Heart of the Volcano (story)

Heart of the Volcano (story)

Сезон

Живой Мир: Сезон 3

Глава

Flashpoint

Год

1330 AE

Локация

Titan's Throat

Уровень

80

Предшествует

Elder Druid Protection

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Heart of the Volcano is the final part of Flashpoint.

Rewards

•  Empyreal Fragments (5)
•  Gilded Strongbox (3)
•  Unbound Magic (50)
•  Pamphlet of Wisdom (2)
•  Bag of Loot (5)
•  Fire Orchid Blossom (5)
•  Volcano's Heart

Walkthrough

Achievements

Heart of the Volcano

No result for achievement "{{{1}}}". It may not have been added to the wiki yet. Complete the instance

Fancy Flying

No result for achievement "{{{1}}}". It may not have been added to the wiki yet. Make it to the bottom without being hit by any destroyer fireballs. This includes both on the ground and in the air.

Go Nuts with the Scanning

No result for achievement "{{{1}}}". It may not have been added to the wiki yet. You will need to scan: Taimi, Barrier Anchor, Energy Barrier (x3), any Destroyer (easiest to do as soon as you begin your descent), the machine, both of Balthazar's Hounds Tegan and Temar.

NPCs

Allies

Golems

• Scruffy 2.0

Foes

Canines

• Tegon
• Temar

Destroyers

• Vine-Touched Destroyer
• Death-Touched Destroyer

Gods

• Balthazar

Objects

• A Glitch in Time

Dialogue

Upon entering the volcano's chimney:

<Character name>: Taimi. I've reached the volcano's chimney. The druids' ward is...holding. I am feeling some heat, though.

Taimi: I'd expect you to work up a little sweat, but let me know if you experience a fiery death.

<Character name>: Thanks. There's... Looks like there's some sort of energy barrier here. Any ideas? I can describe it for you if you want.

Taimi: How about if I just take a look myself?

<Character name>: You—! Scruffy! He's fixed?

Taimi: Not completely... This is my fault. I wasn't going to let you go it[sic] alone.

<Character name>: Balthazar's doing this, not you.

Taimi: But I gave him the gun.

Taimi: Anyway, Scruffy's mobile and heat-shielded, but he's still lacking weapon capabilities, so I won't be much good to you.

<Character name>: It's just great to have you here. Facing a god of war and all...

Taimi: We're sure in it deep, Commander! Here. Take this scanner and use it on the possibly deadly energy barrier.

Taimi: Go nuts with the scanning.

After scanning the first energy field:

Scanner: Volatile—energy—field—detected.

Scanner: Field—is—not—naturally—occurring—for—this—geographic—location.

Taimi: Gonna guess that means Balthazar or one of his people set it up.

Taimi: In that case, maybe it's not perfect. I can modulate your scanner to find any cracks in the armor...

Upon scanning Scruffy 2.0 and Taimi:

Scanner: Boundless—intellect—with—infinite—cognitive—capacity—detected.

Scanner:Designation: Taimi—the—Magnificent.

<Character name>: Funny; didn't say anything about how humble you are.

Taimi: Hey, it's just a scanner. It only sees the world as objective data. Who am I to argue?

Upon approaching a weak spot in the energy field:

Scanner: The—energy—barrier's—structure—is—fragile—here.

Taimi: Try it now.

After scanning again:

Scanner: Assessing—weakness. Defect—discovered. Please—stand—clear.

Taimi: Hooray! You didn't die! That's scientific progress! It looks like the field tried to purge its weaknesses.

Taimi: Collect those anomalies and use them against the field. That should do the trick.

Taimi: I'd glide up there myself, but, you know... I'm in two tons of steel.

Taimi: The heated air in here should give you a lift.

If landed after touching anomaly and did not use them:

Taimi: Huh. The anomaly dispersed when you touched down.

Taimi: Guess you'll need to stay airborne to use them against the field's vulnerabilities.

After disrupting the first energy field:

Taimi: Nice work! I'll monitor your descent and stay in touch over the communicator.

Taimi: Have a good...uh...plummet!

Upon reaching the second energy field:

<Character name>: You'll never guess what's down here.

Taimi: Please tell me it's not a second, even angrier, god of war...

<Character name>: No. Another energy field. And some destroyers who don't like me airborne.

Taimi: Well, standard annihilate-or-avoid tactics should work on the destroyers, and the scanner should disrupt the barrier.

Taimi: Have you thought about...you know...?

<Character name>: There's really no other way to kill Primordus or Jormag?

Taimi: They're each other's weakness. Like Mordremoth's was its mind. And without my machine...

Taimi: I don't think they're going to duke it out physically. Feels like that would be a disaster anyway.

<Character name>: I can't believe we're seriously considering saving them.

Taimi: I know, but magic is so out of whack. If one more goes, all of Tyria might just collapse in on itself.

<Character name>: If...IF we keep them alive, how do we keep them from killing us all anyway?

