un: Akatsuki

[horologia]

Good day.

Have most people had a chance to run a dungeon or two yet? I would like to hear about the experiences that everyone has had so far. I am probably not the only one, either.

The keywords used seem to have a rather esoteric or oblique link to the resulting generated area, for one thing.

Comments

un: Mr_Misteaks

[gluttoning]

Yeah. Ran one already with a group of four. I posted about a weird equipment drop I got a few days ago, but we figured it out. Sort of.

We got maid outfits at the end. It's just for show, not equipment. Still takes an inventory slot, though.

[horologia]

I remember seeing that. You said the exploration was in the tundra area?

If I may, what keywords ended up getting you there? I ask because my party ended up in a volcanic area using "Hidden Advice's Night Moon".

[ which, you know, none of that sounds very volcano-y, but maybe with more data they can figure out the link if any. ]

1/2

[gluttoning]

Sugared Hamsteak Everyday

un: oriade

[dissimulative]

one of my area words was "slacker"
i didnt feel like doing anything in the latter half of the dungeon
my party was the same too
it was so weird..........

[ Only because having nothing to do would make him absolutely agitated. ]

[horologia]

...That seems very on the nose.

So the keywords used can also result in a group debuff that is in effect for the duration of the dungeon, more or less?

@Scitalis

[ophidie]

I've been curious about this too. We have to put three in, so what they generate has to be split into threes.

What'd you get from what keywords that was so oblique?

[horologia]

Hidden Advice's Night Moon results in a volcanic area with a tower dungeon.

This came after a discussion about how our group rather would try to avoid the warmer areas to start with, so I became curious.

un:cuteangel77

[696_9]

Yeah, totally. We ended up in "Paling, Fortune's, Night Moon," and it dropped us in this dark forest, so probably the keywords all link to whatever's in the area. "Paling" was probably because it was full of undead enemies, I'm going to guess.

[horologia]

We used Night Moon too and didn't end up in a dark forest, so it probably isn't that one that results in the area.

Unless it is a combination of it and the other keywords that determines the location selected, rather than each word determining a different thing ...?

@Mithrun1

[tablescraps]

Keywords: Dreaming Corpse's Night Moon
Locale: Stormy plains
Architecture: Dungeon made of castle walls
Monsters: Discoknives, Squidbods, Spark Maidens
Notable Events: Received [Blessing] effect at the end of run. Gained flight for 24 hours.
Drops: Standard weapons/armor for my level

You mentioned you used △ Hidden Advice's Night Moon, which shares a keyword with mine. However, I don't see any similarities between our runs from what you've described in this thread so far. Does anything in my run ring as familiar?

[horologia]

Yes, actually:

The single commonality I can find is in the blessing we received after clearing the area, as we also received flight.

Otherwise, for us it was:

Keywords: Hidden Advice's Night Moon
Locale: volcanic wasteland
Architecture: a dungeon consisting of a tower in said area
Monsters: Deadly Presents, Flame Heads, Red Wyrms
Notable Events: Received [Blessing] effect at the end of run. Gained flight for 24 hours.
Drops: Standard weapons/armor for our level

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[cccorp]

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un: akatsuki

[horologia]

[ A DECENT AMOUNT OF TIME LATER. LIKE. A WHILE LATER. MAYBE THE BETTER PART OF A DAY, A REPLY COMES TO THE SPOOKY MESSAGE: ]

I would recommend against utilizing this keyword.

[ she will not elaborate. ]

@Mithrun1 | CASE STUDY: DREAMING CORPSE'S NIGHT MOON

[tablescraps]

Study: Dreaming Corpse's Night Moon

Control Case

Keywords: △ Dreaming Corpse's Night Moon
Participants: Myself (Solo)
Locale: Stormy plains
Architecture: Dungeon made of castle walls
Monsters: Discoknives, Squidbods, Spark Maidens
Notable Events: Received [Blessing] effect at the end of run. Gained flight for 24 hours.
Drops: Standard weapons/armor for my level

Variable Case 1

Keywords: △ Dreaming Cupid's Gate
Participants: Myself (Solo)
Locale: Stormy plains
Architecture: Dungeon made of stone walls
Monsters: Bee Commandos, Ochimushas, Grand Electrics
Notable Events: Received [Blessing] effect at the end of run. Felt unusually romantic.
Drops: N/A

Variable Case 2

Keywords: △ Creeping Corpse's Belladonna
Participants: Myself (Solo)
Locale: Sweltering volcanic wasteland
Architecture: Dungeon made of castle walls
Monsters: Sky Fish, Skate Rat Ark, Flame Heads
Notable Events: Saw a High Wolf that wanted to be kicked. High Wolf granted me 5 healing items; the unused items disappeared at the end of the run.
Drops: N/A

