The Stone Walk

The rules of this one

• 6 floors, and something at the bottom of them.
• 4 Callings on the table. A Calling is who you are down there: trained in two of the six abilities, with one trick you can use once.
• 5 things on the shelf, and you take two. That is your Kit, and each piece says on it what it lends you.
• Vigour 8, which is thin. Vigour is the wind you have: every door costs some, running out of it ends the run, and whatever is left is points if you come back up.
• Every floor has doors that test one ability against a die, and a brace, which always works, always costs Vigour, and always clears the floor.
• A door can leave a Mark on you, a word like wet or lit, and a door further down can want it or refuse it.
• Every room owns its die, and you only see the number once you are in the room. The same dungeon, and the same dice, for everybody who opens this link.

The par and the difficulty were worked out by playing every character this dungeon allows, perfectly, not claimed by whoever wrote it. Nobody scores above par, so how near it you get is the game.

The desk

You can write one of these. Pick some floors, say what may be brought down, and send somebody the link. You do not have to write a word of it if you would rather not: the shelf is full of rooms other people wrote, and six of those is a real dungeon.

The same solver that put a par on this one runs over yours the moment you save, and tells you what par is, how many of the characters you allow get out alive, and which door nobody would ever take. It will not publish one nobody can finish. No account needed, and the link works the moment you publish.

What people made of it

Nobody has got to the bottom of it yet.

Whoever gets out first can say whether it was worth their time. Until somebody has, there is nothing here to press.