8 DP for Days... Actually, More Like a Few Hours...
(System) 'Are you done yet'
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'yes...'
(System) 'Then maybe you should check your DP'
(Bruce) 'Wait, has it been 30 minutes already... I guess I lost track of time'
(System) 'Well, more like an hour, and yes, you did lose track of time quite fast'
[Totally not me when I write these chapters... Stop looking at me like that StaticCharacter, I get enough sleep, I promise...]
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'Is it just me, or am I just crazy for thinking your sass levels have increased...'
(System) 'Well, skills do get stronger as they level up. Which in turn means they're effects become stronger'
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'I don't even want to imagine what you'll become in the future...'
(System) 'I don't know what your thinking... But if you want to find out, maybe checking your status would help?'
(Bruce) 'Yeah, I think your definitely getting a bit sassier...'
(System) '...'
(System) 'Affirmative'
(Bruce) 'OK, OK, I'll check my status, Jeez!!!'
{Results}
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Name: Bruce
Race: Dungeon Core (Rank D-)
Status Effects: NONE
Titles: Background Character
Durability: 200/200
MP: 5,500/5,500
SP: 0/0
Salt: 100...
{(Bruce) 'THAT WAS ON PURPOSE'}
{(System) 'Maybe...'}
DP: 9,040/infinite
{x5 Lesser Water Serpent = 6,000 DP}
{x1 Water Serpent = 3,000 DP}
ATK: 0
DEF: 25
AGI: 0
Skills: Intelligence (?), Dungeon Control (S), Dungeon Editor (S), Dungeon Clairvoyance (S), Dungeon Appraisal (S), Magic Resistance (B-), Personal System (?), MP Regeneration (B-)
DP Production 2 (20 DP per day) {250 DP for next upgrade} [This is here to help future me out when writing chapters... My memory SUCKS]
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(Bruce) 'Well... Besides the stupid BS salt stat added in...'
(System) 'Salt has risen to 200'
{Salt: 100 -----> 200}
(Bruce) 'YOUR SASS HAS GONE OVER 9,000!!!'
{Salt: 200 -----> 300}
(Bruce) 'You.....'
(System) '?'
(Bruce) 'Fine... FINE! Anyways lets talk about DP...'
(System) 'Didn't you already talk about that earlier for about an hour already?'
(Bruce) '...'
{Salt: 300 -----> 401}
(Bruce) '...'
Bruce decides to ignore system for now and proceeds to upgrade his DP production
{DP Production 2 -----> DP Production 3} {20 DP per day -----> 30 DP per day}
{DP: 9,040 -----> 8,790}
{Next Upgrade 500 DP}
(Bruce) 'Well that's done I guess...'
After upgrading DP production, Bruce decides to increase the size of Sandbox by quite a bit...
(Bruce) 'Lets try putting 1,000 DP into the islands size...'
{Results}
{75 meters long/wide -----> 600 meters long/wide} [Brain don't want to math to much right now... So... 600 meters...]
{6 meters tall -----> 12 meters tall} [Again... Brain don't want to math right now...]
{DP: 8,790 -----> 7,790}
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'Isn't that almost half a mile...' [1 mile = 1,609.34 meters... Thank you google senpai]
Bruce ponders at the massive growth of Sandbox from the 1,000 DP he just spent...
(Bruce) 'Anyways, now that I've got more to work with, I need to make Sandbox somewhat more habitable...'
Bruce spends 200 DP converting sand into soil, and spends 300 DP to create all sorts of plants, trees, and herbs to grow from the dungeons mana saturated soil
{DP: 7,790 -----> 7,290}
After that, Bruce then spends another 1,000 DP on expanding the Sandbox just because he felt like it... [And because I want more land on Sandbox... That's probably all 75% of the German in me talking right there...]
{600 meters long/wide -----> 950 meters long/wide}
{No change in height}
{DP: 7,290 -----> 6,290}
(Bruce) 'Yes... This is good, I might even reach a mile soon...'
{Since your Rank has exceeded C-, your Lesser Stealth Core Rooms effect will no longer hide you. Do you wish to upgrade?}
(Bruce) 'YES PLEASE!!!'
{This will cost you...}
(Bruce) 'Just do it please!!!'
{DP: 6,290 -----> 6,040}
{Lesser Stealth Core Room has been upgraded to Stealth Core Room. It will now hide any dungeon core below U- rank}
(Bruce) 'THANK YOU... I was a little worried there for a second...'
After the upgrade, Bruce decides to add some features around his island
He decides to turn the 500 meters surrounding the islands center into a rocky cave for 500 DP. He then uses 400 more DP in order to create more tree's and plant life to surround it... He also uses another 1,000 DP to expand Sandbox's size yet again [Yep, my German side is definitely starting to show...]