Variable Case 3

Keywords: △ Agonizing Black Night Moon
Participants: Myself (Solo)
Locale: Murky forest
Architecture: Dungeon made of stone walls
Monsters: Disco Knives, Headhunters and Pumpkin Kings
Notable Events: Received [Blessing] effect at the end of run. Gained flight for 24 hours.
Drops: N/A

Observations

• Generated locale appears to be linked to the first keyword.
• Monsters appear to be linked to the generated locale. There appears to be one non-elemental category of monsters per run, and two monsters linked to the apparent element of the locale.
• However, the monsters generated do not appear to always be the same despite the shared element (cf. Control Case and Variable Case 1). Unknown if the monsters are randomly generated, or if the monsters that appear are determined by the combination of keywords.
• Architecture of the dungeon within the locale appears to be linked to the second keyword.
• The buff, debuff, boon, or bane encountered during the run appears to be linked to the third keyword.

Further Research

While the division of keywords and Area characteristics seems straightforward, it would be best to continue testing other control cases cf. variable cases to verify Area keywords function the same way for all variations, and what has been observed here wasn't simply a coincidence, or a pattern identified prematurely.

@Mithrun1 | OBSERVATION NOTES: FREEDOM

[tablescraps]

Keywords: △ Dawning Sunshine's Freedom
Participants: Oriade, Akatsuki, Mithrun1, L3V147H4N
Locale: Grassy meadow
Architecture: Forest dungeon
Monsters: Goblins, Red Wyrms, Flame Heads
Notable Events: Encountered an empty chest which then caused our armor to explode, leaving us nude. Utilizing armor skins, or attempting to equip alternate pieces of armor, did not cover us.
Drops: N/A

It is unclear why the "unknown" user recommended users attempt this keyword in the last position. Lack of armor is ultimately a debuff. It may have been amusing to the user. I would not recommend running the keyword "Freedom" in the last position; unequipping your armor is quicker and easier.

[trashtier]

DELETE THIS RIGHT NOW

un: Mr_Misteaks

[gluttoning]

[Well that explains a lot.]

Was it all of your armor? Even what was in your inventory?

POST EDITED: "Oriade" & "L3V147H4N" have been replaced with "[redacted]" & "[redacted]"

[tablescraps]

[insinning]

[He's just going to do everyone he knows in that list a favour and pretend he didn't see their names or their responses to this. He's glad he didn't go with that word]

1. Was it possible to just not open the chest?
2. What about the skins from the opening of the game? Can you still equip them?

un: 0koto

[worldbent]

That's a pretty good gag, for a beta at least. Well done, devs!

POST EDITED: "Akatsuki" has been replaced with "[redacted]"

[tablescraps]

un: faunus

[bleatingedge]

'lazy mourning snow lamp' were our dungeon keywords
got some okay gear but there was a fucking curse at the end that makes you incredibly cold
i can't stop shaking
fuck this i should just log out and work on my guide for a bit

un: Mr_Misteaks

[gluttoning]

Yeah. It feels bad.

:-(

some time after hector's party

[dissimulative]

[ He's also dumping data here for the Area Researching Team(TM) to look at. He hopes it'll help in some way. ]

Keywords: △ Screaming/Engaging/Frog Lake
Participants: just me
Locale: volcanic wasteland
Architecture: tower
Monsters: goblin, red wyrms, wander demons
Notable Events: a goblin cursed me to turn into a frog. it's been almost 24 hours and i'm still a frog
Drops: N/A

[ Though Oriade will shortly turn back to normal after typing this up. ]

Keywords: △ Closed/Honor/Belladonna
Participants: just me
Locale: volcanic wasteland
Architecture: stone walls
Monsters: goblins, wander demons, red wyrms (same as previous)
Notable Events: found a wolf. gave me some healing items but they werent there anymore after leaving the dungeon. thought i was misremembering, but i used one before i left so i knew i had them at some point
Drops: N/A

Keywords: △ Delicious/Red Plum's/Holy Ground
Participants: Akatsuki, Oriade
Locale: snowy tundra
Architecture: flesh walls.................
Monsters: deadly presents, acanthasters, cyclo sharks
Notable Events: lots of treasure but sprung a spike trap. i feel very sore........... i was a tiny frog that got hit with spikes have mercy
Drops: N/A

is this what phantom pain is like
i dont like it

[insinning]

Keywords: Forgotten Gambler's Life Boat
Participants: Vogel, Noir
Locale: Volanic Wasteland
Architecture: A forest in the middle of the field
Monsters: Deadly Presents, Red Wyrms and Grand Mages
Notable events: We got cursed with thought bubbles. I don't really like it but it could be worse, I guess


do you think I'm the one causing the dungeons to take us to the volcanic wasteland? The last two had nothing in common, but it still took us there...

im tired of volcanoes...