Scenario:Co-op - Pandemonium Final Tier
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Pandemonium Final Tier
(Captain) and crew fight their way past the otherworldly beings that block their way. Upon asking one of the beings for its identity, it answers that an individual named Astaroth summoned the otherworlders to the tower. They also hear a strange voice coming from the walls. Questions abound, but finding Astaroth seems the only path to answers.
(Captain) and company push through the otherworldly beings that attack them.
One of the beings is left before them after a fight. They decide to ask it some questions.
Vyrn: So you're not a primal beast, and you're not a monster either. What are you guys then?
Otherworldly Entity: I am of the other side. I have been summoned to this tower of your world by Astaroth.
Lyria: Astaroth? Who's that?
Vyrn: Hmm. First time I've ever heard the name.
Otherworldly Entity: Astaroth, counted among the original primals. Formed of the stars.
Lyria: Primals? Stars?
Lyria: That sounds like...
Vyrn: A primal beast!
Otherworldly Entity: The seal... The seal...
Lyria: Ah! It's gone!
Vyrn: Still don't know what these otherworld guys are, but...
Vyrn: I'm willing to bet a whole lotta apples that this Astaroth person's a primal beast.
Lyria: An original primal... formed of the stars... It sure sounds like it is, Vyrn.
Vyrn: We've fought a bunch of primals since we got to Pandemonium, but Astaroth must be the boss of this place.
Vyrn: Say, Lyria, do you sense anything here? Anything different?
Lyria: Actually, I'm sensing too many primal beast auras in this place. It's hard to tell them apart.
Vyrn: Can't say I don't understand. This place is packed with primals.
Lyria: Sorry I can't be of more help...
...
Lyria: Huh? Did you hear that?
Mysterious Voice: The seal... Original... They...
Vyrn: It's that voice again!
Lyria: The voice sounds like it's coming out from the walls.
Mysterious Voice: The key... Time... It...
Vyrn: I can't make out what it's saying.
Lyria: I feel like it's in pain somehow.
Vyrn: In pain?
Lyria: Yes. I can't hear what it's saying either, but I just know it's hurting.
Vyrn: Hmm. I dunno...
Vyrn: Oh, what if the voice belongs to that Astaroth character we've been hearing about?
Lyria: You think so?
Vyrn: All right! We've come this far! Let's go find Astaroth and get some answers!
(Captain) nods in agreement.
Does the voice truly belong to Astaroth? What is Astaroth's role in all of this?
Questions abound, but (Captain) and company are determined to reach the innermost depths of Pandemonium and discover the truth.
Pandemonium Final Tier: Scene 2
The crew learns from Astaroth that Pandemonium is in fact a giant primal beast, and that Astaroth was trapped in the tower by Lucifer himself. Upon reaching the lowest level of Pandemonium, the crew manages to see the land of the Crimson Horizon far below—it is, however, too far to reach. They have made a great discovery, but many questions still remain.
(Captain) and company have finally encountered the primal beast Astaroth and defeated it.
Astaroth: Ngh! This cannot be! I am chosen of the stars! The power of the Astrals is within me!
Astaroth: You shall never be forgiven for this. Both you and Lucifer shall have my spite for all eternity.
Vyrn: Lucifer? What're you going on about?
Lyria: Um, that voice we heard from the walls... The one that seemed to be in pain... That wasn't you?
Astaroth: The walls?
Astaroth: Humph... No doubt that was Pandemonium itself crying out in desperation.
Lyria: What? Th-the tower was talking?
Astaroth: The great primal beast Pandemonium!
Vyrn: Primal beast? You saying we're inside a primal beast right now?
Astaroth: The primal beast of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
Astaroth: I have been trapped here for many ages, along with many of the other original primal beasts.
Vyrn: A primal beast keeping other primals captive!
Astaroth: The Astrals and their lap dog Lucifer imprisoned me here for attempting to thwart their plans.
Astaroth: For eons I have been gathering the otherworlders to destroy this tower and exact my revenge.
Astaroth: But now you have come.... You have ruined it all!
Lyria: We just thought this tower was connected to the Crimson Horizon and wanted to find out where it led...
Astaroth: Ha! Ignorant mortals!
Astaroth: Ngh! I don't have much longer...
Lyria: Astaroth!
Astaroth: Hahaha! Heed well, mortals. Once I am gone, the realm of the sky shall suffer for your folly!
Astaroth: Ahahaha!
With an unsettling laugh, Astaroth is no more. (Captain) and company are left bewildered.
Vyrn: What... just happened?
Lyria: Seems things are a lot more complicated than we thought.
Vyrn: So let me get this straight... This tower is actually a primal beast, and it's been holding Astaroth as prisoner all this time.
Lyria: And Astaroth has been trying to destroy the tower to escape.
Vyrn: And this place probably doesn't even connect to the world under the sky!
Lyria: Um, why don't we try going a little farther down for now? We won't know for sure until we actually reach the end.
Vyrn: Yeah, guess we should. Maybe we'll get more answers if we keep going.
(Captain) and company descend to the next level but are surprised by what they discover.
Vyrn: This is it? It just ends here?
Their path comes to an end, but on one of the walls is an enormous window.
Lyria: Look, out there. Is that... land?
Vyrn: The world beneath the sky...
The ground they see is far below them.
A wash of muddied red stretches before their eyes: the Crimson Horizon.
Lyria: It's still too far below for us to get to.
Vyrn: Guess this place isn't a bridge to the world below after all.
Lyria: That otherworldly being did tell us that the worlds are disjoined.
Vyrn: Yeah... Well, I think that marks the end of the investigation for now.
Vyrn: In the end we didn't even find out if this Pandemonium primal has got anything to do with the Crimson Horizon.
Lyria: We've already found as many answers as we can.
Vyrn: Darn it... We come all this way and actually get to see the world below... but we still can't get there.
Lyria: But we should be happy that we get to see it in the first place! This is a huge discovery!
Vyrn: Hmm... Yeah, you're right! The mug's half full!
Lyria: And the Crimson Horizon really is crimson!
Vyrn: Yeah. Apart from that though, it doesn't really look all that special.
Lyria: But somehow... it looks like a very lonely place.
Vyrn: The Crimson Horizon... I wonder what it must be like down there.
And on they looked at that red-soaked land.
They reflect on the words of the otherworldly beings and Astaroth.
But the truth behind what this world really is still eludes them.
Lucifer, the original primal beasts, Pandemonium. Slowly the pieces of the puzzle gather. Perhaps in time all will fall into place.