Gailen's Gate: Episode 37

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***Gailen's Gate* Episode 37** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on June 9, 2020, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on June 13, 2020.

## Summary

              The group is teleported to Ruins of Kaza’hul. Braktor is messed up a bit from the memories, but is snapped back into the present when Gruff offers to fondle him if he is a god. Moving into the ruins, the first they find is an old priestly hut. Looking around, they find no signs the hut was abandoned suddenly, but that no one has been there for a long time. Hackne finds writing that even she is not able to read with her spells.

             Moving forward, they find a shrine with an ever-burning flame and two giant statues. Upon the alter is a scepter, which Hackne identifies as a Scepter of Command used as a key to something; and which Belanovan realizes is trapped. While they are arguing on how to best handle the trap, Gruff sits on the hands of one of the statues, activating a switch. Belanovan sits on the other, opening a secret draw with a cyphered scroll. Using the password in the cypher and the rod, Hackne turns the flame into a Flame of Perceiving.

             Desiring to explore further before using the flames, the group continues to explore. While they are walking, Hackne tells the group about how a group of pirates have sent a message asking for Aid to fight the Herald. They put this on hold until they can read the scroll. The next building they find are filled with mechanisms of Elvish make. Belanovan examines the mechanism, realizing each place in the area can be activated the same way as the fire, each being the same word in different languages. He also breaks the cypher enough to work out two words.

             Moving on, the group finds a house glowing purple light. The group decide to move on, saving that building for last. Gruff looks in the window anyway, but quickly recoils because of the wrongness of the place. They move on to the next, which is a library. It is filled with book filled with the language of the cypher, but Belanovan does not have time to learn the language and therefore moves on.

             In the final building, the group finds a spell laboratory. Inside, the group finds a ziggurat which triggers some of Braktor’s memories. The also find two rings of Violet they try to tiptoe around talking about in fear of triggering it. While searching, Belanovan finds books describing someone going into a book and taking something from it into the ziggurat. Without any more options, the group spends three days learning the language. Even Gruff argues with a fishing book for three days.

             Now knowing the language, Belanovan reads the book again. They find that it was most likely written by Tyre before he was corrupted. Deciding to try the gears before rushing to potential doom, seeing the writing:

             “Call the storm, light the way, open the door, and hail my name.”

             The group goes back to the lab, where they find another cypher, giving them two more words. They return to the gears again in order to test the power words and their effects safely. Gruff, out of patience, says his name at the end of the power words. This summons a brass key with an eye symbol on it. The wheel does not turn again afterwards. The group returns to the fire and find a keyhole within the middle of the brazier. This conjures the image of the ancient elf, Nosfeet Nesfret Netjiri.

             He tells them briefly about the translators, about Tyre, and tells them it is not safe to read the scrolls until they defeat the creature in the building giving off the purple light. He senses elsewhere the another translator, the Oracle, is moving, and states that the pirates from earlier are searching for a ship that can allow them to reach the Shattered Gate.

             Within Tyre’s Labyrinth.