Return of the Devs: Cysero’s Secret / Goose
Goose: An Unlocked Secret
Cysero’s forge has followed him to Drakonis. When the Hero finds what looks like his Battleon shop, the weaponsmith explains that it is the same shop, still present there as well—like a song that can be sung in several places. The Queen of All Monsters has sent minions to steal from it. Their prize is stranger than the Hero expects: three bones belonging to an ancient goose whose power once spread terror.
The first task is to discover how the Queen’s Sages entered. The answer is painfully simple: Cysero left the door unlocked. The Hero retrieves the key from Chris P. Bacon, the enchanted-bacon construct guarding it, so Cysero can secure the doors. With new intruders shut out, the Hero clears some of the Sages already inside. The shop’s many rooms and shortcuts become a battleground rather than a quiet place for the weaponsmith’s experiments.
Cysero sends the Hero after the hidden bones. The Sock Gorilla guards the first hiding place, but the bone is already gone. The second lies in the Room of Undiscovered Colors, where a Can of Paint guards the trail; there too, the Hero finds only a note and another missed chance. The last hiding place is in the vast Halls of Storage. There the Hero defeats someone who appears to be the Queen’s ArchSage and demands the remaining bone.
The apparent ArchSage answers with a lecture on the Queen’s might. He claims that the power she gave Drakath was only a tiny fraction of her own, comparing Drakath’s share to a cup drawn from oceans. The Hero refuses to be cowed. These are the servant’s boasts about his queen, rather than a measured account of her strength. His real success has been keeping the Hero talking.
He admits that he has no bone to surrender: the real ArchSage has all three and is already preparing the resurrection. The figure disappears as an illusion, leaving the Hero’s victory over it exposed as a delay. Cysero senses Fear Magic in the Golden Vault. The Hero hurries there, but the effort to keep the bones apart has already failed.
Goose: A Very Unfortunate Victory
Inside the vault, the Queen’s servants resurrect an enormous creature. Cysero identifies it as the ancient goose and explains its dinosaur-like appearance as the ancestry of modern birds. A Sage tries to direct it and is eaten instead. The Hero pulls Cysero away so they can think somewhere safer. Cysero’s solution is to exploit what he calls a goose’s natural enemy: they will build a giant, magically powered mechanical raccoon.
The Hero searches the shop for eight fragments of the raccoon’s plans, then salvages magical metal from the remaining Sages. Its power source is a Core Dynamo Crystal hidden inside the Can of Paint, requiring another fight with that guardian. Cysero assembles the machine while the Hero returns to the vault. The immediate task is to weaken the goose and buy time, not to destroy something Cysero has warned cannot yet be destroyed.
The mechanical raccoon arrives as the goose gains the advantage. It engages the creature, but Cysero notices a problem: the magic powering the machine and the goose has opposing wave frequencies. A collision at precisely the wrong moment makes the pair fuse together. What stands before them is neither the intended defender nor the enemy it was meant to defeat, but a grotesque combination of both.
The fused creature begs to be killed. Cysero admits that it is not all right, then declares the situation a victory because the ancient goose is now more or less powerless. The scene does not show anyone granting its request or killing it. The real ArchSage has vanished, and Cysero expects him to return to the Queen empty-handed. Her attempt to gain a weapon has been frustrated, though the weaponsmith’s solution leaves an uncomfortable result in the vault.
Cysero hands the Hero a mop and leaves the cleanup to the person who helped save his shop. Afterward, the quest list offers rematches against the ArchSage, goose, and fused Ancient Mecha-Ragoose, with a separate high-level challenge against the Big Bad Ancient Goose. Those encounters extend the battle content beyond the main eleven-task rescue. The official July 31, 2015 announcement describes this release as a place full of hidden exits and surprises; the shop’s oddities remain part of its appeal, alongside the consequences of one unlocked door.