Tom

  I lazily walk along the hallways, carrying the tray of food in my right hand, before sliding the door open. My eyes grow wide, as a breeze blows through the room, shifting some of the shattered glass. “Shit.”

  Miguel

  I stumble through the streets before peeking into the entrance to the dungeon. Two guards stand outside, holding swords. I smile, and step forward casually, hiding my bleeding hand behind my back. “Hey! I'm pretty fresh, and I just want to farm around on the first floor by myself.” I toss the guard the one copper fee that it costs to get into the dungeon. He smiles, and waves me in.

  I peek through, and blast through the first four floors by just avoiding the mobs, and killing the bosses with only minor difficulty. On the fifth floor I just use my powers to blast myself over the wall, and head straight to the boss room. The boss is a pain in the ass, but as long as I dodge most of his attacks, I can slowly whittle him down. Finally on the sixth floor I get bogged down in the thick snow, but I keep trekking doing my best to avoid the mobs sprinkled throughout the floor. Finally I reach the boss room, but instead of going through, I just wait outside. I can't possibly win against the boss. I'll probably have to camp here until I can hitch a ride with a group of adventurers passing through.

  DC

  I smile, and peak around before eventually, I crack open the tunnel. On the seventh floor people were struggling to get all of the coal up to the surface, so I cut a tunnel into it. I specifically made it, so that it was filled with poisonous gasses, as well as a mana shield, so nobody can go through it. But, there are multiple carts, allowing the miners to load up the carts, pull a level activating the bloodstone engine I had set up, and the whole thing will ride up the tunnel, until it arrives back at the top, where it can be unloaded. There are multiple pathways, so they can load up more than one cart at a time, and the carts are really fast. Not only that, but I have mana barriers right through the center of it, so anybody who tries to hitch a ride on a cart, not only will they be poisoned but will also be slammed against that mana barrier, which will probably kill them because of how fast it is moving.

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  It is really just so perfect, to be honest. It takes a while for the miners to notice it, but when they do, they start toying around with it. They drop things in it, like funny shaped rocks, and then pay adventurers to go to the top, to then bring it back to them. One of them eventually works up the courage to climb into the cart, and be pulled up. He dies very quickly due to the gas so I just stop the cart, and have a goblin pull him out. Then I send the cart all the way back up, for the adventurers to check on. But he never comes back up.

  A cart pulls to the top, where an adventurer stands. He peaks into the cart, and finds the stones, and everything that were in there as well, but the man is gone. He rushes down the dungeon, and onto the seventh floor. Weirdly there was some guy camping outside of the sixth floor boss room, but this guy helped him get through, and onto the seventh floor.

  Once there he rushes to tell the miners, and they panic, before scribbling down a note, and sending it up to their boss who apparently lives above the dungeon.

  I chuckle at their panic. ‘Don't send people onto the mine carts then.’

  Shortly after that they just start using the mine carts anyway, shipping coal up, and into the surface easily. Only two of the mining companies were using them. It seems like the other two employ a type of slave labor, so their miners usually don't get out of the mine, and so they didn't even notice the mine carts.

  Finally I notice people really figuring out the ninth floor. Most people just tried to attack the bull on the boat, but one person eventually just tried to talk to him, and the Bull responded. Pretty much just told him to get on the boat.

  The Bull took him, and his party to the pond at the center of the whole place, where from there, they negotiated with some of the Bull mercenaries to bring them the key, as long as the humans promised to bring them new foods to try. The Bulls brought them the key, and they finally broke through, and into the tenth floor. On the note of the tenth floor, I had forgotten to make a boss, so I just supersized a rogue goblin, and made them the boss.

  This worked fine, but those adventurers will probably be stuck on that floor for a while looking for the key. Luckily they brought lots of rations, and those mushrooms are not only edible, but very tasty.