History Fanfic / IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat

* WeakButSkilled: Ulfric concludes this of Taylor. She doesn't have much in mana resources or level (yet) but her sheer ingenuity and tactical mind means she's a force to not be discountinuated.

** Central is often compared to pre-WW2 Poland for being a very poor country stuck between two nations hating the crap out of each other, right before a huge conflict.

Following Golden Morning, Taylor finds herself [ADungeonIsYou turned into a Dungeon] (the [=RPG=] kind, not the prison). Stuck on a fantasy world filled with adventurers, magic, and other weird things, the Queen of Escalation struggles to find her way and, of course, not die. She quickly learns, however, that survival might require far more than merely building a formidable dungeon...

Following Golden Morning, Taylor finds herself turned into a Dungeon (the [=RPG=] kind, not the prison). Stuck on a fantasy world filled with adventurers, magic, and other weird things, the Queen of Escalation struggles to find her way and, of course, not die. She quickly learns, however, that survival might require far more than merely building a formidable dungeon...

Following Golden Morning, Taylor finds herself turned into a Dungeon (the [=RPG=] kind, not the prison). Stuck on a fantasy world filled with adventurers and other weird things, the Queen of Escalation struggles to find her way and, of course, not die.

* AMotherToHerMen: Well, bugs, but Taylor makes a point of treating her insect minions (and pixie) very well - mainly because unlike her previous bugs on Bet, they ''are'' intelligent in the way people are.

** [[spoiler:In Exploit 4.5, Ulfric leads a team of experienced adventurers in utterly ''annihilating'' Atlas, showing Taylor just what kind of opposition she'll face in the future]].

* TheCorruption: {{Implied}} - the planet has things on it called impurities, and awards Taylor for removing them - namely, by eating them.

** DungeonBypass: Adventures are capable of tunneling through Taylor's walls, though she can upgrade them to stop this/make it harder.
** DungeonCrawling: What adventurers do. What dungeons ''want'' them to do, since killing adventurers nets dungeons extra mana.

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Central is stuck in this situation with the Velthian Empire to the South and the Khanites to the North - both empires absolutely ''hate'' each other, but are using Central as a buffer zone. Anyone who wants to do anything has to contend with them. And if Central were to try to arm itself, one of the two powers would crush it.
* TastesLikeChicken: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking After noting what some of things she's eaten taste like (like, for example, grass tasting like a freshly cut lawn),]] Taylor notes that, rather mundanely, the four winged sparrows her dungeon form has eaten taste like chicken.

* CrapsackWorld: While leagues better than the absolute hellhole of a universe Taylor came from, the world she arrived in (or at least the part where she ended up) isn't a nice place to live in - she's in a desert on the borders between two very powerful empires, who are not only rivals, but also regularly raid the area in the middle to loot dungeons, often killing them due to overlooting the place. As most of the towns in the region depend on dungeons to make a living, this has pushed most of them to the brink of collapse - the nearest village to Taylor, which can barely be considered a village, is on its last legs due to crop failure and poverty. [[spoiler:It's also implied the two empires ''deliberately'' killed off all of the dungeons in order to keep Central poor, to act as a buffer between the two of them, which is supported by Taylor doing the math and realizing that with the mana gain from adventurers fighting minions and/or dying in the dungeon, the ''only'' way a dungeon could die from overlooting is if the minions didn't attack the invaders ''at all'']].

* GeniusLoci: There's Taylor, [[CaptainObvious obviously]], but it's also implied the planet she ended up on is this, as it rewards her for removing 'impurities'.

* DungeonBasedEconomy: More than a few villages seem to run on this. Also {{Deconstructed}} - the bigger powers in the region have raided dungeons for goods ''so many times'' that they apparently killed quite a few of them, which has forced several towns in the area into poverty. A later chapter reveals that no new ones have appeared for a while before Taylor's showed up. The closest village to Taylor is deliberately trying to hide her existence, since she will be of huge interest to them. [[spoiler:It's implied the dungeons were ''deliberately'' killed off to keep Central poor, so that the two empires - the Kanits and the Velthians - can use it as a buffer zone between them]].

* CrapsackWorld: While leagues better than the absolute hellhole of a universe Taylor came from, the world she arrived in (or at least the part where she ended up) isn't a nice place to live in - she's in a desert on the borders between two very powerful empires, who are not only rivals, but also regularly raid the area in the middle to loot dungeons, often killing them due to overlooting the place. As most of the towns in the region depend on dungeons to make a living, this has pushed most of them to the brink of collapse - the nearest village to Taylor, which can barely be considered a village, is on its last legs due to crop failure and poverty. [[spoiler:It's also implied the two empires ''deliberately'' killed off all of the dungeons in order to keep Central poor, to act as a buffer between the two of them]].

* LoopholeAbuse: As Taylor finds out, there is an easy way for her to generate extra mana without fighting/killing people - kill the random beasties that lurk around her dungeon, then take their corpses into said dungeon, which eats them and turns them into mana. [[spoiler:She also finds out that just sparring with adventurers gets her a fair amount of mana.]]

** InexplicableTreasureChests: Taylor can put these in her dungeon. She initially has no interest in adding them, since they are an enormous drain on mana. Since dungeons get extra mana by killing adventurers, it's generally assumed the chests are meant as bait. [[spoiler:After she decides to allow a nearby village to move close to her, she begins considering adding some loot chests in for them. She's got about five by the time Growth 3.8 happens]].

* TranslatorMicrobes: Taylor was (apparently) given something that allows her to understand the language of the natives, as well as their writing. It doesn't work both ways, though, which makes communication a problem.

