“Fine,” she grumbled, clicking and clacking with her mandibles. “I’ll do it. But my next evolution better be something that makes me look thinner, or else—”

“Or else what? If you forget the terms of our agreement, then I’ll de-evolve you. I’ll cut you into pieces that I’ll then stuff in that face of yours before I replace you. If nothing else, before you die, I’ll teach you the importance of honoring your word,” Lucas said, staring the monster down. “Alright. Now, let’s get you a few guards.” He dragged Saba’a’s dungeon map dot from the throne room back down to her cave. He then clicked on and dragged one of the idle soldiers, who had a point value of one, to the room with Saba’a. When he tried to drop the soldier into Saba’a’s room, however, the soldier’s dot returned to the idle section, and an error message appeared.

Saba’a is currently flagged as a monster type Miniboss with a value of 5. She cannot be paired with non-monster types. You also cannot exceed the value of 5 for any given room or hallway section within the dungeon.

Lucas blinked. So, that’s how they keep things fair. It made sense. The point caps would prevent a dungeon master from designing a dungeon in which the miniboss, all the guards, and he were in the same room together. It was the basic idea every person thought of when he looked at most dungeons. Why spread everyone out just to die one at a time? Well, the game had a solution: You can’t stack everyone in the same spot because it would take too many dungeon points. It also seemed like the tags “humanoid” and “monster” next to the names and dots were also important. Monster types couldn’t be stacked with humanoid types.

Well, if that’s the case . . . Lucas grumbled to himself. His grand idea of making his dungeon unbeatable with guards right at the beginning was out the window, so now he had to fall back on a more standard structuring for his lair. Since he had already used five of the 20 points his dungeon was allowed, he decided to use the remaining to do a more logical layout.

He clicked on the soldier in the kitchen, and asked the system, Can I determine more about how this guard behaves?’