Deep in the dungeon, you find a small child

the safe haven city is entirely populated with children, with signs that there were adults there until very recently but all simultaneously disappeared without any obvious signs of battle or a struggle
when asked the children will only give cryptic mentions of "the lord of the mushroom fields took them" and point to a small side cave full of densely packed head height mushrooms that seem ripe for harvesting.

There's been a portal accident. The dungeon, filled with wild magic, warped the passage and the child ended up there instead of its uncle's house.
Which is good, because the uncle is a well known pimp dealing mostly in children.

She got lost on her way home.

Lawful Neutral Dragon running a daycare center for the entire underdark isn't that terrifying.

As long as their little murderlings are all paid for by their parents they can play around in the dragon's lair, and then get collected when their parents are done doing whatever they needed to do without the children there.

of course, The Wolf also got teleported someone in the dungeon as well.

>playing a monster hunter fighter
>kill a bunch of vampires in a cave with party
>hear crying coming from a room in the cave
>there is a little girl vampire, claims to be only 7 years old
>wants to come with us
>faced with a hard choice
>kill the girl for being a vampire, or spare her

I killed her, our Paladin who took an oath of mercy and forgiveness was fucking pissed

>deep in the child, you find a small dungeon

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>What's a non-terrifying explanation for this?
She is not a clever girl.

Just flood it.

>exploring dungeon
>wizard gets lost
>can't find him anywhere
>find jar of tomato paste
>open it
>find wizard

tomatoes

user please no, I didn't want to magical realm today. And that sounds a lot like stomach bulges/cum inflation territory.

Kid is starting to manifest their sorcerous bloodline, accidentally teleported into the dungeon.

Dungeon holds ancient, magitech artifacts frm the empire of old, including stasis pods. The child is one of the few, or perhaps only, to survive in a functional pod and still remember the lost glories.

The dungeon has been empty for years, and local children often explore it to play at being adventurers.

After a century of meditation, a mimic managed to imitate a humanoid rather than an object, but did it so well they can't shift back.

my african-descended comrade

Nah, you just make the children swallow a really long string, and when the end of the string comes out the other end of the child clean it off and get another child to swallow the string, and continue the process with about a dozen or so more children and viola! You now have living anal beads for Giant Size Category anuses!

To complement this, we also need
>Bug Queen that keeps a horde of children to produce an even bigger horde of her own

She's not a smart child.

She went out to play and got lost!

No, chaika

Bring Your Daughter To Work Day

She's a high level adventurer that fell into the fountain of age regression a little ways deeper in the dungeon.

Baby Amelia Earhart?

That's a good one.

She's a feral child raised by flumphs. It's like the Jungle Book, except with singing Fiend Folio critters.

I have no idea what "not terrifying" means where you're from.

killing the undead is a mercy unto itself

its soul is at rest now

>underground city populated entirely by children

I proceed to swat the DM for cribbing Little Lamplight of all places.

>The Dungeon's just a dwarven city
>it's been having a problem with monster attacks coming in from the surface than down below
>So the deeper you go in, the safer it is.
>Most of the adults are busy trying to collapse the old front entrance while digging out a new one
>They're aiming for the Elf King's throne room just to rustle his jimmies
>The elf king knows of this and plans to put a toilet right over where the dwarves are estimated to break surface and has been binging on prunes

Orphanage for powerful children that needs to be kept separate from the rest of the world.

Kind of like Xavier's Academy, except half-fiends and half-celestials instead of mutants.

adventurers realized the the abundance of natural resources in the dungeon, decided to settle down and raise a family there.

C'mon, it's pretty much Pokemon setting.

It's a halfling trying to beat you to the MacGuffin.

Which is terrifying.

There's no way of making this non-terrifying. One way it's spooky shit in it's own so we kill her. Other way we don't see anything spooky, which is way bigger red flag, so we as any sane adventurers would do we kill the child and burn the remains, thus murdering and innocent for no reason and making it terrifying again.

