3-60. The Slow Clap
A slight breeze flowed through the opulently decorated hall, fluttering the tapestries decorating the walls. Elijah only had to look at the end of the corridor to see the open window which was the culprit. Could he have entered through that opening? Or was it only there for ambiance? He had no idea, but it highlighted the fact that towers were far more complex than he’d first expected.
His first time through one, he’d thought the experience was fairly linear, but each subsequent run through a tower had hammered home that each task could be completed in a wide variety of ways. Some of those options would only be open to people with a few specific abilities, yet others were based on the way people thought. Perhaps a more straightforward person would have simply led his group through the front door. Or a thief might’ve found his way to the open window Elijah had just found. There were likely dozens of ways to overcome each obstacle, which made each tower a dizzyingly complex set of branching possibilities.
His previous task had been to reach the lord’s quarters, which he’d clearly accomplished, because his new goal had been updated:
| Task: Defeat Lord Lothgal.
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