Dungeon Dives

Literature
   Dragon’s ears swiveled sharply, attuned to the faint rustle behind him. His hooves, scuffed and scarred from countless battles, remained perfectly still against the cold stone floor of the dungeon. He didn’t turn his head immediately—no, that would give away too much. Instead, he let his narrow eyes scan the edges of his vision. The shadows seemed to shift, mocking him, but Dragon knew better. Something was there. His breath curled into mist as he exhaled, slow and controlled...
[DD3] Surprise
By hearteater ・ 1 ・ 0
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[DD1] Never truly lost
By hearteater ・ 2 ・ 0
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After lighting his path with the torch, holding it with his ghost hand and walking along the path, he found that his hoof got caught in the rocks. He tried to pull it out, but was having trouble, so he held the torch with his mouth, and used his ghost hand to pull the rocks out from around his hoof and freed himself. ...
[DD1] stuck - kirito
By xjustxryanx ・ 0 ・ 0
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As he passed through the caverns, leaving the creature behind, the cavern started to get darker and darker until, he eventually lit a torch and held it with his ghost hand, so he was able to see in the darkness as the flame made the shadows dance along the dark, damp walls.
[DD1] the darkness - kirito
By xjustxryanx ・ 0 ・ 0
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After running through the room with the fungi, he quickly came to a cavern with a huge crack in the ground, and he saw a bridge and quickly started to run over it. The bridge however started to move, and started shaking and bucking up and down quickly as kirito had to ride it along, then he used his ghost hand to maneuver the creatu...
[DD1] The ride - kirito
By xjustxryanx ・ 0 ・ 0
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Kirito went down into the dungeons depths, and when he entered into a cavern he could see fungi that was connected to none another in a system resembling a brain. As he was looking around, he started to see the fungi form into a courser and when he started to move, it moved along with it. Kirito went ahead and quickly used his Phant...
[DD1] the copy - kirito
By xjustxryanx ・ 0 ・ 0
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Chaos keep going until he found somethin that interested him. In this case it was that he stumbled upon, well actually almost stepped on a small slime. It was non-threatening and a bit quite to look at. "You should go and hide before some adventurer kills you and turns you in to alchemy material," Chaos told it. Of course the slime didn't seem to understand and hopped over to him instead. Chaos sighed softly and watched it come right up to his leg and then bounce cutely i...
[DD1] The Tales of the Empty Grave 0004
By shardofmoon ・ 1 ・ 0
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[DD1] Staring Contest
By lioness ・ 1 ・ 0
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Tib had been tentatively stepping through the echoey caves for so long, he couldn’t quite remember what it felt like to not be in the cave. That wasn’t quite right, though. He distinctly had memories of hiking up rocky mountainsides. Sun warming his fur, the wind twirling and playing with his hair as it gently patted his face again and again. It felt like freedom, and like he was right at home. But here, the dripping and echoing rock seemed to yawn on forever. Beckoning him ...
[DD1] Into the Caves
By razzledazzle ・ 2 ・ 0
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The Moor stretched endlessly before Myst, its twisted terrain shrouded in fog and the heavy weight of forgotten memories. The air was thick with the scent of decay, yet there was something almost comforting in its quiet. The pale light of dusk hung low, casting shadows that danced and flickered with every passing breeze. Myst had grown accustomed to the isolation, to the eerie silence that often enveloped him, but today—today was different. The first thing he noticed was the sound. I...
[DD3] Remains and Remnants pt 2
By hearteater ・ 1 ・ 0
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Skeletal remains of humanoids and Coursers alike are a common sight on the Moor, but you've stumbled upon a pair of them ni a strange pose. The human's arms are wrapped around the Courser's Skull, their foreheads touching one another. How does this strike you?      The skeletal remains lie in an eerie stillness, as if frozen in a moment of time long past. A human, their bones brittle and fractured, is entwined with the remains of a Courser. Their ...
[DD3] Relics and Remnants
By hearteater ・ 1 ・ 0
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  With a deafening buzz, as cloud of cave bugs flies in your face! AHHH! How did you disturb the swarm? What do you do now?   Diomedes shook his head vigorously, hooves stomping in panic as the cloud of bugs buzzed around his face. "By the gods! What is THAT?!" he swung his head left and right, trying to swat at the buzzing swarm with his large hooves, his mane flailing wildly as he backed away slowly, body tensing with alarm. "I di...
[DD1] Bug Bites
By hearteater ・ 1 ・ 0
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Chaos had been left alone in the camp and that was never a good thing for a courser with an active mind like his and little concept of morality. Luckily his brain didn't go in any truly sinister direction today he just took one of his skeleton servants and headed into the caverns to collect herbs for the others to use. He was much more interested in magic and its implements that in herbalism of any kind but he had a g...
[DD1] The Tales of the Empty Grave: 0002
By shardofmoon ・ 1 ・ 0
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Why she had chosen to try exploring the dungeons, Glitter honestly couldn't remember.  What she did remember was that she now regretted that choice. Even if this first level below the surface was full of life, it was full of life that gave her the heebie-jeebies. It didn't help that some sort of sentient, carnivorous box had bounced after her and was even now bounding around and eagerly trying to catch all of the forms of life she kept flushing from their hiding spots. Rats, bats, bugs, you ...
[DD1] Why Am I Here? What is This?
By Kwenda ・ 1 ・ 0
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Rich laughter echoed in the caverns, punctuated by excited yips and bays. A curious soul would find that the source of such merriment came from a tabarded woad courser and his dark brindle hound. They were occupying one of the larger chambers nearer the surface, one with a large skylight that let in the sun in a glorious column of bright light which nurtured a hardy willow tree and the mosses, grasses, and shrubs around its cascade of leafy branches. The willow's roots dug into the rock below...
[DD1] Happiness in Little Things
By Kwenda ・ 1 ・ 0
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[DD3] Mentorship
By OnyxianDrake ・ 1 ・ 0
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The floor is lava. Quite literally. Magma has begun to pool under your hooves. How do you escape? --- "I don't like this at all, no, not one bit," Conch muttered. The swell of lava now overtook the bridge, and the two dungeoneers hadn't any way off the cliffside they had stranded themselves on. "PUH-LEEZE stop talking," Titter whined. The pitch of their high and nasally voice was all too hilarious for the fear both c...
[DD2] these guys really don't belong in the dungeon
By lsdolphin ・ 1 ・ 0
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[DD1] Reunited and it feels so good
By hearteater ・ 1 ・ 0
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[DD2] Dangerous Crossings
By OnyxianDrake ・ 1 ・ 0
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Kamphire and Calix returned to the camp and set there pack down. Calix relit the fire and started to cook some soup while Kamphire settled into the bedding in the tent for an impromptu map. The scenes he had seen in the pond were still replaying in his head; they were vivid and moving. I don't know why only I saw them, though the reason Calix gave seems somewhat plausible, I am not so that it is the correct reason. Kamphire sighed and tried to clear his mind and he ende...
[DD3] Kamphire x Calix: Return to the Moor 6
By shardofmoon ・ 1 ・ 0