History Fanfic / IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat

** 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 closer to her, she begins adding some loot chests in for them.]]

* OrganDrops: When Taylor eventually gets some actual information about her pixie, it includes mention of the things a defeated pixie might drop. Taylor, who is very attached to her cute little contracted creature, immediately resolves to murder anyone who tries to kill it and take its wings.

** Deconstructed. Taylor was (apparently) given something that allows her to understand the language of the natives, as well as their writing. It works so well that she can't even see their written language as the words simply translate into English. It doesn't work both ways, though, which makes communication a problem.

* 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 the 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.]]
** A room has to have at least one entrance/exit open or the system takes action, but Taylor notes, and takes advantage of, that doesn't mean that she can't use her bugs to put fake walls over a door that someone is near as long as the other entrance is open. And the system only checks at certain intervals, so Taylor ''can'' briefly block all entrances to a room if need be.
*** Hallways do not have to be accessible on foot as long as the rooms they connect have a valid path for access. This lets Taylor make "bug chutes", hallways near the ceiling of select rooms that she stuffs with bugs, allowing her to rapidly redeploy her bugs or to attack from the rear or sides in a way not easily counterable.
*** [[spoiler:Once she figures out how to make wax-and-web walls, she also realizes she can selectively force people down certain paths by ensuring that there's always more than one way to get to a room, but then blocking the ones she doesn't want them to take. Because there is always ''a'' path to the room, the system doesn't punish her]].
*** [[spoiler:A room has to be accessible, but Taylor figures out that the entrance/exit can be a ''shortcut'' that leads to an '''entirely different floor'''. This lets her create a single disjointed room that can be accessed by the third floor, while her core is only accessible by a room on the ''second'' floor, hidden by illusions, and since her fourth four doesn't have a specialization, there's no clue to tell where the shortcut is]].

If she hadn't realized 'fighting clean' wasn't exactly my thing, nor was it the thing of anyone who wanted to win, then she clearly needed more training.

* CrazyPrepared: Peotyr Medyrsjn, the King of Central, is stated to have "twenty contingency plans at all times, in case the first ten fail". [[spoiler:Fittingly, what ends up killing him is a chance encounter with a half-dead mercenary killing anyone he encounters]].

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Pretty much every variety of pixie is considered a nuisance at worse, only a threat if they distract you from other monsters. The ones that cast illusions can only do so for a quarter of a second every four seconds and casting larger illusions tires them quickly. Meanwhile the ones that can control people by touch can only do so extremely briefly, are functionally mindless and wander aimlessly, and die upon using their ability. Taylor quickly figures out how to chain illusions to keep them up longer and that tiny illusions directly over someone's eyes aren't remotely tiring. As for the others, she can control them remotely to set traps, make people wander into traps, or simply attack their allies.

* ATasteOfDefeat: Taylor is on both the giving and receiving end.
** 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, [[OurFairiesAreDifferent a pixie]] does the same thing ''on its own''. Fortunately, it just wants to make a contract with her.
** When the adventurers come back, [[spoiler:Taylor easily defeats one of them (Gwen) in a mock battle. Gwen is grateful that Taylor didn't kill her]].
** [[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]], and how far she has to go before she can reliably stop even a single party of elite adventurers.

* PuppyDogEyes: Taylor's first pixie unleashes the full force of its oversized eyes ''becoming sad'' in an effort to persuade her to build a Pixie Fountain. Unfortunately Taylor just doesn't have the necessary resources yet.
--> ...but I swore I would, as soon as I could.

** The InternalReveal that [[spoiler:the dungeon has a human mind and memories]] is quite unsettling.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: When Taylor loses her first three ants in moments and is left defenceless, "I was pretty sure the language I was using would have caused Skidmark to blink. And possibly give me pointers."