# 100_20211211 Entering the goblin arena ## Session Summary > [!tldr] [[100_20211211 Entering the goblin arena]] > Ka'ira and Maestro continued to fight the goblins and wolfriders in the desert arena of the first ring. Meanwhile, Keren, Eraithe and I explored the chairs of the control room. We managed to find levers that seemed to help or hinder those in the desert. The chairs didn't seem to react to everyone, only some people. > > Keren and Eraithe went into the arena to help Ka'ira and Maestro out. I was able to interact with the ring to remove some of the goblins and wolfriders, but when all the creatures were gone, the first ring stopped moving, and everything in the arena changed to somewhere dark, damp, and moldy. > ^summary %% [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9FyYUgwwg) %% ## Recap of last session ![[099_20211204 Naked in the Ubilet#^summary]] ## Log 9 chairs, 3 throne-like in [[The Castle Never Control Room]] 1 2 3 4 5 6 - 1: I touch it. It seems to try to form a connection with me, but it rejects me. This chair looks expensive and grand. It's made of platinum and plated gold. 2-4 look cheaper although still intricate. This is Golden - of human make. It rejects Keren too. Eraithe tries it and it rejects him too. - 2: Can't tell which race made it. - 3: Elven make. I sit here and touch the orb. It accepts me. I attune to the orb. This chair is for The Watcher. I activate this orb and my sight appears a few hundred feet above the castle, a very high perspective. - 4: Smaller than the others - halfling/gnome. I touched it and it rejects me. - 5: Keren - he has levers near him that have some handwritten notes. The lever says _Embiggen_ (Keren found it). Similar to the Watcher one, but I can't move it. It's a fixed view from the castle looking out, on the ground by one of the spires. This was the one with the orb that was flashing red. I find a label with the word "*Achoo*" on it. - 6: Eraithe can't move it. Orb responds to me. Ground level watching, from a different area. - 25 Xio - Keren - Eraithe - Goblins - Maestro - Ka'ira ![[fr-desert.png]] Achoo lever - d8: I rolled a 4. A wind blows in the desert and pushes everyone and everything 4 squares away. Eraithe can't get another chair working. He thinks only the lever chair is working. Keren can't get the other chair working. There's one chair remaining that we haven't tried. These goblins are riding wolves and holding shortswords or bows. The wolves can bite and attack separately from their goblin riders. I enlarge Ka'ira and one of the wolves. I move to the last chair. It doesn't work either. There are nine chairs in the room. Three of them have orbs facing them. The other six don't have orbs. Keren is examining the circular dais above which the rings are spinning. He can understand something on the platform - runes - but he needs help. Eraithe enters the bubble and the desert. Next turn: check the platform. This is pure magic and it is being controlled differently. The platform holds the controls for the scene that is unfolding in the desert with Maestro and Ka'ira. I learn that the rings are powering the room and the world that Maestro and Ka'ira are in. It seems to be a self-defense mechanism protecting this room. I think I can deactivate the first ring on my next try. I ask Keren to go in. Keren enters the arena. I try to deactivate the smallest ring. It starts to slow down, but it's still moving from inertia. Three more goblins and wolfriders vanish. Ka'ira uses [[The First Blade|Maugwraithe]] to kill one of the wolfriders, and his soul goes into the third, previously empty, gem on the hilt. I slow down the ring again. The last three goblins disappear and the scene shifts. They're now in a tight room with mold on the ceiling. There's no light. The smell is different. It smells of rot, mold, and earth. All the dead bodies of the goblins are gone. They are in a passageway. There are roots in the ceiling. It's tightly-packed earth, not stone. What I see: The smallest ring stops spinning. The red orb of one station turns off and the orb of another station turns red. I don't see my party mates anymore. I slow down the second ring but I'm not sure what it did. I touch the second orb that started glowing. A line of figures are walking towards the rest of the party. They smell moldy and sweet. They have bony hands and mushrooms growing out of their bodies.