A screenshot from Ultima VIII: Pagan, showing the Avatar standing in front of a set of massive, locked, double-doors in a catacomb full of bones.

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   vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:11:00 JST vga256

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   @ThreeOhFour this is far less engimatic than the hive, but this location in ultima viii captured my imagination for a decade

   in a cave near mythran's home, there is a set of massive, locked, double doors. i searched under every skeleton and behind every chest for months, trying to find a way to unlock them. my buddy at school and i talked for months about what we thought might be behind them.

   we graduated, and never figured it out.

   15 years later i found out that the doors could only be opened by summoning a golem, using a single pixel of dirt in the area. the golem pries the doors apart and it leads to....

   ... a big empty room 😆

   this was supposed to be a teleport/transition area to the Lost Vale expansion, that never got used in the final game.

   some things are best left to the imagination i guess.