>but what if it's really just a normal child that your DM is not intending to use for abusing the party or waifuing in any way?
AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA AAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAHAH~
Even then she'd be a helluva a useless and annoying NPC that we can't really get rid of without wading into some deeper shit. And if she's not useless she will devolve into a waifu. No exceptions. Better put her out of her misery asap

No way outta this.

Autism is the only explanation I can come up with for your constant spamming of your autistic OC.

Only if you're a Facebook lolgamer who still cares about Pokemon and say shit like "dude Pokemon is like pretty fucked up with pit fighting and stuff have you thought of that".

>It tugs on the hands of children to steal them away. However, it gets pulled around instead.

>It is whispered that any child who mistakes Drifloon for a balloon and holds on to it could wind up missing.

>These Pokémon are called the "Signpost for Wandering Spirits." Children holding them sometimes vanish.

Shaking in my fucking boots, sleeping with the lights on tonight.

>In the Japanese version of Pearl's Pokédex entry, Drifloon specifically takes children to the "world of the dead" (Japanese: あのよ), instead of just trying to "steal them away" as in the English version. However, in the US release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the description along with Drifloon's trophy still states that it is "taking children to the underworld".

I don't know what to tell you, but if an adorable little ghost of a balloon is dragging children to Hell, we've got a pretty fucked up setting.

You literally murder your rival's Pokemon in the first game. Pokemon IS fucked up if you spend even ten seconds thinking about it.

You kill it incidentally, so it's pokemonslaughter, not murder.

Small children get kidnapped as sex slaves.
This is one of them.

Red isn't the only one who can store Pokemon in the PC bro. Blue just switched out Raticate for a better Pokemon.

I'm sure. That's why he was in Lavender Town visiting a grave, right after you beat the dogshit out of his pets on a ship without a Pokemon center on it.

Polymorph.

depends on the plot hook you're presenting by having a child in the dungeon in the first place

by dungeon i assume you mean a dark and dangerous place full of monsters

When you're overthinking Pokemon you know it's time to lay off the shitty gamer magazines.

>wizard goes through a dungeon, polymorphing all the monsters into human children instead of killing them
>these children still retain some personality traits of their previous forms
>they band together, and form an amateur adventuring party
>airing next saturday morning

The skeleton who found the child as a baby decided to raise it the only way it knew how.

As a member of the dungeon monsters

>What's a non-terrifying explanation for this?
It's free XP.

Honestly this sounds almost exactly like Dark Souls/Bloodborne lore i.e. almost entirely headcanon that exists in the huge gaps the games themselves leave in the plot and setting details.

A previous adventurer fell victim to a magical trap, transforming them into a little girl. Unable to wield their weapon, they've been stuck waiting for someone to help them escape the dungeon ever since.

I very nearly played a character with this premise once but sadly it was not to be.

This is the best answer.

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She's the princess you're here to rescue from the Hobgoblin King.

That's actually a Pokémon now
pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/pokemon/drampa/

I'm so tired of hearing people say this. It's interesting to think about from a "death of the author" perspective and make it your headcanon, but that doesn't make it true. This is worse than the shittiest Dark Souls/Bloodborne theories because it is based on nothing.

Yeah, this is why your pokemon die when you lose really far away from civilization. You just don't get them to medical care in time. And if you're gonna say "of course the player's pokemon don't die", then please explain to me how just taking a nap can restore pokemon to full health.

Sorry for not playing ball, but I don't think my players would ever go for something like that if the child's just calm and relaxed, they're much too savvy for that kind of thing.

At this depth the dungeon opens up into a microcosm of the surface world, and the child is just one of its residents.

>No, you cannot take these items

>non-terrifying
There goes my "it's a dungeon angler bait"

Game theory debunked that. The first Ratata Blue has is lvl 12

His raticate is level 16 and Ratata evolves at level 20, Ratata and raticate are different pokemons, they aren't the same pokemon

Aren't they the same people who said Wario is ten feet tall?

Fact check it yourself.
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Blue_(game)/Red,_Green,_and_Blue
I don't like Game Theory much either, but that doesn't mean they're always completely wrong.

