The Castle - B1

Unrolling the scroll reveals a similar recipe, more powerful but more dangerous:


If you wish to flee the Castle,
Perhaps my offer is worth the hassle.
To leave this game, first make a stew
with pinkish hue from my sister's brew.
The second of many of my requests,
add speckled egg from mother's nest.
Another ingredient for my brew's power,
The Queen who lives on icing tower.
The next component, if you dare,
the noose which hung the maiden fair,
Now add this in, if you can task it,
The signet ring from Dark Lord's casket.
One last thing, a piece of you,
but blood or hair won't simply do.
An eye, a tooth, a finger or two,
should be enough to bring you through.

Scanning the shelves of bottles, you can see every required ingredient for the recipe to move about the tower.

[ +- ] Trackers

Stress Level: 12
Light Spell: 30 min
Candle: 20 min

You toss in the eye of newt. The cauldron's contents change color to grey, then pink, then purple. It bubbles and toils and probably troubles. A thick gas cloud roils out of it and rapidly fills up the entire room, obscuring all vision. The cloud stings your eyes and burns your lungs. You hack and cough. Your eyes water. Your skin prickles. It's hard to breathe. It hurts to breathe.

Then the cloud dissipates. But the pain and discomfort remain.

You find yourself in a new room, high atop the castle. Now that you have left the basement you can hear a storm howling outside, the constant sheets of rain sound like sizzling meat. A bolt of lightning brightens the sky through a large circular window nearly ten feet across giving you a view of the enormous castle below you and the misty forest that surrounds it.

Your room is about fifty feet to a side. Below the large single window lies a glass coffin. Inside is a beautiful maiden with flaxen hair and ivory skin. Her neck is marred by purple bruising all around it. A rose of gold and ruby lies on her bosom, clasped in both hands.

On the opposite side of the room is a large iron chest, two feet long, with three locks in a row.

In the center of the room is a spiral staircase that descends the tower and into the castle proper.