Luna slowly opened her eyes, expecting some kind of emptiness or horrible scene to be in front of her. Instead, she was surprised to see that she was in a forest with 8-bit graphics. She looked down to see that she too had become an 8-bit avatar. Squeaking in delight, Luna couldn’t believe how much everything looked like an old PES game; even the bright cheerful eight bit music seemed to be coming in from nowhere. In fact, was almost just like the game Equestriabound. Glad to see that the nightmare had turned into some kind of dream, Luna happily trotted forward forgetting all of the previous dream experiences. After walking to the right for a bit, because as she knew very well that these kind of games progressed by going right, most of the time. Luna came to a small hut with a single door. Luna saw that there was no other way to go, other than through the door. She opened the door with her pixelated magic and walked through it.
The music increased in volume as she got into the building. A quick look around and all Luna could see were a red rug, a small tree to her left, and a staircase heading down. Excited that she had made it to, what she believed was, the first dungeon of this game-dream world. She quickly headed toward the stairs and descended them. As she started to descend the stairs, she noticed the music had changed from the upbeat melody to a more eerie and dungeon-y one. Quickly noticing that she might be at a disadvantage due to not having a weapon, Luna used her magic to summon a small sword as well as appropriate attire for the part.
“Luna; level ten warrior ready for duty!” she announced to herself with a small smile as she got to the bottom of the green staircase which was a green platform with two doors to her right. In the middle of the platform was a tree flanked on both sides by a rock. Knowing that dungeons in old RPGs always had all kinds of twists and turns, Luna knew that either way would work. After a quick eenie-meanie, she chose the door closest to her and went through it to be met with another platform with a tree to her right and a staircase going down to her left. Looking over the edge of the platform, Luna saw another platform decorated with yet another tree, two doors, and what looked like her first enemy. The enemy looked like a small bipedal black figure with one large pinkish eye in the center of its ‘head’. Getting very excited, she quickly bolted down the staircase and slashed at the weird figure, causing it to suddenly flash red before disappearing with a satisfying beep sound.
“Nothing can stop Warrior Luna!” Luna yelled as she held her blade in the air in a heroic pose before looking behind her at the two doors. With a quick thought, she decided that the left door seemed the best way to go and proceeded to open the door with her bit magic before walking through the door. Upon exiting on the other side, Luna immediately noticed that there were two rows of filing cabinets, one to her immediate left and more forward of her as well as a strange lack of enemies. She couldn’t help but wonder exactly what type of dungeon this was; she had never seen such a strange layout with so little enemies in any of the vast amount of games she had played. Shaking it off as part of whomever ponies dream she was in, Luna ventured forward down a staircase that was to the far right of the platform she was on. Game logic did state that the boss was almost always at the lowest level of this kind of dungeon.
Her venturing continued for a while, her excitement slowly deteriorating as she noticed that doors seemed to lead into areas that she had already been in and somehow connected even though they appeared to be too far away to do so. After a while she reached a platform that was new, as it had a weird looking blob ghost thing. Raising her sword up to attack it, Luna quickly noticed that it didn’t even try to attack her. Taking note that it must be a non-hostile creature, she put her sword down and trotted up the stairs behind it cautiously. After what seemed like an impossible amount of stairs, Luna reached the platform on top which once again had a tree and a single door. This was definitely a new platform though which meant that this might lead to the boss. Readying her sword, Luna burst through the door to be met with one large and four small very bright neon colored things carrying strange neon swords. Taking no chances, she quickly slashed all of them, the small ones taking one hit and the large one taking two.
Interestingly, the large one actually dropped a small silver coin which Luna took with a small ding sound. With a quick thought, she settled on the fact that this must have just been a mini boss otherwise she would have been whisked away; although Luna was starting to doubt her gaming meta-knowledge had any power here. That thought made her think of another good point, whose dream was this exactly? First, she was in a weird empty room with only doors, then a weird empty plane with creepy statues creatures, then some kind of invisible maze, and now an 8-bit world that didn’t make any sense. Whoever’s dream this was, she had to find out soon because she was beginning to get rather creeped out, and that was saying something for her. Seeing no other way out besides the way she came in, Luna departed the strange castle wall like area and started to look around the dungeon maze again for some kind of boss character.
After another few moments of exploring, Luna knew she had finally found the boss level. In front of her on the platform were weird mushroom looking things that did not attack her, and seemed to be blocking a door. Quickly slashing them down to gain access to the door, she rushed into the door as the music suddenly changed into a strangely more emotional version of the music she had been hearing. Looking around her, Luna saw four pyramid looking things, two of the mushrooms, and, most likely, the boss she had been looking for. The demonic looking being was just walking around though; it didn’t try to attack her which confused Luna greatly.
“Uhm… excuse me foul beast, but are you the boss of this dungeon?” Luna asked the demon creature in her best heroic voice, which was at this point a little faulty. After a few moments of waiting with no reply, Luna concluded that it looked enough like a boss to be one, so she quickly slashed at it until it stopped flashing red and disappeared with a strange sound, leaving two of the silver coins and a weird looking egg behind. After taking the coins, Luna inspected the weird looking egg in front of her. It was yellow with black stripes on it and it was giving off a rather dark aura. Luna slowly brought her hoof to the strange looking egg until she made direct contact, which caused a sudden blackness to overtake her.