I awake with a yawn and a stretch. Blinking my eyes sleepily, I look around. My room is exactly as I remember it. I sit up and glance over to look at the computer. There is a light flashing on the screen.
I wonder what''s up.
Moving over to the desk, I sit down in the chair and examine the blinking window.
<table><tbody><tr><td>Your mana is fully charged.</td></tr></tbody></table>
Looks like the bed worked.
I promptly close the window and examine the dungeon.
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The volcano is going to be growing upwards, SO I should be prepared for when it erupts. It will eventually cover up the entrance as it erupts, so i should be prepared for outwards expansion as well as inner expansion. Also I shouldn''t interrupt the flow of lava until I have the volcano reach my desired height and width.
I tap my chin with my finger as I think about the future.
Oh well, that''s something that I can deal with when it happens. For now I should focus on creating a bunch of rooms on this bottom floor.
I begin to manipulate the Personal Dungeon Interaction device and start making more rooms.
Let''s see, before I get into a building frenzy, let me check to see how large the magma channel is for this volcano.
After a few minutes of prospecting the volcano
I am so lucky I ran out of mana when I did. If I made any more rooms towards the center of the volcano, I would have been at risk for having the lava vent into my dungeon. Currently this volcano has a diameter of 60 yards. It has a magma channel of 20 yards, which is huge for this size of volcano. Thankfully that means it will grow quickly, but I won''t have much to do until it starts erupting. Also with a magma channel of 20 yards, I am allowing a 10 yard buffer area around it in all directions to help keep the magma flowing upwards and not outwards. This means that I stopped just right to keep the dungeon uniform. Now, it probably wouldn''t matter too much if I went a few feet into the buffer zone, but realistically speaking, I want to keep the dungeon as uniform as possible.
With my new found knowledge I quickly began making rooms around the buffer zone until I was out of mana. I also added a few more doors between rooms. I don''t need them to get around, but I''m sure whatever starts to inhabit my dungeon will.
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After I finish adding them in, this is what it looks like:
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(B) (B) (B) (B) (B) (B) (B) (B)
I can''t believe that I lucked out in having such great volcano. I just made an additional 26 rooms and two extra doors between them. That means that I spent 1,580 mana, and I have 20 mana left out of the 1600 I started with. Now I am no longer able to build any more rooms until I rest. Actually this gives me a good chance to try another ability. Life on earth appeared at the 3.8 billion mark, so I have some time until that time period hits, but it''s generally a good idea to get used to abilities before you need them so here goes.
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''2''>Control Simple Creature</td></tr><tr><td>Mana Cost:</td><td>10/creature</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''2''>Description:</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''2''>Allows the user to control simple creatures.</td></tr></tbody></table>
I activate the power.
<table><tbody><tr><td>Please select the Simple creature you wish to control.</td></tr></tbody></table>
"AHHHHHH! MY EYES!"(Azazel)
The screen practically shook with a blinding light.
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1. Prokaryotic Cell
2. Volcano
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It''s TOO SOON! A VOLCANO? WHAT''S GOING ON?
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Author Says: Expect the next chapter to be three times as long, the more I thought about it, the more I realized I needed a chapter to push the story along the path I envisioned. I didn''t want to go back and change the beginning of the story and if the story kept going the way it was going, it was heading off the deep end.