“I do not know how I feel about that new messaging thing that Red seems to be using,” Ivy muttered as she reviewed the new build request. It didn’t need her full attention since it was just a new room, but at the same time, she couldn’t leave the build team on their own. Hacker never knew when to stop chopping, and Azure would dissolve anything the lobster chopped. They wouldn’t listen to Adan, and she didn’t want to come out to find a giant clearing around the dungeon.

“It’s better than him just appearing next to you out of nowhere, isn’t it?” Adan asked as he lounged on the supply wagon with Mildred as the two waited for their jobs to begin. The brownie would be able to start shaping the ground beneath their feet the moment that everything was clear. The foundation was a lot simpler to push in when the dirt could be made into liquid before hardening into stone.

“Yeah, but it’s impersonal. I’d rather he just pop in and out for it.” Ivy commented as Poly offered up a small thermos of beverage that the witchlings had provided for them. Ivy took it and sipped the drink, cringing some before getting a shiver up her back. “Damn, those two could probably kill me with a single ingredient but they sure know how to make a coffee.” She muttered as she took another sip.

“So, who are you going to send? Maybe make Mildred finally dirty her feathers?” Adan joked with a tired smile, wishing that he could get some coffee for the hangover that he was currently dealing with. The comment received an angry squawk from the crow as it was said that she does not do her fair share of work.

“I will have you know, I am the most prestigious of the flock. Not only that, I am the keen eye that lady Ivy needs to keep the fine and gorgeous details of her structures immaculate. I would never do something so base as constructing an entire room all on my own.” The crow squawked in dungeon language as she made sure that the umbrella Ivy had set into the wagon would protect her from any stray rays of sunlight. The curse [Vampiric] was not very strong in the crows so the sunlight was hardly as deadly to them as a stronger individual. However, smoking and slowly roasting in it was hardly desirable.

“Adan I almost want to send you because you’re sending her on another tirade.” Ivy groaned as the bird continued to speak about her greatness and pompous behavior. She took another sip of her coffee before looking down at Poly, the pink-skinned fairy being rather silent at the moment.

“You know, I think I’ve figured out exactly who I am going to pick. Poly, you are going to spend the rest of the day helping Red work on the new rooms on the second floor. I want you to be on your best behavior and make sure that his needs are met.” Ivy said with a smile as she looked down at the regular-sized fairy, albeit missing wings because of having been changed into a carpenter fairy.

Her emerald eyes widened in horror at the fact that she was being singled out by the leader of her group. She swallowed slightly before giving a small nod as she accepted the challenge. A small window appeared in front of her.

Quest!

You’ve heard of the best, now here’s the quest.

Architect Ivy has given you the assignment of assisting the Dungeon Avatar; Red with creating new rooms for the dungeon!

Requirements: Perform any task that Red needs to be done to the maximum of your abilities, speak with him, and do not give up.

Reward: +50 XP, Toolset, Respect; Ivy

Failure: Respect Loss; Ivy

“I-I will do my best, Ivy.” She said in the soft timid voice that the rest of the construction crew knew her for. Mildred and Adan looked at one another for a moment before glancing towards Ivy. Ivy waved off their looks, not paying them any mind as she knew what she was doing at the moment. The carpenter Fey was scared and timid, but there was more to Poly than just needing a fifth worker for the team.

“I know you will, dear. Now hurry along before Red gets impatient. He is a pain in the ass when he gets impa- Hacker! Stay out of the water and get back to pulling plant stuff!” She shouted, Ivy’s focus being pulled away as the lobster was tempted to scuttle off into the stream that was just outside of the dungeon. There was no telling what could dwell within, and Ivy had no intention of finding out what could happen.

As Ivy directed her clear team, Poly turned towards the shack, looking at the now two-story building that loomed within the swamp. She walked through the grass, the leech grass outside being considered part of Red’s traps so she was safe from exsanguination. She reached the door and touched her hand to it before the improved oak door swung open and revealed that it was a deep crystalline black on the other side. She looked at it with awe before stepping through and finding that she was standing at the edge of a large grey expanse of floor with white paint on it. On the edges of the grey expanse was… nothing! It was emptiness beyond the strange lot. When she turned around to see the door, she noted that it was glittering obsidian meant to be barely visible in the darkness of the void.

She swallowed slightly before she headed to the building in the center of the lot, looking up to view a sign that said “Delicious Dungeon Diner,” with all three Ds capitalized in a stylistic line going down. The outside was covered in strips of color that wrapped around the roof in bands, while the exterior was covered in glass windows that reflected the darkness of the void outside. She wondered what Red could be making with this, especially since her only experience with him was while he had them build the temple.

She touched the glass door to enter the diner, the glass swinging open for her before she was in a room that didn’t fit the exterior of the structure. It was the stairwell, which meant that she was going to have to build this place from the ground up based on Red’s commands. She glanced around, looking for a moment before sighing as she found that Red wasn’t there.

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“Poly? Well, hey there Poly! Looks like you’re my labor minion for the day.” Red said with a smile as he looked down at her, appearing from nowhere with a menu window floating around him. She wasn’t sure why the window seemed to be moving on its own, but she wouldn’t question it. Instead, she gave a gentle bow and tilted her head down.

