How might we turn the living dungeon trope on its head?
We flip the dungeon upside down.
>>46823939
The living dungeon... IS DEAD. AHAHAHA
>>46823955
>flip the dungeon upside down.
>>46823986
Ok this was a joke but it sounds delightfully gross. It WAS aliving dungeon, but it's disgusting and rotted, and festering with giant decomppsers like worms and stuff. Plus some zo.bies or whatever of other lost travelers.
The dungeon is inside yourself. You are literally walking inside of your own body. If you do too much damage to the surrounding walls, you will actually hurt yourself.
If you also take too much damage from monsters inside the body dungeon, you might actually risk drowning from the blood as wounds open up in the walls. And, if you end up in your own lungs, and you start drowning in blood, your lungs will start filling up with more blood, so you wind up drowning in blood and filling your lungs with more blood and drowning in that more blood.
>>46823986
I was gonna say the same thing.
>Adventuring on the carcass of a formerly living dungeon
>Always a putrid stench from the rotting flesh
>Fight scavenger creatures that burrowed their way into the still warm corpse dungeon
>Explore new parts of the dungeon opened up by decaying sphincters and burrowing
>Have to wear protective gear because of noxious miasma and dangerous fluids
>>46824054
As it rots, the structure is failing. The floor might not be entirely solid; the passageways you go through might be collapsed.
>>46823939
>trope
>>>/spacebattles/
>>46823939
undead dungeon
>>46824110
>>46824089
And this opens up an even bigger plot point, possibly literally-- what could have killed the living dungeon?
>>46824029
This is the story all about how my dungeon got flipped turned upside down.
>>46823939
It's not a discrete, individual organism, or at least you gradually encounter more than enough major organs for a dozen absurdly huge monsters and can develop no plausible idea for how this thing's body is laid out. In general it's one of those megadungeons that goes arbitrarily superdeep.
>>46823986
>Lordran.jpg
>>46824054
Zone Mortalis: Nurgle Edition
That would make some awesome terrain
>>46824067
Why would there be monsters inside yourself?
>>46824159
Lack of adventurers adventuring and the true adventure is to revive the living dungeon through friendsh.... I mean adventure
>The living dungeon is pregnant
>The treasure is inside the unborn dungeon
>>46824255
Kek
>>46824255
Thats gonna be an awkward chest to open
>>46824226
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasites_of_humans
>>46824226
Anon we all have personal demons, just this time it's literal
>>46824316
Think of it like skeletons in your closet, in your intestines
>>46823986
...but a necromancer raised it from the dead!
>>46824067
But if you're walking inside your body, who is your body walking inside?
>>46824633
>how can our eyes be real if the dungeon isn't real?
>>46824633
1. Infinite loop of bodies
2. Your "Main" body is unconscious, but sympathetically linked to your tiny body that your consciousness controls.
>>46823939
>The Living Dungeon is your home base
>It has needs and wants and you will have to keep it living and happy
>>46823939
You go in through the pooper instead of the mouth
>>46823939
>How might we turn the living dungeon trope on its head?
It's not a living dungeon. The doorway was just a portal to the Plane of Meat.
It's a giant stone ooze. That is, it is a living dungeon, but still made out of rock.
The entire dungeon is under the effects of a Time Stop spell, and so while it all looks like meat, it's immobile and hard as stone. (And all starts falling apart as soon as the Time Stop ends, such as beating the dungeon.)
You Are The Golems. Yes, it's a dungeon and its alive and its made out of meat. But the "people" of the world are spirit entities and are the ones truly alive. Being shackled to a physical body is no more living than being a plant. Bonus points if you can get your players to be wandering spirits all along without them somehow realizing it.
>>46823939
iunno. maybe the dungeon is alive as in has a sensitive and reactionary ecosystem that you're fucking up by tromping through and smashing threats out of?
