After James Faraday left his office to browse the cities markets and left The Mage and the Lionheart’s to discuss the dungeon. The Mage browsed through his books while Dan and Melody Lionheart looked on with impatience. After a few minutes of browsing he found the book he was looking for, “Ye Olde Histories of Dungeons and other Godly Beings”.

“Ah, here we go, A history of Dungeons in the region and how they were first dealt with. This will tell us how to deal with the Dungeon to gain the most from it without angering it and causing it to go rogue. Let us start from the Beginning, Chapter One, An Intro to Dungeons”

A Dungeon is an interesting organism, and it truly is a living being. While not organic like most beings and more closely related to Golems, Dungeons are sentient beings in their own right. In fact, studies have shown that at least 85% of dungeons are reincarnated beings from other planes. But back to dungeon basics, unlike mortals Dungeons have a nascent connection to the Worlds Voice, able to see it as interactable physical or mental objects unlike mortals who have to resort to expensive spells and machines to view a non-interactable mental summary.

This allows dungeons exact measures of there growth and difficulty of their floors. A Dungeons brain is its core and its body its floors, and this connection allows tremendous growth and mobility of its shapes. A Dungeon, unless threatened early in development or naturally evil in the case of Demon, Abomination, or such Dungeons, will have a gradual increase of difficulty as it proceeds deeper into the rocks. However there are exemptions, some dungeons naturally start at a higher difficulty but have increased rewards. An Easy system is in place to rank the difficulty of dungeons in increasing difficulty, Untrained, Rookie, Moderate, Veteran, Elite, Monstrous, and Godly.

It is recommended for dungeon divers to start from least difficult to more difficult. The Level of average threat increases exponentially as a dungeon increases in rank, and as a dungeon grows it can change rank to become more deadly with some exceptions, either by achievement or by average threat of its denizens. Dungeons of Untrained or Rookie rank tend to have no intelligence, being those dungeons with no reincarnated souls and cannot increase in rank. Dungeons of higher rank tend to be created with reincarnated souls and have peculiarities individual to the soul but also have limits to how far they can grow. These dungeons can after gaining at least five floors can create avatars and interact with the world, some dungeons even collect followers or follow a god, gaining perks and traits from these actions.

Seeing that his audience had fallen asleep, being adventurers and not scholars the Mage placed the book on the desk for further reading. Then he used his mage hands to lift the adventurers as his old and wizened frame could only carry one at a time, and gently floated them to their brownstone and to their bed. After laying blankets over them and turning off the lights the Mage went down the stairs and down the hall to Cadens room. Peeking in he saw the little lad practicing his craft and knocked before entering.

“Caden, my lad, I have placed your parents in their room as they have had a hard day and require rest. Please give them this note when they wake, it will instruct them on how to interact with the new dungeon core. And I must give you some advice as well…”

The Mage gave Caden some pointers on his craft, and passed the note along with a bag of magical candy, stating they would help in his growth and that he made them himself. Then be bade his leave and returned to his offices to continue planning on how to interact with the dungeon, he did not require sleep and the book required some updating as he had originally wrote it at the tender age of 167 roundabout 600 years ago.

Somewhere high above the planet's atmosphere, The “God’s” Space Station

Abnormal readings detected

Examining options

Readings fit profile “Dungeon”

Examining protocols

*Error Dungeon Protocols Corrupted*

Examining Corruption

*Error Antivirus module damaged*

Examining Protocols

Calculating…

Calculating…1

Calculating…2

Calculating…3

Calculating…4

New Task Created “Repair AntiVirus Module”

Engaging step one “Activate Cryo Pods”

!!Warning Cryo Pods Memory Modules Damaged, Occupants may revive with damaged memories!!

Risk Assessment

Calculating…1

Calculating…2

Risk necessary, Reward Critical

Activating Cryo Pod #23 “Chief Engineer Anne Mesward”

Assigning Task(s) to Occupant “Repair AntiVirus Module” Optional “Repair Cryo Bay Memory Module” “Restore Protocols”

In a chamber deep inside the aging space station a single light turned on, then the other began turning on with varied success. The Life support systems wheezed to life, blowing out centuries worth of dust as they prepared for the stations occupants to awaken and require breathable air again. In the Chamber a single frozen object began to melt, ancient computer systems on standby for ages began to warm, and after a few minutes the object opened, revealing a young human women, barely out of her teenage years. She was dressed in a blue military looking jumpsuit which hugged her well curved body. Her hair was blond and curly, her skin was lightly tanned and her looks would be described as extremely beautiful. She sat up and looked around with a confused expression, she started to speak then stopped stepping out of the cryo pod.

“Computer, how long has it been? And why am I the only one awake?”

“It has been approximately 400 years since you entered cryo sleep. And you are the only one able to repair the AntiVirus and Cryo Memory Modules.”

“Why did you risk waking me with the Memory Modules Damaged? What If I lost all memory of repairing machinery and was unable to repair the modules?”

“The Risk versus Reward was deemed necessary, Protocols to deal with new data have been corrupted and require recovery.”

“What new data has been found? Also computer if one protocol has been corrupted, perhaps others have as well.”

“A New Dungeon has been detected, a Corruption scan is not possible with AntiVirus module damaged”

“Computer, prepare the airlock with repair equipment and a Zero-G repair suit. I'm going out to repair this immediately, after that prepare a full report on the planet. If the planet has exceeded its treaty boundaries we may have to enact section VII. Also prepare to send a full report of all actions taken to High Command back at Genesis.”

“Compliance!”