Why did that idiot have to try something so... IDIOTIC!?
Scratch that, I know why he tried. Thanks to his magic I know everything he knew up until he died on my first floor.
Some time ago, (63 days, 14 hours and 46 minutes ago to be precise) I woke up for the first time. Perhaps you could say I was born. This happened after one mage decided, in all his vain glory, to try and take over my heart. Instead, his spell ran rampant, drained all of his mana, and then his life, before creating me. The worlds first thinking dungeon.
And I'm BORED!
Turns out dungeons don't think for a reason, or several. Literally everything that goes on in me seems to happen automatically. Right now there is a bunch of zombies harrassing ANOTHER bunch of invading adventurers. Thousands of bugs are breeding, eating, and digging.
A wolf just grew out of one of my walls. This actually fascinated me the first few times I experienced it. Starting inside the wall, it grew from the feet up in a matter of seconds, almost as if being built. Then just as the top of its ears came together, the wolf came alive, the dungeon wall peeled back, and it hopped out quickly before the wall closed up again. Seems no one has ever seen it happen before. Not like i can tell anyone about it anyway...
After the first week of my newfound life, I realised my limitations. Right now I'm just a glowing chunk of solid mana about the size of an adult head. I can't grow, I can't move, I can't even technically "see". I just kind of know exactly what is happening inside my space. In my ample free time ive counted all the monsters within my caverns, and they seem to stay around the same number of each with new ones growing from the walls regularly. At the most I have up to 500 agressive monsters at a time. Mainly zombies and skeletons, with some animals and skeleton dogs for a bit of variety. My favourite are the small bear-like creatures that hang from the ceiling with their sharp claws, waiting to drop on any adventurers that walk underneath.
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I wish I was able to sleep...
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Day 95: A young adventurer woman came in alone today, first time someone has tried that. She isn't fighting anything though, just sneaking past monsters while watching a group of 5, 4 males and one female.
Day 97: The group of 5 are back, but the original woman is gone and the sneaky one has taken her place.
Day 123: The bugs somehow dug a hole into an unexplored cave system today. The walls quickly expanded the hole on their own, until it was large enough to allow zombies and adventurers passage.
Day 155: A group of 3 decided to rest on my second level, with one sitting guard while 2 slept. But the guard also fell asleep, and all 3 members managed to die to a single zombie.
Day 365: My birthday I suppose. Thanks you jerkwad mage.
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Day 366: I was watching a pack of wolves surround an adventuring party, when a silent lightning bolt hit the ground in my heart chamber.
"CMON MAN I GAVE YOU A WHOLE YEAR, HOW HAVEN'T YOU FIGURED OUT ANYTHING YET?"
The creatures voice shook the walls near me, even the group of adventurers I had been watching looked around for where it came from. It was unlike any creature in my memory, standing about 3 metres tall, with 4 legs spread evenly underneath its rather large frame, and a face only a mother could love. It almost looked like someone had made a living table, then stuck a torso on top of it.
"AH CRAP, VOLume. There we go. Now you, core. Yes I can hear your thoughts, no I'm not here to destroy you."
This guy is giving me the creeps...
"I'm not creepy either! I am disappointed in you though. We had a running bet on how long it would take you to start leveling, and you passed even the longest of guesses!"
Wait, bets? Leveling? What the fuck was going on??
"DAMN you are slow, no wonder you haven't done anything. Just look at your status!"
What?? Only adventurers get to see their status screens! I haven't seen one since the death of the mage!
"Aaaaand you don't have one... Damnit Charlyse this had better not be your fault!!"
Just then -
-Level Up-
-Skill Gained: Homunculus Creation-