"Adventure Averted"

"Adventure Averted" is the fourth episode of The Prison of Lights (arc). After getting themselves back together, the group finds a strange lump of coal that reacts to their presence and also a giant blue furnace.
== Plot Synopsis ==
The close call with the prisoner has left the group shaken. After a quarter of an hour of waiting, they decide to barricade the door leading out to the main hallway. They go through the only other door they haven't been through yet.
Inside the room, they find a caged humanoid creature and two runic circles, also another door. Around the cage is a purple barrier, which seems to keep all sounds from getting out. Markus and Gregor find that it is made of hardened light. 
Markus then guesses the circles would dispel the barrier should they bind something in them. Kier corrects him, saying that the bindings were repurposed, so they simply need to sit in them. The two of them do so afterwards.
As the barrier disappears, the screams of the creature can be heard. Being the closest to the cage, Ashe decides to kill it, stabbing it straight in the throat, to silence it. Upon examining the corpse, Markus feels the same sort of corruption from it that he felt from the memories of the monster from before.
They continue to the next room to find yet another door and a giant blue furnace. A single lump of coal sits in it, glowing slightly. Being the only fire-proof member of the party, Markus crawls in and retrieves it. A whisper runs through the room as he brings it to the rest of the group. It welcomes its 'master' back, saying it has 'not felt this presence in years'.
== Trivia ==
* While talking about the caged creature, Gregor mentions he saw people go insane in what he calls a 'punishment hole' in his earlier days. Fan speculations guess this may have been a form of punishment used by the Outriders. 
== Quotes ==
* Gregor: I pick the fort up and push it into the hallway.
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* Kier: "Markus is absolutely, completely correct. A+, Markus."
* Markus: "Thank you..Kier."
* Ashe: "Can't help but feel like you're mocking him."
* Kier: "Maybe a little."
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* Ashe: to Gregor "As always, you slay me. Your sense of humour is truly something to be, uh..reckoned with."
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* Markus: "Well, I've never been one to turn down a lump of coal."
Category:The Prison of Lights episodes