To do list-
1. Get riltia back with heartwarming sappy conversation to make her realize how bad she is and cause a heel-face turn.
2.get loot.
Yes Riltia is more important than loot.
Blasphemy! I say we should fill that gaping Riltia-shaped hole in our massively-collective soul with
more loot!"But Cerol!" I hear somebody say. "Riltia's one of our most important and beloved friends! How could we abandon her?"
Because she's one of
Ciro's most important and beloved friends, is how.
We are an unnatural conglomerate of spirits, mostly of deceased treasure hunters, with the ability to influence Ciro into being our meat puppet to an unprecedented degree. To the extent that she appears to be an absolutely greedy and insane jerkass to everyone due to her fulfillment of our every greedy, whimsical, and power-gaming impulse. Remember how often we managed to get on Riltia's nerves?
And sure, Ciro can refuse or resist us if we get too far away from her base impulses, but honestly, what I'm suggesting isn't:
You start to tear up at the thought of Riltia and Al. The memories the statue brings you. The faint nostalgia, the-
Wait. This is stupid.
You decide to smash the fourth wall, even though only Al usually does that.
Riltia needs to realize that Ciro is
ours to do with as we will. And as long as the cycles continue, more people will die in the dungeon, our influence will grow stronger, and Ciro will become crazier and crazier. Riltia will
never have Ciro's full attention as long as we're here. Every future cycle will see a more and more unstable Ciro.
So. Let's
not go to DL7. Let's faff about on pointless sidequests for cool loot, strip the wiring from the upper levels, shake down everything that moves for pence, see if we can commandeer the thingamajigger that moves the rooms around while we're somewhere else in order to force the dungeon to continually produce treasure vaults, learn to waggle our eyebrows
just so, ship everybody/thing with everybody/thing, (including themselves) and build that loot throne we've always wanted. After all, we don't really need to go downwards and fight Siblings to get power and treasure. We're in a dungeon with a constant influx of visitors flush with loot. Loot comes to us.
Anyways, it's not like Riltia's left the party or anything. Right, Riltia?
...I'm pretty sure that's a "yes".