SO I have been populating the floor I only need the boss to be done, the rooms from 6 to 9 have been populated, as planned, by elites only, and for the boss and boss room, lets quickly make an elite golem body and core.
Hmm, do I just make a more tanky version like I thought of before?.. Or do something else, lets do a mix of both so make him more tanky then lets add a little of something else, I am obviously going to give it a spiky head so it looks like he has a crown, but aside from that maybe I should make it's limbs more like weapons, for example a sword for it's right hand and a shield for it's left, all made out of stone and attached to it's body of course.
Speaking of I should really start calling it a him as he clearly has a masculine and male build... maybe I should- No focus. So I have built up the body just to see what he would look like, and well, he looks nothing like I had imagined (A knight king) and instead looks like some idiot picked up a boulder and said "shkieldu" but don't worry, the sword looks fine it is not as sharp or even sharp to begin with and is instead a stone version of what a wooden training sword would be like, with all of it's edges being dull, but I don't think that will be a problem as this guy, just like all the others, would be all brawn no brain.
Now that I have the body setup... well fine, he is growing on me maybe this will not be as bad as I imagined. Now the core, thing is.. I don't really want to change it, yea I am sure he will look cooler if I add even more mana (Or explode) but all things considered I think doing anything more will be too much, his speed is perfect and making him faster will feel unnatural and in general, too fast to be a fair challenge.
Now why do I want a fair challenge? Because I want delvers or this places equivalent, I don't want everything that enters to just.. Die, as like every story I have every read, I am willing to bet I get something from delvers dying but if every or too many delvers die, nobody would go here and I would just get killed by some protagonist for being something like the Golem Dungeon of Death or something. All of this is to say, I will leave the core be.. for now.
So just have to merge the core to the body and voilà, it is done, with lines streaming outward from the core going downs his arms to up his face, igniting his eyes, which paired with the crown actually gives him a kingly feel... if you ignore the "Shield".
Now that I have the boss setup, I know what I will do for the boss room, I will make it a throne room, you know the type with the pillars, stairs and a throne but everything will be stone and without all the little details like a carpet, flags, and well everything else, but maybe a little bit of writing engraved onto the throne, something like "King" with the name scratched out "The 4th, Magister of Golemancy", It should add a little mystery for my little dungeon, Now I just need to carve out the room.
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"Ok Everyone ready?" - Kaz
"Yes." - rest of party
"Lets go then." - Kaz
And with those final words everyone began walking toward the cave, the cave of the dungeon.
"So you are sure about what you said earlier, about even more mana being drawn in than yesterday." - Kaz
"Yes, it's subtle but yes, there is definitely more mana being drawn in than before we slept." - Zach confirms
"Maybe the dungeon grew overnight?" - Celi
"Probably, I don't know what else could otherwise do that." - Zach
"And Besides, young dungeons are said to grow really fast until around 5 floors, when they begin to slow."
the party stops, staying quiet for a moment while looking ahead, toward the darkness of the cave, then the leader steps forward and everyone follows.
Wait what, there are people, people in my dungeon, but I didn't even create a boss reward yet, how will I get anymore people if I don't even have- Oh, I can still use mana... lets pretend I did not just panic over something so small.
I can get back to finishing my last floor, move my boss in AND make some reward, all hopefully before they make it to the end, if they make it to the end, and because I can see everything in my dungeon no matter what, I can watch them and work I do love that all seeing ability, if I had it when I was human I could have... I don't know what I could have but I could have, you know what I mean.
Oh they just discovered my golem, how fun. The person in front of the group of 5 charges forward, a sword in each hand, along with a bulky man holding what looks like a tower shield.
so they are going with the typical swordsman and shield man strategy, where the swordsman strikes and the shields man blocks, the rest of the party is standing behind, 1 is chanting some words about rocks while holding a staff, a mage I assume, while the one with daggers seems to be protecting them, with the 3rd one wearing white clothes, who is the only one who appears to be standing around.
Wow I really am in a typical fantasy aren't I, with the whole charade of healers, mages, rogue's, swordsmen and shields men, question is who is the party leader and I can't wait for the fight to actually happen.