<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">While that absolutely would work, killing someone and turning them into a soul fruit, it certainly has several disadvantages.  <br/><br/>First of all, you'd actually have to KILL the contestant, an act that would be considered evil by pretty much anyone watching.  In the dungeon your morality tends to affect you in various ways and you'd have to weigh the potential advantages and disadvantages of the act against the advantage of having a soul fruit.  Secondly the geas on a contestant 'USUALLY' lasts for one level, but not always.  Attempting to butcher your servant <em>might</em> cause the geas to break, and any contestant who died once already would do pretty much anything to avoid it happening again. Next, don't forget that the pregnancy is inconvenient at best, and at worst can mean a corruption of the host OR the fetal contestant, as is evident by Tahkina.   Finally..... that's not what she has in mind.  :)</div></div><br/><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><em>Tahkina<br/></em>(http://i.imgur.com/fx36g0U.png)</div></div><br/>Tahkina's face showed visible signs of being relieved to be out of the tavern.  Bo realized she had misread the woman's intent, she hadn't been annoyed by having to address Zerxel by name, it was that she had wanted to get out of the tavern.<strong> "Of course.  Bear with me though.</strong>She turned her head slightly and Zerxel followed her gaze, realizing she was looking dead on at one of the nearly invisible hovering eyebots.  Her gaze locked on the tiny translucent automaton, she spoke in a loud and clear voice, saying,<strong>"To the priests of Cyril, I am about to share information that relates to the secret nature of the dungeon."</strong>Then turning back to Zerxel she smiled and said, "The priests never broadcast any truly secret information.  The eyebots are still active, but most likely what I am about to say will not be broadcast over the Æther.  They would probably do this without my warning of course, but... well...I ramble and time is short.  Let me explain by starting at the beginning and I shall try to finish before Bo comes out."[/b][/color]<br/><br/><br/>She took a deep breath and closed her glowing eyes for a moment, gathering her thoughts,<strong>"Before Uazuo's, the Queendom I am from, selection of contestants, I sensed that I had a good chance of being selected.  I was smart, at least beautiful enough, but most of all I was not in the good graces of my master.  I suspected he might offer me up to the Queen as a potential candidate for the next selection.  So I started reading ancient scrolls, trying to train before I was even selected.  In more than one account I found reference to a contest where a group of four women journeyed through the levels together, finally entering the labyrinth at the end.  Of course they were never seen again, but then I wondered why it was that the four were all able to enter a resting room together.  I knew that I wouldn't find the information in my Queen's royal library or my master mage's tower.  But that the answers might lie in the temple library.  During the months of training, you probably did not see me actively on the sparring field. I am a scholar at heart, and a passable mage I suppose.  So my time training was spent in the deeper corners of the temple's library combing over records, old notes, and watching hundred, nay thousands, of hours of footage from past years events.  I sought to find the secret to why it was that there was danger in numbers, and how it was that some people were able to enter the resting room with more than one other."</strong><br/><br/>She shifted on her feet slightly and leaned against the large staff she carried,<strong>I watched for days, countless hours of previous dungeon runs, and always the same thing.  Any time more than two contestants went into the exit together, the Ætherwave footage would cut out.  It never showed more than two going in.  It is a secret of the dungeon that the world is not meant to know.  But it is possible.  So I did more digging, found a single record of such a thing.  This record mentions a ceremony and a sacrifice.  Apparently you can take as many people into the resting room with you as you want, but for any number over the first guest, it becomes dangerous.  You risk being lost to the dungeon forever.  That risk grows with each person that is joined.  I know not the level of danger, nor what happens to the souls that are lost in the attempt if they fail.  I have a suspicion though.  I suspect that they are not sent to the resting room but instead directly and immediately into the labyrinth of Cyril.  I know not why I think this, but I feel it in my gut.  There is however a way to do so safely, it requires the sacrifice of a contestant, or of her soul fruit.  Doing so appeases the dungeon and lets any number of contestants pass into the resting room safely."</strong><br/><br/>She took a deep breath and looked to the tavern door, Bo had still not exited,<strong>"I know you feel guilt over sending Shugar away, and I wanted to present to you a choice.  Convince Bo to give me her soul fruit.  I shall find Shugar, take the soul fruit to the spiderlings so that I may gain some powerful weapons, then the two of us shall meet you at the exit before the sun sets on the morrow.  With my magic I know that I can find her, and if the spiderlings deal holds true for me as it did for you, I'm sure that I can defeat anything on this level once Shugar is at my side and I have some magical armaments.  Then all four of us can enter the resting room together.  But I can not do so without your permission and I certainly will not be able to convince Bo to give me her soul fruit, you must do that.  What do you think?"<br/><br/></strong>