History Fanfic / IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat

''I Woke Up As A Dungeon, Now What'' is an ongoing[[note]]Updated March 2023[[/note]] ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Aku-Dono, published at Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom ([[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/i-woke-up-as-a-dungeon-now-what-dungeon-worm.620521/ here]]) and partially published at Sandbox/SufficientVelocityDotCom ([[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/i-woke-up-as-a-dungeon-now-what-worm-dungeon.45868/ here]]).

* EpicFail: One of Taylor's attempted traps, a large roller, gets caught on a wire and falls down wrong, resulting in it sliding past the party exploring her first floor and setting off every single trap along the way.

* RedHerring:
** The king lights three out of five candles in his room in an unusual pattern, to give any foreign agents the impression that he's sending a message. In fact, the message is based on the position he leaves the matchbox in.
** Even if Taylor uses illusions to hide a path through her maze, that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
---> "See, if she wants to hide something, then that means there's probably something that matters this way."\\

* RedHerring: The king lights three out of five candles in his room in an unusual pattern, to give any foreign agents the impression that he's sending a message. In fact, the message is based on the position he leaves the matchbox in.

* IShallTauntYou: Raffaa uses his Howling Rage ability to make a dire boar single him out and furiously charge at him -- right through a prepared field of magical ice, where the group is able to disrupt its footing and [[AttackItsWeakPoint reach its vulnerable underbelly]].

* WeakButSkilled: Ulfric concludes this of Taylor. She doesn't have much in mana resources or levels (yet) but her sheer ingenuity and tactical mind means she's a force to not be underestimated. It helps a ''lot'' that she has full control of her minions, unlike most dungeons. This results in enemies that are normally best ignored becoming significant threats. Though, Taylor is reminded that her minions are still weak. When she allows soldiers to start killing her pixies, due to now having respawners for them, said pixies only last a couple seconds before all of them are killed.

* RopeBridge: The dungeon system requires all obstacles to have a possible way to cross them, so when Taylor uses hallway LoopholeAbuse to make a 200' pitfall with no ledge on the side, the system retaliates by adding a metre-wide strip of dirt and rock spanning the centre "in complete disregard of gravity". But that's okay; Taylor can work with that just fine. Especially when she can do things like covering the underside with giant ants ready to yank parties off their feet.

** Cynbel is tired of eating bugs, and wonders aloud when Taylor will get some cattle. Then she's persuaded to reconsider.

* VerbalBackspace: While the party is describing what Taylor could do with a Lost Soul, Karjn chimes in then quickly rethinks her contribution.
-->'''Karjn:''' Or just use the guy she's possessed and make him shank one of his friends... Although, that wasn't an invitation to do that to us. We're cool, right Taylor?

* MasterOfIllusion: Taylor grows interested into pixies because of this.

* 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 sometime 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.
--> That the children and toddlers they put to the flame had nothing to do with the vast armies that had once conquered their lands was an insignificant detail.