The Buffy universe officially has dungeons

A while ago I read the Buffy Season 8 series of comics. They weren't that great to be honest (the Angel ones were worse, even leaving aside that they effectively re-write the ending of the TV series). However, I found something interesting in the 5th comic in the series.

In this issue, one of the Slayers goes into a D&D-like underworld, which is filled with mutually hostile groups of monsters - fairies, slime monsters, some things that look like some kind of ogre/orc/troll type, and apparently a couple of others.

 

This underworld seems to literally be under the ground: she's shown climbing down, rather than having to go through a magic portal or anything like that.

The plot is that the ogre things are planning to invade the surface world, and if they do so will destroy the other species who live closer to the surface. Thus the Slayer has to convince everyone to make an alliance against the ogres. The whole setup seems very similar to various older D&D modules.

Transforming Into An Animal

It is well-known that transforming into an animal whose primary sense is smell can cause the sorcerer to become insane, and be unable to return to human form.

This is because animals who rely on smell 'see' in four dimensions. Such animals can sense what happened in the past - for example that a human passed here a day ago.

Soul Dolls

It is known that some evil sorcerers can take living souls and trap them within the bodies of dolls.

Abbe Nays writes that dolls which contain the souls of children will always look in the direction of the child's body.