Doomwood III: Tech Fortress and Legacy of Darkness

The Fortress Opens

Kyger says he is ready: the Hero has trained him, and he has his father’s axe. Inside the fortress, Asherion reports that Kalron has been defeated and slain by the Paladin and her allies. The Technolich answers by making Asherion its chosen one, then asks whether he will kill his sister and the Hero.

Asherion is shocked that the Technolich knows about his sister and the Hero. The Technolich asks how the Hero got there, says its time machine and invasion force are ready, and predicts that Asherion will betray it by opening the door. Asherion does not answer before the scene ends.

After Never Give Up, Stellaria calls Asherion their secret weapon: he can get them into the fortress, but they must clear the creepazoids first. In I CPU U!, Keep Droning On, and Gathering Data, the team breaks up Crypthackers and returns their CPUs so they cannot be reused, drives off the NecroDrones blocking the way, and gathers data from the recovered CPUs to prepare for the fortress.

In Signal Flare, Stellaria asks the Hero to take a flare from a NecroDrone and use it to signal Asherion. She says he is watching for it and will open the door; to anyone else, the flare should look like another DeadTech signal. The map notes that Asherion can get the team inside and must open the door before they can enter, though they will still have to fight through the fortress waves.

Inside Deadtech

Outside the fortress, Stellaria finds the door open and credits Asherion, guessing that he saw their signal. She hurries inside and calls the Hero to join her. The scene gives her account of the open door, not a view of Asherion opening it.

In Medal Time, the team fights the fortress guards and brings back their medals as proof. In Hidden Data, Stellaria asks for information carried in the NecroMechs' minds, hoping it will reveal where the High Technolich keeps the time machine. Hidden Data explicitly follows Signal Flare.

After Hidden Data, Stellaria says Asherion gave her directions to the time machine. She explains that they must get past the CPU—the Corpse Processing Unit—and asks the Hero to say when they are ready to fight.

The route notes say the team must pass the CPU before moving on, and place later area unlocks at 67% and 100% war progress. Those are recorded guide gates, not verified current game-state conditions.

Past the CPU

The Pass the CPU task calls for the team to overcome the unit guarding access to the time machine, saying that the CPU cannot stand against the three of them. Its completion text reports, “And he’s FRIED.” Stellaria then says they have found the time machine but cannot destroy it until they know how to send the Hero home, and still need to find the High Technolich. Her earlier scene sets up the fight but does not show its result.

The Guards task says the enemies know the team is inside and do not want them there. Stellaria asks the Hero to defeat DoomBorg Guards; the completion text says, “That did it.”

Stellaria asks for more DoomBorg circuitry, believing she can use it to rewire the DeadTech time machine. After Circui-try This, she says the enemy turned her father into this thing and vows not to let it use him that way. Rewiring is her plan at this point, not a confirmed result.

The Technolich’s Trap

The community account places the confrontation after Circui-try This and records a historical 100% war-meter gate. Its narration says the group fought through the fortress and now faces the Technolich for access to the time machine. The Technolich introduces the Deadtech Empire and greets them before Kyger gasps and Stellaria reacts by calling him Father.

The Technolich describes its mission as ending war, hate, and humanity, calls the group future drones, and declares escape impossible. It orders them to comply with the image of their parental unit. The Hero rejects the figure as Artix and points to the absence of Artix’s usual punning; Asherion agrees that the figure is not their father.

Asherion explains that Deadtech stole Artix’s body from its grave and fused it with Vordred’s remains to make an invulnerable host. He calls the confrontation a trap for the three of them. The Technolich claims its simulations predict a 99.99% chance of an attempt to initiate combat, while Asherion says it has the defenses of both the Champion of Darkness and Vordred, with the Deadtech central computer’s brain.

Asherion says Stellaria’s light and his own darkness cannot hurt the host, though the Hero insists it can still be hurt. Asherion warns that if the Hero attacks first, the program would access the database and delete the Hero’s account. Stellaria says the body would technically have access to do that. An on-screen note adds, “THE DEADTECH DON’T MESS AROUND.” The Technolich states that it will use the time machine to conquer all of time and space with its drones as a family.

When the Technolich tells them to give up, the Hero remembers that Artix never gave up and brings up their old fight against Vordred. Stellaria asks how they won; the Hero answers, “We used.... that thing.” The Hero tells Kyger this is the moment he was trained for, and Kyger cries “BATTTLE ON!!!!!!!” Kyger strikes the Technolich, which reports signal loss and database inaccessibility. The Hero says they will take it from here and confronts the Technolich for using a friend’s body, but the scene does not resolve the fight.

The community account calls Kyger’s weapon the Obsidian Light of Destiny here. It provides no account of the axe being renamed or transformed.

A Second Form

The Thing task asks the Hero to fight Vortrix; its completion says, “And it’s over… or is it?” The task reports a victory, while the question leaves the larger confrontation open.

After The Thing, Vortrix asks if the Hero thought it would be that easy. The humanoid figure changes into a taller mechanical monster with long, spindly legs, identified in the community scene account as MechaVortrix. The authored before-and-after poses show the changed body; this brief scene ends before the next fight’s result.

After The Thing, Stellaria says the first form was bad enough and that this new form is worse. The Final Form task keeps the fight going against MechaVortrix, with its completion text reporting, “And it’s over…” That reports MechaVortrix defeated, but does not establish that Artix’s body is freed or the wider threat has ended.

A Warning for the Past

With the Hero in the shaking time machine, the Hero asks how the crisis began. Stellaria says it started when the Hero’s powers returned, and the Hero identifies them as Eternal Dragon of Time powers. Stellaria says the Hero made the choice, then admits she does not know whether a choice was possible.

The Hero asks who killed Stellaria’s father. She answers, “You did,” then says the Hero still has a chance to change everything by returning to the past. Her warning is cut off, and the Hero returns to the earlier Doomwood scene without hearing what not to do. The text does not establish how the reported killing happened or whether the later future changes.

Back in Doomwood Forest, the film cuts from the Hero to the golden, sparkling outhouse and back again. It also shows Artix fighting undead nearby. A bone knocks the Hero off-screen; later the Hero says they held it that long, and a shield hits the outhouse and sends it over a cliff. Artix wonders if the Hero is still inside, then greets the Hero with Twilly beside him. The Hero says Artix is still alive and starts to explain, but Artix and Twilly answer with shower and smell jokes.

The Hero insists the news is important, and Artix promises they will find a way to win together. Closing narration says the past is written but the future is not, and that every action ripples through time. It urges making each choice to better the world and treasuring every precious memory. Three photos turn the return into a comic memory: the Hero on the outhouse, holding Twilly like a baby as Artix laughs, and fighting undead with Twilly and Artix.

In the later family scene, Asherion, Kyger, and Stellaria gather around a table with a picture of the Hero, toast with moglinberry juice, and call “BATTLE ON!” Kyger asks whether anyone can use the time machine; Asherion and Stellaria call his name. A separate later Stellaria map line asks whether the Hero used time-travel powers to come back and asks for further help. That revisit dialogue does not negate the preceding scene’s actual return to the past.