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** They're multiple eras of ruins that have collapsed on one another, making it hard to tell what is from when. [[note]]EG: the first and second era Castle's keeps have the remains of their north/south wings go trough one another, with no indication as to which is which.[[/note]]
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** They're the ruins of a Hollywood backlot, they make no sense as buildings to the people of the future as they were never real buildings to begin with.
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** 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}}.
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** The ruins [[DanBrowned look sensible to a non-expert]] 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}}.
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** The castle was built haphazardly, as the fact that main keep had three northern walls clearly showed.
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** The castle was built haphazardly, as the fact that [[EpicFail the main keep had three northern walls walls]] clearly showed.
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** The castle was built haphazardly, as the fact that main keep had three northern walls clearly showed.
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(( 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.
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** 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.
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** We're told that the The ruins were made as part of an "interactive entertainment experience", or less meta, to experience",
** To make it hard to get whatever is inside ofit. Or the it.
** The creator just really liked puzzles.
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** The creator just really liked puzzles.
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* '''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.
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(( 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.
(( 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.
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* '''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."
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* '''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}} {{Precursor|s}} temple to CrystalDragonJesus."
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** 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.
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** RealityEnsues SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome 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.
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** 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}}.
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** The ruins [[DanBrowned look sensible to a non-expert]] but to an expert make no sense. It is a massive AnchronismStew - assembly 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}}.
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** 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}}.
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** 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.
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** 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.)
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** 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, long-forgotten when the castle was built, rumours of the treasure within conveniently remained.remain to this day.)
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** 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.)
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** The ruined castle was built on top of the legendary tomb of [[TheHighQueen Queen]] [[AerithAndBob Aerith]] TheMagnificent, who ruled [[TheTimeOfMyth [[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.)
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** 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.)
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** The "dungeon" is the crypt of a disused temple designed according to some esoteric meaning that made sense according to the old religion that is now lost to the mists of time; its mysteries having died with the last priest.
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** The dungeon was made as part of an elaborate "folly" (deliberately-designed fake ruins) by a wealthy aristocrat with no long ancestry, but wanted to make a pretense of it to show off to his guests (whose titles went back generations). It doesn't make any practical sense because it was never meant to.
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* '''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.
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** 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 ofit.it. Or the creator just really liked puzzles.
** The dead ends weren't dead ends when they were built, but have long since been looted and worn down to nothing by the passage of time, and/or the explorers lack the proper knowledge to make sense of what is left so neither can the audience.
** 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
** The dead ends weren't dead ends when they were built, but have long since been looted and worn down to nothing by the passage of time, and/or the explorers lack the proper knowledge to make sense of what is left so neither can the audience.
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* '''Justified''': We're told that the ruins were made as part of an "interactive entertainment experience".experience", or less meta, to make it hard to get whatever is inside of it.
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* '''Exploited''': ???The {{Precursors}} set up fake temples with fake gods for outsiders and pillagers. Thus they'd risk life and limb to grab their silly little pyrite idols and wooden totems while leaving their real, better hidden, and far grander ones alone.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???A dungeon has many puzzles and tricks. The owner was noted as being mad but intelligent, and enjoyed puzzles.
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* '''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."
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** "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."
** "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."
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* '''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.
* '''Reconstructed''': Same as above, except the monster was a good guy all along and designed the dungeon to attract the ChosenOne.
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* '''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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* '''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 APerfectly 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.
* '''Reconstructed''': Same as above, except the monster was a good guy all along and designed the dungeon to attract the ChosenOne.
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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.
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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 [[SceneryPorn area's ambiance.]]
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* '''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''': 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...[=RPGs=]... (continue zigzags ad nauseam)
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* '''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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* '''Invoked''': ???"We'll need some tough adventurers to help us on the road ahead. Let's put up some fake ruins and hire whoever discovers them."