i had read a lot of progression fantasy stuff and decided to write a 'dungeon core' story of my own as a writing exercise. this was originally posted c. may 2022 - august 2022 on royalroad.com under the username 'xaphiriron'. it kinda blew up and i ended up abandoning it, and then later i took it down from where it was hosted originally. (royalroad.com is an israeli site and i was uncomfortable having any of my stuff hosted there on account of the war crimes.)

now it's here! the original synopsis was:

[Goblin Cave] is a perfectly average Dungeon that becomes unsatisfied with its work.

these files are directly from my working folder, so there might be slight differences from the archived royal royal version if i ever edited a royal road version without adjusting the working copy.

  1. chapter 1 - #1274
  2. chapter 2 - lesser mana puppet
  3. chapter 3 - redecoration
  4. chapter 4 - mana goblin
  5. chapter 5 - souls
  6. chapter 6 - observations
  7. chapter 7 - sub-dungeon
  8. chapter 8 - reincarnation
  9. chapter 9 - beginnings
  10. chapter 10 - ascended mana goblin
  11. chapter 11 - preparation
  12. chapter 12 - release
  13. chapter 13 - light
  14. chapter 14 - contact
  15. chapter 15 - survey
  16. chapter 16 - spawns
  17. chapter 17 - bribery
  18. chapter 18 - flame wisps
  19. chapter 19 - meeting
  20. chapter 20 - meeting, pt 2
  21. chapter 21 - dwelling
  22. chapter 22 - experience
  23. chapter 23 - worms
  24. chapter 24 - ants
  25. chapter 25 - combinatorics
  26. chapter 26 - economics
  27. chapter 27 - preparations
  28. chapter 28 - diversifying
  29. chapter 29 - sages
  30. chapter 30 - cosmos
  31. chapter 31 - beam
  32. chapter 32 - adamantine
  33. chapter 33 - gardening
  34. chapter 34 - riches

alternately, the full text in one file.

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