[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

You haven't seen any keyholes so far, but you're too far away to see if that door or that tunnel have any keyholes.
You think all the Yamask's keys are extremely similar in shape.

Shiva's CERTAIN that the Yamask aren't holding keys just because, they must be usable for something. Even if they don't end up being for that Egyptian Door down the path, they can surely be crucial for somethingelse in this Fossil Garden or for something different later. If they're extrememly similar - are they duplicates of the real thing? Possible. Either way, she wants to obtain an exemplar of these keys, at all cost.

(...) "We can get past the Ghosts and door by Digging. Go back a little, then start Digging under and past them. Should not take long, or get caught if we Dig deep enough. Saves our Strength and trouble from them too. *Looks at everyone* Well?"

As Terra speaks up to voice his thoughts, Shiva brings her full attention to him and almost stares at him with eyes that have a hard time concealing the sparkles and fire behind the lens. It's rare and strange to see her that fierce and determined, but there's no denying that she's itching heavily to do something.

A few moments pass in thick silence between mountain of a man and natural fae-ethusiast, but eventually the latter lets her head hang a little and tries to avoid the former's gaze by observing the super-interesting floor. "That's an idea, Terra... But..... We've already bypassed THAT darkest of all ghosts, we can't do exploit the same strategy forever. What if we dig past and beneath them, end up at that Egyptian Door and find it locked, or if while we're on it these Ghosts notice that we're after their treasure and decide to attack us, seeing us as intruders? I don't want to get caught, don't want them to be the aggressor - I wish to EARN this Artifact, I wish to see what treasures that spectral coffin and their kin has harbored there." She clenches her fist involuntarily, then boldly faces Terra in a sudden gesture. "Even if this means that we'll have to defeat them all."

As suddenly as she faced Terra however, as suddenly she averts her gaze again to peek once more at what's lying behind that Cofagrigus. "But these 2D Gengar and the Clefable Statues worry me, these poisonous shadowy ghosts - if we could dig beneath them and destroy them by a controled cave-in or well-placed RockSmash, we could minimize the amount of foes we'd have to face." There's still that Odd Keystone that's giving her a headache however, she feels if she would bring up her fairies to deal with IT fast, these Gengar would deal with them just as fast. "We... we should try avoiding direct contact with these Yamask as well, you know... their curse, their infamous Ability called 'Mummy'."


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Mechanics:
Is that possible/doable? I kinda want to have a dramatic boss-like battle to obtain this Artifact and perhaps one or two of the things Cofagrigus and Co. have harbored there, too curious to let things pass. BUT I don't want to leap head-first into a fight either, would rather do so with a plan. Iron, can you tell how many foes we'd have to face if it comes to a fight?