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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9634574" data-attributes="member: 42856">Yes, especially when one is the Golden Mirror... Remember? The Abbot used it for divination, and we let him use it, and in the next section the book said that we can take it back, though since the holy man knows how to use it, and us not, it would be a petty move. Litterally.There is a chance that we found the One True Path through the maze. In a post-victory analysis I'll try to map the sewers but maybe they converge to this door? Which means that the most obvious thing would be... to wait for Prince Sussurien to get out, holding both swords -- do you think he'd let the Sword of Life lying around instead of filling his inventory? -- and ambush him on the way out. It's pretty typical in fiction to have the bad guy take all the risks to explore a ruin only to have the protagonist waiting at the entrance with guns and stealing the treasure. Or did I get it reversed?Tadaa!(of course, over the last three section, we tried to activate 3 times Salvia's healing power, with 3 HP each, and the rolls were 1, 5 and 6, resulting in Salvia investing 9 HP and recovering 0, 9 and 12 from the healing pool, allowing her full recovery and healing Trixie back to full.)We enter a bowl-shaped cave with walls of quartz. Huge stalactites of Damocletian foreboding hangs from the ceiling. At the far end, a wooden trapdoor... and we're seeing Suusurrien battling with a wooden idol with "an unyielding snarl made all the more fierce by the totemic scars radiating from its eyes". I don't know exactly how that looks, but that sounds cool. "It's the Seven-in-One!" shrieks Sussurien. Destroy it or our quest is doomed to fail!"[ATTACH=full]402261[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]402262[/ATTACH]Not very impressive you say (except the damage rolls)? Indeed.However, we're given the option to use an item, namely the orb of fire (350) or the Magian wand (461). Since we didn't acquire the latter in this universe, and the orb of fire (acquired last book) seems very useful against a wooden creature, we'll conveniently bypass the fight.We utter the word Conflagration to activate the orb. A fire tendril leaps from it and curls around the monster, soon to be reduced to a pile of smoldering ashes (the orb is unfortunately destroyed). Two commentaries here: first, I am not sure we ever learned about the activation word for this orb. We looted it from a chest, was there a post-it on it with the password written? Second, if you wonder why I used a powerful item on this seemingly weak monster, it's because... there are really 7 in 1. If you kill it, a smaller, meaner version of the wooden idol exits from the corpse and keeps fighting.We're asked if we have the IMPROBITY codeword (another strange one), and we don't, so we head to the next section where we will, finally, have a climactic fight with Prince Sussurien......only to discover that his corpse is lying on the floor, killed by Hasan who just sighs and mention "it's dawn!" reminding of his promise to kill him before that time.We can no reach the vault in which rests the blade of the Sword of Life! (40).</blockquote>

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