LOVED the poetry of the new Horns defeating Calruz <3 They’ve all grown so much together and I love how much care they have for each other now <3

Seeing everyone have their little moments to shine was so emotional, I was so so SO invested!!! Wonderful chapter!!!

Any Raskgar that tries to flee, the Cave Goblins scream and Bird or Badarrow can snipe them from the magic door.

Numbtongue could have used his bad skills to buff then during battle. In fact they should have opened with Badarrow shooting an arrow with the Bell of Pain to disorient

Also Bird should make arrows whenever he has time

Already replied to this in a couple other posts, but that estimate was a complete wild ass guess with no evidence.

None of the testers were particularly skilled in this type of magic. They were also testing using an inferior anchor (a random mug from the inn), which was not setup as a portal door, but as an evac teleport. This means, at best, their estimate of 3 or 4 connections would only be accounting for evac teleport anchors (and bad anchors, at that).

The door now uses paired mana stone anchors. Each anchor has to be completely swapped out on the main door to change the location. So theoretically, they only have a single connection active at once. It would make sense to have more connections than previously guessed at, because that guess was based on flawed information by people that barely knew what they were talking about.

Like your other comment above, most of this is incorrect.

The number of people able to be moves through the door shouldn’t be too much of an issue, because the dungeon is fairly close to the inn. It was estimated Ryoka could have gone to Celum, which is 100 miles away, around 20 times, and Invrisil at 500 miles away once. The dungeon is only a few miles away. They could send dozens of people through, with only minor recharging necessary.

The only time the mages were actively necessary to connect the doorway was prior to the mana stones that Typhenous ordered arriving. It was also stated he ordered a number of them, though we weren’t given an exact count. Once they had those, every subsequent connection has only been a matter of pairing two anchors, and taking one of the pair to a sub door in another location. That is how the door to Pallass was opened by Hawk, that is how the door to Liscor worked, and the door to the goblin cave. Presumably, all of the anchors were setup and paired shortly after they were delivered, so that they would be ready to be used, and not have to chance Pisces or Typhenous or whomever being gone. Thus, Erin should have a stock of paired anchors ready to be used – exactly what we see in this chapter.

The guess of having a maximum number of connections was just that, a complete guess. None of the testers were particularly skilled in this sort of magic, and they were testing with a vastly inferior anchor (a random mug from the inn) that was not even setup as a full portal door, but as a simple evac teleport like the way Ksmvr first used it as. They have absolutely zero evidence for such a guess to be correct, other than possibly the number of evac teleport anchors that could be connected at the same time.

The new method with the mana stone anchors could also easily bypass this wild ass guess. The mana stone on the main door has to be swapped out for the sub doors to be used, which means each connection could be entirely independent of the others. This would effectively make the door only have a single connection at a time. There would be no strange network of locations, because the door can’t send to more than a single location at once.

Almost none of what you said is correct.

Erin has at least some of the anchors for the door because Typhenous ordered a bunch. We don’t know exactly how many, but presumably she has enough to do everything shown in the last few chapters. They also weren’t terribly expensive, iirc, they were just using an uncommon material.

They also don’t take a mage actively at the door to do anything. Pisces or someone would have to setup and pair the anchors, but then they only need to be attached to a door. That is exactly what was shown for hot they got connected to Pallass, as well as Liscor and the goblin cave, and now for both dungeon assaults. The only time it was different was the initial connection to Celum, where they only had a single anchor for the Celum side and no paired anchor for the main door.

There is no reason they couldn’t already have the paired anchors created with the remaining objects, ready to be used at will. The anchors can feasibly be made at any time, so it would actually be more efficient to just have them all done at once, instead of potentially not having Pisces or Typhenous or whomever unavailable when she next needed them.

The new system also potentially loopholes that maximum connections statement. That calculation was done with only a single main connection active (Celum), using an inferior anchor to test with (a random mug from the inn, iirc), which wasn’t even a fully stable portal but rather just an evac teleport back. It was also entirely a guess, with none of the testers being super knowledgeable about the subject, and not having any real evidence to base it off of.

Each anchor now has to be manually changed on the main door, while the sub doors are “always” anchored. If they are effectively removed from the list of locations when not anchored to the main door, then the door would only be connected to one place at a time. Each of the paired anchors would effectively be a completely separate connection, and only connected when actively being attached to the main door, rather than being in a weird network of destinations.

I really hope Mrsha, Ceria, and the other Gnolls can recover from the psychological effects of these events in due time.