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* GoneHorriblyRight: The Overguards taught their children the value of reputation and the importance of not making accusations without proof, but those lessons were calibrated on the assumption that children will push boundaries. When applied by dutiful rule-follower Alfric, the result is [[spoiler:choosing not to report Lola's misbehaviour until he has the equivalent of a smoking gun, even though there would have been enough evidence long before that for someone to rein her in]].
--> '''Alfric:''' I ''did'' tell you [[spoiler:about Lola]].\\
'''Ria:''' No. No, you did what we had taught you to do and coached your words carefully, doing your best not to spread hearsay or to give voice to rumors. You didn't know what was actually true, and you didn't want to do reputational damage. What we heard from you was the weakest possible version of the story, and that’s because of how we raised you and what we taught you about what's appropriate information to pass on.\\
'''Harmon:''' Your mother and I are in agreement that in this instance, the lessons we taught you did not serve you well.
--> '''Alfric:''' I ''did'' tell you [[spoiler:about Lola]].\\
'''Ria:''' No. No, you did what we had taught you to do and coached your words carefully, doing your best not to spread hearsay or to give voice to rumors. You didn't know what was actually true, and you didn't want to do reputational damage. What we heard from you was the weakest possible version of the story, and that’s because of how we raised you and what we taught you about what's appropriate information to pass on.\\
'''Harmon:''' Your mother and I are in agreement that in this instance, the lessons we taught you did not serve you well.
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The story can be found [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/45534/this-used-to-be-about-dungeons here]] on Website/RoyalRoad, and is complete.
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The story can be found [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/45534/this-used-to-be-about-dungeons here]] on Royal Road and currently updates on Tuesdays.
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The story can be found [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/45534/this-used-to-be-about-dungeons here]] on Royal Road and updates on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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* CowTools: Dungeons are littered with them. Some can be repurposed and used as tools with little effort, some are poorly designed but recognizable, and some are just incomprehensible mashups that can serve no conceivable purpose.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Horses don't exist in this world, and finding an animal well suited to being ridden is a long standing dream of many dungeoneers. The most common riding animals are birds that have been magically enlarged, but their limitations make them unsuited to carrying full grown himans. Draft animals are mostly lizos, a breed of large lizard that were found in a dungeon, although at least one nation is mentioned to use cats.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Horses don't exist in this world, and finding an animal well suited to being ridden is a long standing dream of many dungeoneers. The most common riding animals are birds that have been magically enlarged, but their limitations make them unsuited to carrying full grown himans.humans. Draft animals are mostly lizos, a breed of large lizard that were found in a dungeon, although at least one nation is mentioned to use cats.
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Horses don't exist in this world, and finding an animal well suited to being ridden is a long standing dream of many dungeoneers. The most common riding animals are birds that have been magically enlarged.enlarged, but their limitations make them unsuited to carrying full grown himans. Draft animals are mostly lizos, a breed of large lizard that were found in a dungeon, although at least one nation is mentioned to use cats.
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* DungeonBypass: The Overguard Maneuver is highly risky, and should never be tried without chrononaut support, but it's effective in cutting a dungeon run short. You equip one party member with every kind of protection and mobility entad you can, put everyone else in dimensional storage of whatever kind is available, then charge through the dungeon, straight past the monsters, just looking for the loot. [[spoiler:Or, when Alfric actually uses it, looking for the exit.]] You may end up with every monster in the dungeon chasing you at once, but if you're fast enough, then you can loot and leave before they catch you. If you're not that fast, you can at least save a lot of time by fighting them all at once. (Which is dangerous in its own way, but means that you can go wild with AreaOfEffect and limited-use attacks, and possibly even take advantage of UnfriendlyFire.)
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* DungeonBypass: The Overguard Maneuver is highly risky, and should never be tried without chrononaut support, but it's effective in cutting a dungeon run short. You equip one party member with every kind of protection and mobility entad you can, put everyone else in dimensional storage of whatever kind is available, then charge through the dungeon, straight past the monsters, just looking for the loot. [[spoiler:Or, when Alfric actually uses it, looking for the exit.]] You may end up with every monster in the dungeon chasing you at once, but if you're fast enough, then you can loot and leave before they catch you. If you're not that fast, you can at least save a lot of time by fighting them all at once. (Which is dangerous in its own way, but means that you can go wild with AreaOfEffect and limited-use attacks, and possibly even take advantage of UnfriendlyFire.CollateralDamage.)
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* CatsAreMagic: Or at least, they're one of the rare dungeon spawned creatures that can propagate outside of dungeons, and one of the even rarer varieties that propagate readily without special requirements. Same thing with chickens and tomatoes.
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* CatsAreMagic: Or at least, they're one of the rare dungeon spawned creatures that can propagate outside of dungeons, and one of the even rarer varieties that propagate readily dungeons without special requirements.conditions. Same thing with chickens and tomatoes.
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* CatsAreMagic: Or at least, they're one of the rare dungeon spawned creatures that can propagate outside of dungeons, and one of the even rarer varieties that isn't overtly hostile to humans. Same thing with chickens and tomatoes.