Taimi: Hey, one problem at a time. At least we'd be alive to solve it...

Upon scanning a destroyer:

Scanner: Destroyer—detected. Entity—is—magma—and—rock—animated—by—Elder—Dragon—spectrum: Primordus.

After disrupting the second energy field:

Taimi: Looks like you broke through. Down you go!

Upon reaching the third energy field:

Taimi: My sensors show you nearing the base of the chimney, but let me guess... Another barrier?

<Character name>: You got it. And more destroyers. Many more!

Taimi: Well, you know what to do!

After destroying one of the weak spots:

<Character name>: Taimi, all of the destroyers... They just... dropped.

Taimi: Uh... Okay... So you've probably guessed...

Taimi: That roar was Primordus. We've passed the event horizon. The machine's on.

Taimi: We either let Balthazar kill the dragons and absorb the magic or destroy the machine...

<Character name>: (growl) Don't plan on Braham ever talking to us again if we take Jormag off the table.

Taimi: I love that big dummy, but I'd rather be alive to try to explain myself.

After disrupting the third energy field:

Taimi: That did it! Go! Go!

Upon reaching Balthazar and the machine:

Taimi: Are you fighting him? What's happening?

<Character name>: He's here, but...not here. If that makes sense. Above the machine. In the channel of magic.

Taimi: What? Can you scan him?

Upon scanning Balthazar:

Scanner: No—life—detected. Only—magic—energy—present.

Taimi: Nooooo...! Is the coast clear? Can I come down?

<Character name>: There's a god and an Elder Dragon down here, but you're welcome to join.

Taimi: Whoa. Hotter down here. Is that...? That's Primordus! Right there! I've never been this close to an Elder Dragon!

<Character name>: Should we be worried about it...I don't know, moving and killing us all?

Taimi: I theorized the machine would put it in a state of paralysis... Looks like I was right.

<Character name>: So what's going on with Balthazar?

Taimi: He's somehow inserted himself into the system... And he's so magically adept... So in order to absorb...

Taimi: Okay, I'll admit it. I don't really know exactly what's happening. But...here we are. Clock's ticking. What do you think?

<Character name>: Destroy it. A murderous, overpowered god of war is too dangerous to keep around.

<Character name>: Even if you're wrong about the deaths of more dragons devastating the planet.

Taimi: Agreed.

Balthazar: Your kind will not stop my campaign.

<Character name>: Balthazar! What you're doing... You'll destroy Tyria!

Balthazar: Your home is a trivial concern.

Balthazar: They abated me, dimmed my light... But they will see me now.

<Character name>: If you won't stop, then at least face me! For the honor of battle! Of war!

Taimi: Good thinking! A certain death sentence, but good thinking!

Balthazar: I've learned there is no honor in war. But if you crave the glory of the fray...

Balthazar: Temar! Tegon! Feast!

Taimi: Ah! You take care of them, and I'll start the overload process!

Upon scanning Tegon during battle:

Scanner: Canine—signature—detected. Designation: Tegon.

Upon scanning Temar during battle:

Scanner: Canine—signature—detected. Designation: Temar.

Upon killing one of Balthazar's hounds:

Taimi: Uh, why is it still burning after you just killed it? Try scanning it.

Upon scanning the slain hound:

Scanner: Entity—corpse—is—concentrating—heat—for—revival.

Upon killing one of the hounds again:

Taimi: It's down! Use the scanner to disrupt the machine!

Taimi: Glide! You need to grab both of those clusters of dragon energy!

After grabbing both clusters:

Taimi: Shoot it!

Taimi: Hurry!

Upon using the clusters:

Scanner: Energy—channel—disrupted.

If landed after interacting with the clusters and did not use them:

Taimi: The dragon energy dispersed when you landed.

Taimi: You need to fire it at one of the hounds' corpses while you're still airborne.

Upon disrupting the machine:

Taimi: The machine is reacting! Nice work!

Taimi: Keep it up and the machine will think they're part of the dragons!

Taimi: Another blast like that should do it!

Upon disrupting the machine again:

Taimi: You did it!

Balthazar: That was a dire mistake.

<Character name>: Step out then! Stop me!

Taimi: Good one, Commander!

Taimi: Anyways, one more to go!

Taimi: Getting close with the overload!

Upon disrupting the machine one last time:

Taimi: Good timing! I'm ready to overload the machine! You sure about this?

<Character name>: Am I sure? Are you sure?

Taimi: Guess we'll find out! But...

Taimi: What is Balthazar doing?

Taimi: Aargh!

Balthazar: I was weak... I'm feeling much better now.

<Character name>: Taimi, do it now!

Balthazar: The...power!

After overloading the machine:

<Character name>: You okay?

Taimi: Yeah, yeah. The machine... It...survived.

<Character name>: What was that?

Taimi: That was what I thought was going to happen. Just took a little longer.

<Character name>: Tyria seems intact, so at least there's that... You see Balthazar?

Taimi: No. Looked like he was vaporized in the explosion, but...he apparently doesn't like to follow the rules I know.

