[center][h1][color=A84B5E][u]R a e l[/u][/color][/h1]
[hr][color=gray]  • Tʜᴇ Dᴜɴɢᴇᴏɴ •[/color][hr][/center]
[indent]It took some time to get into the thick of the dungeon, but as far as Rael could tell this dungeon was playing around with the “formula” and she didn’t like it when people and places toyed with her. Still, the red-haired rogue intended on seeing things through. A stupid dungeon wasn’t going to best her; or at least not if she could help it. 

But damn it if the dungeon wasn’t [i]trying[/i].

Wayfarers as experienced as Rael who had a penchant for the dungeoneering aspect of the game were used to complicated yet straightforward treks through layered towers and sprawling crypts. But the dungeon they had just walked into was a [i]nameless[/i] antithesis to that fact. There were no tiers and the monsters were not in predictable clumps and patrols; almost alluding to the fact that the depths of the world of Pariah were much more dangerous, complicated, and unknowable. Before Rael had stepped inside the town of Thorinn she thought she was going to have all the answers and here she was half-cocked as her group walked tediously around every corner of the dungeon waiting for a good idea to happen or for luck to strike them.

[color=A84B5E]“Told you. None of this makes sense.”[/color] She remarked to Graves as she removed her spear from the cold dead corpse of a large ogre from the rear guard of the raid group; on the adjacent side, the front, Graves stood before the corpse of a similar creature. 

It was a funny thing to meet monsters who used tactics that felt actually menacing and a bit of a threat; or maybe it was the fact that they didn’t operate with the same intelligence of other dungeon monsters she and others had fought in the past. The ogres had come out of nowhere, breaking through the stone floors underneath them to strike at the rear and front at exactly the same time while a barrage of arrows from the goblin archers on an overhead balcony shot down at them. Nobody needed to be [i]revived[/i], so obviously the group was [i]smart[/i] enough to survive a dungeon that did not play by its own rules. A dangerous precedent.

[color=A84B5E]“It’s different.”[/color]

Rael didn’t like different, but yet at the same time she knew she would not be bored.[/indent]