is a dynamic difficulty and reward scaling system. The deeper a player ventures into a dungeon without returning to town, the more the dungeon itself begins to psychologically and physically covet the player. This desire manifests as escalating curses (negative modifiers) but also exponentially increasing "Favor" (unique rewards).
In this containment, the spirit finds a strange spaciousness. When the body is restricted, the mind is forced to stop racing. The dungeon acts as a crucible. It strips away the superfluous layers of the personality—the job titles, the social niceties, the invented selves—leaving only the raw, beating heart of the animal within. The desire, then, is not for the cell itself, but for the creature that lives in the cell: the true self that only emerges when the civilized self is locked away. dungeon desire