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Let's start at the beginning

The traveling merchants say they can see a light coming from the cliffs. Bek, El, Owen, Frouge, and Kitty are the first party to enter the dungeon

The dungeon is a muti-level trial taken in 5 stages, Farkle, spot the difference, sculptures trial, relic trial, and breaking creaking hearts. If all 5 stages are completed in the time limit, the party continues to the roof where they fight the Creaking King. They only have a maximum of 10 minutes to fight him each day, any extra time on the timer is converted into extra health. The Creaking King started with 100,000 health and never regains it. Parties typically average ~3,000 damage per successful run.

After a while the Creaking King starts talking to players individually. Generally he is praying on insecurities, digging at painful memories, and threatening the people they value the most. He mimics the voices of Owain, El, King Ren, and Darius Springwell, to hurt Bek, Cherri, and Scott specifically. After more time, the Creaking King (or more likely the spirit of the King of Bannerfall) also starts talking during the boss fight at the end of the dungeon.

Several people suspect that they are not damaging the Creaking King, but instead are weakening the bonds keeping it contained. This proves true. The Great Tree atop the dungeon starts to turn into a pale oak tree. As he weakens, dead trees start popping up around the kingdoms and trees around the dungeon also start to die.

The Creaking King attempts to make deals with Scott, Kitty, Frouge, Cam, Sausage, and Nom, the latter four all taking one at some point. Sausage and Nom took the biggest deal, eating a Creaking Clump, and gained 8 extra hearts to their current total (18 for Sausage, 15 for Nom).

Sausage was given two additional Creaking Clumps, one of which was stolen by 4C and then taken by Mae. This Clump disappeared after the rogues got a message saying “I don’t want you.” Sausage ate the second Clump, but gained no additional benefits.

Nom started creaking about a day after he ate the clump, and in the three days leading up to the finale both he and Sausage started to change. Whiting hair, amber eyes, skin turning to bark, and vines growing out of their bodies. This only happened to Nom, but somehow he knew when people were listening in (note from Pocket: I need to emphasize again, this wasn’t a game mechanic, cc!Nom just knew it somehow and even he was confused.)

Apo and Cherri are the very last people to do a normal dungeon run, ending with the Creaking King kicking them out of the dungeon early.

The Finale

During the finale, the dungeon has no timer and all citizens of Bannerfall participate. After the Creaking King is killed the spirit of the King of Bannerfall is freed.

The Creaking Heart calls Sausage and Nom to the dungeon one final time, and Sausage becomes the Creaking King. The Knight, Mage, and Rouge Gods charge the members of their respective classes to take him down.

Frouge finds the Creaking Heart under the Fark-hall. The Creaking Heart offers to make Frouge human again, but he refuses. Sausage is teleported to the Creaking Heart ahead of the rest, the last words he says before the Heart takes him over completely is “Help me.”

Once all resin nodes on the Creaking Heart are broken both Nom and Sausage are significantly weakened. Graecie kills Sausage thus freeing him of the Creaking Heart’s control.