Pixie Puzzles

The first room Violet decided to work on was the back left-most room on the second floor. Since she planned to make every other room a [Monster] field, this one was going to follow the same pattern as the blackberry forest and raspberry forest room. The only difference was that this room would have blueberry bushes instead, making it a blueberry forest room.First, she spent 50 MP on a spawner for the room. She still didn't have enough to unlock a new spawner, so this was the best she could do, for now. She could only comfort herself that mana was easier to come by now, so it wouldn't be a big deal to replace them later on. 40 MP was used to summon two al-mi'raj and 9 MP was used on another three checkered rabbits. As she actually liked the mix of different types of rabbits in these rooms, Violet figured it would be nice to just double the population of both types of rabbits once she got better spawners. That would mean four al-mi'raj and six checkered rabbits for each of the rooms.As this was the last of the fruit bushes she had available, Violet wasn't really sure what sort of [Monster] fields she would make next. She figured it could be fun to try some fruit trees, mixing them in with the enchanted forest trees, but that was only if she could replace the trees that were already in the forest. It would be far too crowded in the rooms otherwise.The next step in the plan required 160 MP for sixteen blueberry bushes, 20 MP for a network of rabbit holes, and 200 MP for eight briar patches. This took quite a while, even with there temporarily being four adventurers in the dungeon. Eventually, David and Alice left for the night, which, of course, slowed down the process even more. While Violet didn't mind waiting on mana to accumulate, most of the time, she still tended to prefer her rest.It was very satisfying to watch her ideas come to life and it was fun to imagine how adventurers might interact with her dungeon. However, it was still a bit boring to wait around, only creating the occasional bush or [Trap]. Violet wished she had some pixies to talk with while she waited. It would be so nice to make friends with them and she was sure the time would pass by even faster with them around. Of course, the dungeon tended to skew her sense of time as it was, but it was different to be sitting around doing nothing versus actively watching the mana increase so she could build the next part of her plan.Tomorrow, Violet definitely wanted to sell some items so she could make some quick dungeon points. The current rate of accumulation was too slow and she was growing tired of waiting. However, it would be a waste to leave the last two rooms on the floor empty in the meantime. Those were meant for puzzles and would likely require quite a bit of DP to complete, but it wasn't like she couldn't get started on them now. She would just have to sparingly research new items so that she didn't make things harder on herself.The first room she worked on was the front left-most room, which was the one just in front of the new blueberry forest room. As the plan was to make most of the puzzles themed around pixies on this floor with suitable rewards for the challenges, it took her a bit to think about what she wanted to do.Fairies were considered the group that faeries, elves, goblins, and pixies fell into. Kind of like how there were phyla, families, etc. for animals. A lot of the lore and stories told in her old world were also contradicting or confusing. Fairies could be called by any number of variations including fae, fay, fair folk, faerie, etc. They also were often depicted as large beings, the size of a human, and may not even have wings. There could be multiple factions such as the Seelie court and the Unseelie court with the Unseelie court being composed of mischievous and cruel fae with darker natures.Pixies were largely considered innocent, but mischievous beings. Their description on her [Monsters] menu seemed to confirm this was true even in this world. Since they were described as small in stature as well, it was likely they were also the flying type that was barely as big as a human's hand. However, much of the rest of the information was unclear. Did they sleep in flowers? Did they enjoy living in small fairy houses made from wood and other materials? Were they at home in a swamp, desert, forest, or a flower meadow? It was hard to know just off of what little information she had at the moment.Still, it wasn't like Violet had to match the puzzles entirely to the version of pixies that existed in this world. She could just as easily draw her own conclusions and fill in the rest with her own imaginative ideas. That was certainly what she would be doing today, at least.The rainbow ball maze, among other things, had seen a number of different dyes being researched and added to the [Base Resource] list. There were also quite a number of domestic flower types thanks to Tobias's group leaving her bouquets of flowers. So, Violet decided to use this to her advantage. She spent 50 DP on researching orange roses, yellow roses, green roses, blue roses, and purple roses. This brought her total down to 410 DP, which was still pretty close to the 500 she needed for the next spawner upgrade.There were already red roses in the [Items] list, so this meant that she now had all of the colors of the rainbow. Well, she was technically skipping indigo, but she had also skipped that with