Pinetree Family/Long/The Adventure of Atamara/The Old Man of Icegate

Long sneaks into the castle stronghold of Icegate at midnight. His intention: to look for the mysterious peasant.

This castle is huge! Where the hell would this guy be...

An hour passes, and he's been through the whole castle, but he still hasn't found his person.

Damnit, this guy is smarter than I thought. Or maybe that old man was just messing with my head.. Oh man I can't believe I fell for it.

Angered, Long throws his dagger straight into the concrete wall. Strangely, the blade sticks in the wall, as if piercing it. Long walks up to the wall, examining it and pulls out his blade. It took him a few minutes, but he found out it was a door. The hidden door? Maybe.

Well, that was luck. Let's see where this thing leads to.

Long continued down a hallway completely engulfed in darkness and shadows. He crept towards the end and bump into another wall. Again, he examined it with his fingers, trying to figure if it was a door. It didn't seem like it, but he felt something carved into the middle stone. Following the text, he made out the words, "Be wary of the errors you make; following this message is one mistake."

As soon as he realized what was read, he quickly removed his hand, but it was too late. At the end of the sentence was a button that he pressed. Torches lit up along the hallway, and the door opened in front of him. Everything seemed alright, but then he saw something near the way he came in. Something was dripping.. And he found out. One by one, the torches began to fall, hitting the liquid and igniting it. Long ran for his life, but soon came to another end.

This wall had 5 slots on it and some text as well.

It read, "Fire to Metal; Metal to Earth; Earth to Trees; Trees to Water; Water to Fire; Thus, the cycle is repeated."

The slots were in a star position, a torch burning in the top point, the right point empty, the bottom-right part with dirt in it, the bottom-left with a few leaves of an herb, and the left point empty.

The puzzle was easy to figure out. Long just needed the materials. For the metal, he placed a gold coin in the slot. For water, he placed his saliva into the slot. The door opened. Long ran down the hall with the fire only meters away from the last puzzle.

Another wall appeared to Long. This wall had just text on it. It read "Your mind can stand the flames of problems, but your body cannot. The flames will catch you."

This took Long a bit longer, but he figured it out. Climbing to the top of the hallway, using his arms and legs to keep him in the air, he waited for the fire to come. It didn't take long. The flames burned to the end of the hall, and it burned the wall down. At that moment, snow fell through newly opened holes in the walls. The fire extinguished, and torches on the walls appeared again. This time, they didn't drop.

Long walked down the rest of the hallway slowly, making sure not to set off any traps. At the end, was a door. Just a door. It seemed to easy.

Damn Vikings, better not have laid any traps on this door..