Editing Liscor's Dungeon

[[File:Liscor Dungeon Entrance by Enuryn.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Official Entrance to Liscor's Dungeon, by [https://enuryn.tumblr.com/  Enuryn] (Commissioned by [[Pirateaba]])]]
'''Liscor's Dungeon''' is a massive Gold-ranked vengeance [[Dungeons|dungeon]], located beneath [[Liscor]] and the [[Floodplains]].

== Background ==
The dungeon was once the Walled City of Graves Liskaldreth, and its purpose was to destroy [[Dragons]]. They have launched the last great war for the underground against the Trolls and their allies to slaughter them.

[[Mershi]] once waged war on it in retribution for dark deeds they committed.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/11/16/interlude-adventurers-pt-3/ Interlude - Adventurers (Pt. 3)]</ref> The city was sunk underground for its crimes, and reshaped into a Vengeance Dungeon by the mad inhabitants worshipping the [[Mother of Graves]].<ref name=":1">{{VERef|10.32 (Pt. 1)}}</ref>

== Chronology ==
Liscor's dungeon was first discovered as part of the [[Ruins of Liscor]] to the southeast of Liscor prior to Erin's arrival to the Floodplains.<ref>https://wanderinginn.com/2016/10/23/1-23/</ref> Soon afterwards, adventurers began arriving to Liscor to challenge the dungeon, notably including the [[Silver Spears]], the [[Horns of Hammerad]]. and [[Olesm Swifttail|Olesm]]. This excursion triggers the release of [[Skinner]], <ref>https://wanderinginn.com/2017/02/12/1-00-h/</ref> leading to the [[First Attack on Liscor]] and the loss of all adventurers, other than [[Yvlon Byres]]. 

Several days afterwards, [[Pisces]] receives a message from [[Ceria Springwalker|Ceria]], who is alive in the ruins along with [[Olesm Swifttail|Olesm]].<ref>https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/15/2-02/</ref> Erin, together with [[Ryoka Griffin|Ryoka]], Pisces, [[Rags]], [[Toren]], and [[Ksmvr]], enter the ruins<ref>https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/18/2-03/</ref> and successfully retrieve Ceria and Olesm, who were hiding inside empty coffins.<ref>https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/22/2-04/</ref> 

== Features and Layout ==
The dungeon was designed to delay intruders, allowing time for the real trap, the microscopic flesh worms, to parasitize the intruders and affect them.

=== <u>Main Entrances</u> ===
The dungeon has four official entrances, all located at the outermost corners. They lead to the 1st floor, which consist of resetting and shifting trap rooms. At the end of each one of them, right before the huge staircases that lead to the vast Labyrinth floor, there are 4 different, great monster nests, with thousands and thousands of monsters in each one. 

There are four great monster nests inside the dungeon; one with [[Face-Eater Moths]], and their giant variant, one with [[Shield Spiders]], again with giant variants of them, and one that contains of deadly Fungi, with some variant capable of moving. The last one is unknown as to what type of nest it contained, as Snatcher had killed off whatever was inside, leaving it empty.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/12/01/5-42/ Chapter 5.42]</ref>
[[File:DungeonCity-by-Euryn.png|thumb|Dungeon City ruins by [[Fanworks/Enuryn|Enuryn]]]]

==== Official Entrance ====
The Dungeon’s official entrance that leads to the 1st floor, was excavated by the [[Antinium]] in the Winter after [[Erin]]'s arrival. This entrance consists of a set of huge double doors, that looked like they were made of bronze, with golden inscriptions carved into the metal. The reliefs looked like twisting [[Dragons]] breathing fire or [[Drakes]] casting magic.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/07/29/2-41/ Chapter 2.48]</ref>

It is located in a small, fortified tunnel leading downwards, beneath Liscor. The entrance is guarded by a group of sixteen guardsmen, armed with bows and spears and one [Mage]. They watch the entrance to the dungeon from behind a small wooden rampart, that has a row of sharpened stakes thrust into the ground in front of the wall and enough space for the [Guardsmen] to loose arrows and jab spears at whatever might come out of the dungeon.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/03/17/4-19/ Chapter 4.19]</ref>

=== <u>Other Entrances</u> ===
Other then the four official entrances, there are numerous unofficial entrances that lead to various points all over the dungeon. These range from passages excavated by monsters, to secret entrances, and eroded enchantment walls breaches.

==== Rift Entrance ====
Located in the Floodplains, just outside Liscor. It is a rift in the ground that stretches down hundreds of feet and goes straight down into the heart of the 2nd floor.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/04/12/2-00-t/ Chapter 2.00 T]</ref><ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/10/26/3-27-m/ Chapter 3.27 M]</ref>

==== Cave Entrance ====
Located inside a mountain cave in the northern reaches of the Floodplains<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/04/16/2-00-g/ Chapter 2.00 G]</ref>. This entrance leads to the dungeon's 1st floor, right at the very last trapped room before the vanishing floor chamber of the great Shield Spider nest.

The cave was originally inhabited by [[Dropclaw Bats]], before they were all exterminated by the [[Redfang Elite Warriors|5 Redfang Hobgoblins]], so they and the [[Cave Goblins]] could live in it. Currently, this entrance is blocked due to the cavern having been collapsed by [[Tyrion Veltras|Tyrion's]] army, to stop a wave of Shield Spiders that came from within from overtaking them.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/02/26/5-62/ Chapter 5.62]</ref>

==== Antinium Entrance ====
Located underneath Liscor, and between the dungeon and the Hive. It is not an entrance as such but an area that consists of multiple routes from the the Hive to the 2nd floor of the dungeon. The tunnels are dug by hungry monsters and the Antinium.