>living dungeon
>everything looks like ordinary dungeon stuff
>furniture, hallways, torches etc
>it's a facade
>smash a door and it bleeds
>>46823986
we must go deeper
the dead living dungeon... is UNDEAD
The dungeon is actually a massive, petrified creature, sculpted into something livable, but the magic is failing, or perhaps the party needs to take whatever keeps the effect up. Despite the sculpting, the creature will survive the return to flesh, at least long enough to be an issue for the party, and perhaps end up as an undead dungeon after that.
>>46824054
>>46823986
It's also been done. A hefty chunk of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie took place in a giant corpse, for example.
Hell, it's also the creation myth for Norse Mythology
The dungeon is sickly or injured. Fantastic Voyage time.
>>46824159
AIDS
>>46823939
Make it a living dungeon made of stone, it moves around the world like a great sandworm swallowing castles to add to it's massive length.
or you know, steal from 13th age
>>46824067
That was a fun Futurama episode.
>>46824316
Sounds like a great cheesy line to put on the box art of a B-Flick.
>>46823939
It's not a dungeon, but the whole world.
It's sentient and hired the PCs to give it some kind of minor surgery.
As soon as you get to the core of the living dungeon, which you have beat to shit on the way in, another living dungeon rises up and starts to fuck up the world.
LIVING
DUNGEON
FIGHT
And yes, it's just gonna be fantasy power rangers in their fantasy megazords but you are scientifically proven to be a bitch if you don't wanna see that.
1 = 1
QED: Anyone who doesn't want a living dungeon fight is a bitch
The dungeon is the corpse of the god of good stuff. You have to revive the body with macguffins and feelings before BBEGod takes over. The world outside is wholly evil now, you are the only force of good left. Outsiders keep cutting into the god's body to hunt you down, so you have to use various organs and glands to create deadly traps to slow your pursuers while reviving each bodily system in a proper order.
Parasites are everywhere, upgrades are from corpses of other fallen good guys and enemy bodies strewn throughout the cavities, and the god is about to give birth.
>>46826048
The village guys and local adventurers found those walls to have small openings. Openings that were good for... stuff...
>>46830817
Sex dungeon eh?
>>46823939
In a modern realistic setting, a gigantic cadavre of creature is found washed on the shore of some place, and you have to enter it for health and security (and secrets) reason. Cyclopean forensics
Or a guy turned himself into a dungeon by surgery and bio-mechanics, and then invites your party inside of him. Think Mother 2's dungeon man meets taxidermy
>>46824200
Surprisingly good song, Lemmiwinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tFqSFgF-k
>>46824633
The tiny body is an "avatar" for lack of a better term.
Reminds me of a setting my friend ran for us that was pretty gross but ended up being fun. Basic a typical D&D world was devoured by a huge space worm and we were playing as the descendents of (or in the case of long living races sometimes as) survivors of the cataclysm who reached safety through planar gates. Some of the gates survived and a camp had sprung up around one such gate which was used as a base for explorers and adventurers hoping to salvage whatever was left inside the worm as it slowly digested the entire crumbling planet. Whole bunch of homebrewed monsters themed around the ecology of the worm's insides. Myconids were a prominent race as some of the spores survived the event and had flourished in the new warm damp and dark environment. Other gates survived that lead to less appealing destinations so you've still got some classic D&D monsters spilling in through them. "Tremors" as the worm continued to break up the bigger chunks of the planet were a major environmental hazzard as were gasses so fire was a bit of a no-no and we had to provide our own oxygen at times. Shit was crazy. Essentially we were intestinal parasites trying to reclaim resources the worm needed. Culminated with us killing off the worm's offspring before they could be born, saving countless worlds. Worm ate some bad food.
>>46824054
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2095
>>46824159
In my case, the dragons did it.
Otherwise it would have given birth you see.
The lich inside it now is using dead soul juice to create a undead titan. The dead soul juice is also the catalyst enhancer for the steampunk civilization.
>>46823939
Easy, you suddenly realize that, YOU are the dungeon.
