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Dungeon Delivery

An illustrated story by Neon Harbor · Kids · Pixel art · All ages · English, Turkish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean

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A cheerful goblin courier must deliver a hot pie to a starving hero on the deepest floor of a dungeon.

Sir Bram has been stuck on Floor 50 of the Deep Dungeon for three days, so he orders one hot apple pie. Zinni, the fastest courier of the Hot Crust Bakery, races down past crumbling floors, a runaway mine cart, a puzzle door and a sleepy golem who wakes up hungry. At the bottom waits a huge dragon, but Grumbelda doesn't want a fight. She just hasn't tasted pie in a hundred years. The delivery turns into a picnic, and Zinni gets a brand-new route.

Characters

  • Zinni (Goblin pie courier): The fastest courier of the Hot Crust Bakery, a cheerful goblin who has never delivered a pie cold.
  • Sir Bram (The hungry hero): A brave but very hungry knight who went down to the deepest floor for treasure and has been stuck there for three days.
  • Mossworth (The sleepy golem): A huge stone golem who guards the bridge on Floor 40 and has not been fully awake for two hundred years.
  • Grumbelda (The dragon of Floor 50): A five-hundred-year-old dragon who sleeps on the deepest floor and has not tasted pie in a hundred years.

Episode 1: Order Up!

A hungry hero orders a hot pie to the deepest floor of the Deep Dungeon. Goblin courier Zinni races down past crumbling floors and a runaway mine cart, until a puzzle door blocks her way.

A glowing order pops onto the bakery board.

The Hot Crust Bakery, on top of the Deep Dungeon.

Ding!

The order is for the deepest floor.

One hot apple pie to Floor 50. Hurry! Sir Bram

Zinni: Floor 50? The very bottom?

Zinni packs the pie and promises speed.

Zinni: Hot in thirty minutes, or it's free!

She dashes into the dungeon.

Floor 1. Thirty minutes on the clock.

Zinni: Let's go!

The floor crumbles behind her.

Crumble!

Zinni: Nope, nope, nope!

She leaps into a waiting mine cart.

Zinni: Hup!

Clang!

The mine cart races down the tunnel.

Zinni: Shortcut!

Clackety-clack!

Zinni checks the pie heat meter.

Zinni: Still hot. Good pie.

Far below, Sir Bram waits with a growling stomach.

Grrrowl...

Sir Bram: Any minute now. I can wait. Probably.

A giant puzzle door blocks the way.

Floor 25. Halfway there.

Zinni: A puzzle door? Oh, come on!

Episode 2: The Door and the Golem

Zinni solves the puzzle door after one glittery mistake, then has to cross a bridge blocked by a sleeping golem, who wakes up hungry and makes a deal.

Zinni reads the riddle on the door.

Carved above: "From lightest to heaviest."

Zinni: Easy! The mouse is the smallest.

Wrong answer: a puff of glitter.

Bzzzt!

Zinni: Okay. Not the mouse.

She figures it out.

Zinni: Lighter than a mouse... a feather!

The door rumbles open.

Ka-chunk!

Zinni: Feather, mouse, pie, dragon. Ha!

A sleeping golem blocks the bridge on Floor 40.

Floor 40. The Golem Bridge.

Zzzzz...

Zinni: He's taking up the whole bridge.

Zinni tiptoes over the golem's belly.

Zinni: Tiptoe, tiptoe...

Mossworth: Mmm... five more minutes...

The golem rolls over and Zinni clings to his nightcap.

Rumble!

Zinni: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

The smell of pie wakes the golem.

Mossworth: Do I smell... warm apple pie?

Zinni makes a deal with the golem.

Zinni: This pie is for a hero. I'll bring you one tomorrow!

Mossworth: Deal. Wake me up for it.

The golem sets her down at the stairs to Floor 50.

Five minutes left. Next stop: Floor 50.

Zinni: Why is the bottom floor always so smoky?

Episode 3: A Slice for Everyone

On Floor 50, Zinni finds Sir Bram trapped inside the coils of a sleeping dragon. The dragon wakes up, but Grumbelda only wants a slice too, and the delivery becomes a picnic.

Zinni finds Sir Bram inside the coils of a sleeping dragon.

Sir Bram: Psst! Courier! Over here!

Zinni: That is a very big tail.

Bram explains he is trapped.

Sir Bram: She curled up around me three days ago!

Zinni: Delivery for Sir Bram?

The smell of pie wakes the dragon.

Sniff... sniff...

The dragon rises over Zinni.

Grumbelda: Who brings a warm pie into my cave?

Zinni does her job anyway.

Zinni: Delivery for Sir Bram! Sign here, please?

Sir Bram: She's very brave. Or very silly.

The dragon's lip starts to wobble.

Grumbelda: No one delivers down here. No pie for a hundred years!

Bram realises she only wants pie.

Sir Bram: Wait. You just wanted pie?

Grumbelda: Just a little slice. If it is no trouble.

Zinni turns the delivery into a picnic.

Zinni: Then it's a picnic! One slice each.

Fwoosh!

They eat together and the dragon lets Bram go.

Sir Bram: Best pie in the whole dungeon!

Grumbelda: You may go, little knight. But bring more pie!

The next day, Zinni sets off with new dungeon orders.

Zinni: One for the golem, one for the dragon. Let's go!

Delivered hot. Five stars.

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