Sleepiburgh

Sleepiburgh
Statistics
Appears in	Dungeon Keeper
Level Number	14
Preceded By	Buffy Oak
Followed By	Woodly Rhyme
Number of Other Keepers	2
Lord	Thane Seamus

Sleepiburgh is the 14th level in Dungeon Keeper. The dark corridors of Sleepiburgh are contested by two allied local Keepers and a cadre of Heroes. The player's sole objective is to kill or capture the Lord of the Land (Thane Seamus). The briefing text advises that only he and his companions stand against the Red Keeper here, but the Portals elsewhere on the map immediately give lie to that. Still, the green and blue dungeons seem to exist only to complicate matters.

There are severe restrictions on Red's available creatures and hardware; nevertheless, it is possible to wall the foes off and work through the difficulties in a calm setting.

Breakdown

• Portal Speed: 500 Turns
• Creature Pool:

Hound		50
Bile Demon		40
Dragon		40
Warlock		40
Troll		40
Dark Mistress		40

• Specials

Transfer Creature - far northwest Gold seam (Left side of Lava, end of the dirt in Keeper FX)

• Neutral Assets

Workshop - southeast corner

Troll (Level 10) - in his Workshop

Horned Reaper (Level 1) - hidden behind Workshop

Portal x3 - in Red, Blue, and Green territory

Temple x6 - Patterned in heroes' chamber, center north end

Scavenger Room - Patterned in heroes' chamber, center north end

Red Keeper (Human)
Creature Limit	20
Starting Gold	3000
Starting Forces	4 Imps
May Attract
May Create or Summon
Rooms
Spells	Traps & Doors

Blue Keeper
Creature Limit	22
Starting Gold	7500
Starting Forces	8 Imps
May Attract
May Create or Summon
Rooms
Spells	No Doors or Traps

Green Keeper
Creature Limit	22
Starting Gold	7500
Starting Forces	8 Imps
May Attract
May Create or Summon
Rooms
Spells	No Doors or Traps

Heroes

The heroes occupy a small temple-complex at the center north end of the realm. The Lord of the Land appears through a Hero Gate in their sealed chamber when all the Wizards have been slain or converted. When he meets his fate (even at the hand of the enemy Keepers!) the map is won.

(2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) - sealed corridor

(8) (8) (8) (8) (8) - sealed chamber north of the Thieves

(10) - Enters through Hero Gate

(7) (7) (7) (7) - accompanying the Knight

Challenges

Unlike Buffy Oak, Red has a lower creature limit than Blue and Green this time. The player initially has access only to Warlocks, whereas these rivals have access to ample quantities of Dragons and Bile Demons, and both of which can flatten Warlocks. A Barracks can be researched and built, but it won't draw any Orcs. The Workshop cannot be researched.

Even if the neutral Workshop is captured and the Torture Chamber built, and Trolls and Mistress start coming in through the portal, there are no Bile Demons for the Red side to complete the Horned Reaper recipe.

The Keepers are a serious threat if the player challenges them for the gold seams during the period when they are attracting these superior creatures and training them. With Gems present, there is no real reason to do this. Blue is running a more expansionist AI than Green, and may penetrate neglected spots in Red's walls.

Hints

• In theory, the level can be completed by going AFK for a few hours. The enemy Keepers will gain the Gem seams, and despite the vast distance to their Treasure Rooms, may be able to retain a moderate force indefinitely. But there is no guarantee that they will bridge the hero position and, if they do, defeat the Wizards or the Knight's group.

• Holding territory and staying alive gets very hard if a confrontation occurs outside the player's own terms. Wall off the Gem tiles, and build up strength in isolation— whatever form this strength eventually takes— and things are far more relaxed. There are several chokepoints that can be fortified to establish territory. All players can eventually research Destroy Walls, but the computer players appear indifferent towards using the spell.

• The Level 10 Troll's workshop, warded by a Boulder Trap, may be worth a visit. What he has been doing in there and why he keeps a Horned Reaper locked in his closet isn't clear (though it is claimed that the Workshop is abandoned and implied that the Horned Reaper had been left behind when its workers last had a party), but claiming the Workshop denies the other Keepers the ability to produce any traps and doors. It enables further Workshops to be constructed and Trolls to enter through the Portal.

• A simple way to fulfill the mission objective is to wall off the Gems, research Lightning Strike, and use the Sight of Evil spell to get a bead on the Heroes for it. When the Wizards are down, the Knight enters their chamber through a Gate, ready to be zapped.

• • A similar approach is to use Cave-In. The creatures in this room always return to the center of the northernmost wall when damaged. By dropping caveins on the Heroes to chase them to that spot, and then dropping multiple cave-ins on that spot when they return to it, will clear the room in a matter of seconds.

