Be a Dungeon - The Quest

Monday, Dungeon Date 01/01/0001

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Suddenly, light.

Not a blinding flash or a resplandent and divine explendour. Simply there was light, more like a shine, very slowly changing colors. Illuminating a cubic room, with a small natural looking tunnel to somewhere. Outside was bathed in a much stronger and hotter light, one that didn't change colors and that was there for an already long time. In the sun light some grass can be seen, and in what seems far away, even some trees.

You only notice it all was trembling when it stops, could've trembled for seconds, minutes, hours... You shake your metaphorical head, it's been a couple moments, you tell yourself. Another thing you notice with this thought, is that a will fills the cave with a single, perfect room. The will of a cristal, so very small, so very fragile, so very you. And yet no body, although it feels like you should have one. Imbibed on the rocky wall furthest from the entrance, it, or you, sits motionless, changing colors. That's why there is new light, and that is why everything shook. A new dungeon has been born.

Somehow you know that the very first thing a dungeon must do is choose it's starting species. No, not animals or goblins, biological beings are not natural for dungeons, although you think they can learn to make their own. No, it starts with a simple choice between four magical species: Elementals, Fae, Slimes and Skeletons. Elementals are the most spiritual, while Skeletons are the most phisical, Fae are the most magical, while Slimes are the most variable and changeable. Every one of them has benefits, and this primordial choice can define the future of any dungeon.

Not too much pressure to choose, since the rumbling should've made everything run from the cave, if there was anything nearby to run, but the choice must be made anyway. And you feel curious, even a little giddy, about this choice. Sooner should be better, since this strange visible blue square explains the races and the choice, and doesn't get out of your vision. Honestly, you can see through it. Honestly, you don't know how you can see without a head or eyes. Honestly... You're using that word too much. Make a choice, and let's see what we get...

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Elementals: Lumps of energy given form, elementals are purely made of their elements, having no need to eat, drink, sleep or breath. The simplest elementals are as weak as small animals, but they grow both in power and inteligence.

Fae: Half spiritual beings, these creatures have weak and soft bodies, but can naturally use simple magic. Although in their evolution fae never become beings of strong body, relative to their level, their magic amplifies and changes in their paths, making them terrible foes nonetheless.

Slimes: Amorphous phisical beings, slimes are somewhat weak and depend on their natural acidity to hunt and eat. By evolving slimes gain some of the most impenetrable resistances, but they will never evolve a consciousness.

Skeletons: Considered undead, most skeletons are more akin to a golem, only using bones as a basis. Brittle and breakable, they are yet nigh immortal to conventional means. The evolutions for skeletons tend to increase or reinforce their phisical prowess, although mages and liches are not impossible, it takes true effort for a skeleton to possess a conscience.

Mana Reserves: 0010

Species Choice
[] Elementals, powerfull with clear weaknesses.
[] Fae, weak bodies wielding great magic.
[] Slimes, low cost in exchange to lacking power.
[] Skeletons, breakable but strong.

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So, this is a new idea, a new quest and a new experiment. Here's hoping for some new players, aswell :B Bear with me while we build the basis, it shouldn't take long, and I do have a story planned. As always, thanks for reading :3

Title: Pixie Dungeon
Floors: 01
Species: Fae
Mana Capacity: 112
Mana Well: 3 (Daily)

So, to make things easier and simpler most of the things will be narrative, though I prefer the certainty of numbers, they would hinder and slow down things. Thus, here I will explain what is not narrative, or not only narrative.

Each creature has a couple of stats, the basic ones are Life, Attack and Defenses. Life is simple, a number of hits the creature can take of damage before dying. Attack and Defenses work against one another, and the value represents d10's rolled. So, if a creature has Attack 2 it will roll 2d10, while a creature with Defenses 3 would roll 3d10. The results are put in order of highest to lower, and then compared. Any attack dice left over is considered an auto-hit. A hit will do base damage 1, but this can be changed with equipment, through the use of skills or by Specials. Examples:

Attacker rolls 2d10 = [4, 7]
Defender rolls 3d10 = [5, 3, 6]

So, in this example the Attacker has won once, while the Defender won the other, since 7<6 but 4<5. A tie is commonly broken in favor of the Defender, unless a Special changes that. The dice left over from defence is ignored, being the lowest of the trio. The attacker made one hit of 1 damage.
Example2

Attacker rolls 3d10 = [3, 8, 2]
Defender rolls 2d10 = [5, 4]

In this example the Attacker has also won once, while loosing once, 8>5 and 3<4, but since it had an extra dice, the 2 stays as an auto-hit, making the attacker hit twice, for a total of 2 damage.

Every Attack will also have an type at the side of it's value, thus Attack 2 (Cut) means that it will attack with a cutting type. Most of the time this type won't make much difference, but some creatures have resistance or weakness to one type or another.

Besides the three basic stats, there are a couple extra, like mana for magic users, or leadership for commanders, but those will be explained as they appear, since most units don't have them.

There are, finally, the Specials. Specials are "changes to the basic rules", to put it simply. A slime has a chance of taking no damage even after loosing in defense, while a pixie is able to fly and thus can't be attacked by melee non-flier creatures. Each Special is diferent, thus they have their own explanation in the creature stats.

Anything besides that will be narrative or derivative from these rules, so nothing hard or complicated.

List of stats for known creatures: