The Grey Lord's champions (all 24 of them) met on a cold Winter's eve of Christmas. Tiggy had received a weird scroll, and had finally realised that trouble was brewing in Mount Anaias. Again.
On the scroll was wrote:
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H3lp I'm tRaPpEd on Level 14 (or thirteen if you are a programmer), plz hlp k thx bye YOUR FRIEND xoxoxoxox
They all stood looking at the impressive jet black double doors. "We have to rescue him!" said Tiggy.
"No we don't," said Boris, "it's obviously Lord Chaos! We should leave him be and go to the party we were invited to."
"No, we need to be all heroic and rescue people who are in trouble! We can party later," said Tiggy
"Yeah, but, well, he's gone and gotten captured by the red dragon!" said Halk unconvinced, "You saw what Theron looked like when he gave you the scroll - he was all black and ugly looking! Like Gothmog!"
"Oi!" said Gothmog, "look, which would you rather - we go down to the bottom of a dungeon of insane creatures, and fight a huge firebreathing dragon, possibly all get fried, just to locate Lord Chaos and fuse him back into the Grey Lord....or would you rather go to Lord Librasulus's ocelot stuffing party and have him glare at us until we can fuse him?"
"Big red dragon it is then!" said Zed brightly.
The party arranged themselves into a sensible if squashed 6 across by 4 deep grid for party order. Led by the six people who all thought they were in charge, backed up by the six nosy yet not very brave champions, with the six really cowardly champions nicely between them and the last six slow pokes who would act as fodder for any sneaky monsters.
However, they had no sooner arranged themselves and shuffled in than the door closed. Boris smugly cast a light spell, Gothmog even more smugly cast a bigger light spell, and after a while it was up to Nabi to cast a darkness spell before everyone's retinas were burned out.
"The Grey Lord switched to RTC rules last year," said the prophet slapping Gothmog on the back of the head.
The party shuffled forwards again, but it was not long before they faced their first challenge - an opening closed by a push button portcullis. In front of it was a plain looking if inviting chest - a wooden one to clarify, incase you thought we're starting the Syra innuendo early.
What should the party do?