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[D'sP] Opening Up for Business - Chapter 19

Doyle rolls his core. ‘As if I have a choice. The diffuse one is just silly and my vine room would be in darkness with a single source. Realistic it is, though a torch isn’t really my speed. Let me try something.’

Doyle settles down and imagines an led light strip. When he tries to place this in the entry room nothing happens. Not that he expected it to work but it should be possible. In fact leds are incredibly simple in concept. Just power passing between two bits of metal throu...

[D'sP] Monster Layout - Chapter 18

Ally conjures up an illusionary horned rabbit, ‘Critters are any lifeform which isn’t a monster or sentient in your dungeon. Not harmless. Regular bees, for instance, are a nice inclusion with all this clover and they count as a critter. Still, they are not a threat to anyone with some combat experience.’

‘You don’t even technically need them, just like you don’t need the plants. However anything you can do to remove your monsters reliance on your energy the better. A horned...

[D'sP] Placing Plants - Chapter 17

With Ally’s confirmation that everything is alright Doyle gets down to spreading the dirt around. Almost every room gets a good hand length of soil along the bottom along with any nooks and crannies being filled in. The only exception being his core room and the medium size room right above it which he leaves dirt free and the long room. That hallway gets jam packed with the stuff. Even beyond that he shifts the stone around to make some places on the ceiling to put dirt in for when he plac...

[NR] Frustrating His Teacher - Chapter 151

The streams of Energy he had created aren’t coming apart. They are splitting into more even finer streams. From the width of his little finger they split into three streams each half that size. More power enters his body and it happens again. The streams split into three and again and again. This splitting continues beyond the point that he could control any individual thread. Then it goes even beyond the point that he can see any one stream. So fine as to be invisible and smal...

[NR] Power Cycling - Chapter 150

Jason’s whole body tenses and then relaxes. His breath takes on the steady in and out pattern that had drilled itself into his being since long ago. When the time was right, he breathes in without breathing and the world responds. Three types of power flow into him only for two of them to eat the third and then be repulsed by his core. This doesn’t stop him though as he continues.

At first this new yet old method fails him. It might draw all the surrounding power in but...

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[D'sP] Dungeon Design - Chapter 16

Ally claps, ‘rooms complete and you started them with some denser walls. Convenient as the system seems to have set that as your basic room setup. You do have a bit of space left to make a few more small rooms but we can wait till you have more space. Let’s work on connecting the rooms together. While they share sides, you haven’t opened them up so someone could move from one to the next. For this we can cheat a bit. Instead of cutting each doorway yourself just let the system do it. Th...

[NR] Rhythm of the Body - Chapter 149

Jason takes his watch but there is one final thing to check out from his recent experience. He hadn’t noticed it before but there was a System pop up off to the side of his vision. It had been a good long while since the last bonus and almost all of his had something to do with plants so one from a different source would be interesting.

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New Knowledge Bonus Gained

For finding a method of controlling your inner self, future such manipulati...

[NR] Only Sorta Mortal - Chapter 148

In the end Jason wasn’t able to persuade Courtney to not use the scroll and so is once again forced to have a good night’s sleep. He wakes up refreshed though sans any new insights. The thought of being lucky enough to have it happen again is enough to make him laugh. Only a hero gets to go to sleep and then wake up knowing some new universal truths about the world.

As the party sets out for the day Jason spots a couple of wolves behind them but no longer are they being...

[D'sP] Making Rooms - Chapter 15

They both stare at her status. Ally’s race had changed and now with the addition of the word dungeon she was an autumn court dungeon fae. Along with that the section that had once said that Doyle was her companion now declared she was soulbond to him. They both glance over at his status that was still up. He was soulbond to her as well.

Ally sighs, ‘so what did you mean by relax?’ Doyle is about to answer when he notices something, ‘hey Ally, you're not talking anymore.’

[NR] Connecting the Runes - Chapter 147

Jason wakes up the next day well rested. He would have spent most of the day sheepishly avoiding Rosha and Courtney if not for one fact. Having gotten a good night’s rest after learning about the core rune had nudged something loose in his mind. With a new fervor he went at searching his core.

