You pick up the Staff.
“The Staff of Ages,” you say.
“Then help me understand.”
Your quest is simple in its impossibility: find the Staff of Ages, hidden somewhere in the labyrinth, and cast it into the Great Fire below the citadel. Only then will the Warlock Lord, who has slept for a thousand years, remain asleep forever. Fail, and the eclipse tomorrow will wake him. And you do not want to wake him. castle shadowgate c64
In your hand, a torch. It crackles, the only living thing in this hall of the dead. You pick up the Staff
The torch goes out.