Burger

An Idiot's Dungeon Union [It's Monster Politik Time]

@N3v3rM0r3@Ariamis@Expendable@Vertigo@SilverPaw@Lugubrious@Zeroth@BrokenPromise@Thunder999999@Ponn@ERode@Xaltwind

I think this is everyone. If not--my bad but also owned.

OOC is here.

There isn't actually much additional information since this is an RP involving discovery and dealing things as they come. It's meant to be ever evolving.

As for a theoretical Discord server--maybe in the future if I need to start taking polls and people aren't responding to a theoretical strawpoll. I'm too tired, ill, and busy to make one right now. If you want to reach me, I have PMs, @mentions, and my discord which I think half the people here already know.

I'm not going to review characters until Thursday (the deadline). I do read them, but I just won't say anything about them until then. I will say: don't worry too much about things like abilities. Those are primarily aesthetic and writing tools for you. If something is a bit much, it can be changed after they're accepted. Think of your character as a pitch and worry more about their fundamental concept instead of the smaller aspects like their abilities. Also don't expect there to be many changes. Again--aesthetic and writing tool, I'm not trying to balance it beyond how it affects other people, steps on toes, or if it might make things uninteresting.

An Idiot's Dungeon Union

Muste 1/7th Shard of Authority

Schnupfen 1/7th Shard of Authority

Rats 1/7th Shard of Authority

Zogi 1/7th Shard of Authority One of the Boys

Salbjorg 1/7th Shard of Authority

Zoppy 1/7th Shard of Authority Pitiful Sympathy

The Oracle of (dungeon name) 1/7th Shard of Authority

Units

Kleine the Illusion: 4* Dungeon Spirit

Traits:

Illusionist: Allows the creation of two illusions.
Monitoring: Allows the remote viewing of any portion of the dungeon.
Dungeon Spirit: Allows for interactions with the dungeon core.

1x 2* Kobold Warrior
1x 2* Treant
1x 1* Naga Labourer

Items

Metals:
Quantity: Small. Quality: Medium.

Fabric:
Quantity: Small. Quality: Dire.

Leather
Quantity: Tiny. Quality: Dire.

Bone:
Quantity: Tiny. Quality: Dire.

Stone:
Quantity: Barely. Quality: Dire.

Herbs:
Quantity: Barely. Quality: Dire.

1x 1* Skeleton (Human?)
1x 1* Mana Gem

Traps

1x 2* Glue Trap
1x 1* Falling Rock
1x 4* Guillotine Shrine - A shrine to execution--invaders who linger nearby for too long will have their head attempted to be lopped off.
2x 1* Arrow Trap
1x 1* Pitfall

Equipment

1x 1* Wooden Sword
1x 4* Bell of Safe Return - A bell that, when rung, allows for safe passage towards home.
1x 3* Polymorphic Amulet - An amulet that transforms the wearer into a unique random form.
1x 2* Berserk Potion (consumable)
1x 1* Healing Potion (consumable)
1x 1* 10 Second Blinding Potion (consumable)
1x 1* Wagon

Dungeon Elements

1x 3* Treasure Chest - A chest that will attract adventurers based on the value of what's inside. Can be converted into a trap. Warning: do not display the chest while it is empty.
1x 1* Room digging kit - ALlows for the creation of a room--without the need to manually dig it out.
1x 1* Room lighting set
1x 1* Cozy bed
1x 1* Totems

An Idiot's Dungeon Union

Current Dungeon Points: 651 DP

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An Idiot's Dungeon Union

Dungeons--dangerous labyrinths filled with both monster and treasure. Hundreds of them litter the world. Some filled only with goblins and small amounts of gold. Others with dragons and ancient magical artifacts. The world has always known these dungeons. With these treasures come adventurers--those willing to delve inside for strength, wealth, to serve their god, or to solve the mystery of the dungeons. They venture within slaying all manner of beasts throughout the floors. Time and time again, with the god of the cycle at their side, they return to the dungeon. Again and again, they march deeper and deeper. Their goal?

To face the dungeon master and shatter the dungeon's core. The heart of the dungeon--the crystal that represents the ever expanding influence of the god of fate.

This is where you have awoken. But wait... where's the dungeon master?

It appears that the god of fate had loved your master a little too much. The god had allowed them to burn their life to summon you. Now without a master, the core had decided its new master...

Wait, it selected all of you?

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The World

Nothing yet has been discovered.

The Dungeon

Docs map. WIP.

Lore

You have not yet discovered much about how the world functions.

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Character sheet
[character image--preferably some anime style]
[center][h2]Name[/h2][sup][h3]Rarity★ | Race | Level[/h3][/sup][/center]
[indent][b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Abilities:[/b][/indent]

Character Creation Guide

As a primer, remember: you are effectively a fully-formed existence that's a newborn. You have knowledge about yourself and concepts, but no history. In addition, you might not know anything of the world, but it is not familiar or unfamiliar. It is merely natural--something that you would not give a second thought about outside of philosophical thought.

Name
The name is more or less self explanatory. Boss monsters (re: all of you) are born with an inherent sense of self. This includes the right to name themselves. The source of the name doesn't truly matter--it can be ingrained in your soul or it can be something as arbitrary as looking around you and looking at a pea, a tear, and a gryphon and liking how they sound together. Though please don't do exactly that.

