The Dungeon Traveler by Alston Sleet

Author:Alston Sleet [Sleet, Alston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998828336
Published: 2019-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

I love my new lizard pets! I’m having the most fabulous time ever!

The next day and night they failed to visit me, Romeo being in charge of guarding my entrance most of that night, his day being mostly free to rest. But the night after that, oh man, those two love lizards came back!

Shortstop tried out the copper level of my agility platforming challenge. When he ran the challenge, he made the entire thing look easy. The dungeon crawl method was too slow for him. When he started his trial, he just strolled in carefully, checking for traps but not in a paranoid manner, then hopped across and scooped up his coins and left. Total time? Maybe five minutes.

He probably spent as much time walking in the hallway as he did the challenge itself. His casual stroll as he exited the Hall of Champions spoke volumes. The annoyed look Lady Lizard gave him spoke louder.

I didn’t know much about women, but showing off by trying to show them up? That never went well. Pandering to them by letting them win? Also never went well. In fact, I don’t think I had ever been in a competition with a woman and then come out ahead, no matter what the scoreboard said.

Food for thought that.

The Lizard Queen-to-be made some comment which wiped the crocodile smile off Shortstop’s face and returned it to the Lady Lizard’s. He made some gestures and explained what he did, and she seemed to get angrier as he went. After his explanation, she turned and followed his route into the agility challenge. She spent far more time running the trial than the short guard did. She used a hooked pole she drew out of her back pouch then assembled it to tap her landing places to be sure they would support her and were not trapped.

After her success, she collapsed her pole and then returned to the vestibule and made some rude sounding comment to her guard. He seemed disgruntled but accepting. She then strolled down the challenge hall, but she turned to the agility challenge again instead of the magical challenges!

I was going to get to watch the tin agility challenge! The copper challenge was just platforms you had to jump between, the tin challenge upped things nicely. This was my first room which had a more vertical arrangement. Once you enter through the doorway into the challenge room, there was only a platform of stone which was five foot by five foot.

The platform was mounted on a central column of stone in a round room, the bottom of the room was lined with spikes, now with an additional poison that my recent patterns gave me. Arranged around the large central column were metal bars that extend from the inner structure to the room's wall. It was like a sloping set of monkey bars. The exit and prize pedestal were mounted almost fifty feet down and on the far side of the column. Each bar was three feet or so from each other.

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