Temple
Not to be confused with The Hidden Temple adventure location.
The Temple is located at the Secret Tropical Island Volcano Lair (Pastamancer).
Visiting without equipping the spaghetti cult robe:
You start to enter the temple proper, but stop short when several large and powerful-looking cultists turn and glare at you. Apparently the temple is firmly off-limits to outsiders. You could probably take any one of these guys without too much trouble, but fighting a whole mob of them doesn't sound like a very wise use of your time. Or your hit points.
Visiting with a spaghetti cult robe equipped:
You pull up the hood of your robe and tuck your hands into the sleeves. Bowing your head and trying to look humble and unassuming, you step through the front doors of the temple.
The interior is fashioned of the same petrified noodles as the outside, but as the sunlight doesn't reach far inside the front doors and the place is lit mainly by candlelight, the effect is even more hideous. The stone noodles almost appear to writhe in the flickering shadows, and you frequently catch peripheral glimpses of silently screaming faces and other monstrosities in the stonework, which disappear when you turn to look at them directly. Shuddering, you step forward into the central chamber of the temple, where a large circular stone altar rises out of the floor.
Suddenly a voice slithers across your brain, bypassing the usual route via the ears. "So you have arrived, mortal. I foresaw that you would be unable to stay away." The cultists evidently heard it as well -- they are all staring at the ceiling, transfixed with reverence for their master's voice. A fierce wind whips through the chamber, first blowing back your hood and then ripping the robe from your shoulders. The cultists' robes ripple slightly, as if in a light breeze. "My faithful followers! A heretic stands among you! Destroy her! Destroy the blasphemer! I command you!"
The cultists turn toward you, a fierce light of zealotry burning in their eyes. Metaphorically speaking.
Leads to The Nemesis' Lair
After defeating the zealots and the Spaghetti Elemental, but before equipping your Greek Pasta of Peril equipped:
A niggling voice in the back of your head (that's me) reminds you that you're heading toward what is likely to be the Final Battle against your Nemesis, and therefore you should probably equip that Legendary Epic Weapon of yours first. Just sayin'.
After defeating the zealots and the Spaghetti Elemental, and equipping your Greek Pasta of Peril:
The hole beneath the Spaghetti Elemental's altar has a ladder bolted to one side, fortunately. You climb down for thirty or forty feet, until the shaft ends in a natural cavern underground. You cast a simple location spell to determine which direction the Spaghetti Elemental fled in, and pick up the chase.
Soon, the cavern branches into a smooth, almost glassy-surfaced tunnel -- obviously an ancient lava tube. It appears that you're heading directly into the heart of the volcano. On reflection, this was inevitable, really. I mean, you can't just have a Final Boss Battle near a volcano. It would be like having a car chase in which the fruit cart doesn't get knocked over. Or fighting crime in a giant robot and never using Rocket Punch.
You wipe the sweat from your face as the tunnel ends at a massive lake of bubbling lava. In the distance, through the shimmering haze of the heat, you spot a small island. You can just make out the form of your Nemesis -- at this distance you can't tell what he's up to, but 'no good' is a safe bet. You'd better get there fast and put a stop to it, whatever it is.
You survey the little stepping-stones that periodically rise and fall in the boiling magma, and realize that this is seriously going to suck. In fact, this is going to suck so much that I kind of feel like I ought to apologize in advance. Still, it wouldn't be a final battle without an especially fiendish final puzzle, now would it?
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Leads to A Volcanic Cave
After defeating Spaghetti Elemental for the final time, first visit:
You poke around the wreckage of the Temple for a bit, just to make sure you haven't overlooked anything valuable, but you don't find much of anything apart from some of their hymn books. You take one just for the hell of it, and hurry out of there.
 | You acquire an item: black hymnal |
After defeating Spaghetti Elemental for the final time, subsequent visits:
There's nothing left for you there; the Temple is just rocks and wreckage now.
Notes
- black hymnal can be acquired while falling-down drunk and will not lead to Drunken Stupor when visited after defeating the final form of Spaghetti Elemental.
