History PlayingWith / RuinsForRuinsSake

** The ruins [[DanBrowned look sensible to a non-expert]] but to an expert make no sense. It is a massive InUniverse AnachronismStew. Assembly lines suggesting cheap materials and expensive labor surrounded by same age expensive material and cheap labor techniques. A timeline analysis shows nonsensical results like the foundation and the second floor are the newest parts and there are contraindications to all sensible explanations like scaffolding or recycling old building parts. The whole place is subtle {{Bizarrchitecture}}.

** The castle was built haphazardly, as the fact that main keep had three northern walls clearly showed.

(( Under the dust, there is what seems to be a SuperMultiPurposeRoom filled with LostTechnology just waiting to be activated. It's really all just a very shiny RedHerring, though.

** We're told that the ruins were made as part of an "interactive entertainment experience", or less meta, to make it hard to get whatever is inside of it. Or the creator just really liked puzzles.

* '''Double Subverted''': Under the dust, there is what seems to be a SuperMultiPurposeRoom filled with LostTechnology just waiting to be activated. It's really all just a very shiny RedHerring, though.

* '''Defied''': "You've been playing too many video games. Ruins always served a purpose of some kind when they were built. If you examine the placement of the pillars here..." ([[InfoDump some time later]]) "...which, when all put together, clearly suggests it's a {{Precursor}} temple to CrystalDragonJesus."

** RealityEnsues as the buildings which are random weren't structurally sound even before centuries to millennia had passed. The entire dungeon is a death trap even without any traps as disturbing anything could bring a whole wing tumbling down upon their heads.

** The ruins [[DanBrowned look sensible to a non-expert]] but to an expert make no sense. It is a massive AnchronismStew - assembly lines suggesting cheap materials and expensive labor surrounded by same age expensive material and cheap labor techniques. A timeline analysis shows nonsensical results like the foundation and the second floor are the newest parts and there are contraindications to all sensible explanations like scaffolding or recycling old building parts. The whole place is subtle {{Bizarrchitecture}}.

** The ruined castle was built on top of the legendary tomb of [[TheHighQueen Queen]] [[AerithAndBob Aerith]] TheMagnificent, who ruled [[TheTimeOfMyths thousands of years before]] and was buried along with much of her fabulous wealth. (The tomb itself was built to be as confusing as possible to grave-robbers, and whilst the location of the tomb was long-forgotten, rumours of the treasure within conveniently remained.)

** The ruined castle was built on top of the legendary tomb of [[TheHighQueen Queen]] [[AerithAndBob Aerith]] TheMagnificent, who ruled [[TheTimeOfMyth thousands of years before]] and was buried along with much of her fabulous wealth. (The tomb itself was built to be as confusing as possible to grave-robbers, and whilst the location of the tomb was long-forgotten, rumours of the treasure within conveniently remained.)

* '''Justified''': We're told that the ruins were made as part of an "interactive entertainment experience", or less meta, to make it hard to get whatever is inside of it.

* '''Justified''': We're told that the ruins were made as part of an "interactive entertainment experience".

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Parodied''': "It says here 'And ye shall dig a maze in the earth, that adventurers may venture therein and wonder Who Builds This Stuff Anyway?' I think that's supposed to be us."

* '''Deconstructed''': As it turns out, the ruins make perfect sense: They were built to attract adventurers thousands of years after their building, so the monster living inside can have some nice dietary supplements on an occasional basis.
* '''Reconstructed''': Same as above, except the monster was a good guy all along and designed the dungeon to attract the ChosenOne.

* '''Plotted A Perfectly Good Waste''': The ruins make no sense as buildings because they were never buildings to begin with. They look like ruins to disguise that their origins are much more recent, and they're currently in use by someone with big, nasty plans.

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** The ruins turn out to have been built pre-ruined, just because a nice set of ruins is good for the area's ambiance.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Under the dust, the ruins are full of LostTechnology, but it's all broken down, so it's only purpose is to lure adventuring parties to the monsters who set up shop there, but the GadgeteerGenius is able to repair some of the machinery, but the computer systems that run it are based on old dungeon-crawling RPGs... (continue zigzags ad nauseam)

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???