Also put your title in your name, if you have one--IE, [name] the Goblin Lord or [name], Deep Dark Dragon of Destruction.

Rarity
Replace this number with 1★ through 5★. This isn't entirely a permanent decision and should be associated with your race. Rarity can be increased via special materials. Think of this as 20% your starting stats (these are arbitrary and do not mechanically exist), 40% your growth curve, and 40% your character's endgame potential.

What benefits are there for weaker ranks? Without committing to specifics or small spoilers, lower rarities will advance faster (make up for their worse stat growth) and may or may not be less frightening for some of the mooks that will populate your dungeon. But again, arbitrary.

As for rarity, you can imagine it as a curve. 1★ would be something like a goblin chief. 5* would be something like a dragonlord. Rarity is either an evolutionary or rank path. Using goblin chief as an example, it would go goblin chief > lord > baron > king > emperor for a rank-rarity. For evolutionary, imagine goblin > hobgoblin > orc > ogre > oni.

Do stars beyond 5★ exist? If I think it's interesting in the future, it will.

Note: this is primarily an aesthetic and thematic device. It, like most things, are entirely arbitrary.

Level
Replace level with 1.

All fresh spawns are level 1. This means the average adventurer will kick your ass as it stands, even if you are a 5★ Titanocider Ragnarok Behemoth. This serves the thematic purpose of actually needing this dungeon. Note that acquiring dungeon points (see: having adventurers die inside) will strengthen your dungeon core. This is the source of your initial levels--making the dungeon better will advance you all about equally.

Appearance
Things that your image doesn't cover. Write whatever, but some nice things to include: size/scale, impression, and things like that.

Personality
How your character acts. Be sure to include their desires--all monsters fundamentally have desires that put them in opposition with others.

Abilities
Put in your starting set of abilities. Skills, magic, abilities, etc. Consider this as generally more free-form than a rigid list (though having a few rigid techniques that gain power in exchange for flexibility is fine) Remember, combat isn't a giant part of the RP. Consider this through the lens of utility and narrative possibility (see: humanization, disguising, crafts) in addition to any power fantasy.

garbage zone

Dungeons--dangerous labyrinths filled with both monster and treasure. Hundreds of them litter the world. Some filled only with goblins and small amounts of gold. Others with dragons and ancient magical artifacts. The world has always known these dungeons. With these treasures come adventurers--those willing to delve inside for strength, wealth, to serve their god, or to solve the mystery of the dungeons. They venture within slaying all manner of beasts throughout the floors. Time and time again, with the god of the cycle at their side, they return to the dungeon. Again and again, they march deeper and deeper. Their goal?

To face the dungeon master and shatter the dungeon's core. The heart of the dungeon--the crystal that represents the ever expanding influence of the god of fate.

This is where you have awoken. But wait... where's the dungeon master?

It appears that the god of fate had loved your master a little too much. The god had allowed them to burn their life to summon you. Now without a master, the core had decided its new master...

Wait, it selected all of you?

---

The World

Nothing yet has been discovered.

The Dungeon

Docs map. WIP.

An Idiot's Dungeon Union [It's Monster Politik Time]

Burger, did you have a deadline in mind for applications?

@ERode

Probably Thursday so I can put the IC up on the weekend.

An Idiot's Dungeon Union [It's Monster Politik Time]

EDIT:
@Burger
When the RP starts, will we begin right after our characters have been "summoned"? Or will there be some sort of time-lapse which has happened and our characters have somewhat settled in already?

@Xaltwind

Closer to the former.

An Idiot's Dungeon Union [It's Monster Politik Time]

Could a character have a pet that counts as one of their abilities that levels up with them? Like the main a kobold while the pet or companion a psudodragon?

@N3v3rM0r3

I wouldn't exactly call it a pet.

Any separate monster from an ability isn't a separate being--its effectively a drone that's an extension of the base character. So you'd really be like Vinnie & Spike the whatever whatever and your character would be fundamentally inseparable as a duo. One side would be the left hemi (the "thinker") and the other side would be the right hemi (the "instinct")--both would have half a brain if you want them to both be able to have thoughts.

An Idiot's Dungeon Union [It's Monster Politik Time]

@Burger
You've got more than 8 interesteees though. If that's the limit on players, what will you do if you get more than that number of applications? Or is it "first come, first serve"? :o

@Xaltwind

Never first come first serve. I'll decide on a cast at some reasonable point when more characters are in. It's assemble a cast of 8 based on arbitrary vibes and the rest will more or less be on a waitlist if they want. It's trivial to add more people to the RP since it's "you have pulled for a boss that somehow also has a shard of authority"--be it given by a former player or they just have it for some reason.

An Idiot's Dungeon Union [It's Monster Politik Time]

Very interested in this. How big of a group were you planning to run this with? I had an idea to run a middle-manager type of monster (illithid or lich comes first to mind, but any magic-using monster would be fine) in charge of both Research and Development for the arcane/magic side of the dungeon, while also trying to keep things organized by using scrolls. I think that might fit the dungeon workplace comedy vibe you're aiming for.

EDIT: I also assume the dungeons in the setting follow the standard rules of the core requiring an unobstructed (save for locked doors or other types of paths) path from the entrance to the core room, meaning it can't be placed in a sealed room with no entrance?

@Ariamis

I was thinking about 5, but I think it would end up being 8 so I don't stretch myself thin.

More or less on the pathway.