>Litwick shines a light that absorbs the life energy of people and Pokémon, which becomes the fuel that it burns.
>While shining a light and pretending to be a guide, it leeches off the life force of any who follow it.

>The spirits it absorbs fuel its baleful fire. It hangs around hospitals waiting for people to pass on.
>It arrives near the moment of death and steals spirit from the body.

>The spirits burned up in its ominous flame lose their way and wander this world forever.
>Being consumed in Chandelure's flame burns up the spirit, leaving the body behind.

>These Pokémon arose from the spirits of people interred in graves. Each retains memories of its former life.
>Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry.

>implying the wizard doesn't polymorph himself into a little girl

"Please do not take these items."

Closest thing in the thread to my suggestion: Someone in the dungeon is a loving parent and they have their kid nearby to be kept safe.

Australia so it's only scary if it comes in on boats.

>grandma, I choose you!

That's fucking brilliant. Imagine going through rooms of ever-tougher monsters, fighting each one to get to the next, and through one of the biggest, most ominous doors is just a little girl. She isn't special or strong or anything, she just seems incredibly bored. Nobody had gotten this far before. She's drawing with chalk on the wall, or reading a book bound with human flesh, something like that. The PCs must try to talk to her without upsetting her, and if she screams the skeleton bro comes through the door at the back of the room, sends her through it, and prepares to roughly fist the PC's anus'

I fucking hate ghost pokemon.

Stop inserting your stupid daddy-fantasies into games. It will never come true.

>Party encounter a dummy little girl
>Have to escort her home
>Said child is very good at getting into impossibly bizarre and dangerous situations, without actually being in any danger, thanks to being a dum dum
Think Mr. Magoo, but not blind.

The BBEG Necromancer has a wife and daughter, she likes to wander out of the inner sanctum from time to time even though her dad doesn't like it.

>My name is Erichon the Ancient of Flames, and yes, I am a dragon, and do you know what dragons are good at? Protecting hoards, and what is a daycare? Thats right, it's a hoard of children! Need a break from child rearing? Want to finally have a night between just you and your lover? No one to keep an eye on the little one while you're at work? Bring them down to Erichon the Ancient of Fire's Sweet Charm Daycare! I'll watch over your children as if they were my own, with an environment rich in education and entertainment, and the security in knowing any dangers to your child will be met with the hottest hellfires spit forth from the jagged maw of a dragon, your children are in perfect hands. Starting this weekend were even having a special offer, enroll your children for just two gold coins a month and you'll get a skeleton warrior free of charge, to watch over you and your family and slaughter any threat that dares arise with it's sword of cold steel and might of the grave.

>None of the monsters in the dungeon even DARE to touch the little girl because the skeleton would destroy their anus

The most important thing to know about pokemon pokedex entries is that they are all superstitious junk. "Dis pokemon looks like a balloon, I herd that it steals kids!" "Worturtle must be at least ten thousand years old!" Or my personal actual quote from a Pokedex entry "Machop is strong enough to lift a hundred grown ups!".

Which makes sense, when you remember who wrote these data entries. 10 year old kids sent exploring by Oak.

Adventurers! You have upset the human child! Prepare to feel the bite of my Special Attack.

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The PCs accidentally upset the child, probably the warrior or the grumpy wizard getting sick of dealing with some kid and wanting to just get a move on, since nothing is happening, so the little girls starts crying

And then the entire dungeon shudders.

You try to kill it and if you can't kill it you start running really, really fast.

Doesn't matter. PCs are gonna kill it.

The monster in the dungeon is a responsible single father taking care of his daughter ever since a group of adventurers killed his wife

Iosefka getting replaced by a fake is something that actually happens, though.

It's listed in the credits and everything.

I missed the last session and the GM didn't want it waste time explaining why I'm now here.

The back door to the dungeon is right over there.

>Autism is the only explanation I can come up with for your constant spamming of your autistic OC.
At this point, I assume people are posting Ribbonshit specifically to troll you.

LOL oldfags

Why would you even bother replying to that guy. Or decide to pretend anyone cares about him.
He's just a weird troll, don't pay attention to him and his crazy triggers.

I enjoy melodrama.