Descent Into Pandemonium

The idea of the #dungeon32 "contest" was to build a megadungeon by creating a brief outline of one room, each day, for the year of 2023, in a particular kind of notebook. This is the result of mine, with an introduction written after it was all done.

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The Temple Beneath

A. The Surface

Half-way up a forested mountain, an ancient trail leads to ruins.

1.1 Stone-Capped Well

• Rune-covered
• Repellent

1.2 Feet of the Colossus

• All that remains of a massive granite statue, created by magic.
• Overgrown, no paths remaining.
• Scattered haphazardly on all sides of the left foot are balls of hair and bones (like owl pellets), about volleyball size, as well as larger solitary bones, skulls, and antlers.
• Ancient and weathered

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Appendices

Appendix A: The Arch Keys

The early Kiooliciti experiments with portals led to the five "polyhedral" portals. The location of these are summarized here, in addition to the location of the keys that allow their use:

• Tetrahedral (yellow): 3.26, tesseract entrance. Keys: 2.2, 4.7, 4.8
• Cubic (orange): 1.28, smashed. Keys (shattered): 2.14, 4.26
• Octahedral (purple): 3.11, near geode. Keys: 1.13, 2.14, 4.7
• Dodecahedral (green): 4.16. Keys: 2.11, 4.4, 4.14
• Icosahedral (blue): 5.17. Keys: 5.3, 5.10, 5.27

Appendix B: Tesseract Connections

When the Kiooliciti built their tesseract, they labelled the edges of its graph not the nodes. (After all, it is the edges that are the hard things to create and monitor.) Each edge (a connection between rooms of the tesseract) has been given an alchemical symbol. Most are two way (↔), some are one way (→), and some are broken (—). The edges are:

• 🜁 air 3.26 → random destination.
• 🜂 fire 1.21 — 3.26
• 🜃 earth 3.26 ↔ 4.15
• 🜄 water 3.26 ↔ 5.1
• 🜉 aqua vitæ 4.15 ↔ 6.2
• 🜌 vinegar 4.15 ↔ 5.1
• 🜍 sulphur 4.29 ↔ 5.11
• 🜎 philosophers sulfur
• 🜏 black sulfur 5.7 ↔ 5.17
• 🜑 mercury sublimate 5.10 ↔ 5.17
• 🜔 salt 5.6 ↔ 5.7
• 🜕 nitre 5.11 ↔ 5.21
• 🜖 vitriol 5.3 ↔ 5.7
• 🜨 verdigris 5.21 ↔ 5.30
• 🜶 alkali 5.17 ↔ 5.31
• 🜳 regulus 5.4 ↔ 5.5
• 🜬 sublimate of antimony 5.4 ↔ 5.8
• 🜢 sublimate of copper 5.5 ↔ 5.8

• 🝁 quicklime 5.15 ↔ 6.3
• 🝅 alum 5.15 ↔ 6.3
• 🜩 tin 5.2 ↔ 5.8
• 🜚 gold 5.16 ↔ 5.19
• 🜛 silver 5.20 ↔ 6.1
• 🜠 copper 5.29 ↔ 6.2
• 🜪 lead 5.2 ↔ 5.14
• 🜜 iron 5.8 ↔ 5.31
• 🜫 antimony 5.20 ↔ 6.1
• 🜾 bismuth 5.16 ↔ 6.4
• 🜺 arsenic 5.8 ↔ 5.13
• 🜼 realgar 5.30 ↔ 6.4
• 🜸 marcasite 5.20 ↔ 6.4
• 🜿 tartar 5.10 ↔ 5.16
• 🝃 borax 5.31 ↔ 6.1
• 🜘 rock salt 5.2 ↔ 5.11
• 🝉 gum 5.9 ↔ 5.13
• 🝊 wax 5.2 ↔ 5.20

• 🝕 urine 5.2 ↔ 5.29
• 🝖 horse dung
• 🝞 sublimation 5.2 ↔ 5.22
• 🝟 precipitate 5.10 ↔ 5.24
• 🝠 distill 5.15 ↔ 5.23
• 🝢 dissolve 5.8 ↔ 5.25
• 🝣 purify 5.2 ↔ 5.27
• 🝤 putrefaction 5.17 ↔ 5.26
• 🝩 crucible 5.9 ↔ 5.28
• 🝪 alembic 5.25 ↔ 7.3
• 🝭 retort 5.23 ↔ 7.31
• 🝑 trident 5.24 ↔ 6.5
• 🝎 caput mortuum 5.20 ↔ 5.27
• ⍚ “evaporate” 5.26 ↔ 6.1
• ⍝ “encase” 5.27 ↔ 5.31
• ⍢ “grind” 5.27 ↔ 6.2
• ⌱ “extract” 5.28 ↔ 6.3