Squid Game challenge

**Sir Beastmaster's 456,000 GP Squid Game Challenge** is a Scribbletube challenge video being filmed by Sir Beastmaster in his pocket dimension. The list of challengers includes the main 6 protagonists, as well as some of their friends and some of their adversaries.

## Background

About a year prior to the events of the campaign, Sir Beastmaster began production of his most ambitious Scribbletube project yet. With funding and manpower directly from the Elven Capital, he began construction of the sets in which the filming process would take place.

Sir Beastmaster was able to shape the project anyway he pleased, apart from two things; the "100" (Actually 96) contestants of the challenge were to be randomly selected prisoners who were in transit to high security elven prisons, and the "prize", instead of prize money, would be an immediate promotion through the ranks of the high elven armed forces into an elite strike force.

On the day of the beginning of the campaign, the filming process began, and the 96 prisoners were released from stasis and teleported into the Beastmaster Filming Subplane, where they were given a banquet of gruel and water, and given a speech by Beastmaster himself. They then went to their assigned cabins, where they awaited the next days trial.

## Trial #1

Trial #1 was a large escape room, in which each team had to put their wits together to solve the puzzles given to them. Each set of rooms was identical, and only the first 8 out of 16 teams to make it out would survive.

The first room was pitch black and contained a stone altar with 5 glass vials of different colored liquids resting on top, a chest with a strange combination lock, a door with an inscription, and a false wall leading to a sarcophagus containing a mummy. To reach the next room, the party was required to mix the blue and yellow liquids together, making enough green liquid for everyone to drink.

The second room held a golden statue staring at the words "SHOW ME ONLY WEALTH" inscribed into the wall. To proceed, the party had to obscure every word other than "wealth", after which a piece of paper would shoot from the statue's hand, and the wall would change to say "GIVE ME ONLY LOVE". The paper read "One may only perform if he wears an AGED FACE". To proceed, the party had to cut the heart out of the mummy from the sarcophagus room, and put it on the plate the golden statue was holding. After this was done, a small vent-like passage would open up, and a small pipe organ would appear from the wall. The passage led to a lava-filled room that must be parkoured across. On the other end of the room lay a tablet that contained the following poem:

*The spark of life begins the trip*

*The random shapes then block and drip*

*The brightest orb then changes face*

*The sparks of light that night do grace*

This riddle allowed for the combination lock on the chest to be solved, revealing a copper key.

To continue to the third room, the keys AGEDFACE must have been played on the organ, after which the door would open revealing a seemingly neverending staircase. To continue, the party must all face backwards and walk up the stairs, tricking the illusion into thinking they're walking downstairs and letting them pass.

The next and final door has a dragon's face with a keyhole as the doorknob, as well as an inscription that, in draconic, reads;

*“To pass this door, a joke must be told.*

*In the form of a knock knock, comedy gold.”*

The joke must be funny enough to make the doorknob laugh, and his mouth must be unlocked so that he can say the "who's there" part of the knock knock joke. As soon as the door laughs, it opens to reveal a massive pit. The pit leads directly to the end of the escape room.