Chapter 4-1
Ethics in a dungeon are strictly between you and your Squad. Whatever you do in there, no one will ever find out unless you tell them. Unless, of course, you’re in a stable dungeon managed by a Dungeoneer, but that’s not something you’re likely to see outside of the Delver's Guild Finishing School. If you were interested in delving only safe, stable dungeons, you wouldn’t be reading this right now.
Again – dungeon ethics are what you make of them. Just remember, whatever you think about dungeons, the memories are real and you’ve got to live with them.
- Delver’s Guild Handbook, Section 10.5 – "Dungeon Ethics”
I eventually found a seat on a rock near the other recruits, mulling over what Mason had said. Azure. Azure. I rolled the name around on my tongue silently and decided I liked it. So much better than Kitten… I shuddered at the idea that I might have gotten a stupid nickname like that. No, I was happy with Azure, especially since I could still just be Az for short.
We were all pretty quiet, contemplating what had just happened in the dungeon. I would have expected us to be elated, but we’d all been injured and come close to dying in there. My body felt fine after Vale’s healing, but mentally I felt strange, expecting to feel the aches and pains of every minor wound I’d taken in there every time I moved. My leg in particular, the one that had been injured by the orc… I kept moving it gingerly like it was going to hurt, only to be surprised when it didn’t.
Around us, the older Delvers and a number of soldiers kept up patrols around a hundred-yard perimeter, easily dealing with any monsters that dared approach. There was at least one Lightning Mage out there, as I saw several bolts strike down from the sky with thunderous booms. It was nice to know my gun wasn’t the only loud thing around for once.
The second biggest source of noise, other than the occasional scream of a wounded monster, was the constant bickering between Block and Hassan. Of course, we pretty much only heard Block’s side of it, since if Hassan was replying he was keeping his voice low. After Mason walked out in that direction they seemed to quiet down.
I finally recalled that I’d skipped some notifications after escaping the dungeon and asked PAST to show them to me.