Dungeon of Chance: Even Odds: A Dungeon Core Novel (Serious Probabilities Book 1) Jonathan Brooks (book recommendations txt) 📖

we all got one, so grab it for now,” Jeska said absently, looking at the other item in the Drop Chest.  Before she could dig into it any more, she touched the Health Band and felt it appear—and then disappear—on her left wrist, and she immediately started to feel better.  Feeling under her shirt, the sting was starting to fade, and the wounds were starting to clear up.  Ah, now this is nice. 

“I have some Tier 1 Scout Class Leather Chest Armor,” Kelty said with a disappointed tone.

Rosara was the next to be disappointed.  “I got some disgusting bleached bones,” she said in a huff.  “When I look at it closer, it says that it is a ‘component’ of some sort.”

“And I have some sort of…stick weapons?” Pascale wondered.  “Nope, just some broken branches.  They say exactly the same thing as those bones.”

“Great.  None of the things we got – other than these nifty Health Bands, of course – do us any good right now – and half of them are just basically trash…that might be able to be used later?” Arcen questioned.  “Jeska, what did you get?”

“I’m not quite sure, but I think this could be good.  I think Father said we need a Tier 1 Class Orb to obtain a Class, right?”  Without waiting for anyone to answer, she went on, excited.  “I think this might be what he was talking about,” she said, before moving out of the way so that everyone could see.

“Nice!  That’s exactly what we need…but who gets it?”

Now, that was the question.  And one without an easy answer.

Chapter 17

This is much more exciting than I thought it would be, Clay admitted to the baby dragonling near his Dungeon Core.  I still don’t feel right about the possibility of killing these Heroes, though. It seems like such a waste.

Dwight just looked at his Core like he had said something stupid, but she didn’t say anything.

I also really like those “Drop Chests”; it seems like those are a good way to remove my dead monsters as well as providing rewards for the Heroes’ efforts,” he continued.  Are those all set up on the same probabilities you were talking about earlier?

“Yes, they are.  I’ll send you a condensed version of them, because otherwise it can be a little overwhelming.”[7]

As the Heroes were still discussing what they were doing with the Class Orb that had dropped, Clay looked at what Dwight had sent him.  Whoa!  You weren’t kidding!  He had received a large chart full of different probabilities of what would show up in one of the Drop Chests…and it was a lot of information.  Thankfully, she had truncated it so that it only pertained to what would drop from 1 and 2-Star monsters, because that was all he had in his dungeon at the moment.

In short, whenever a monster was killed, the Drop Chest could contain 1 of 6 different categories: a weapon, a piece of armor, a skillbook, a Class Orb, a potion, or a trash item.  He supposed the old bleached bone and broken branches this group of Heroes had received were examples of trash items, which wasn’t surprising since there was a 70% chance of that occurring with a 1-Star monster.  It went down to 60% with a 2-Star monster, but it still meant that more than half of those they killed would likely just produce trash.

“Much later on, Heroes can use certain trash items as ‘components’, though their purpose and exact use is unknown to me,” Dwight added when he was thinking about the trash items.  It was good to know that they weren’t completely useless, though it didn’t seem as though the items they acquired right now would be of much use until a much more distant date.

What was surprising was the fact that they had received a piece of armor and a weapon, which were both a 5% chance for a Tier 1 item.  The probabilities were even less for a Tier 2 or 3 piece of armor or a weapon, and anything above that was apparently impossible to obtain from a Tier 1 monster.

In addition, they had managed to find a Class Orb Tier 1, which also had only a 5% chance of dropping in the Chests.  Are there different probabilities as to which Class the Orb will be?  I see that this one they got is for something called Support.

“No, they are all equal since there are 5 base Classes – so 20% for each if a Class Orb is going to drop.”

Uh…what are the 5 Classes again?  You mentioned a Fighter before and now a Support, but what are the others?

“How do you not—?” she started, before smoothly transitioning into an explanation.  “There are 5 base Hero Classes: Fighter, Scout, Mage, Healer, and Support.  They are the only ones that are available inside of the Drop Chests, though Tiers 1 through 10 have the potential to drop at some point with higher-Starred monsters.”

Dwight didn’t bother to go into detail about the Classes, but Clay figured he would learn more about them as time went on.  It wasn’t really important at the moment, anyway, since it seemed as though the visiting Heroes had finally figured out what they were going to do.

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“Well, I think we have to consider this both strategically and with thoughts about the future,” Arcen said, which surprised everyone except Jeska.  She knew he was intelligent when he wanted to be, despite the front he put on sometimes when all that people saw were his massive size and enormous muscles.  “When I was looking at my Hero Status earlier, the ‘Class Orbs Available’ chart listed out the different kinds of Classes that are available.  I don’t think that it is a coincidence that there are 5 Classes…and 5 of us.  And that the requirement for Hero