Doomwood III: Tech Dungeon Rescue

The Prison Break

After the Take the Axe! quest, Stellaria says the Hero has reached the castle safely, but the High Technolich is not their first target. She says Kyger and the other prisoners must be freed before her plan can move to its next phase, and points out a tunnel at the back of the castle leading to the dungeon.

Inside, Stellaria says the main cell block is still ahead. The Hero must find keycards held by guards and use them to open six cages, taking care of the rotting rats trapped inside as well. When the first group is freed, Stellaria says Kyger is still missing, so the search must continue.

A large armored door blocks the rest of the prison. Stellaria proposes taking the guards' armor, a helmet and a polearm to disguise the Hero. When the disguised Hero speaks to a DoomBorg Guard, the guard asks whether they are a little short for one; the Hero answers yes and asks whether there is a problem. The guard replies that there is not and lets them pass.

The guards initially fail to recognize the disguise, and the Hero returns to open the remaining cage. But Stellaria reports that the guards have noticed the escape. She says she will hold them off while the Hero hurries everyone else out through the back; the task then sends the Hero toward the exit.

Kyger

Stellaria embraces Kyger and welcomes him back. He apologizes for getting captured, saying he had tried to be strong like her. She calls him her baby brother and introduces him as Kai Krieger; he says everyone calls him Kyger. The Hero is startled to learn that Stellaria has a brother.

The Hero remembers Artix's instruction to find someone in this future who can wield the Blinding Light of Destiny, then begins asking about Kyger's mother. Stellaria interrupts with a warning: Deadtech guards have scanned them and do not look happy. She urges everyone to move at once.

None More Terrifying

Kalron halts the Hero and says they will be processed as corpses. The Hero quips that they did not rate an audience with the big boss himself. Asherion sharply corrects that impression, claiming Kalron is the High Technolich's second-in-command and the only one considered worthy to see his face.

The Hero says the people cannot be left imprisoned. Kalron repeats his order, threatens the Hero with the choice of joining the prisoners or dying, and tells Asherion to find the Paladin who had been with the Hero. He says he will terminate 'this one' permanently. The scene ends with the threat still hanging over the confrontation.

Once the prisoners are headed out, the final task frames the threat as two fronts: Stellaria may have to hold her own against Asherion, while the Hero is responsible for defeating Kalron and freeing the prisoners. The stated objective is Kalron; the task text does not report how any encounter with Asherion turns out.

Lucky Girl

In the next account, Kalron boasts that no one can defeat him. The Hero leaves some of the fight to the civilians, who swarm Kalron. He protests as they interfere with his hardware, while the Hero jokes that recycling is good for the environment.

Stellaria laughs that the Hero has things under control. When the Hero asks whether she was still fighting Asherion, she says she never saw him. The Hero calls it good luck, since Asherion had been coming right for her; the exchange does not explain what happened to him.

Back in Stonewood, Stellaria reports that Kalron was defeated and the prisoners were freed before they could be transformed. She expects Asherion may take Kalron's place as the TechnoLich's general, then proposes raiding the Deadtech base, defeating its leader, and using the time-travel device to send the Hero home so the invasion can be prevented. These are next steps she proposes, not victories the scene shows.

Asked whether the axe was recovered, the Hero fibs that it is still in the stone. The Hero then asks about Kyger and starts to suggest that he could help. Stellaria says Kyger is only level one and has never done the tutorial, then asks whether the Hero will train him as she says the Hero trained her. The Hero admits they have not technically done that yet; Stellaria is delighted anyway.

Stellaria asks the Hero to make sure Kalron is down for the count before they begin their spy mission on the Dreadtech Fortress. The account then returns to Kalron still protesting as the civilians attack; it does not confirm his death or Asherion's fate.

After Take Him Down, Stellaria says the prisoners were freed before they could be transformed, but calls the rescue only a bandage over a seeping wound. She says she has come one step closer to using an ace she still holds. This remains her account of the rescue and its limits, not a complete resolution of the Deadtech threat.