Making little indents, cuts and gaps in the gauntlet too forever, But hey, now I have a pair of usable gauntlets. Ahem, while I was working on those finer details, I was also digging (and a little experimenting that may or may not have caused a vortex to appear, which took in all the mana from my dungeon effectively starving me.) I have built in a full flight of stairs just behind the throne, in the last room on the first floor.
I also made it look less natural, by engraving multiple circles on every step, for specific numbers, there are 3 circles for each step engraved on top, that's it. The walls of the staircase, I have made a little medieval themed dungeon-y walls, you know the stone blocky ones. I plan for all the rooms on the soon-to-be second floor, to have a medieval dungeon effect, with my own little twist aka, the circles... I should really stop with the whole "adding my little twist" to everything, I will eventually run out of them so I should treasure them... Or something like that, I don't know where I was going with that.
With everything all setup, I can go full force into making a second floor... And deal with this bug problem, they have spread to every corner of my dungeon, some of my golems have even become their homes, I don't get it, all I wanted was some bugs, not an empire of them. I guess I should make my golems deal with them, but that would make them kill all of the bugs...
maybe I could try my hand at making some super bugs, first they would need slow reproduction, and second is for them to be powerful by bug standards, or by these bugs standards. Not that I know how to do this yet, maybe I could add some experimentation time while making the second floor.
"Hey. Did you hear the rumour, they say a party of newbies found a dungeon." Said a rough man drinking among a table of others, equally shady as him.
"Lucky Bastards." One spat.
"Did they say where the dungeon is, or which party it was?" Said another with hidden intentions.
"No. Everyone is too distracted by the dungeon to think about the party." Said the rough man
"So nobody will pay too~ much attention to them?" A man leaned in and said in a hushed tone. Everyone went quiet, and as if struck by an idea, each one grinned and began to leave the table.
"Something came up, I have to go."
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"Ahh, my party needs me."
And so on, each of them left one my one, all exiting the bar grabbing the attention of a few other tables, which soon ignored them and continued their drunken spats.
"The priest said Al will be fine by tomorrow. Sigh, And how did your claiming the dungeon go?" - Celi
"They said it will have to be verified and tested. Long story short, we have to go back in a week with a group of inspectors." - Kaz
"Will we be paid?" - Zach
"I here thought you would care more about the dungeon. Yes, if the confirm the dungeon, we will get paid the same high risk explorations pay, and after they confirm the dungeon they will give us priority and permanent discounts on all goods from the dungeon, along with allowing us to name it." - Kaz
"I still need to live after all, why would I not think about the money first. So when it is confirmed is when we claim it then?" - Zach
"...Yes." - Kaz
"Alright, so what now? and don't you say something idiotic." - Zach
"Shut up. Nothing we will just stay here and do some in town quests, nothing long term like the dungeon one we did... Or Dangerous" - Kaz grumbled while glaring at Zach.
"When will you both stop fighting?" - Celi
"WHEN HE LEARS SOME SENSE!!" They both shouted while pointing at each other. Beginning their argument anew.
I don't understand these bugs. I put mana into them, so I should be able to have some sway over them, but I forgot about one veeeerrry teeny tiny problem. They don't have a mind, well they do, but it is not as grounded, anytime I try to influence them aka, the spiders which I have decided will be the super bugs. It just melts away, they cannot fathom the simple is the problem, and I have tried to replace their minds with my carefully crafted ones, but their heads explode. How are spiders dumber than golems, am I the problem or did I choose the wrong species? can I use mana to fix their incompetent minds? can they even be fixed?
On a better note. I have finished the first room for the second floor, it is all tiled like a dungeon, just like how I planned, along with the circles on the floor, of which there are... 30!. You know I thought there would be more, ahem. On a side note, I do have the beginnings of a path built, and this time it will be a proper one, with a proper rectangle hole and everything (And still tiled with circles of course). I should begin to slowly pay more attention to the spiders, I want to start making actual, living breathing, mobs for the dungeon soon. By the time I finish the 3rd room I want mobs, there is a lot of space I need to fill with the rooms (of my planned second floor) being minimum double the size of the first floor boss room, in short. I have a lot of room that needs filling. I better get back to it then, I have a lot to do... or maybe I don't and just cannot grasp spiders, And regardless of which it is.
I hate spiders, but at least the second floor is coming along nicely. I Hate Spiders. Just Imagine How Great The Second Floor Will Be. I HATE SPIDERSSSSS.
