easy · 13 rooms · came back · seed log-easy-104
3 damage, a march of oil spent clearing the rubble, and what is left is a hole the party can only go through one at a time.
The line this delve would be retold by.
11 of 12 values met. A reading, not a grade — the score exists to sort logs, not to judge them.
| Value | What the log shows | |
|---|---|---|
| met | A delve should be about somebody. | Tycho Brahe carries it (6 mentions against 4); 4/4 named |
| met | Rooms should be in the order they are for a reason. | 2 of 13 rooms answer an earlier one (15%) |
| met | Something must go wrong, and it should be legible when it does. | 4 rooms cost the party something |
| met | If every room is a beat, no room is. | the loudest room runs 3.0× the median (peak 3, median 1) |
| met | A choice reads as a choice only when the alternatives are named. | 13 of 13 deliberations name a road not taken |
| n/a | A death is only worth reading if the dead had a line first. | nobody fell |
| met | Name the thing and state the number. | 13 of 13 resolutions state a number |
| met | The party should not argue in one voice. | 4 distinct voices across 13 deliberations |
| missed | No sentence should appear twice in one delve, verbatim. | 1 effect line printed verbatim more than once (worst ×2) |
| met | The boss should get to be a boss. | the throne room ran an unstated number of rounds |
| met | A resolution should be readable in one breath. | every resolution inside its budget |
| met | The back half should cost more than the front half. | front half 2, back half 4 |
| met | The ending should answer the delve it ended. | the epitaph names somebody who went down |
A gelatinous horror holds the room (attack 2, health 6). The party must decide how to get past it. Plate and chitin cover it: the party's blows do 2 less damage each round. It flinches from the cold: weak to frost (frost damage ×1.5). A portcullis hangs raised above the passage, on a chain that still turns. Somebody stacked supplies here and never came back for them.
They might have chosen to accept the duel, or negotiate the terms — Robert Fludd made the case: "I already know which part of it sells." The party chose to crack the crates open.
📦 The party cracks open stacked crates and barrels: 20 gold.
🛡️ Tycho Brahe walks in front, which is where the blows land first.
A connecting corridor. Nothing blocks the way; the party moves through.
They might have chosen to attune the resonances, or link the three frequencies — Tycho Brahe made the case: "The sword's just how I open lockboxes." The party chose to sing the third harmony.
🎵 A perfect voice finds the third harmony. The three frequencies lock into a single, beautiful chord. The walls settle and the front-rank member feels renewed. +18 score. 🎓 Three disciplines on one problem, none of them guessing: +25 renown.
A treasure chest sits in the room. It may hold gold; it may be a mimic. A sarcophagus stands against the wall with its lid slightly wrong. Somebody stacked supplies here and never came back for them.
They might have chosen to loot the treasure, or inspect it first — John Dee made the case: "Heal fast, ask later." The party chose to crack the crates open.
📦 The party cracks open stacked crates and barrels: 20 gold.
A connecting corridor. Nothing blocks the way; the party moves through.
They might have chosen to read the place itself, or reconstruct his rounds — Margaret Cavendish made the case: "I did not memorize this spell to whisper it." The party chose to scry for the map.
🔮 The map is under the flagstone he has been standing on for two centuries. He takes this news hard. +20 score, a march of oil saved. 🎓 It is answered from three directions at once and stays answered: +25 renown.
The dungeon itself turns hostile. The party must brace together or scatter. Half the ceiling is on the floor, in pieces worth stepping around. A crack runs the width of the room, wide enough to matter and too wide to jump twice.
They might have chosen to pass a plan through the stone, or speak mind to mind — Robert Fludd made the case: "Traps are just puzzles with stakes." The party chose to work the slab.
🔧 The counterweight is found, persuaded, and reversed. The slab goes back up, and a length of its chain comes away useful. +1 material, +24 score. 🎓 Everything this asks for, the party happens to have brought: +25 renown.
A library. The party can study here to learn spells. Pillars break the room into aisles — something to fight behind.
They might have chosen to reconstruct the mosaic from memory, or imagine what the image should be — Tycho Brahe made the case: "My shield works best with me behind it and everything else very far away." The party chose to break through the wall.
💥 The wall yields to force and the ceiling comes with it. 3 damage, a march of oil spent clearing the rubble, and what is left is a hole the party can only go through one at a time.
✚ Tycho Brahe takes a wound that will not close down here. Healing can bring them back to 11, no further, until town. The Reckless do not stop to bind anything, and more of it stays with them.
A connecting corridor. Nothing blocks the way; the party moves through.
