Opening

The Opening is an optional phase of Latex Dungeon that can be played or skipped at the start of a new save file. If you choose to play it, the game starts with a two-page opening comic of Raven finding a book titled Latex Dungeon. Curious, she opens the book only for tentacles to come out, one of which enters her mouth while the others wrap around her. On the next page, the tentacles fully engulf her and invade her other orifices, then pull her into the book. Once that's over, the gameplay phase begins in the Town, where you play as one of many invading Latex Pods, instructed to "Go get, all the maidens!" [sic]. You do this by approaching them and pressing the Z key when next to them. This will result in the woman calling for help and ending up in a latex suit, and putting a Citizen in your inventory. No doors can be entered, as they are all locked, but other than that, you have the whole town to explore. If you attempt to capture the man by the grave, he will tell you "Away from here minor Monster!" and attack you, which will kill you and give you a Game Over if you do this three times. You only need to have one Citizen in your inventory to advance to the beginning of the game by talking to the Latex Pod that talked to you at the start, which will get it to say "Less than I expected, but it should be enough." even if you get all 8 girls.

If you skip, you will go straight to the cutscene where Raven arrives. She walks up to the healer, who tells her that monsters attacked the city and kidnapped almost all the girls in town. Raven reassures her that she'll save them and normal gameplay begins. Once you try to leave town, the healer calls you back over and once you talk to her, she gives you the Wood Staff.