POV Andrissus Catemarino

Sitting at an old musky bar, Andrissus was drowning his sorrows.

The Lost Islands, one of the best places to salvage materials, became the place where a dungeon core and subsequent dungeon town, Nome, was now located.

His discovery of the dungeon, while at first, made him very excited, but as more and more people were coming to this area, it clogged down business and created new competitors and subsequent industries built up around dungeons started to appear.

He had to fire half of his crew in order to keep his scavenging business. It's gotten so bad that he was considering moving to another port, away from this dungeon, to get his business back up.

And here he was, drinking at the Drunken Starfish and washing his sorrows away with a nice dark beer after the large storm passed through.

"Oh this storm would have led to a perfect time to scavenge!"

As he mourned the change within the port and the islands, a group of adventurers walked into the bar.

"I can't believe it! We came all this way just for the dungeon to disappear into the storm!" Moaned out a bulky adventurer with an axe strapped to his back.

"Barkeep, a round of drinks and keep them coming," said the witchy-looking female with them, who seemed annoyed at the moaning of her axe-wielding adventurer.

Wait…? Thought Andrissus. Is the dungeon gone?

As soon as that registered in Andrissus's head, he shot out of the bar, yelling for everyone to hear.

"I'm back in business!"

POV Temporary Guild Master Leonos Vasir

"Why me! I was just getting used to being a temporary guild master! And now the dungeon has disappeared with the storm!" Cried out Leonos as he lay face down on the pile of paperwork on his desk.

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"Ya ya, you were put in charge and then subsequently lost the dungeon after a couple of weeks." Replied Aleessia as she sat watching Leonos give a mini freak out after just being yelled at by the head of all of the adventurer guilds in the Koltak region for losing the dungeon and not having any precautions in place for such an instance.

"Oh god … it's going to be on my permanent record! I'm never going to be able to be a guild master now, never mind someone in charge! Better yet, I may never get a job in this field again!"

"Well, considering the stress you have been in, don't you think that it's a blessing in disguise. And either way, I doubt it will affect any future jobs. People have fucked up in a lot worse ways before." Aleessia was over Leonos's whining, and since there were no ships out of this place for another couple of hours, she was stuck here listening to this.

Giving Aleessia a bland look, he fell forward onto his paperwork. He thought about all the additional paperwork that he was going to have to do.

Oh, what am I going to do?

As he kept his face planted on the paperwork, Leonos had a potential idea.

… What if we go looking for the dungeon.

POV Blue Suns Adventuring Group

The large storm that had been ravaging the Lost Islands for days on end pulled the dungeon within the iceberg out of the sand and sent it to somewhere within the ocean.

The problem was that it left everybody with their metaphorical pants down and no dungeon to show for it.

And it left the Blue Suns without a dungeon to run.

"Well, guys, until they find the dungeon, we should probably go look for other non-dungeon-related quests in the area." Said Devon to the groups as the rumours spread throughout the temporary town.

"It sucks, we had like a monopoly on the dungeon. We were at the forefront of like everything in that dungeon." Moaned out Neronia, who was upset that they were losing out of the advantages that they had gained from their repeated exposures within the dungeon from the very beginning.

"But can you imagine what else the dungeon may have now that it is in a different area?" Said Caliso, who was shaking in excitement at the wonderment of what the dungeon may have. It really was his inner dungeon geek coming out.

"Still, it's a problem," pointed out Anes. "Depending on where the dungeon ends up, we may not even have access to it without a lot of politicking."

That made the group think that the dungeon ended up in a continent's territory that the Togiak adventurer guild has bad relations.

"Well, everyone, we can't mope around. So let's find another quest to do or go to another dungeon."

POV Alexis Miftern

"That stupid storm!" Alexis called out to the sky in frustration.

They were ahead of most of his larger merchant company competitors for once. Still, the dungeon just had to wander off to places unknown.

"There there," said Mareian patting Alexis on his back, trying to quell his oncoming hysteria.

As the two walked throughout Nome, as many vendors, adventurers, and everybody else who settled into the temporary town packed up to leave, Alexis had an idea.

Staring off to space, he murmured, "why don't we find it?"

In shock, Mareian turned to look at him.

"What. Are you insane?" She said this in such a monotone that it was like she didn't even hear the question.

"No! Think about it, if we gain a bit of sponsorship to do this, and leverage everything in the business, then we can gain a monopoly. Better if we get other small merchants to do this, then we can create a coalition."

She stared at him like he was either crazy or had a brilliant idea.

For a couple of minutes, she was staring and thinking about it.

"You know, you may be on to something."

With that, she pulled Alexis into the closest open restaurant, sat him down, and started writing down their idea.