Friday, January 13, 2023

The Old Gritville Mine: Broken Cafeteria

This post is part of my take on the dungeon 23 challenge, the Old Gritville Mine. The premise and explanation for everything can be found in this post and this post, but those should be the only required reading to figure out what's going on here.

Introduction: So this was the first reality bubble for this project, and the random generator ended up giving me Broken Cafeteria, which I took in the direction of undead. The idea is that because the people are dead and don't need food, the endless cycle of mimicking lunch time comes off as broken to me. I don't know, maybe it's a reach. Whatever.


Room Descriptions
  • 1/2- Skeletal Cafeteria Hall
    • Several long folding tables with benches attached to the sides
    • 10 human skeletons that continuously get in line for food, get served nothing, sit down, pretend to eat for a bit, and then return their dishes to do it all over again
    • Door to the Garbage Pit is solid steel and locked
  • 1/3- Haunted Kitchen
    • Pots, pans, knives, plates, and silverware moving around as if being used, they will attack anyone who interferes or gets in the way of them pretending to cook and clean
    • The freezer door is frozen over with a foot of ice
    • Door to the Garbage Pit is solid steel and locked
    • Door to Secret Cleaning Supply Closet hidden behind shelves of clean dishes
    • 50 steel lunch trays
  • 1/4- Way Too Cold Walk-in Fridge
    • Everything is frozen over, making the floor slippery and difficult to traverse
    • The freezer door is frozen over with a foot of ice
  • 1/5- Empty Pantry
    • Many empty shelves
    • One skeleton with particularly thick bones and twice the toughness of a regular skeleton that attacks as soon as it sees anyone, trying to bite them
  • 1/6- Necromantic Garbage Pit
    • Used magic circle with a single massive skeleton in the middle, touching it causes the skeletons in the cafeteria to become violent and attack everything
    • There is a hole blown in the wall that acts as an exit to the reality bubble
    • The Ring of Rending Flesh is on the giant skeleton's finger
    • Door to the Garbage Pit is solid steel and locked
  • 1/7- Deadly Walk-in Freezer
    • The Garbage Pit key on a string around the neck of a single skeleton in the middle of the room which attacks when touched, all of its attacks deal extra damage from the skeleton being so cold
    • Both doors are frozen over with a foot of ice
    • It is so cold inside the freezer that it hurts to spend more than a minute inside of it
  • 1/8- Secret Cleaning Supply Closet
    • Door is hidden behind the clean dishes shelf in the Haunted Kitchen
    • Contains all sorts of cleaning supplies
    • The Sinister Arm sits on a shelf for anyone to grab
Magic Items
  • The Ring of Rending Flesh
    • Instantly removes all flesh from a skeleton
    • Can be used as often as the wearer wants
    • Cannot be used on living things
    • A golden band with a small ruby carved into a skull on it
  • The Sinister Arm
    • Anyone can replace their own left arm with this item in order to gain the power to permanently animate one skeleton under their control per day, as well as cause living things to flee by magically inducing a sense of terror at any moment they please
    • The articulated bones from an adult human left arm, blackened by fire and covered in glowing cracks

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