A vine drops down from a tree limb and lashes about Starfox's neck, choking him as it cuts deeply
with its tiny thorns.
As Starfox's soul flutters away from his body, you reach out and grasp ahold of it, its ethereal
form suddenly wracked with spasms.
90 wailing spirits manifest within your aura of death before the captured soul escapes.
Flesh flayed into ribbons and unable to breathe, the thorny vines lashed about Starfox's throat yank
and his neck snaps audibly, the plants finally releasing him to collapse in a bloody heap.
You have slain Starfox.

Flesh flayed into ribbons and unable to breathe, the thorny vines lashed about Starfox's throat yank
and his neck snaps audibly, the plants finally releasing him to collapse in a bloody heap.

You put a wriggling illithoid hatchling into the corpse of a weary kephera nurse.
Your karma rises in response to your deeds.
A wriggling illithoid hatchling wriggles gleefully around in the corpse of a weary kephera nurse,
tearing at the innards in a gruesome display and feasting upon the dead flesh of the kephera nurse.
He gurgles wetly as his flesh begins to grow and distend, his limbs breaking and re-molding as they
grow at an amazing rate.

An illithoid youth says, "Ahh, I am born at last, ready to undertake my trials and prove my place in
illithoid society! Though, first I shall need to acquire the Elixir of Awakening."

You give a gruesome phial containing Elixir of Awakening to an illithoid youth.
An illithoid youth says, "How generous of you to bring me an Elixir of Awakening, Viynain. Now I can
begin my trials in earnest."
An illithoid youth gulps down the elixir in a single draught, grimacing harshly. His eyes glaze over
and he stares glassily into the distance as his pale veins pulse wildly. He shakes his head at last,
steeling himself to begin the trials.
An illithoid youth begins following you.

An illithoid youth says, "You must lead me to a kephera king, Viynain. The Kephera Hives and vast
tunnels of the Undervault are too dangerous for me to tread alone, but I must meet a king in battle.
I will have to challenge the king in a psionic battle and plunder his potential."

---

A cozy salon.
The shadowy outline of a twisted forest casts a dark gloom here. His abdomen glowing with cobalt
shades, King Akhomotep stands here with a straight back. There are 2 kephera warriors here. Fanning
himself absently, a kephera prince fixes his surroundings with a disinterested smirk.
You see exits leading east and south.

Hive King Akhomotep exclaims, "Foul illithoid! I do not know how you have escaped your Great Prison,
but your miserable life ends here!"
Hive King Akhomotep faces the illithoid youth, and waves of psionic power wash over you, filling the
chamber with a loud buzzing sound as the two stare darkly at once another, their brows furrowed in
concentration.

Hive King Akhomotep gasps in agony as a triumphant smile spreads across the illithoid's thin lips.
Hive King Akhomotep's composite eyes explode in a spray of violent green blood, and the illithoid
howls in victory.
Your karma rises in response to your deeds.

A swirling pool of darkness forms on the ground, out of which Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist rises.
Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist says, "You are to be commended for passing your trials, youth - or
should I say, Cenobite. However, I have far greater plans for you. Come to visit me in the Great
Illithoid Prison and we will discuss it further."

An illithoid youth kneels before Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist, swearing his allegiance to him.
An illithoid youth says, "Yes, Great Cthoglogg, I shall do as you command."
An illithoid youth begins following you.

Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist nods his head at an illithoid youth.
Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist gestures forcefully at the ground and sinks into a swirling pool of
darkness.

An illithoid youth says, "Lead onward to the Great Illithoid Prison, where I shall take my place in
opening the Temple for Great Cthoglogg."

---

Your karma rises in response to your deeds.
Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist exclaims, "It is so wonderful that you have come here, my young
warrior. Our breeding program has been an absolute success, and it is time we opened the Flesh Gate
with the latent powers I have hidden inside you. You shall become one of the five organs that will
open the Gate!"

Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist chants a string of dark syllables that causes a shiver to run down your
spine, and the illithoid youth abruptly lets out a shrill scream.

An illithoid youth screams in agony as his flesh bubbles and boils, blistering away to spill his
organs across the dark stone floor.
An illithoid youth exclaims, "N-n-noooooo!"

The illithoid youth's innards rot away, leaving only a giant pineal gland pulsing on the ground. A
web of fibrous strands descend from the ceiling to ensnare a giant pineal gland and raise it up,
still living.
The five organs pulse and thrum, causing the fleshy wall to turn a healthy pink and come alive,
constricting and expanding until it reveals a path into its depths.

Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist smiles in dark triumph and enters the Flesh Gate, vanishing into the
gloom.

Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist shouts, "The Temple of the Hidden Empress lies open, and the Black
Heart is again ours! The kephera shall know true agony for their transgressions against us!"
Shouts and hisses echo throughout the Great Illithoid Prison, carrying a frenzied bloodlust.

The clash of battle sounds throughout the Undervault as serpentine illithoid assassins descend upon
the kephera hives, catching their warriors by surprise.
You gain a new honour!

You have completed the Illithoid Cycle, and are awarded the title Dark Reaper of the Illithoid and a
notable honours!

The victorious hisses of the illithoid drown out the kephera's cries as they dominate the weakened
kephera, psychically enslaving them to their insidious will.

---

He is a revered Dark Reaper of the Great Illithoid Prison.

The Black Heart of the Temple.
Shriveled and twisted, the Black Heart of the Mother yet beats a monotonous, ominous doom. Cthoglogg,
the High Ritualist, lurks in the shadows as he watches you hungrily.
You see a single exit leading out.
Cthoglogg, the High Ritualist says, "Hail, Dark Reaper Viynain. Our eyes feast upon your presence
here."