{950 meters long/wide -----> 1,200 meters long/wide}
{DP: 6,040 -----> 4,140}
(Bruce) 'I'm so close to that mile!'
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'Calm down Bruce... Control your German side'
(System) 'Whats a German?'
(Bruce) 'It's something from my old world, and their none of your business...'
While Bruce was busy expanding the island... The Clawbsers living there where watching the expansions with shock and awe as the island magically seems to expand out of thin air
(Bruce) 'Well anyways, now onto the next step of my plan'
Now that Sandbox has grown in size, Bruce will now need more monsters to protect it. So he looks through the available options of monster spawners he can create, and these are the ones that looked the most enticing to Bruce
{Results}
{Green Slime Spawner: Spawns a Green Slime every hour} {Green Slime (Rank F-)} {Carrying Capacity: 25} [Carrying Capacity is something I'm going to add to spawners so they don't go out of control. Carrying Capacity is basically the max amount of monsters a spawner can have spawned at one time]
{Blue Slime Spawner: Spawns a Blue Slime every hour} {Blue Slime (Rank F+)} {Carrying Capacity: 15}
{Fire Imp Spawner: Spawns a Fire Imp every 3 hours} {Fire Imp (Rank D-)} {Carrying Capacity: 5}
{Scaly Lizard: Spawns a Scaly Lizard every 3 hours} {Scaly Lizard (Rank E+)} {Carrying Capacity: 6}
These options seemed the most enticing to Bruce for many reasons, but the main one was that he wanted to edit the creature spawn settings on the spawners to his liking. The first test was done with a green slime spawner. And this was the resulting new species of monster from Bruce's edits
{Lime Slime Spawner: Spawns a Lime Slime every hour} {Lime Slime (Rank F)} {Carrying Capacity: 20}
Bruce edited the Green Slime with his dungeon editor skill, and turned it into a Lime Slime, his own original creature for his dungeon. Its stats where made greater than the Green Slime, but lower than the Blue Slime. Even if it was still considered a weaker creature, it was still a good test of Bruce's dungeon editor on spawners and his dungeons creatures
Bruce decided to spread 10 Lime Slime Spawners evenly across Sandbox's sandy shores for 200 DP
{DP: 4,140 -----> 3,940}
After successfully placing the spawners, Bruce turned his attention back to the dungeon editor and began editing more monsters to his liking... And after a hour of editing, he finished his new creation
{Pyro Imp Spawner: Spawns a Pyro Imp every 3 hours} {Pyro Imp (Rank D+)} {Carrying Capacity: 5}
Before Bruce places down spawners for his new creation, he decides to reorder his zones first
First, he names the big cave in the middle of Sandbox Clawbster Cave, as it is where the Clawbsters will be staying at for now... Second, he names the small forest surrounding the Clawbster Cave, Scaly Forest, for special reasons of course... And third, he named the beach surrounding the Scaly Forest Lime Slime Beach, as it is going to be crawling with Lime Slimes...
Now with all the new zones designated, Bruce Starts to create and place more spawners
He creates a small cave in the Scaly Forest for 250 DP, and names it Imp Cave. He then places 4 Pyro Imp Spawners in the cave for 200 DP
{DP: 3,940 -----> 3,390}
And finally... Bruce starts editing the Scaly Lizard, and manages to create an annoying, yellow, wolf sized lizard from one of his favorite games back on Earth... The Jagras from Monster Hunter World... [( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]
{Jagras Spawner: Spawns a Jagras every 3 hours} {Jagras (Rank D-)} {Carrying Capacity: 7}
Bruce then proceeds to place 6 Jagras Spawners throughout the Scaly Forest for 300 DP
{DP: 3,390 -----> 3,090}
However, Bruce wasn't quite done yet... Since he went through the trouble of creating Jagras, he decided to go through the trouble of creating the Great Jagras as well
{Great Jagras Spawner: Spawns a Great Jagras every 5 hours} {Great Jagras (Rank C-)} {Carrying Capacity: 1}
Bruce place 3 Great Jagras spawners evenly throughout the island for 300 DP, specificaly one Great Jagras spawner next to 2 Jagras Spawners
{DP: 3,090 -----> 2,790}
The Great Jagras would act as a pack leader for the normal Jagras, as well as a somewhat large monster to be patrolling the island, doing whatever derpy looking stupid crud that a Great Jagras does... [If you've played monster hunter world... You know how stupid a Great Jagras is...]
(Bruce) 'I've successfully made the Great Jagras!'
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'Now all I need to do is make an Anjanath to patrol the island in order to do two things. #1, Scare the #### out of humans. #2, Ragdoll the Great Jagras in a turf war... I'll hold off on the Anjanath for now. But once I make the island large enough... It will happen...'
