"I maybe want, like, an artificial island, and then freshwater monsters could just be fenced in the lake."

“Do ex-dungeon monsters generally get along non-destructively? There are definitely animals in a normal zoo that it wouldn’t be a good idea to house together.”

"Not a lot of data. Vadodara monsters are friendly to other animals under the same conditions as they are to humans but that's, you know. Most others there aren't enough of them that anyone wants to put them in the same cage and see how many monsters live through the experience. But I can have a partitioned fence."

“Yeah, that tracks.”

"No chance of getting things together in time for this appearance of the Seuss dungeon even if you can make a lorax lead you straight to the core somehow, but maybe next time it shows up. I can dream, anyway."

“I can also dream but will not allow my dreams to get between me and core destruction.”

"If you find the core I can get at least a small number of monsters, littler ones that can go in normal sized crates and get a spot in a normal zoo, just not an entire dungeon-ecosystem-habitatful."

“It’s not that likely anyway. But still.”

"Yeah, Solla Sollew has evaded many teams in the past and will most likely continue to do so."

“But wouldn’t it be so coooool if my power were the silver bullet that could take out several tricky recurring dungeons.”

"Get you a shield and point me at Nightmare's core and I've got the mobility and the psychic invulnerability to pull it off."

Wistful sigh. “Probably nobody’s that good.”

"No excuse not to at least investigate the prerequisites for the possibility, though."

“Oh, of course! And it’s not that I think we’ll never get Nightmare, I just think probably when it happens it’ll be, like, some really cool combination of a hundred cleverly-leveraged dungeon materials or something, not one guy with a standout power.”

"Another reason to have a monster zoo, some of 'em can probably ongoingly generate exotic materials. Cricket's fur and feathers don't seem to be anything special, but..."

“What about any of the critters you’ve homed in zoos? Any of them make anything interesting?”

"There's a landfish that weeps gasoline, but it's just normal gasoline. There's a turtle that probably has a useful shell, because the other turtles in its dungeon did, and it's growing bigger, but you'd have to kill it to get the shell."

“Huh. Normal gasoline isn’t bad, though.”

"Sure, but it's like, a teaspoon a day and it seems to bother the fish when they try to get the samples."

“Less useful. Still pretty neat proof of concept.”

"Yup! Eventually there's going to be a shark with useful teeth or a snake with useful skin and we'll be able to collect sheds that do something."