The tunnels are under attack from Shield Spiders to Pickstriker fungi, and Crypt Worms and the undead almost daily and have to be pushed back and guarded against attack by the Antinium.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/17/4-13-l/ Chapter 4.13 L]</ref>

==== Secret Disposal Entrance ====
Located in a secret room, opposite the treasure room where [[Skinner]] emerged, on the 2nd floor of the [[Ruins of Liscor]]. It leads to a small circular room, with a strange hexagonal symbol drawn onto the floor. 

The room was meant to be used as a disposal chute, as upon crossing onto the hexagonal floor, the ground vanishes to a long drop below, to a large room full of Raskghar bones, with only one exit that leads to a long trapped corridor. It was discovered by [[Olesm Swifttail|Olesm]] and [[Pisces Jealnet|Pisces]] with the help of a Ring of Sight gifted by [[Niers Astoragon|Niers]].<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/05/19/4-37-o/ Chapter 4.37 O]</ref>

==== Ashfire Bee Hive Entrance ====
A cave that contains an [[Ashfire Bees|Ashfire Bee's]] Hive in it. From within the ground, a type of monster as dangerous as [[Crelers]] have excavated a route from the Dungeon. Currently it is unknown which part of the Dungeon this route leads to. These are likely the Infested that the Mother of Graves commands. 

=== <u>Floors</u> ===
The 1st and 2nd floors are connected by a huge staircase.

==== 1st Floor ====
The 1st Floor consists of a resetting and sifting trapped rooms.

==== 2nd Floor ====
The 2nd Floor consists of a labyrinth filled with monsters, hives, and traps.

==== City ====
There is an inner city at the heart of the Dungeon, as big as a Walled City. It is infested with skinless drakes, the ultimate children of the [[Mother of Graves]]. 

==== Wells ====
The dungeon has well rooms from which the water the Dungeon Monsters drink from comes, and the Floodplains' annual flooding drains into. It is over eight thousand feet deep, descending into depths where only [[Gnomes]] and [[Dead Gods]] have been.<ref name=":0" />

== Inhabitants ==

=== Races: ===
* [[Raskghar]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Cave Goblins]] (''Formerly'')

==== Individuals: ====
* [[Toren]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Calruz]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Pebblesnatch]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Gothica]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Rasktooth]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Asgra]] (''Formerly'')

==== Lesser Guardians: ====
* [[Skinner]] (''Deceased'')
* [[Snatcher]] (''Deceased?'')
* [[Stalker]] (''Deceased'')

==== Dungeon Boss ====
* [[Mother of Graves]]<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/01/4-08-t/ Chapter 4.08 T]</ref>

== Monsters ==
The monsters in Liscor’s dungeon are numerous and have established vast nests within the dungeon. The groups that regularly assail [[Liscor's Antinium Hive]] described to be a drop in an ocean of bodies. So long as they are not purged in their homes, they will keep coming.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/05/29/4-40-l/ Chapter 4.40 L]</ref>

=== List of Known Creatures: ===
* [[Bagrhavens]]
* Blankipillars
* Bog Wraiths
* Crypt Worms
* Camouflaged Scorpions<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/03/17/4-19/ Chapter 4.19]</ref>
* Dropclaw Bats<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/04/27/2-01-g/ Chapter 2.01 G]</ref>
* [[Face-Eater Moths]] (''Formerly'')
* [[Flesh Worms]]
* Giant Centipedes
* Giant Infested Slugs
* Infested
* [[Metalbite Slimes]]<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/10/26/3-27-m/ Chapter 3.27 M]</ref>
* Mimic<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/10/13/5-28/ Chapter 5.28]</ref>
* Pickstriker Fungi<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/02/17/4-13-l/ Chapter 4.13 L]</ref>
* [[Scalelings]]
* [[Shield Spiders]]
* Slimes
* [[Stone Starers]]
* Trivipers
* White Leeches

=== List of Known [[Undead]]: ===
* [[Crypt Lords]]
* Ghouls
* Skeletons
* Zombies

=== List of Known [[Golems]]: ===
* Enchanted Suits of Armor
* Stone Golems

=== Curse of the Dungeon ===
The true danger of the dungeon are microscopic flesh worms, which infest the dungeon's stagnant waters. These parasites have a telepathic connection to the Mother of Graves and they can read and alter the thoughts of their hosts once they have reached a high enough stage of infection. It requires a year of full infection for them to read the Host's mind. The worms will make their host behave more aggressively, driven to procreation, be drawn to water, and sleepwalk to spit larvae into wells. Eventually, the Host will become an extention of the Mother of Grave's will and worship her. If the worms believe they have been discovered or sense the host is dying or isolated, they accelerate the infection and try to control the Host to save them. These worms are the reason the dungeon's monsters will ignore one another.<ref name=":1" />

== Artifacts ==
* [[Mace of Howling]]
* [[Liquid Cloak]]
* Bell of Agony, made of bronze and blue Metal
* Invisible Bow
* Enchanted Armor
*Graveswords; High-quality death-magic blades

== Trivia ==
* After the Face-Eater Moth attack on Liscor, it was officially rated as a Gold-rank dungeon by Guildmistress [[Tekshia Shivertail]]
* The corridors inside of the dungeon are being patrolled by giant, enchanted armor. They have no convenient weak spots, meaning one has to to bash them into pieces until the enchantment fades.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/07/24/5-05/ Chapter 5.05]</ref> These beings are controlled by a separate intelligence subservient to the Mother of Graves. 
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