Kia and Envoy puzzle over some traps and puzzles set at the gates to the city of Stalto, and are hurried along as several monsters called "gorts" show up. They rush inside, as the gorts fight outside, and set off a flame trap that the explorers had carefully avoided. The explorers continue on into the underground city, discovering some mechanical devices that work like shekelodeons, only that the currency required is the krozmid (of which they have none.) Envoy tries a desperate gambit to get one to work, whacking it with her staff, but instead breaks the aged device, causing it to shatter.
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