Dungeons of Alethrion Lore
A cosmic library has long been protected by fairies against wicked villains and monsters. A powerful sorcerer sought after the library for a long time in order to access the secret knowledge it contained. The fairies perceived that the sorcerer’s intentions were not pure and closed off the library to him. But they underestimated his power. The sorcerer broke his way into the library with brute force, caged the fairies, and made the library his new domain.
With the secret cosmic knowledge, he learned about the spirits and soul transferring abilities to make himself the Gargoyle body. At that point he became what we now know as the Elder Gargoyle. He then learned to control spacetime to make his domain inaccessible from the outside. His only wish was to isolate himself to learn everything the library had to offer, even if it would have taken centuries.
But one fairy escaped before she could be caged and warned adventurers all over the world that her kind was in danger. The heroes of the Ever Watching Eye’s guild tried to access the library through the bounty teleportation magic and succeeded. But those who ventured in were no match for the Elder Gargoyle and were defeated with little effort. The Gargoyle, now aware that people from the outside could access his domain, used dimensional magic to connect dangerous places from all across the world. He created a maddening perilous dungeon that only the strongest and bravest would dare take down.
The wisps are a result of the Gargoyle’s experiments with spirit caging. But some of them managed to break free from their master’s control and joined together creating a secret society within the dungeon. Now, those free wisps act as shopkeepers for the adventurers during their journey.
The fairy that escaped allowed the adventurers to learn about the forbidden art of time traveling, allowing heroes from other eras to join the battle and help take down the Elder Gargoyle.
FAQs
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The goal is to get as far as you can! The monster meter on the bottom gets depleted as you kill monsters. Once depleted, the dungeon exit opens and you can progress to the next floor. More enemies will spawn as you progress and stronger ones will start appearing.
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This game supports two player local co-op gameplay. You can also play one player.
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Your controls are in the bottom corner of the screen. There are two keyboard control schemes along with controller support. The game is best played with controllers. Pause the game during gameplay to see your controls.
How to Play on Controller
The bottom face button is attack, the left face button is your special, and the top and right face buttons are your items. Move with the left stick, and toggle your items with the shoulder and bumper buttons. Pause with the start button and drop items with the select button.
Plug in player one’s controller first, then if player two is present plug theirs in next. Player one must be on a controller for player two to use a controller. If an issue arises, unplug controllers and plug them back in to fix.
How to Play on Keyboard
If using the arrow key keyboard controls, attack with ‘C’, use your special with ‘X’, and use items with ‘Z’.
If using the WASD keyboard controls, attack with ‘J’, use your special with ‘K’, and use items with ‘L’.
Keyboard controls for player one has item toggling with ‘1’ and ‘2’, with ‘3’ being a drop item button. For player two, toggle items with ‘9’ and ‘0’, and drop items with ‘8’.
Pressing enter pauses the game. Toggle the keyboard controls with ‘Alt’.
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If the floor number ends in a 4, it’s a Queen Spider boss room. If it ends in a 5, it’s a treasure room. If it ends in a 0, it’s an Elder Gargoyle boss floor. Later floors have a chance to spawn in a treasure exit which takes you to a bonus room full of rare treasures.
The rest of the floors are normal zombie or library dungeons.
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Once you have a tame item, go near a wild animal and use the item button to throw it to them. If you’re nearby it’ll automatically go to the closest animal. Regular cats and dogs like zombie meats. The Blaster Wolf likes magic fruit.
