dungeon crawler where diegetic humans in the world care deeply about the ecology of the dungeon in the same way that our humans care about the environment, with all the conflicts and weird rhetoricisms therein. no, obviously we can't kill the basilisk, that would be meddling, but we can at least put a little bell collar on it so the fainhooves don't get hunted to extinction. yes, we can extract loot from the Tower Of A Thousand Rooms if we do so sustainably, at a rate of one floor per year. you're researchers and ecologists, primarily-- armed so you don't die, but dear god there will be legal consequences if you kill a thing, even in self-defense.
