And all the shadows are way too dark, maybe that's because of Sense-mana? Like seeing different colors or something..
I also feel, light. weightless even, Probably cause of being a magical rock. Sensing movement Just at the edge of my area of mana control I take a peek.
Its a Rock.
Falling sideways?
Slowly..
Checking my Senses again to try and look for air, I find small dust here and there zipping by but there's nothing.. Where did it say i spawned again, Ring C? I thought it would be like some circular continent or something not out in space! Okay, so I'm in space, I'm a magical Rock that might give treasure, but who would delve me? Are there magical astronauts, maybe space squids or something.
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As I contemplate my situation I start to mess with my abilities, moving mana out of my core and messing with it, moving it into the rocks around me, It seems to go as far as my mana sense lets me see so I have a defined area for sure. trying out Shape material I start to get an idea of what's around me, though I don't know what half this stuff is I see something more solid buried in the rock, maybe its metal instead of rock? maybe its iron, time to try out a skill! As I try to use Absorb-material I feel like I should start small, as it drains mana I have it stop after 3 mana when I get a prompt-
Congratulations!
After absorbing and understanding a material, you can now use mana to recreate materials you absorb at a price.
Recreate-Material
Discovered: Iron Nickle Rock
Oh sweet, now I can start making stuff.. but what to make? maybe a little shelter to protect me from rocks, or I could just dig down and hide. Thinking of that I feel .. Relief? well if tats the right way to do things may as well go for it!
Using Absorb material I start digging straight down as deep as myself, then cover myself with some of the rock from my new ability. after using that good chunk of mana I check my screen again.
Name Spencer Male Dungeon Core Amber Size .01 Meter Level 1 Exp. 15/50 Mana 8/20 .2/HR Solar Health 50/50 Afflictions 0 Skills 3 Active 1 Abilities 3 Active 1
Well that's weird, now that I'm buried I feel overwhelming relief. I'm where I belong as a dungeon, but my mana has dropped hard. I also no longer have whatever that affliction was, is this worth it? sure I feel like this is what dungeons do but I have to have mana to do anything. Lets test this.
Breaking open the dirt above me again I feel the fear creeping back, the unease that I'm in danger at every moment. I thought I was afraid of rocks hitting me but maybe this is what its like when a dungeon is exposed to the outside world. their instinct is to hide away and dig deeper.
Name Spencer Male Dungeon Core Amber Size .01 Meter Level 1 Exp. 18/50 Mana 6/20 .8/HR Solar Health 50/50 Afflictions 1 Skills 3 Active 1 Abilities 3 Active 1
wow am I low on mana, and now I have that affliction again. it must be something about being out side. maybe its the sun? even though I'm getting mana from the sun it seems to be a trigger for this dungeon instinct. maybe I can trick it, I just need to block out the sun. in my little pit I use my new ability to make a really thin sheet of Nickle and shape it into a funnel with me at the center. then at the top of the funnel i for wire to bridge the gap and meet in the middle above me, the grow a larger sheet in the middle till I block out the sun. Checking my status again, I see that there is an increased amount of mana and the affliction is gone!
Name Spencer Male Dungeon Core Amber Size .01 Meter Level 1 Exp. 30/50 Mana 1/20 1.5/HR Solar Health 50/50 Afflictions 0 Skills 3 Active 1 Abilities 3 Active 1
Now were cooking, Seems like I'm just a really smart solar panel now but why complain? though now I have to wait to rebuild my mana pool, may as well peek around with my mana left, get to know my surroundings.
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Back in a dim lit tower below
I could Barely believe my eyes, a ring flash that was still on going, it had boon close to 2 hours and it was still active! though it disappeared completely after 10 minutes it came back bright as ever and stayed radiant and active! As the glow slowly followed the ring past the horizon I triple checked all my instruments, and found the same thing. This had happened, Never before know to my field of research a dungeon was being born on the rings of this world! These notes and readings had to get studied fast, and I had to get ready for the next night the ring passed by that spot. hopefully this little dungeon could hold on, unlike those many others that came before..