Now he didn’t find the rune right away or anything however by the time night rolled around again there it was. A complicated 3d nonsense squiggle which nevertheless felt like a co...

[NR] Go Away Corruption - Chapter 146

Jason sits there in the center of the living room focused on himself. In the pit of his stomach his captured energy rotates. In his last life they would call this his dantian and he sees no reason to change that tradition. This world already has that concept even if they do get some things wrong. For now he needs to do some spring cleaning.

From afar everything seems alright. However the closer you get to the whirlpool of energy the more easy it is to see something is wrong...

[D'sP] Soul Deep Relaxation - Chapter 14

Ally picks up one of the stone cubes. “Now there are a few things we could do with these things. Deconstruct them, move them around, or throw them at intruders. What we will do however is combine them with your current walls. Dungeons are known for their near impenetrable walls. In the older dungeons the walls can even heal faster than some gods can damage them. This doesn’t come from nowhere.”

“There are innumerable methods to store stuff from shrinking the item to some flavor ...

[NR] IRL Cultivation - Chapter 145

Jason wakes up to Courtney poking him. He never liked being woken up and this is a particularly irritating way to do so but the middle of the night isn’t the time to be grumbling. The rock Courtney had been on isn’t too cold yet so Jason decides to perch atop it as well.

The shift is peaceful enough but he ends it quite irritated. Jason couldn’t help but think about the runes however he needed to pay attention to his job. Since nothing happened though it felt like a w...

[NR] Courtney and Rosha - Chapter 144

Courtney throws her hands up, “fine, he’s our teammate.” Rosha wraps her arms around Courtney before she can stop her, “there there. It would have been nice to go off on our own but Jason seems like a nice enough guy. At least he isn’t constantly staring at your butt like the idiots from school.”

Courtney grumbles, “you just didn’t have to deal with that nonsense. Who would dare stare at you after all?” Rosha lifts one of her arms and puts her finger over ...

[D'sP] Cubes for Days - Chapter 13

Doyle rotates his core to the side, ‘so we can just call it world energy? Because not having to pussy foot around what to call the stuff would be nice.’ Ally rolls her eyes, “sure fine, we can reduce this complex subject with so many implications down to a simple two word label. Sigh, anyway now that you freed your territory I advise you shape it into a ball centered on you for now. Later on you will have to focus in certain directions but territory is your early warning system. That an...

[NR] Chatting with Rosha - Chapter 143

Another day passes Jason while he tries to focus on the runes. Three runes a spiral, an electronics diagram, and the mystery in his core. Practice continues on the first two but the third eludes him. If this section of forest had been any more active, he would have been in trouble. His distraction though goes unnoticed as whatever had caused the mossram to flee the deep forest wasn’t in the area.

After the group sets up camp Rosha sits down next to him and holds Lily. Wit...

[NR] Core Rune - Chapter 142

The trainer points at the figure on the 3d screen whose heart is still glowing from when she commented on Jason’s heart core. “Everyone, well, almost everyone has a core rune. Various shenanigans involving cloning magic and various methods of reincarnation will mess with that plus magic in general but for you it is true enough. Also of course you need to form your core before you can learn the skill. A core is actually a hidden requirement to learn my true skill.”

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[D'sP] Dungeon Territory - Chapter 12

Ally uses her glamor to create an image of a warrior in leather armor. “Let’s take the dodging warrior as an example. He gained his class and filled up all his skill slots.” The illusionary warrior goes through a few actions to show his ten skills. “Later on though he gets drafted and ends up on the front line and shoved into heavy armor. Not something his dodge skill would be useful for. When he completes his current warrior path all he can choose is the next warrior path.” The lit...

[NR] Three Runes - Chapter 141

The trainer pulls up a basic rune on the 3d display, “Anyone can form a rune like this with a thought. If the rune you formed with the skill was only this complex, then changing it would be fine. It isn’t of course. The procedural rune you form with the skill is so complex that to try to change it would either slow the activation down way too much or reduce the power.”

“At the core of this subject is the difference between ranged and melee combat, at least in my opi...

[NR] Everyone's Different - Chapter 140

The trainer is standing next to the displayed human body and she points at it. “We are both human and so have humanoid bodies. That is the theory most others agree on and by that frown you clearly have different opinions on this subject as well. So do I in fact. If all humans were the same then why do cores get formed in different places when not controlled? Why are certain methods of moving energy more effective for some and not others?”

