Forgotten Dungeon

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The story had been published only on royalroad.com and if you're reading it anywhere else it has been stolen.

Death comes quickly and without warning. Even for such little personage as him.

It's quite hard to start as a dungeon core. Quite harder when divine bureaucracy simply dumps you in the a** end of nowhere because of their incompetence and because of your agent status as a Fallen Angel.

Yet Uno (temporary name) is used to working with subpar materials and making the best of circumstances. It doesn't help that his personality was cut down to size, but he tries to overcome the system with ingenuity and a healthy dose of duct tape. Or the local equivalent of such.

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An audiobook of the Forgotten Dungeon story has been made by Agro Squerrils and is available on YouTube, under this link:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGEGF1MrdbSWy2b3NEiwhohLM6ptUKB1He has my permission and full support for doing so, so don't be shy and check it out!

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Hello people! It's a story about a dungeon. Or maybe the dungeon? Who knows. Dumped in a hostile world, working hard to overcome circumstances. There is an RPG system in place, but I'll try to make it not number-heavy. I would be more focused on skills - at least from the perspective of the sentient races. Dungeons will have their own little playground.

I'll try to make MC not overpowered - it always irks me how the stories tend to go from zero to hero in a few minutes. I hope y'all will enjoy the ride!

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Also, a Discord server has been made recently:

https://discord.gg/sK2pam3

Join and share your opinions, if interested! :)

Information

Status
Completed
Year
2019
Author
maheusz

Tags

LITRPGFANTASYADVENTUREMAGICCOMEDYMULTIPLE LEAD CHARACTERSNON-HUMAN LEADPOST APOCALYPTICLOW FANTASYREINCARNATIONGRIMDARKVILLAINOUS LEADDUNGEON CORE

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Rating
4.2/ 5.0
Followers
2,920
Views
1,926,252

Chapters(120 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

  • OskatatRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I am extremely and pleasantly surprised by this little gem
    The writing switches between PoV occasionally but lets you know to whom. While there are some grammar and spelling mistakes they're not disturbing me while I read. All this lets me read smoothly through the story without breaking my focus
    Some of the points I truly like so far: The dungeon is pressed hard. No 'I made this fantastic trap-monster combo and now I am safe' feeling, no sudden SS++ class boss monster appearing to ensure that the core is always safe.
    He doesn't have much more knowledge about modern tech than the average person meaning for example that he knows what a battery is, what it contains, more or less, and what it does, but really making one is something else. Anyone hoping for gunslinger ratlings are going to be disappointed.
    The world is briefly described and gives actual meaning to the setting and most of the characers have an understandable and more or less relatable motivation. The most cardboard cutout of the group so far is an elven princess.
    If you like dungeon stories and want somthing different from the usual fairy tale ones, I can absolutely recommend this
  • UnattunedRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I most enjoy the worldbuilding and how it properly shows a broken/ apocalyptic world.
    The humans and what they had to do in desperation to survive, how much more powerful the individual leaders are compared to the masses, but how that is genuinely balanced out by the shear crushing weight of their bodies, and time.
    Overall I enjoy the story alot.
  • Jangofet54Royal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Really good dungeon story. Unique monsters and environment
    Spoiler: Spoiler
    It's evocative of the Skaven constructions but also Frankenstein. It combines electricty and magecraft to create horrifying constructs and unique environments.
    Anywho I really enjoy this novel personally and look forward to see where it goes.
  • John Dyr ClassicRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I really enjoy this storry but i would like if we get less POV from the humans or other beings that are not UNO. while its okay once in a while seeing how the POV is from a person filled with fear knowing they will die with lots of pain.
  • Litrpg loverRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Good new dungeon story, has a lot of psuedo science which is the reason for the low reviews but who cares its magic. A few grammor problems here and there but thats it...............................sjhcaixvoebisnc
  • Alice GroverRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    The natural and guided evolution of the life-forms created, altered, or affected by the dungeon is very interesting. It is also just the sort of effect on the world, I love to see a dungeon have in dungeon core novels.
    His atuned element is also very interesting however, updates have become so infrequent I never even expect one.
  • The true NarratorRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    04/02/2020
    Edit: Hey author my past words still stand but I think you deserve a higher rating now, I have changed the 3.5 stars into 4, congrats you earned it.
    11/20/2019
    I like this story and at the same time, I dislike it, (the lowish rating is due to my previous ratings of, in my opinion, superior stories, soz author).
    It is a bit of a slow story and at times a bit bland, (mostly the adventurer or sapient species pov parts, I don't like those adventurers, they are not likeable or intriguing, the most interesting thing they offer will be when they die horribly to Uno's madness, if that even happens).
    The humans and other sapient races save for the rat boys are not compelling and only inspire the reader to want them dead, perhaps this is the author's intention but it feels too drawn out, we need a little more immediate gratification for the rising bloodlust towards the humans, it is becoming quite aggravating.
    And maybe we should have some sapients we actually like in this story? that would be nice, the rats already kind of count but I think more is needed too.
    But these rather negative feelings may just be my own rancor at work, and not necessarily true, the story is still a decent enough read, not really much technical knowledge goes into some of the shenanigans this story tries but it works well enough.
    Also some grammatical errors and strange wording here and there but nothing immersion breaking (unless you are a word natzi).
    The story is a sturdy enough dungeon read, not the best, not the worst, probably somewhere in high middle tier among similar stories.
    Even so Mr author, keep your chin held high, your efforts are not bad at all.
  • ZethuronRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    Im already liking the story so far, one of the reasons is because its a dungeon story with interesting twists to the usual dungeon trope. Its basically a rough gem that needs some polishing to be actually good.
    The MC one day dies, forgotten by others until people got worried and his dead body goes get found, yet he was waiting the whole time as a spirit, forgotten by the heavens due to incompetence, until someone noted that there was a mistake and comes to correct it, there the MC accepts a offer to be reincarnated in another world as a dungeon core, just that some important details about the world and its people were left untold.
    He is reincarnated to a world on the way to destruction where civilization is tethering on the brink of ruin, the majority of the gods gave up on trying to even save it and left, yet there are some remaining who want to save the world, even if they have to use souls from other worlds.
    There he is, in a dangerous place, as a lone dungeon core with no guidance at all, there he slowly builds up while learning about the world and the system, with going in odd directions never seen before on that world, creating things that would be seen as insane experiments that should have never been made. To slowly change the world for better or worse, with worse being far more likely due to the developments of his dungeon creatures.
    The MC is basically the best part about this story, he is a genius and fits perfectly as a dungeon core, i am liking his personality and the way he acts, expect the dungeon creatures to act weird because of him, especially the Ratlings who are totally not inspired by the warhammer Skaven. Other characters arent that much, mainly because not enough has been shown of them.
    Great story, the author went in creative directions with the dungeon setup here.  Some of his monsters are quite unique, not simply being templates, but designed and built directly by the dungeon core as functioning monsters, they are some kind of magical cybo
  • jpat1988Royal Road
    ★★★ 2.5
    Nothing to unique here IMO. The MC is kinda nuts and its more annoying than entertaining. And the swithing of POV is very annoying. Would have given the story 1 star but I like the rats lol.
  • CiainaRoyal Road
    ★★★ 2.5
    Grammatically, it's damn well done.
    But the pace is worrying. There is a difference between a slow burn, and pedantic. If this was a movie, I would tell you to get an editor.
    Cut the world building with some MEAT. Some substance. This is frustrating.
    Spoiler: Spoiler