They might have chosen to read the maker's mark, or pick the chest that was opened before — John Dee made the case: "The god forgives. That's the whole strategy." The party chose to appraise the three chests.
💰 Examined closely, the real chest is obvious — and so is how the other two were rigged, which is a lesson that keeps. +40 gold, +25 score, and the next snare is already understood. 🎓 It is answered from three directions at once and stays answered: +25 renown.
A shrine. Resting here heals the party; the gold leaf on the altar could be stripped instead. A silvered mirror leans against the wall, and it shows the room more honestly than the room does. Pillars break the room into aisles — something to fight behind.
They might have chosen to rest and heal, or move on — Margaret Cavendish made the case: "Knowledge is treasure, but treasure is also treasure." The party chose to strip the gold leaf.
⛏️ The party strips 30 gold of leaf from the altar. The next disaster will hit harder for it.
🕳️ Robert Fludd finds a hidden door into the archive wing. Behind it: shelving stacked to the ceiling, half of it collapsed. Its rooms join the route.
A library. The party can study here to learn spells. Pillars break the room into aisles — something to fight behind. A brazier burns in its bracket — nobody has been here to feed it, and it burns anyway.
They might have chosen to read the sealed texts, or move on — Robert Fludd made the case: "I'll scout it — from inside." The party chose to study the shelves.
📚 The party studies the shelves and learns 1 spell.
A hidden vault, stacked with treasure. Vaults always hold something beyond coin. Shelves sag under books nobody has audited in a century. A sarcophagus stands against the wall with its lid slightly wrong.
They might have chosen to loot the treasure, or inspect it first — Tycho Brahe made the case: "Everything down here is carrying something. I collect." The party chose to pry the sarcophagus open.
⚰️ The party pries the lid off a stone sarcophagus: 20 gold.
A connecting corridor. Nothing blocks the way; the party moves through.
They might have chosen to speak with whatever wears the armour, or name the armour by its heraldry — John Dee made the case: "The light goes first. I merely follow it, loudly." The party chose to put the armour down.
⚔️ Empty armour does dent like full armour, and hits back like it too. 4 damage, a great deal of noise, and the party comes out of it spread across the passage.
✚ 2 wounds on Tycho Brahe, and the ceiling with them: 9, and no more.
The boss chamber. The Dragon Whelp of the Deep Vault waits at its center (attack 4, health 12); killing it clears the dungeon. It flinches from the cold: weak to frost (frost damage ×1.5). A bed of rusted spikes stands out of the floor, most of them still upright. Pillars break the room into aisles — something to fight behind.
They might have chosen to stand and fight, or fall back — Margaret Cavendish made the case: "I know a spell for this. It's called leaving." The party chose to open with a combat spell.
🔥 The caster opens with Frost Lance, chosen precisely for the monster's frost weakness: spell damage ×1.5. ☠️ Even softened, the Dragon Whelp of the Deep Vault beats the party down. 📐 The party meets it standing as the last room left them. 💚 Purify the Font closes Tycho Brahe's wounds mid-fight: 12 healed in round 3, then 6 a round while it holds. 💚 Mending Word heals 13 after the fight. 🎒 9 more preparations hold besides — the ledger keeps them.
🕯️ Someone checks the reservoir and does not like the answer: oil for 2 more marches.
The boss chamber. The Dragon Whelp of the Deep Vault waits at its center (attack 4, health 12); killing it clears the dungeon. It flinches from the cold: weak to frost (frost damage ×1.5). A bed of rusted spikes stands out of the floor, most of them still upright. Pillars break the room into aisles — something to fight behind.
They might have chosen to stand and fight, or fall back — Margaret Cavendish made the case: "I know a spell for this. It's called leaving." The party chose to open with a combat spell.
🔥 The caster opens with Frost Lance, chosen precisely for the monster's frost weakness: spell damage ×1.5. ☠️ Even softened, the Dragon Whelp of the Deep Vault beats the party down. 📐 The party meets it standing as the last room left them. 💚 Purify the Font closes Tycho Brahe's wounds mid-fight: 12 healed in round 3, then 6 a round while it holds. 💚 Mending Word heals 13 after the fight. 🎒 9 more preparations hold besides — the ledger keeps them.
🕯️ Someone checks the reservoir and does not like the answer: oil for 2 more marches.
the Old Delve is cleared: the boss is dead and the party walks out. Survivors: Robert Fludd, Tycho Brahe, John Dee, Margaret Cavendish. Rooms cleared: 11.
Regenerate this exact delve:
npm run simulate -- --seed log-easy-104