You don't just leave the keys to the most secure prison in the multiverse sitting on a table. You give the keys to the biggest, meanest, most obnoxiously overpowered guard dog in the entire company, and you make the player fight for it.
"Alright," Sebastian sighed, rolling his shoulders and taking a few steps back from the pedestal. He cracked his knuckles, the heavy, dense sound of his biological steel joints popping loudly in the quiet cavern. "If there's a key, there's a bouncer. Where are you hiding, ugly?"
He didn't have to wait long for the answer.
The moment Sebastian recognized the requirement, the Ethereal Plane's localized event scripting triggered. The server recognized that a hostile entity had reached the final checkpoint.
RUMBLE...
The perfectly smooth, polished black obsidian platform beneath his boots began to violently tremble. It wasn't a minor tremor. It was a massive, localized earthquake that threatened to throw Sebastian flat on his face.
