The correct number of tapers – three thousand, one hundred and nine – were lit about the place. The device sat in the centre of the floor, surrounded by the scribings. The marks on the stone floor formed a perfect pentagrammic ward. They had been made with bone ash; or at least Culzean hoped so, or the night would come to a very sudden, very messy end.
Batlin: Fool! Thou art too late. Now I shall enter the Wall of Lights and become immortal! Then I shall return to destroy thy mortal soul!
Steve the Avatar: Let me stop you right there and explain, in as detailed a manner as possible, how badly you just fucked everything up by doing this.
Shamino: It's true.
Dupre: She showed us the PowerPoint slides and everything.
Steve: The Ophidian people were a race of human beings who divided into two major subcultures - Order and Chaos - and one minor - Balance - in order to form a more or less stable civilization. The Ophidian cultures utilized the Wall of Lights as a sort of Moongate, where their leaders the Hierophants would go into the Void to talk to magical space snakes. Following me so far?
Batlin: ...
Steve: At any rate, the Wall of Lights we're dealing with right now is not the solitary one in existence. I would surmise there are at least three, and I have personally witnessed the existence of two.
Batlin: ...two?
Steve: Yes, two, which you might have realized if you used Ophidian texts as anything but coasters for your chocolate milk. Now where were we? Ah yes. You were clearly aware, perhaps through the Guardian's advising, of the Wall of Lights' power. Hence you knew that it would be activated, as your Black Gate was, by a blackrock artifact. From there, I'm sure, it was a simple matter of realizing that the blackrock sculpture owned by Andral in Monitor was an Ophidian relic designed to open the Wall of Lights. You were on the right track from there, I suppose.
Batlin: Are you finished? [...] Wait... No! The wall is not opening for me! This cannot be!
Steve: Batlin, you made the assumption that there was only one Wall of Lights, and that any old blackrock serpent would do. You're trying to open the Wall of Order with the Chaos Serpent, you fucking idiot.
Steve the Avatar: Let me stop you right there and explain, in as detailed a manner as possible, how badly you just fucked everything up by doing this.
Shamino: It's true.
Dupre: She showed us the PowerPoint slides and everything.
Steve: The Ophidian people were a race of human beings who divided into two major subcultures - Order and Chaos - and one minor - Balance - in order to form a more or less stable civilization. The Ophidian cultures utilized the Wall of Lights as a sort of Moongate, where their leaders the Hierophants would go into the Void to talk to magical space snakes. Following me so far?
Batlin: ...
Steve: At any rate, the Wall of Lights we're dealing with right now is not the solitary one in existence. I would surmise there are at least three, and I have personally witnessed the existence of two.
Batlin: ...two?
Steve: Yes, two, which you might have realized if you used Ophidian texts as anything but coasters for your chocolate milk. Now where were we? Ah yes. You were clearly aware, perhaps through the Guardian's advising, of the Wall of Lights' power. Hence you knew that it would be activated, as your Black Gate was, by a blackrock artifact. From there, I'm sure, it was a simple matter of realizing that the blackrock sculpture owned by Andral in Monitor was an Ophidian relic designed to open the Wall of Lights. You were on the right track from there, I suppose.
Batlin: Are you finished? [...] Wait... No! The wall is not opening for me! This cannot be!
Steve: Batlin, you made the assumption that there was only one Wall of Lights, and that any old blackrock serpent would do. You're trying to open the Wall of Order with the Chaos Serpent, you fucking idiot.
— Nakar's Let's Play of Ultima VII Part II: Serpent Isle
