Let me begin by saying that, yes, I am officially dropping the story. There will be no new chapters. As for the reason for me dropping the story it stems from a combination of irl problems and a problem that fans of the Dungeon Core Gerne may be familiar with, the gerne has no defined end goal.

As the gerne lacks a built in end goal creating a story in the gerne without a final arc planned ahead will cause the dungeon core narrative to stumble and fall. I made the mistake of doing this. As far as my plot went I had only planned one arc that ended with enough plot hangers to make writing chapters a chore. Whenever I was writing them I felt the impending weight of my unfinished plot. Because of this I stopped writing chapters and irl stuff stopped me from focusing on writing anything.

As for the story itself it was for me a response to all of the dungeon core stories on this site that I felt were doing things wrong. The first problem I saw with other stories was that their dungeons were either lacking, or suffering from too much diversity. Each floor was either the same as the last or much too varied and complicated to be memorable. I tried to fix that by keeping all of my floors themed and with only three to five rooms each. Another problem I saw was that all of the other stories made their dungeons layout overly complex, so I fixed that by having each floor have all of its rooms follow one after the other. No hidden passageways, no hidden treasure rooms, no homes for monsters, and no shortcuts. The last reason I made my story was that I felt that there was something right in making a simple austere dungeon amidst stories of dungeons making armies and becoming gods.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

To all of the fans of my work I am sorry that I couldn't write the story I wanted to tell, but know that I have not given up writing and I will be releasing a new story soon. and this time it has an ending I promise.