<Character name>: And Primordus?

Taimi: Let me check.

Scanner: Elder—Dragon—spectrum: Primordus, energy—subsiding—to—pre-awakening—level.

Taimi: Night, night, sweet dragon! Guessing the same thing happened to Jormag too.

Taimi: Uh, still... we should vacate this hot hole ASAP.

<Character name>: We just spared two Elder Dragons, Taimi. I had to say that out loud; I don't really believe it.

Taimi: Paradigm: shifted. But I'm relieved I'm not responsible for the death of everything I know and love.

<Character name>: Confirm that theory as soon as you can. I'm sure we'll have a lot of convincing to do when word of this gets out.

Taimi: I won't sleep until I... On second thought, maybe a little nap before I get started will be good for me.

<Character name>: Definitely do that. I'll try to find out what happened to our divine friend.

<Character name>: With any luck he's been scattered to the Mists.

Taimi: At least we won the day, Commander. Score one for Dragon's Watch.

<Character name>: True. And maybe one day we'll be a guild that can field a full team.

Taimi: Ha-ha. Hey, don't be too hard on yourself. Rata Sum wasn't built in a day, you know? We'll get there soon enough...

Talking to your ally:

Well, plug me in and call me zapped. That was intense. I wish the others had been here to help. I feel like I never see Braham, Rox, Kas, or Jory anymore.

Agreed. Let's get out of here.

Great idea. I want to run some tests on Scruffy 2.0. I hadn't planned to bring him into the field so soon. The smell of burning hair...not leaving his air-intake system anytime soon. (cough)

Your new design looks good.

You don't know the half of it! It has internal phalange arrays, TWO pulpless propulsion systems, and a heated seat—for a cozy factor that's off the charts.

Sounds wonderful.

I wish Marjory hadn't run off to spy on Lazarus, but she meant well.

If she hadn't, we'd never have known about the mirror, and we'd have had no warning that he was on his way. I'm just glad she wasn't killed when Kasmeer started drooling in front of Balthazar.

It's a human thing...the gods. Kasmeer couldn't help herself.

I suppose you see more of Kas and Jory than I do. They were with you in the battle of Divinity's Reach, right?

No, actually, they weren't. Jory was with Lazarus, and Kas...I don't know.

You don't know? I guess you were kinda busy. And Kas has been doing all that work for Countess Anise and the queen. I bet she was behind the scenes somewhere, being all "sneaky mesmer."

Likely. As for Braham, he's...trying to find his footing. Rox is with him.

I've tried to get in touch with him, but he's avoiding me. Rox told me he broke one of Jormag's teeth, and the norn in Hoelbrak have been celebrating ever since. They won't give him any peace.

He's determined to go after Jormag. But...

I know. In light of what I discovered, considering how...wrong I was, going after Jormag isn't a good idea. I haven't told him that yet. It's going to be hard to be heard through the norn cheers.

And you'll triple check your new theory on the Elder Dragons, please?

That's my plan. We have no more room for error. I'll be in touch as soon as I know anything new.

Get home safely.

That must be it. C'mon, let's get out of here.

Me too. C'mon, let's go.

After leaving the instance:

Druid Spirit: You have done a good deed. Thank you. The protection from the elder druids is at an end. Go in peace.

My story

“ I entered the caldera and didn't go up in smoke, so I'd call that a success. Taimi met me, her own protective shields holding as well. With her help, I made my way down to the lava chamber at the heart of the volcano. Balthazar was there! He planned to acquire all the magic from both Primordus and Jormag, and he didn't give a hoot whether Tyria was destroyed in the process. He sicced his hounds, Temar and Tegon, on us, but they failed to vanquish us. It quickly became clear that our only hope was to overload Taimi's machine, despite the potential danger to ourselves. When it blew, we lost track of Balthazar and a bolt of Jormag energy struck Primordus, wounding the Elder Dragon and causing it to sink deeper into the lava. Taimi confirmed that Jormag had likely suffered the same fate. — Моя история

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Сюжет 3-го сезона Живого Мира

Из Теней	Мемориал Эйр в Хёльбрэке → Исследование в Рата Новусе → Кровь и камень → Жнец магии → Теневые деяния → Оплот Исповедника
Разгорающееся Пламя	Игра Тайми → Разрушая разрушителей → Вулканическое нарушение → Поход в цирк → Машина в пламени → Старые враги, старые призраки → Драконье бдение
Трещина во Льду	Скороспелая Аурин → Путешествие в Морозный Рубеж → Замерзший во льду → Рецепт эликсира → Варка эликсира → Жуткий мороз → Замороженный
Голова Змеи	Встреча министров → Глаза Озера Дорик → Саботирование Форта Эвенния → Снятие блокады → Перегруппировка с Королевой → Конец Исповедника
Точка Возгорания	Питомничий проект Тайми → Прибытие и выживание → В погоне за Богом → Защита древних друидов → Сердце Вулкана
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