the rainbow ball maze challenge. Still, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple were close enough that it could still be considered all of the colors of the rainbow. The red roses cost 2 MP for every 100 square meters, so 5 MP had to be spent to apply them to the room. Meanwhile, the dyed roses cost 5 MP for every 100 square meters, so 63 MP had to be spent to apply the other five colors of roses to the room.Roses grew as bushes, so there was now a rainbow of bushes spread throughout the room, often clustered together. Roses don't naturally come in all of the colors of the rainbow, but these ones looked quite "natural" as the dye didn't come away when one touched the flowers and they didn't have any of the acrid smell a dye might give off. They just smelled the same as the normal red roses did. The last thing Violet did in this room was to spend 10 MP to purchase two round stone altars that were placed at each of the two entrances. These were the same ones used in the nearby flower hunt room, but that just meant she didn't have to spend any additional dungeon points to research them.The plan was to set the challenge so that the roses had to be picked in the order of the rainbow system and then the bouquet would have to be placed on one of the altars in order to unlock the doors to the room. However, that would require locking the doors, which required the challenge to be set first. That would require far too much DP to be spent, so it would have to wait until later. The other thing was that Violet wanted to set the wild violet and honey lollipops from the slime parkour challenge to this room before replacing the reward to that challenge with something more suitable.While the flower hunt challenge had signs put up, they weren't put up in this new challenge room. It didn't actually matter which altar the bouquet of flowers was placed on, there were only two because adventurers could come from either direction. The system should also inform them of the rules of the challenge, so it would be pointless to bother with wooden signs.Moving on, Violet started working on the last empty room on the floor. This one was located between the raspberry forest and blueberry forest rooms. For this challenge, she decided she wanted to do a twist on the hopscotch game she had played as a young child.20 MP was spent on a stone brick pathway, much like the one from the first-floor garden meadow room. However, this one had pieces missing in order to resemble a hopscotch path better. The adventurers would have to jump from stone to stone, never touching the grass in order to complete the challenge. However, things couldn't simply be left at that.The path was made to diverge shortly after the entrance and then to reconverge just before the next entrance, creating a circular path of sorts. Then four solid areas were created with one at each of the convergence areas and one in the middle of each of the separate paths. At each of the areas, Violet planned to put a sign with instructions the adventurers would have to follow before continuing.The first sign read"Go left if you have a magic class, go right if you have any other class."The second sign read"Spin in a circle and then cast your weakest magic spell on the tree closest to you before moving forward."The third sign read"Roar and stomp in place then attack the tree closest to you before moving forward."Then, the fourth, and final, sign read"Thank me for the fun adventure before moving on."All of these signs had to be doubled so that the adventurers could complete the challenge regardless of which entrance they started at. For the eight signs, Violet had to spend 59 MP twice over for a total of 118 MP.Violet giggled to herself as she imagined adventurers playing the game. They would likely look silly and some of them might even end up frustrated and try to refuse to play. However, since she also planned to lock the doors in this room, they would have no choice. As pixies have a mischievous nature, Violet figures that this sort of challenge would capture that quite well.In fact, the plan was to have pixies live in both the rose-filled challenge room and this challenge room. It was just that they cost 50 MP to summon one of them and one of their contract requirements was that they live among their own kind. That meant that she would have to wait until she unlocked the new spawner before she could even attempt it. Even then, she hoped they wouldn't be too lonely since they could, technically, move from room to room and spend time with the others in the dungeon. It would just be difficult, due to their size, for them to open the doors by themselves. That was something that Theodore had to remind her of in regards to her kodama, much to her embarrassment.The hopscotch challenge room would likely end up having the chamomile shortbread from the rainbow ball maze challenge reassigned to it. That would take care of removing the last of the flower-themed sweets from the first floor. However, Violet still wasn't sure what sorts of rewards to assign to the rooms on the first floor. She already had candy apples and iced carrot bread, but she didn't have anything like chocolate to use for challenge rewards. That would take some time to think over.For now, Violet decided, it would be best to go rest for the rest of the night. It didn't matter if the rest of her incoming mana went to waste, she had all of eternity to earn more, after all.