A strange gold script translates itself before Ander. Dungeon aid and services. Upon reading the message shifts. Dungeon Help - Dungeon managers part one. If a manager has contacted you and formed a contract skip to part two.

  Step one. Wait for nightfall. Create a circle of loose stones around a lens. A pool of water, a crystal or a finely polished surface will do. The clearer the reflection the better the reception.

  Step two. Pulse mana into the reflection matching the vibration of your core. This is your identifier unique to you. Putting it out will allow managers and other dungeons to contact you. You are unlikely to be able to reach out to contacts during day time hours due to magical interference.

  If you have a specific contact in mind connect a smaller circle and pulse the contacts identifier into the second lens. This will prevent any unwanted contacts and eavesdroppers from answering. You can expand as needed for group contacts.

  Step three. When you've found a manager you wish to make a contract with. Push both identifiers through a secondary lens. This will allow them to find your location so you can establish a contract.

  Warning do not send double identifiers through the main lens as this will share your location with any connected contacts as well as your intended contacts currently connected contacts. This is a known issue. It will be corrected in the next magic restructure.

  Warning: do not give your location or information to unlicensed managers or unlicensed manager alternatives. Your location and information are important and could be sold.

  If a non fairy sprite pixie gnome or other non fae creature claims to be a manager and provides a standard license, a non standard license with a mismatched identifier or fails to provide one they are likely a fraud and should be reported immediately. Vise versa a fae manager will never provide a non standard license or a standard with a mismatched identifier. A false positive may be upsetting but the destruction of a core is serious.

  Failure to report fraud may get you fined and investigated. If you had previously made contact with the fraudulent party you may be directed to a case manager and your future contracts may be monitored by an appointed authority.

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  Additionally if a manager has both a matching license and identifier but their physical appearance seems off or they refuse to show themselves contact authorities immediately as the contact may be involved or forced into dungeon baiting.

  For more ways to protect yourself read The Dungeon Hunter and Delvers & You. Stay safe dungeons, and gods speed. Message approved by the Safety Union Center, the Dungeon Investigation Sector and the Neverborn United Team. Or S.U.C. D.I.S. N.U.T. what unfortunate acronyms.

  With a little testing Ander got his first contact. After he bleared the equivalent of radio static to the universe with a large bed of sand ,and subsequently disconnecting the surrounding network inventing a new crime. It was a fox of some kind but he had never heard of a fox fae so he swiped and moved on.

  Bear swipe, fawn swipe, dryad swipe, ghost swipe, dark gnome, swipe drunk gnome, swipe, undead gnome… swipe, dead gnome puppet. Report swipe. So many gnomes. Shadowy apparition and potion seller swiiii nah add to contacts. Garden fairy, garden gnome, mechanical spider, sentient stone. Swipe x10 swipe x100 x300 500 1000….

  Ander called back gnome 174 the mechanical garden gnome. He could feel for the fellow. After a freak accident, totally not his fault, he found himself in a mechanical shell decades later. His friends were still around. Gnomes live a very long time. He was a guardsman.. Sorry Gaurdensman. He guarded gardens but lost it when the bugs came.

  Ander had a rigorous list of questions and requirements. Can you manage a dungeon? What can you do? The mechanical gnome could manage a dungeon and fire cork from a rifle and that was good enough for him. Ander didn't know what a rifle was but it was pretty cool.

  He would have picked the mechanical gnome on the spot but his nonstandard license put him off at first. Apparently he was no longer seen as fae. Account of being comprised of metal His original standard license was revoked and he couldn’t guard any fae gardens anymore. Something about metal toxicity.

  The mechanical gnome renamed himself Gimbal Chittenbane after the war. A memorial site held his original, Gimli. It was right above gimlli with two l’s and gimlee with double e’s. It was a popular name among dwarves too. Gimbals trusty Bugbuster rifle and the entire shellshock regimen made it through intact… mostly.

  After seven days of traveling on foot gimbal covered an entire half a mile and his entire life story. When Gimbal arrived at the bald patch and stood on the indicated spot. Ie a red X. He plummeted through a carved air duct. Like a toy soldier being swallowed by a dessert.

  Pov Ander. Gets shot in the core. Plink. Deadpan ow. Pov Gimbal oi you should know better than to startle a vet you daft.. Pov Ander Sorry, your right I am a hundred. Pov Gimbal OMG I shot a child.