#doesnt so it starts collapsing without the full measure of a thousand souls and the wizard is desperately trying to fight alongside the

[iamthescalesofjustice]

the psychosexual tension between an evil wizard who created the dungeon to lure adventurers so he could siphon the souls of those who die in its labyrinthine depths for his ultimate summoning and binding of an ancient evil but got too impatient and greedy (much like the many doomed adventurers) and  made the dungeon more difficult to try to get the last few dozen souls already bc its been over 20 years and hes so close to the finish line but now people are avoiding the dungeon bc its risk has grown past the rewards it promises and the last reckless fool still actively venturing into the dungeon, who the necromancer does not know has through sheer luck managed to get themself recognized by the dungeons magics as being the waizard’s familiar and thus they have learned to access the secret tunnels he uses to more easily traverse the dungeon, and they have been plumbing the mysteries left behind in his laboratories, paging through his own journals, the wizards own story more interesting to them now than mere gold or enchanted trinkets. 

#anyway by the time he realizes they are living in his walls and eating food out of his pantry he has already gotten so frustrated with #their looney tunes-esque ability to survive whatever he twists the dungeon into throwing at them that he (to his perception) goes ahead and #completely blows his cover to directly confront them and when they get through his boss rush of high-tier draconic minions hes like #yeah fuck this and uses his own soul as the last to finish the summoning (arrogantly assuming he will be able to control the ancient evil #from within) and then the final battle between the adventurer and the evil keeps having its dramatic tension interrupted by the #souls within it roiling in conflict with each other bc theyre all trying to beat the shit out of the evil wizard at once and its really #distracting for the ancient evil and finally the evil goes 'alright fuck this it feels like actually ive got 1001 souls so i can kick this #one out and then finish it but actually thats the glitchy fake familiar bond again telling it it already has the adventurers soul which it #doesnt so it starts collapsing without the full measure of a thousand souls and the wizard is desperately trying to fight alongside the #adventurer but is just like. really bad at it this is not his wheelhouse thats why he has a dungeon to kill people for him so his #contributions to the whole thing are in the end minimal. almost ended the world and didnt sheerly bc he got ahead of himself and fell on #metaphorical face with the self-sacrifice not working out.