“So this is where you can do stuff with the raid right?”

Terrance merely nods as he stretched under a raptor’s legs with a wrench. The way his arm then started moving and without context some people might imagine he was doing something belonging in an adult movie.

“Give me access!”

“Nope!”

“Sweet, I’ll just... what?”

“Nope. You are an info broker. Everything you see you might sell. If I give you access to that then people are going to start unlocking things and beating it very consistently and rapidly. I highly doubt the dungeon will like that. It took me literally buying my way back into this garage. I am not risking that so you can make a quick and probably rather fat buck.”

The fairy bloated her cheeks but Terrance was already face first underneath a robot dino’s tail. With a few more motions of the wrench he sets the tool down and reaches for an armor plate.

“I am going to tell you what I am going to do after I am alone again though...”

“Other than work the dino?”

Terrance pauses and smirks at the double reference she was making. A bit rude and crude but it still a step up from his normal antisocial behavior.

“Yea, other than that. I am going to introduce some challenges, basically optional quests and tasks. Since those cost me out of my own pocket, I been reluctant to post any. I will also post bonuses for first discoverers with anything related to Dr. Jenkins and B.R,A.I.N.S. Which is Building Robotic Artificial Intelligence Network Systems. Based on this floor’s lore, they are the company that originally built all the steampunk dino’s. Dr. Jenkins, Sargent Jenkins older brother, was the lead researcher and was based in this very city.”

Terrance finished tightening up the bolt as an impact on his lap, which would have been fine if Amy did not trip over something stiff.

“Opps...”

“You did that on purpose.”

“Maybe...”

Terrance sighs and pushes himself and his passenger off from under the raptor.

“Fine, no sweet raid info, which is half the reason why we came here in the first place. Now, tell me about him.”

Amy points at the raptor he was working on and Sargent looks back at them as he starts walking off the workstation.

“Thank you creator. I feel the loose connection no more.”

Terrance nods towards the bot and looks at Amy.

“Long story short. I failed the acquisition quest. For this raid building. I mean, to get it is really hard. My pacifist achievement unlocked a unique path for me. Those others must have done equally difficult tasks. Look at the Nine Chief War in the Green Dungeon. You had to have beaten all nine warchiefs on the first five floors in a specific order for the first time. That means bypassing the first three floors without fighting their bosses. That is special circumstances and is a lot easier than not killing anything, solo, in a dungeon that could one shot me at any time till I got to the boss. At least once they researched what to do.”

Amy puts a finger to her chin to think about it.

“Yea, and making your character based on one of the characters of the novel the Bone Dungeon it is based on and following through would be very difficult as well. That is hardcore devotion.”

Terrance nods in agreement to her as she turns to the dino.

“Fine, remember how I said I bought my way back in? Well, I mean that literally. I started out just buying some technical books on the raptors. But soon, I found myself having to buy real life copyright documents. I mean each blueprint only cost a measly amount, but it added up. Then as I started piecing Sargent together, I realized, with some tweaking, he could be made in the real world!”

Amy blinked at that and looked at Terrance in confusion.

“ Wait, you can make REAL velociraptors?”

Terrance merely shrugged his shoulders.

“ That ain’t the best part. I found out, they are upgradable.”

Amy blinks at Terrance, looks at Sargent, points at the dino, then looks at Terrance again.

“I... What?... But... How?... Wait... WHAT!!!”

Terrance smirked.

“ Did you know a thin layer of dino plating can be substituted for tedikight armor. Stuffing can act as additional padding to reduce concussive force. I even figured out how to make a voice box out of those annoying monkeys. I think when I get to the fourth floor I can get superior metal from pirate weapons and probably use bones to boost the frame. Then imagine when I get predator tech from the fifth floor.”

Amy just stared at him as he took a look at Sargent.

“ That not the best part. I made or rather ‘bought’ access to external memory storage. I can make a real body for Sargent in the real world and he will be there with me.”

Amy looks at the dino again and it dips it’s head.

“ How the FU...”

“ Perhaps I would be better to explain that!”

The two of them turn to face the terminal for the raid and found a middle aged office worker in mild dishevel clothing. He taps the terminal a few times and Terrance could tell the man changed something.

“And who are you?”

“Oh, nobody important. I am Steve and I am a dev.”