After Bruce has finished all of the work he wanted to do for the moment, he decided to finally take a break from all his dungeon editing and just watch the results...
Bruce decided to go into his dormant state for 2 days, and after waking up, he quickly checked around Sandbox for anything interesting that might be happening
After scouring Sandbox, he realized that Sandbox has more than just the monsters spawned from his spawn points living on it. There's bird like creatures flying around, which is understandable. However, Bruce was confused as to some of the other creatures around Sandbox and how they exactly got there. There were some large centipede looking creatures skittering around Sandbox, as well as some strange goat and deer like creatures wandering around as well
When appraised, their ranks were around the F through E. So that was reassuring. And finally Bruce decided to ask System about them
(Bruce) 'Hey system, why exactly are there strange goat like creatures and centipedes wandering around Sandbox? Because I'm pretty sure these creatures didn't come from the ocean...'
(System) 'The answer is quite simple, since Sandbox is a dungeon, the natural spawn rates for monsters and creatures are quite high. This allows for them to just spontaneously generate... Do not worry though, the strongest creatures that can spontaneously generate are E ranked for now'
(Bruce) 'Well thats a relief...'
Bruce continues to watch the wildlife on Sandbox live and thrive... And while watching a pack of deer like creatures. A loud sound could be heard coming from the surrounding trees
When the deer heard this they began to run, but not fast enough as the deer are given no time at all to scatter as a massive yellow lizard dashes out from the trees and chases them down... This creature, was a Great Jagras
One of the deer that seemed to be already injured from a previous encounter ended up being the slowest of the bunch. It was chased down by the Great Jagras, and devoured immediately...
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'I've only seen this happen in the Monster Hunter World video game... But now that its happening for real... Its a little bit more disturbing, yet hilarious at the same time' [Again... If you play Monster Hunter World... You know exactly what I'm talking about... Poor Aptonoths...]
(System) 'What have you done...'
(Bruce) 'I have created the Great Jagras... And don't worry system, I'm far from done creating creatures... I still have yet to create the Greatest Jagras, and it will be beautiful...' [It has to happen... It will happen]
(System) '...'
Bruce then continues to watch his creations and how they interact with the wildlife on Sandbox, and Bruce can only imagine how it will change and evolve in the future
Bruce eventually spots some dangerous looking creatures resembling sea scorpions emerge from the waters. They proceed to climb onto the shore and look around, only seeing a bunch of Lime Slimes hopping around
(Bruce) 'These creatures look the opposite of friendly...'
(System) 'Agreed...'
Bruce continues to observe them, and eventually one of the scorpions makes its way over to a Lime Slime... The two monsters stare at each other for a moment before the scorpions stinger comes crashing down, killing the Lime Slime
(Bruce) '...'
(Bruce) 'Now you've done it...'
Bruce uses his dungeon control skill to rally up a large amount of Sandbox's Lime Slimes. And then proceeds to surround the Sea Scorpions with the slimes
The Sea Scorpions seam a little confused at the slimes movements at first... However, since the slimes seemed so weak to them, they decided to ignore them and try and push through to the forest anyways
This was a mistake, and as soon as the Sea Scorpions where far enough from the water, Bruce surrounded them, cutting off their means of escape
Bruce then ordered the Slimes to charge at the Scorpions. And to overwhelm and defeat them with numbers...
Bruce had about 60 Lime Slimes at his disposal, and there were 6 Sea Scorpions heading towards the forest. The Sea Scorpions watched the army of slimes charge towards them, and thought that they'd easily dispatch them all... But they were wrong
They were quickly overwhelmed, the Sea Scorpions could only manage to kill 1 to 3 slimes before they were completely covered by them. Once covered, the slimes started to eat away at the Sea Scorpions carapace. And after a couple minutes of struggling, the Sea Scorpions were eliminated
Once the coast was clear. Bruce undid his order over the Lime Slimes. Sadly though, since the scorpions where defeated by the Lime Slimes, their corpses where severely melted. And Bruce decided to just let the slimes eat what remained of the already melted Sea Scorpions...
(Bruce) 'Well, I guess the slimes ended up being somewhat useful after all...'
Bruce decided to just wait and build up DP for now... He was also having fun ordering around as well as observing the creatures on Sandbox thus far. And while doing all this, he was also planning out everything that he wanted to do next...
Eventually, a thought crossed his mind... What would he do if humans found Sandbox... He thought for a while, but he couldn't come up with anything for now...
(Bruce) 'Nah... I don't need to worry about stuff like that now... When humans do decide to show up on Sandbox's sandy shores, that's when I'll worry about them. For now though, all I need to do is focus on making Sandbox how I want to make it... And for that, I'll need plenty more DP
[When I do reach the human arch in the story... I'm totally going to hit them with a Devil Joe..... That or a Bazelgeuse... Or better yet... Both ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]