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* CatsAreMagic: Or at least, they're one of the rare dungeon spawned creatures that can propagate outside of dungeons, and one of the even rarer varieties that isn't overtly hostile to humans.propagate readily without special requirements. Same thing with chickens and tomatoes.
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* AttackAttackAttack: The creatures in dungeons are almost universally affected by a "dungeon madness" of unknown origin, causing them to unrelentingly attack intruders. Alfric is able to exploit it by creating a choke point and killing them as they keep coming.
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* AttackAttackAttack: The creatures in dungeons are almost universally affected by a "dungeon madness" of unknown origin, causing them to unrelentingly attack intruders. Alfric is able intruders, even to the point suicidal efforts. A standard way to exploit it by creating this is to create a choke point to limit the number able to attack effectively, with the added benefit of CollateralDamage. The most dangerous enemies are the ones who are able to overcome this instinct and killing them as they keep coming.wait until a good moment to strike rather than run in heedless of tactical considerations.
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* FourthDateMarriage: This is standard practice for one of the world's ethnic groups. You find someone you like, propose to them, then have a long engagement.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: This sort of effect is almost unheard of and what few examples exist are supposed to be highly limited in scope. [[spoiler:Cate having an entad that allows for near perfect, reversible, memory removal from an unlimited number of people is highly worrying to the rest of the world and contributes significantly to the strong military response against her.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: This sort of effect is almost unheard of and what few examples exist are supposed to be highly strictly limited in scope. [[spoiler:Cate having an entad that allows for near perfect, reversible, memory removal from an unlimited number of people is highly worrying to the rest of the world and contributes significantly to the strong military response against her.]]
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: This sort of effect is almost unheard of and what few examples exist are supposed to be highly limited in scope. [[spoiler:Cate having an entad that allows for near perfect, reversible, memory removal from an unlimited number of people is highly worrying to the rest of the world and contributes significantly to the strong military response against her.]]
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* HiddenElfVillage: [[spoiler:Cate is trying to set one up in her living demiplane. She had tried once a hundred years before the story, but it didn't go well and she put the survivors on a tropical island with minimal support. She learned some lessons and the second attempt is going better, but she has difficulty accepting advice and has to be threatened into establishing normalized relations with the outside world.]]
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** With proper preparation, dungeons can be turned into one. There are some people desperate enough to do it, with a few historical which made it long enough to have multiple generations born in the dungeon.
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** [[spoiler:Cate is the last dragon in the world (that she knows of). She manufactures sightings every now and then in the hopes that another dragon will hear about it and come to investigate. So far no luck.]]
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* SmallSecludedWorld: Several varieties pop up throughout the story.
** Entads that produce extra-dimensional spaces are fairly common, and at the upper end could contain entire cities.
** With proper preparation, dungeons can be turned into one. There are some people desperate enough to do it, with a few historical which made it long enough to have multiple generations born in the dungeon.
** Then there are demiplanes. They're miles-wide masses of barren extra-dimensional land that with the right mix of entads and effort can be coaxed back into a semblance of life. [[spoiler:There are also ''living'' demiplanes that are actively expanding into the Wilderness, a half-real world vaguely related to the dungeons. Each one is connected to a dragon and the demiplane dies if the dragon does.]]
** Entads that produce extra-dimensional spaces are fairly common, and at the upper end could contain entire cities.
** With proper preparation, dungeons can be turned into one. There are some people desperate enough to do it, with a few historical which made it long enough to have multiple generations born in the dungeon.
** Then there are demiplanes. They're miles-wide masses of barren extra-dimensional land that with the right mix of entads and effort can be coaxed back into a semblance of life. [[spoiler:There are also ''living'' demiplanes that are actively expanding into the Wilderness, a half-real world vaguely related to the dungeons. Each one is connected to a dragon and the demiplane dies if the dragon does.]]
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** Symmetricalization is a sacred act that brings clerics if Garos closer to their god by miraculously imposing order on the world. The fact that it also lets them mend chipped cups and torn clothing is just a bonus.
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** Symmetricalization is a sacred act that brings clerics if of Garos closer to their god by miraculously imposing order on the world. The fact that it also lets them mend chipped cups and torn clothing is just a bonus.
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* Symmetricalization is a sacred act that brings clerics if Garos closer to their god by miraculously imposing order on the world. The fact that it also lets them mend chipped cups and torn clothing is just a bonus.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: One of the jobs of Chrononauts is to serve as an early warning system in case of natural disasters or dungeon breakouts. They're only able to go back a day, but it's far better than nothing. They can also be privately hired as insurance for dungeon delves (you get a message at the start of the day to warn you if it would end disastrously), but they charge exorbitant rates.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: One of the jobs of Chrononauts is to serve as an early warning system in case of natural disasters or dungeon breakouts. They're only able to go back a day, but it's far better than nothing. They can also be privately hired as insurance for dungeon delves (you get a message at the start of the day to warn you if it would end disastrously), but they charge exorbitant rates.rates - a six month stint at it is enough to outfit an entire dungeoneering group with top tier entads and support teams.
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---> Hannah took a moment to clip her nails and left her hair long for the time being. Long hair wasn’t a particularly strong boon, but it felt like they had run across it a few times.
