Golden found himself waiting a moment for his eyes to clear from the green flash of light that had transported him and his team into the dungeon. Once his eyes were finally clear, he gave a quick look around to see where they had ended up exactly and saw that he and the rest of his team were at the beginning of a long stone hallway. Which he figured was the beginning entrance into the dungeon of the Lord Listex, as the green game screen had told them.
"The rest of you okay?" Golden asked in a quiet voice, to which the rest of his team gave nods as they looked around the stone hallway. Well now, with visual and verbal confirmation that his team was good, Golden gave a few hand gestures to signal to his team to grab their gear and move cautiously forward with him. So the team followed Golden as he led them through the stone hallway in a spread-out group with their shields held in front of them and their maces at the ready.
The journey was a quiet one; the only sound the four heard as they walked down the hall was their own footsteps and their breathing as it intensified. This happened due to the group feeling the pressure beginning to mount, as a dungeon should have some kind of defense; the fact they hadn't been challenged didn't mean the dungeon didn't have a defense; it meant they couldn't see it. So the group felt the tension build as they went further into the dungeon unchallenged, wondering when exactly the metaphorical shoe would drop.
Though just as they were nearing the end of the hallway and could see that there was an intersection with paths going left and right at the end of the stone hallway, they heard a click. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Distil slammed into Golden, sending them both crashing to the floor a good few feet from where they had been standing. Before Golden could ask what exactly Distil was thinking in impolite words, a torrent of green sludge poured down to where Golden had just been standing.
The four heroes look at the green goop that showed how dangerous it was by giving off smoke, showing it was slightly burning the stone floor. "Thank you." Golden said simply to Distil, who nodded and got up before offering Golden a hand to get up and being surprised when he took it, as were the other two heroes in their adventuring team.
"Well, it appears Lord Listex prefers traps over creatures to defend his domain. So watch your step." Golden said to his team before they all continued forward once more, though this time their steps were far more cautious. They had just hit the intersection when the traps activated again, causing the group to have to dodge to the side as the wall at the end of the hall opened up and started spewing burning green goop at the heroes.
Though once the heroes were clear, they noticed that they had been separated, as Golden had been closest to the left hallway while the rest were closer to the right hallway. So while Golden dodged left, the others dodged right, leaving them separated from each other as there was now a huge pool of green goop that promised great burning agony if they tried to get across it.
"Well, it looks like we're separate for now. You all go down your path, and I'll go down mine, and hopefully we'll meet up later." Golden said to the rest of his team, who all nodded their agreement before they all went off down their paths. "While Golden looks like you're going solo from here." Golden said to himself as he began his march down the left hallway. He would have to dodge a few more sprays that came from both the ceiling and the wails of the foul burning green goop as he went down the hallway, but eventually he made it out of the long hallway and found himself after the hallway had gone right in a large chamber that stretched down a ways.
Golden looked around the chamber, and besides a beetle statue that was at the opposite end from where he had entered, the only other thing of note in the room was the rather large stone tiles that made up the entirety of the floor. As Golden stepped further into the room, a stone wall fall behind him suddenly trapping him in the room with the beetle statue. "Well, that can't be a good sign." Golden said his tone filled with wariness at whatever was about to happen next.
The beetle statue at the opposite end of the chamber then opened its eyes and turned its body on the stone disk it was on so it was staring straight at him. Then, as if as a consequence of the gaze of the blister beetle statue, the tile Golden was standing on dropped into a vat of the burning green goop. Luckily, due to his quick reactions and years of experience, Golden was able to dodge away from the trapdoor, though then green goop began falling from the ceiling of where he had rolled too causing him to dodge away again.
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So that's how it went on and on with Golden constantly dodging one trap only to have the next trap activate on him. All the while the beetle statue continued to turn so it could continue to follow Golden with its stone gaze. As Golden leaped, jumped, and ran, he caught enough glimpses of the giant beetle statue for a purple stats screen to appear.
Watching blitser - tier two- undead construct- sentinel zombie- Trait: trigging eyes- this creatures stone eyes are linked to all the traps of the room it is placed in allowing it to activate them to kill whatever invader it is currently looking at- description- a giant beetle statue on a stone dias. Its insides are filled with the dead blister beetles while it's outer shell is just regular stone made into the shape of the bodies it contains inside itself.
"Well, it looks like I have to take you down if I don't want to be reduced to ash in a pool of green goop." Golden said as he began to make his way slowly towards the watching blister. He came dangerously close to being covered in the burning green goop on several occasions as he closed the distance to the watching blister, though he had managed to avoid that fate, he did sport several nasty burns from when the green goop had managed to graze him.
Golden pushed through the pain and reached the watching blister and was just about to bring down the giant onyx mace down on its head to shatter it. The watching blister, instead of allowing itself to be shattered as Golden had expected, showed itself to be capable of stopping Golden by moving its mouth and trying to bite off Golden's arm with its stone maw.
"Well, I knew you could move that little platform of yours; I didn't know you could move your head as well." Golden said as he dodged around the watching blister's head as it tried to bite him in half. Well, at the same time, using its trigger eyes ability to cause all the trap doors around it to activate, he found staying on a stone tile for more than a moment or he risked falling into a vat of burning green goop.
This battle went on for a while with Golden needing not to make a single mistake; otherwise, it was game over for him, meanwhile the watching blister merely needed one good hit, and it was over. But finally, Luck was finally on Golden's side, and the watching blister overextended itself, sticking its head out too far in an attempt to get Golden's head, leaving it vulnerable to a counterstrike, which Golden did not hesitate to take.
So in one mighty downward strike, Golden's giant onion mace shattered the watching blister, deactivating the traps and causing the stone walls behind the now destroyed stone beetle and the entrance Golden had come in through to rise. "Well, I guess I have to see what's next." Golden said after taking a moment to get his breath back and then going through the newly opened path deeper into the catacombs of Lord Listex.
Simon and Robert were both watching the screen, wondering how the first dungeon dive of the game would go. So far it hadn't disappointed and was shaping up to be a rather interesting viewing experience. " Hmm, seems to be functioning pretty well." Robert said a bit relieved that the new dungeon feature in Allyssa was working as well as it was.
"It is indeed Robert; in fact, it's doing so well some of the viewers are trying to copy it." Simon said, his voice filled with excitement, to which Robert gave a curious raised eyebrow. "Some people with security issues or who run security are trying to copy the watching blister for a security system, as despite it failing, it did a pretty good job, all things considered." Simon said to which Robert was rather happy, as for once his game world was inspiring positive ideas instead of possible war crimes.
"Well then, let's see what's going to happen with the rest of the team." Robert says, his voice filled with enthusiasm as he turned the TV screens of his workshop to focus on the rest of the team in the dungeon to get a clear view of what they were doing in their part of the dungeon.
"Great enthusiasm, Robert! It's always good to have a happy attitude when doing our jobs, especially as these dungeons may affect you and your Gabe world so much going forward." Simon said to which Robert admitted to himself in his own mind was a fair point. The two then focused their attention fully on the TV screens to see how Asher, Distil, and Puff would do without Golden in their part of the dungeon.