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When demonic beings burst out from another dimension to consume all life on Earth, an alien race grants the defenders the System, allowing them to level up and fight back.However, being killed in the first few seconds and having your soul sucked out, like our protagonist, may introduce delays. And having that soul accidentally land in a piece of fruit wasn't in anyone's plans. Fortunately, the System is all about growth and adaptation!The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life is a post-apocalyptic Dungeon Core LitRPG, written for the Royal Road January 2023 community writing contest, but never actually entered. |
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Discard and Draw |
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Discard and Draw: Everyone has a limited number of subclass slots available, determined by the rarity of their main class, so reaching the upper tiers of power involves giving up classes to select better ones. Most of the benefits of the class are lost, and there's an experience penalty on the replacement, but it's often still worthwhile. In particular, if someone has enough achievements, they might qualify for rarer main classes, boosting their capabilities across the board. |
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Game-Breaker |
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Game-Breaker: In-Universe. When the Dungeon starts experimenting with Primordial Transmutation, which allows him to create mana crystals at a lower cost than their value, he quickly concludes that it's powerful enough to completely unbalance the System. |
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Trap Master |
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Trap Master: The Dungeon's initial class traits include bonuses to creating puzzles and traps, while losing the ability to spawn monsters. His first attempt at fighting off invaders is basically an electrified mousetrap, with a high-voltage discharge when stepped on. |
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Weapons That Suck |
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Weapons That Suck: When the rats start avoiding his traps, the Dungeon just seals them in with a stone wall and sucks the air out of the tunnel. |
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INeedADrink |
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I Need A Drink: Marshall needs fortification after learning about the amazing evolutionary options that the Dungeon is getting. Upon having a bottle of Scotch replicated, he chugs it. |
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The Sleepless |
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The Sleepless: Dungeon cores made out of crystallised apples don't sleep at all. |
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Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid |
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Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid: The protagonist goes from average human guy, is killed by aliens and finds his soul attached to the remains of a discarded eaten fruit and then is taken by The System and turned into a Dungeon Core. |
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Crystalline Creature |
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Crystalline Creature: When the System reaches the protagonist, his half-eaten self is crystallised, preventing any further decay. Unfortunately it also makes him quite interesting to adventurers. |
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Required Secondary Powers |
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Required Secondary Powers: The initial design of the "Bubblegum Shock Trap" is effective at killing rats, but it has to be significantly reengineered to stop it from exploding when it goes off; isolating the trigger and delivery plates from each other, thickening the wires to withstand the current, etc. |
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Time Skip |
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Time Skip: Upon being half eaten and discarded, the apple is left in landfill for approximately sixty years. Fortunately, lacking a human brain, he doesn't Go Mad from the Isolation, he just meditates until he inadvertently draws the attention of the System. |
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Punny Name |
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Punny Name: The protagonist settles on introducing himself to people as "Garfield Babbage", derived from his initial start in "a field of garbage". |
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Extreme Omnivore |
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Extreme Omnivore: Dungeons can consume any material around them and use it as a resource to construct things. Although it wasn't the best idea to start doing that while in an unstable pile of garbage. |
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Rodents of Unusual Size |
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Rodents of Unusual Size: The first monsters that invade the Dungeon are mutated rats a foot tall and two feet long. He later encounters another variety covered in pustules, which eat the contents for a temporary strength boost when injured. |
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Mistaken for an Imposter |
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Mistaken for an Imposter: The System rejects the protagonist's claim to be an apple, and looks for another answer, because he doesn't match the database description of apples; he's sentient, not round (being half eaten), and his skin is brown instead of white. |
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Your Soul Is Mine! |
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Your Soul Is Mine!: The first thing Garfield knew about the demonic invasion was that he was being devoured. |
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The Ageless |
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The Ageless: Dungeons can be killed, but won't die of old age. Which is just as well when being given centuries-long quests. |
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Magical Girl |
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Magical Girl: The "Magical Dungeon Gunslinger" class was really intended for human use, but somehow the System has adapted it for a Dungeon. He actually gets a lot of mileage out of it, because unlike a human, he has enough mana to remain constantly transformed, and as a bonus, it changes his half-eaten core into an intact one. He does, however, manage to creep out his mascot. |
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Apocalypse How |
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Apocalypse How: The initial invasion triggers a Class 2, as the Infernali slaughter most of humanity and destroy infrastructure, and the magic of the System makes computing technology stop working. The protagonist emerges decades later to find that there are just scattered pockets of survivors struggling to feed themselves. The Armagellykull escalates to Class 4, cracking open the North American continent to trigger worldwide seismic upheaval that covers most of the world in lava and ash clouds. |
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Revenge |
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Revenge: The Dungeon recognises quite early that the aliens who gave the System are pushing him toward options for regrowing and reconstructing the Earth, but he's only interested in killing the demons who did this to him. Rather than a sub-class like "Revival Botanist" or "Biome Reconstructor", he chooses "Architect of Destruction". |
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Bizarre Beverage Use |
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Bizarre Beverage Use: When the Dungeon's evolutionary bonuses are so potent that Marshall needs a drink, the Dungeon makes him a swimming pool full of Scotch. An Olympic-size pool, complete with lanes and trampolines. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: All over the place, from the System apparently having knowledge of pre-apocalypse memes, to chapter titles like "All that the Landfill touches is your Domain!" |
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A Dungeon Is You |
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A Dungeon Is You: The System is baffled by the protagonist's species, and goes looking up "apple" and "core" in dictionaries until it finds meanings it can work with, so he ends up as a Dungeon Core (Apple Electronics). |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade |
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Absurdly Sharp Blade: By using magically reinforced dungeon walls as a material, it's possible to make swords that are immensely long and yet extremely thin. They're specifically compared to monofilament blades, and a forest of them works well as an Anti-Cavalry tactic against dragons. |
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Take Over the World |
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Take Over the World: Since dungeons can expand by claiming territory, the protagonist's first priority list contemplates how far he can go. |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: When asked whether the System classes are like RPG classes, the class selection assistant agrees that, "Our emissary, Gygax, did a wonderful job of preparing you for the Infernali invasion." |
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Anti-Grinding |
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Anti-Grinding: Experience gain drops sharply with each level, until a given monster type no longer grants XP at all. The effect can be somewhat mitigated by killing monsters in batches, which will grant the experience rewards for the whole batch before applying any resulting level-up penalties. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: Every time the Dungeon creates something new, the System invites him to name it, but their speech-to-text gets it wrong, typically resulting in a Failed Attempt at Drama, such as the "Ragnarok" Powered Armour becoming "Ranger Ork." The dungeon tried to skip naming himself and ended up being called "Skip May Neming." |
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