• A simple way to clear the map entirely is to wall off the Gems and max out an army of Skeletons, with their own Lightning spells, out of the remains of the Warlocks that enter the dungeon. Other plans might involve Mistresses or Vampires.

• A Wizard transferred from a much earlier stage can Scavenge the powerful clutch of Level 8 Wizards. A transferred Bile Demon is also an extremely useful Scavenger here. As always, any strong transfer can go solo and hammer into at least one keeper early, but this more changes how the map is played than make it easier.

Events

Briefing Text

"Only the Lord of this Land stands between you and hectares of desolation and woe. I bet you can't wait to meet him."

Player researches Chicken

"You can't swing a cat for Dungeon Keepers fighting over the destiny of this region. It should fall to you to settle the disagreement once and for all."

Player researches Destroy Walls

"So, now you have a spell that turns fortified walls to dust. It's expensive to cast and it's also possible that your enemies possess the same magic power. This could still turn out to be one of those days."

Lord of the Land defeated

"Your continued success makes me sick. Thank you, your wickedness."

Sound Bytes

"Sleepiburgh. A settlement in the fertile farmland near the mountains. Nothing ever happens here, apart from some good deeds and the odd exchange of kindhearted greetings... a disgusting pit of Hades, in other words."

— The Mentor, Intro

"Mormondflach. We have developed this area. It is now a breeding ground for our legions of Beetles and Flies. To think it was once pointless farmland providing food for the weak population which lived there in so-called "peace.""

— Canon Outtro

New Game Plus

In the New Game+ version of Sleepiburgh, the player loses access to the Bridge (and thus the Transfer Creature special) if they get too close to the gems in the southwest, as this triggers an Action Point.

Trivia

• The map shares some features of Skybird Trill, the final campaign level, in that the player can mine unlimited wealth, and the enemies cannot; and that furthermore, killing the enemy Keepers is not even necessary. KeeperFX increases the difficulty of these levels.
• The message for researching Chicken, "You can't swing a cat..." was probably meant to be the initial message posted for the level. The message intimates that Blue and Green are fighting one another, but they aren't.
• The official guide book claims that this level has a Locate Hidden World.
• This realm's outtro speech file, BAD14.WAV, makes more sense if renamed to BAD13.WAV to correspond with the previous realm Buffy Oak. Woodly Rhyme's outro file, BAD15.WAV (Mormondflach), makes more sense renamed to 14 to correspond with Sleepiburgh. These files are in the game subdirectory \SOUND\ATLAS\.

Mismatched OC soundbytes

Intro	Matching File	Reasoning
GOOD01.WAV	BAD01.WAV	Anthrax
GOOD02.WAV	BAD02.WAV	Mention of Demon Spawn
GOOD03.WAV	BAD03.WAV	Inhabitants' altered viewpoints
GOOD04.WAV	BAD18.WAV	Mention of Trolls
GOOD05.WAV	BAD05.WAV	The quietude broken by screams
GOOD06.WAV	BAD07.WAV	What became of the bunnies
GOOD07.WAV	BAD08.WAV	Lady Catherine
GOOD08.WAV	BAD09.WAV	War arrived
GOOD09.WAV	BAD10.WAV	The legions of Hell rode in
GOOD10.WAV	BAD11.WAV	Inhabitants' violent death
GOOD11.WAV	BAD06.WAV	Feeding on the dead?
GOOD12.WAV	BAD13.WAV	Fairy ring
GOOD13.WAV	BAD14.WAV	Being together, in a mass grave
GOOD14.WAV	BAD15.WAV	Sleepy farms got "developed"
GOOD15.WAV	BAD16.WAV	Undead massacre
GOOD16.WAV	BAD17.WAV	No more flowers
GOOD17.WAV	BAD12.WAV	Razed completely
GOOD18.WAV	BAD19.WAV	A great battle
GOOD19.WAV	BAD04.WAV	Poisonous fumes
GOOD20.WAV	BAD20.WAV	Skybird Trill named

• The names for this level in other languages are as follows:

Translations: Sleepiburgh

Language	Translation
French	Hann Nuys Moortell
Italian	Borgo Dormiente
German	Pennburg
Dutch	Slaapburg
Polish	Śpiochowice
Czech	Spánkov
Swedish	SOVLANDA
Russian	Слипиберг
Japanese	スリーピーバラ
Chinese	寂静城堡 / 睡眠城

• The Dungeon Keeper Premium guide book erroneously spells this level スリーピーバーグ, which is pronounced (roughly) Sleepi-berg, not Sleepi-burgh/borough.

• 

  Sleepiburgh's depiction in the level map seems to tie in with the Mentor's description of it as farmland.

Gallery

Original map

KeeperFX map with extra gem faces

Troll's Workshop