CHAPTER TEN
About Fifteen Hours Later
JESSIE'S POV
Mr. Fox, I checked his gender using his stat screen, has fallen asleep at this point. I remove a pitfall trap from the entrance corridor since I have too many in there. I decide I should make a safety for the dungeon. I go into the first room and place a stone wall at the way forward. I get a warning, but it won't be there long. I create a hole above the wall, with just enough room for it. I attach the wall to ropes and lift it up. It's going to be loud, but I have an interesting idea. I put the rope through a pulley, and then along a path leading to my little room. If I release the rope using either manipulation, a creature, or some form of trap trigger, the dungeon gets closed. And I really mean closed. The stone will slam down sealing everything out. Of course according to that warning from earlier If I block the access from the core, then I can't modify anything past there. Not really effective, but if I'm using this mechanism then the dungeon isn't usable past that point anyway. Using a similar technique I create a small side room with a pedestal in the middle. The pedestal will eventually have treasure, but for now, it is empty. I use the pedestal as a sort of specific pressure plate, kind of like in Indiana Jones. If there is too much, or too little weight than spikes I’ve put in the roof will fall, killing anyone in the room. Right now, it's just stone spikes like the pitfall and the swinging blades. But of course in the future, all three will be reinforced with metal, if not completely replaced with metal. That whole room and trap actually will take two-hundred mana once I rope up the spikes, but I neither have the remaining fifty mana, or the treasure item to put into the trap. So, for now, the trap has the spikes held up into the roof, with barely any ropework up there. I’ve let my fox out now. Being a dungeon creature, he knows where the pressure plate is, and to stick to the edges as not to fall int the pitfall. He jumps over the drowning trap, and heads out to go do… Something. After he leaves through the archway, I lose all perception of him, so I'm left hoping he'll return.
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JAMES' POV
The center room is mostly carved out now. Just a little bit left. I start to go rest when I get a warning. It says that If I seal an area off from access to the core, I can no longer modify that area. I move my consciousness towards the entry to find out what that was all about. Only to see that Jessie has added in a ‘Door’. It isn't really much of a door though. Just a stone wall that walls down if you break a rope. I continue to watch as Jess makes a room that has spikes hidden in the ceiling. I don't really know the purpose, but with the loose pillar in the center of the room, I can assume it's probably some Indiana Jones Type stuff. That gives me an idea. I don't really like this plan, but It is going to become necessary for me to continue levelling up. I add a side room to the second room and put a little stone chest in the center. I add a sealing door mechanism to the entrance of the room as I run out of mana. This is going to be a very mean idea, and I am already regretting it. But I have to go through with my plans. I mentally sigh, and stare at the room, wondering how I’ll work the next component to it out. I don't even know the skills required to do it, but I can probably make a much more obvious version using what we have and know right now.