“Simple enough to understand ...

[D'sP] Dungeon Skills - Chapter 11

The fae queen pauses to let it sink in. [Yeah, this system integrates the main monster into a dungeon core by making the core ride along through the lives of monsters of that type. How the system knows to stop this is it detects the core has fallen fully into the monster. That is why he is still stuck in it. That core of his identity won’t fall. Good for him as he won’t lose himself. Bad for him as he will be stuck until an outside force interferes or it overwrites his entire personality....

[NR] Impressing Teacher - Chapter 139

After Jason wakes Courtney to take her watch shift, he rushes off to bed. While he doesn’t hope to have the same level of epiphany as last night, to study under such a great teacher can only be seen as a blessing. As soon as he appears in the training room he goes down into a seiza and gives a deep bow to the trainer. “Master, your student has made a breakthrough in his technique.” The trainer has a look of shock but schools her face and does a shallow bow in return. “Con...

[NR] Testing it in the Real - Chapter 138

The trainer focuses on Jason. A sensation he recognizes as being analyzed purely through a greater powers perception sweeps over his body and his hair stands on end. She nods and hides a smile behind her hand but her eyes show her glee. “Yes, we will be able to get much farther. It rates my skill common because anyone can get their hands on some partial version of it. Mostly because I had hoped someone would advance it on their own so I could find someone worthy that way.” 2019-12-18 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post

[D'sP] Calling Mother and then Tech Support - Chapter 10

Ally claps her hands, “good choices all around there. As for the question about main and secondary monsters? That is purely a system related matter. Without a system, dungeons start with whatever walks into their territory and dies. This causes young dungeons to grow especially slowly unless they get lucky. After all the most likely creatures to die first are insects and of those the prey. To jumpstart dungeons that develop on newly integrated worlds, every dungeon gets three monsters to st...

[NR] Stoic Trainer - Chapter 137

The energy darts and body blades while nice are something Jason can figure out on his own. War stomp, despite its common rarity has one special little quirk to it. Everything else on the list would use his Energy. Full stop, nothing more. War stomp on the other hand says it can use any resource pool. This means not only energy, qi, or mana but also things like health, stamina, or experience. As it stands he already knows how to use energy so manipulation of it is only a matter of...

[NR] The Six Skills - Chapter 136

War Stomp

A classic powered kick attack. Despite the tendency for it to be use Qi the skill can be used with any type of resource pool. The different power sources will cause different effects to happen and so the possibilities of this skill are technically unlimited.

Rarity: Common

Type: Powered Attack

Tystufus’ Energy Darts

While not a rare type of skill this version of a manifested weapon has been specialized. I...

[D'sP] Starting Monsters and Their Stats - Chapter 9

Doyle interrupts Ally at this point, ‘yep, I got it. Souls are cool and what not. Let’s look at what options I have for starting monsters. [Show starting monster options.]’

{Choose 1 main and 2 secondary starting monsters

Dungeon Wolf

S[5] A[7] C[3] I[3] W[5] P[8]

Skills: Teamwork lv5, Harrying Bite lv3

Description: A wolf adapted to live in the early levels of a dungeon. While similar in most ways to normal wolves, they are smaller and hav...

[NR] Cutting Hundreds of Skills - Chapter 135

Jason lays back on his bedsheet and considers the System message. He can right away think of a few things he would want to sell his skill for. The question is which would get him the best power boost. About the only certain thing is that he doesn’t want money for it. That will flow in as he gets royalties from it. The upfront sale of Blast Punch however is worth more elsewhere. After a few more minutes of thought he whispers, “System, can you list common things that they sell...

[NR] He Forgot about It - Chapter 134

After they say goodbye to the scout, the group all sit against a tree and discuss how to continue. Jason starts off with the worry they all had thought of, “if the plant monsters are more active should we do this? That fight wasn’t hard but mossrams are a passive monster. If the scout was right and a herbivore is on the move nearby it won’t be a small fry like that.”

Courtney pulls out a rough map she had sketched out, “our trip through the deep forest here was to...