Security is contextual! Jaal confronts the peculiar magical security system of the Nameless City Episode 032: Jaal's Entrance Test.
The characters each faced a unique test. The principle behind this was actually pretty simple. The only way to enter the sanctum is through its teleportation, and it first teleports any visitor to a randomly-selected test chamber. Each test is designed to be *impossible* for the invaders, based on their specific biology and capabilities. Here, the most prominent feature is the invaders' total inability to sense magic; they can only attempt this puzzle through trial-and-error, and it would be virtually impossible to survive the process. Even understanding what the chamber *is* would be very challenging for them.
The reason for the randomisation is also simple. It means that if by some chance one of the invaders does manage to make it through, others can't follow them by just following their description of what they did. While I only provided three test chambers, in theory there are hundreds of variations. An individual invader has no idea what dangers or challenges they would face if they entered the chamber.
Since there's no sign the invaders made it into the sanctum, the plan clearly worked.
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- Episode 001: Character Generation
- Episode 002: I'm going to keep saying yes until I don't fall in the big hole
- Episode 003: One does not simply walk through More Doors
- Episode 004: That one was completely harmless
- Episode 005: Are you sure you're a barbarian
- Episode 006: Maze of the Brian-otaur
- Episode 007: Screaming blue murder from his waist
- Episode 008: It’s a rare genetic condition
- Episode 009: Well, isn't that dandy
- Episode 010: The classic ‘Ta-da!’ position
- Episode 011: These crabs know advanced tactics
- Episode 012: Observe! I will be totally aaaagh
- Episode 013: We can take the boss, we're second level
- Episode 014: He's very badly burned
- Episode 015: Would you say that she's ghastly?
- Episode 016: Look at you, coming here with your good ideas
- Episode 017: Allow us to inspect that which is in your hole
- Episode 018: I'm unclean, so I'm gonna cook this octopus
- Episode 019: My bad, almost committed murder
- Episode 020: Do you have orphans right now?
- Episode 021: The crumpling noise you can hear was Book Two
- Episode 022: I am not putting my legs in your body, that’s weird
- Episode 023: Let’s not actually tell him his god’s dead
- Episode 024: Only I could have a sassy vulture
- Episode 025: Trust me, I'm a necromancer
- Episode 026: Venn Venn domeagram
- Episode 027: That's not how it works
- Episode 028: Two of you are stealthing, and one of you is hitting things with a stick
- Episode 029: You somehow make that sound offensive
- Episode 030: I look at her intently, staring without eyes
- Doing full frilled lizard
- Jaal's entrance test
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