* DungeonBasedEconomy: More than a few villages seem to run on this. Also {{Deconstructed}} - the bigger powers in the region have raided dungeons for goods ''so many times'' that they apparently killed quite a few of them, which has forced several towns in the area into poverty. The closest village to Taylor is deliberately trying to hide her existence, since she will be of huge interest to them. [[spoiler:It's implied the dungeons were ''deliberately'' killed off to keep Central poor, so that the two empires - the Kanits and the Velthians - can use it as a buffer zone between them]].

* FantasticRacism: The Khanites and Velthians do ''not'' like each other, to the point that the Velthians are willing to [[WouldHurtAChild kill children and toddlers merely because they have Khanite blood in their veins]]. [[SinsOfOurFathers Apparently, this is because the Khanite Empire invaded Velthia some time in the past and enslaved everyone who lived there.]] To this day, the Khans still see Velthia as a source of slaves, even if it is now an independent kingdom.

* BeeAfraid: Taylor's go-to {{Mooks}} for combat are wasps. She has access to bees, but doesn't have any yet, since she cannot summon them without having them cut into her mana regeneration.

* FantasticRacism: The Khanites and Velthians do ''not'' like each other, to the point that the Velthains are willing to [[WOuldHurtAChild kill children and toddlers merely because they have Khanite blood in their veins]]. [[SinsOfOurFathers Apparently, this is because the Kanite Empire invaded Velthia some time in the past. ]]

** InexplicableTreasureChests: Taylor can put these in her dungeon. She initially has no interest in adding them, since they are an enormous drain on mana. Since dungeons get extra mana by killing adventurers, it's generally assumed the chests are meant as bait. [[spoiler:After she decides to allow a nearby village to move close to her, she begins considering adding some loot chests in for them]].

* ScyllaAndCharybdis: Central is stuck in this situation with the Velthian Empire to the South and the Khanites to the North - both empires absolutely ''hate'' each other, but are using Central as a buffer zone. Anyone who wants to do anything has to contend with them.

* AMotherToHerMen: Well, bugs, but Taylor makes a point of treating her insect minions (and pixie) very well - mainly because unlike her previous bugs, they ''are'' intelligent in the way people are.

** InexplicableTreasureChests: Taylor can put these in her dungeon. She initially has no interest in adding them, since they are an enormous drain on mana. Since dungeons get extra mana by killing adventurers, it's generally assumed the chests are meant as bait.

** Early on, a group of adventurers complete demolish her ants and easily reach her core, only sparing her because dungeons are valuable and she isn't a threat. A short while later, a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent a pixie]] does the same thing ''on its own''. Fortunately, it just wants to make a contract with her.

* CrapsackWorld: While leagues better than the absolute hellhole of a universe Taylor came from, the world she arrived in (or at least the part where she ended up) isn't a nice place to live in - she's in a desert on the borders between two very powerful empires, who are not only rivals, but also regularly raid the area in the middle to loot dungeons, often killing them due to overlooting the place. As most of the towns in the region depend on dungeons to make a living, this has pushed most of them to the brink of collapse - the nearest village to Taylor, which can barely be considered a village, is on its last legs due to crop failure and poverty.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Some of the native wildlife just looks ''weird'' - there are, for example, birds with multiple sets of wings and harpoon-like tongues.

** She then attempts to communicate with them via drawing pictures. While this does end up working, it takes several guesses for them to figure out what, exactly, she means.

* DungeonBasedEconomy: More than a few villages seem to run on this. Also {{Deconstructed}} - the bigger powers in the region have raided dungeons for goods ''so many times'' that they apparently killed quite a few of them, which has forced several towns in the area into poverty. The closest village to Taylor is deliberately trying to hide her existence, since she will be of huge interest to them.

Tropes in this work:

* CrapsackWorld: While leagues better than the absolute hellhole of a universe Taylor came from, the world she arrived in (or at least the part where she ended up) isn't a nice place to live in - she's in a desert on the borders between two very powerful empires, who are not only rivals, but also regularly raid the area in the middle to loot dungeons, often killing them due to overlooting the place. As most of the towns in the region depend on dungeons to make a living, this has pushed most of them to the brink of collapse - the nearest village to Taylor, which can barely be considered a village, barely has enough food to sustain its people and is experiencing a crop failure.

* EmpathicEnvironment: Taylor is one - as her dungeon grows, the world around her changes. She started in a

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Taylor's starting minions are bugs, unsurprisingly.
* CoolPet: Taylor's pixie counts as this, since it isn't one of her minions, but is instead a creature 'contracted' to her. It can also ''leave'' the dungeon, something her minions cannot do ''yet'' (Taylor finds out early one her pixie can be upgraded to lead minions out of the dungeon with it).

* GiantSpider: Taylor's current go-to {{Mook}}. Apparently, they are jumping spiders.

Following Golden Morning, Taylor fids herself turned into a Dungeon (the [=RPG=] kind, not the prison). Stuck on a fantasy world filled with adventurers and other weird things, the Queen of Escalation struggles to find her way and, of course, not die.

* LoopholeAbuse: As Taylor finds out, there is an easy way for her to generate extra mana without fighting/killing people - kill the random beasties that lurk around her dungeon, then take their corpses into said dungeon, which eats them and turns them into mana. [[spoiler:She also finds out that just sparring with adventurers gets her a fair amount of mana]].

* LoopholeAbuse: As Taylor finds out, there is an easy way for her to generate extra mana without fighting/killing people - kill the random beasties that lurk around her dungeon, then take their corpses into said dungeon, which eats them and turns them into mana. [[spoiler:She also finds out that just sparring with adventurers gets her a fair amount of mana]].

[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/i-woke-up-as-a-dungeon-now-what-dungeon-worm.620521/ I Woke Up As A Dungeon, Now What]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Aku-Doji.