Named Monsters

[Tier-Group 3, Control Room]

"This corresponds, in 'Dungeon 101,' to a part much further along: after you've learned the basic operations, you summon and name your main-line monster in order to prepare for the actual running of a dungeon. The first monster is the guide, but the first Named monster is meant to be the adjutant, and ordinarily one doesn't serve as both, so the design is to add intelligence separately."

(True enough. The basic operations may be common to all, but when it comes to the actual running, it differs from dungeon to dungeon.)

"Also, in the case of otherworld reincarnation, there's a name from the start, so even without naming, the monster becomes Named as is. That's a special case of the cycle of rebirth, so it's a little different, but the headless zombie of the Kozukappara Execution Ground Dungeon probably had a name from the start too, and that is presumably how it was able to leave the dungeon."

(I can't say so for certain. It would have been nice if we could have analyzed the other side's Core without destroying it, but there's no such thing as a Dungeon-Core analysis instrument, after all.)

Because it was hell summoning, there was naturally the constraint that only wrongdoers residing in hell could be summoned. That said, even the falsely accused and political prisoners would be summoned if they had some other reason to go to hell. A headless one, however, could carry over neither its knowledge nor its skills from life.

"What becomes of the monster summoned first?"

"It scurries about underfoot, making a nuisance of itself… A dungeon's adjutant is a busy thing, so I suppose it serves as a conversation partner for the idle Dungeon Master, or some such."

(I've come to do both, though. A samurai performing two duties would be entitled to double the fief as a matter of course, but in my case, how ought it to be handled, I wonder.)

"With regard to naming, it appears nothing abnormal, no, nothing out of the ordinary was done."

(With regard to the Master's naming sense, there are a great many things I'd like to say. But if I were asked now what name would have been good, I suppose I'd be at a loss myself.)

It can happen that one names a mouse "Muscles" out of sheer laziness, on the grounds that the scientific name of the mouse is "Mus musculus," only for it to turn out that, since "muscle" actually derives from "mouse," the naming was apt. The etymology of "rosemary," however, is not rose + Mary but ros-marinus, "dew of the sea," so making it "Marie" is nothing more than a botched hack-job.

"The detailed standards regarding names are omitted."

"There was something like: you can't use the same name twice."