“I-it is a pleasure to be at your service, Red. I will begin construction of your new room right away.” She said gently as she reached to her side and pulled a hammer from her belt and nails from her pocket. Technically a labor minion didn’t need anything except that to work on room construction. She would have preferred if she could have the entire toolkit, so that way she could do fine detail work, but then again that was part of the reason that she was working on this quest.

“Oh, uh… you don’t need to bow or whatever with me. A simple hi would be enough.” Red said with a chuckle as he rubbed the back of his neck, preferring that he not be treated as divinity when he was just a simple person like the rest of them. She looked at him and gave a small curt nod before turning and beginning to build a room around the stairwell.

It was strange, but to make a room within a dungeon was simply making more space out of no space. It was confusing to anyone who wasn’t a labor minion, but even before her chosen profession came calling she somewhat understood it. She pulled planks from the air as mana coalesced into boards as part of the cost of making a new room. The floor shifted out of the way with every piece that she placed down. The bricks strained to make sure that the space tightened and realigned with the new expansion happening within it.

Red was saying something, but Poly was lost in the song once again. Whenever she was making space within a dungeon, she heard these beautiful whispering chimes, like a melody you could never sing, or a song made only on the breeze of stars. She loved the sound of it, even though the rest of the build team said that they were unable to hear what she was talking about. She assumed that they were just picking on her since there was no way in the world that she was the only one who heard the beautiful music.

“Poly…. Poooollllyyy…. Poly!” She was snapped out of her work as her name was suddenly said very loudly close to her small form. She turned to Red who was giving a quizzical look at her, it seeming that he had been trying to get her attention for a long moment since she had started her work. It was so easy to get lost in the song, and even Ivy noticed how she would get that far-off look in her eyes.

“A-ah! S-sorry, Red. I was very focused, i-i-is there something that I can help you with?” She asked with a timid frown as she looked up at him, hoping that he was not already upset with her. She was trying her best, even if she had only been working for a few minutes.

“Well, you’ve already helped me quite a bit, considering that the first room is already done.” Red chuckled as he brought down a finger and gave her a pat on the hard hat that she wore. She blinked at him with a bit of confusion before looking around and finding that they were in a new room of the same wooden material as the bottom of the stairwell. She frowned slightly as she realized she was already done, having not expected to have lost the chance to hear the song for even longer.

“Oh… well what else can I do for you?” She asked gently as she looked at Red, the crystalline avatar seeming intimidating despite the warm smile that he was always wearing.

“Well, I still have plenty to do, but why don’t you tell me what it is that got you so in the zone? Not even Ivy loses herself in focusing on a construction project like that.” He asked as he looked her over, leaning down to be eye level with her. It was an odd sight, to be next to a face that was as big as your body, but something she had to get used to as a fairy.

“It’s nothing, just the song of building from nothing. The sound of space expanding.” She muttered softly as she admitted to the fact that there was something strange happening that did not happen to the others of her crew.

“Song? There is a song to making new rooms? I can’t hear it.” He asked curiously as he tried to understand what she was talking about, his voice at the usual tone yet somehow not blasting her eardrums from the proximity.

She seemed to wither slightly at the fact that even her Dungeon couldn’t hear the sound of the music in the air. It was so pretty, and yet she was starting to feel depressed by the fact that no one could share it with her. She just wanted someone who knew the song and the thrum of it ringing in her ears.

“Now don’t get sad on me, Poly. Just because I can’t hear it doesn’t mean anything. Ras, do you have any explanation for what is going on with our lovely worker here?” Red asked with a smile before Poly felt a strange pull on herself before she knew what was coming. Suddenly her character sheet was exposed for him to see, the entirety of her being on display as he observed what she was.

Dungeon Individual Sheet

Name: Polymora

Type: Minion

Species: Carpenter Fairy

Tags: [Fey]. [Labor], [Seelie], [Void], [Crafts], [Construction], [Designer]

Title: Assistant Laborer

Age: 19 days

P Skills: Eye for Measurement, Tool Time, Safety Training, Song of the Void

A Skills: Construction, Destruction, Assistance,

Height: 8”

Weight: 2 oz

Mood: Calm

Ascension XP: 0/50

Level: 3

Ascension: 2/10

Description: A fey created in the Red Dungeon through passive spawn. Selected by Architect Ivy as the final member of the Red Dungeon’s current construction crew. Beforehand was considered a potential addition to the Soldier Fey army under the control of Mage Captain Arabella. Her abilities are standard for a Carpenter Fairy aside from her randomly selected [Void] element causing her to act out. She is polite, focused, and does everything by the book unless one of her abilities distracts her from the current task. She has otherwise lived a very unremarkable life and would have never gotten the notice of Red other than being selected for a crew.

“Well, I at least see what is causing the song you’re talking about, but how about we see exactly what this is rather than leave it to guesswork?” Red asked with a smile as he tapped onto one of her passive abilities, causing an additional window to open up over her Menu for Red to see. She tried not to look at her menu often, as it always had such a depressing description.

Song of the Void

It calls at the most inopportune times

The most basic of abilities for those with the [Void] tag. This does not allow the user to do anything other than hear the whispers of the void in everyday life. If they can learn the Song of the Void to where they can memorize it, then they will be capable of expanding on their powerful hidden abilities.