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Fortunately for Beethro, clearing out the briar infestation beneath the Grand Library offered more than a good workout. The overgrowth had prevented anyone from using an express route straight to Dugandy. Now that the route is open, Beethro figures this is his best chance to warn everybody on the surface about the existence of the Empire.
He reaches Dugandy in mere days, emerging from the basement of Bombus Gadhan's house. The Hallholder tells Beethro that the Dungeon Architect's Association is not merely a coalition of independent architects, but in fact an arm of the Empire. Furthermore, the Smitemaster's Guild has been colluding with the DAA for many years to prevent smitemasters from venturing too far beneath the surface and potentially uncovering the Empire. Beethro attempts to inform his fellow smitemasters of the truth, and he even tries to convince King Dugan himself of the danger lurking beneath their feet, but nobody will listen. King Dugan then throws him out of the city. With nothing left to do on the surface, Beethro decides to venture back underground.
You begin as a rather ugly man named "Beethro" who travels deep beneath the ground. There are other people down there too, citizens of a mysterious "Rooted Empire", that are carving tunnels and building things. Beethro just wants to know why, but it's hard to get a useful answer. He was always fond of saying "there is no problem that can't be solved with a really big sword," but upon arriving at the underground capital, Beethro is startled to find that nobody seems interested in attacking him. No, for some reason, they would rather persuade him to stand in a very long line.
DROD: The City Beneath is a puzzle games that continues where DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold left off, Beethro Budkin has made it to the Empire's city. He explores the city and delves into its dungeons trying to find out the mystery of Lowest Point. Sometimes he'll find himself without using his sword.
The game retains the elements of the previous two games but adds new monsters, new puzzles and traps, cut-scenes, many new characters and 30 hidden secrets (including a special secret after beating the game and finding all the other secrets). Instead a linear game with twenty five levels, the city acts as a central hub, where the player takes Beethro to several different levels, some with specific goals which clue you in on where to go next. In comparison to the prequels the difficulty is ramped up.
Tropes in the setting:
- Alien Geometries: The Eighth, the game world, can be best described as a pocket universe the shape of a pizza slice: walk onto another "slice", you're back where you started. Walk off the outer edge, you implode back into the center. Dig down far enough, you fall into empty space and land back on the surface.
- Armor Is Useless: Smitemasters explicitly go without any meaningful armor, trading it for speed and mobility. For all the armor any friendly or enemy soldiers have, they are all One Hit Point Wonders too. However, some monsters (wubbas, intact fegundos, segments of serpents) have invulnerability to swords, averting this trope.
- Beneath the Earth: The default setting for most dungeons, but from Architects' Edition forward it's possible to create settings that are more and more convincing aboveground locations.
- Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Fegundos are always referred to as such in the game and forums, but they're clearly phoenixes.
- Clock Punk: The technology level is mostly medieval-level with some advances in mechanics, city planning and architecture.
- Fictional Currency: The only currency mentioned is "greckles", which seem to be in use throughout the Eighth. One greckle is divided into 1,000 grubbles.
- Gonk: "The Fat Guy With The Big Lips And Pimply Nose" describes Beethro exactly. Beethro is ugly both out-of and in-universe.
- Hold Your Hippogriffs: Beethro often uses words such as "greb" "frack" and "Jebus". It might be worth noting that the saltiest thing he's ever said when Halph was present is "flaming fegundo".
- Low Fantasy: There isn't anything explicitly magical in this setting, but with orbs and Pressure Plates that shoot lightning at doors to open them, regenerating fegundos, and potions that, when drunk, cause a double of a person to appear out of thin air, there's some stuff that nobody's yet explained with science.
- Schizo Tech: The surface kingdoms are in the Middle Ages, but the Underground Empire canonically has radios and advanced genetic engineering available.
- You Are Number 6: Everyone in the Rooted Empire. All names consist of a profession and a rank within that profession, for example 39th Slayer. If you don't have a job, you are The Nameless.
There can be no question, therefore, that this collectionwas formed during the lifetime of the Dean of Lismore,and a great part of it as early as the year 1512. How itwas preserved through that and the succeeding centuryis unknown. In the last century it passed into the possessionof the Highland Society of London, by whom it wastransferred to the custody of the Highland Society of Scotland,when a committee of that Society was engaged in aninquiry into the authenticity of the Poems of Ossian, publishedby Macpherson. It has now been deposited, alongwith other Gaelic MSS. in the possession ofthat Society, in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, and forms partof that collection of Gaelic MSS. which have been broughttogether within the last few years, and contain nearly allthe Gaelic MSS. which are known still to exist.[12][vii]
The circumstances under which the controversy regardingthe authenticity of the poems of Ossian, publishedby James Macpherson, arose, and the extent towhich it for the time agitated the minds of the literatiof England and Scotland, are well known.[xlviii]
This led to the Highland Society of Scotland undertakingan inquiry into the authenticity of the poems ofOssian published by Macpherson, which involved thesubsidiary inquiry of whether such poems existed in theHighlands in the original Gaelic. The result of this inquiryis contained in the elaborate report prepared byHenry Mackenzie, the author of the Man of Feeling, andpublished in 1806.
[lxxi]In fact, the whole of this history presents a structureso artificial, so compact, and so alike in all its features,that it is impossible for any one, like Samson, to withdrawany two pillars without bringing the whole edificeabout his ears, and crushing the entire bead-roll of unbaptizedmonarchs beneath its ruins.
The King of Sorcha is here opposed to the daughter of theKing of the Tir fo thuinn, or land beneath the waves; and inthis respect it resembles the Welsh poems, where the King ofAnnwn and his daughter play so great a part.
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