Jessica Smith
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- By the following morning, I had my three new shamans. Each Kobold was raised to the level of a Drake-kin and was granted the knowledge of casting or controlling their respective elements' magic. Like both air and water, Earth magic was manipulating extant sources of each classical element. My new earth shaman could raise platforms and barriers with a stomp, cause the earth beneath his enemy's feet to become like quicksand, or even collapse a tunnel…-
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Third Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- As they passed the archway at the end of the vine-covered hallway into the third floor, Isid took a deep breath. Having been well prepared, the second floor boss was easy. The dungeon had been far easier on them than it had on their last delve, though she attributed that to a reallocation of it's defenses more than leniency. She contemplated the dungeon and the various changes it had gone through while they descended the side of the…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- I've failed to make autonomous skeletons. I can insert a tiny piece of my consciousness in them, and move them myself, but there's just something missing. So, I have a quite a few 'avatars' now; three human skeletons and three kobold skeletons. Let me tell ya, it feels strange to be able to interact with the world with more than just mana. Holding things in your hands and moving it from Downsides: even though it is only a small portion of my…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- Soooo.... What the hell was that?! Hell. All I did was shove some mana into the fruit. I'd noticed after these last few days that the general mana levels of my captives was much reduced. I think it's because I made the cells mana-repellent, leaving them no atmospheric mana to passively absorb. In any case, to rectify their deficiency and as another test I supercharged a few mandarins with mana and fed them to my prisoners. They both reacted…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- I started my experiments with the obvious; throwing mana at the material and seeing what happens. As the mana pooled in each of the three metals I'd discovered I pondered what their discovery meant. I studied some geology at university before I'd become a dungeon, and I know that metals and minerals I expected some kind of metal, but I expected it to be so diffused through the rock that extracting it would be a pain. Instead I have around seven veins…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Dungeon, Medea Island The Next Day -0-0-0-0-0- The sun rose on yet another day of constant delves. After the Platinum's failure to best the third floor's boss, the rest of the delvers seem to have been reminded that I'm no ordinary dungeon. The Silvers still explored the second floor, though most left after a few hours. The ones who did find the boss rarely committed to the fight. They never pushed their luck. The Golds pushed past the second easily, but were plenty cautious on the…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Third Floor Guardian Arena, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- When the six lizards joined the fight, things got a little strained. None of the melee fighters could decisively end the Guardian, and any attempt to disengage was punished. That left Matha herself, the water mage, the crossbow-woman and a healer to fend off the new enemies and prevent them from coming to the aid of the Guardian. The Water Mage was the most useful, in this regard. The blades of water he manipulated were,…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Third Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island Three Days Later -0-0-0-0-0- Litan clashed with the lizard monster, his sword impacting its hastily raised saber. This one seemed more prepared for a fight than the last. He attempted to overwhelm it, with slash after slash sparking off equally fast blocks. He squinted at the monster, who glared back with a look full of pure hatred. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a flash of their other opponents. A lizard-mage clad in stolen robes, and…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Third Layer, The Land of God -0-0-0-0-0- Teka, Shaman of Fire Tribe, gently offered a fruit from the vine-plants that were found everywhere in the jungle. She offered the peeled fruit to the firebird that had nested in the branches of the tree her hut was built on. It's feathers were mostly orange, same as the fruit, with some deep red like fresh blood or flower-yellow. The bird, that her creator had named the Phoenix, could be considered kin to Teka. Despite their difference in shape,…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Third Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- Litan jerked away from his screaming bodyguard as the man stumbled around, flailing wildly. He stared in horror as the man was consumed by an enormous swarm of insects. His bodyguard tripped, falling to the jungle floor. He attempted to roll. It didn't help. More and more insects covered him, looking more and more like a shifting mound of black sand. His screams became muffled, then abruptly cut off. He was dead. Litan had no time to…
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