But nope, Conan goes right in.Īnd a barrier silently slides down behind him, cutting him off from his compatriots. You’d think with how difficult it was to get here-they had to detour through an underwater tunnel, then a mighty stone barrier only two huge men could move-Conan would be a little leery about going through an open door with no apparent obstacles. Our heroes reach Thoth Amon’s living room of doom and Conan goes in first. Thoth Amon watches the heroes’ progress and he heads off into an alcove where a darkened glass partition closes him off, and then curtains lower to hide him. Everyone was tough like six month old beef jerky in those times apparently. It’s here that you can really see how everyone’s breath is fogging up, and I can’t imagine how freaking cold it must be for them, walking around in their soaking wet leathers, but even Mako doesn’t seem fazed. Conan asks for Bombaata’s help, and between these two bulls they’re able to push it inward. The group reaches a landing and standing before them is a stone door. But Mako snags the man’s arm and arrests his fall.
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Malak is taking up the rear when he slips and lets out a series of loud exclamations as he starts falling down the stairs. It looks like it’s twenty stories tall! Just how big is this castle, anyway? Is it like the TARDIS, bigger on the inside? Maybe it would have been better to have this whole sequences in a mountain? Or maybe they felt after Conan the Barbarian and Thulsa Doom’s mountain of power that they’d just be copying. Okay, back to our gang of intrepid adventurers, who have come to the mother of all spiral staircases. Cut to Jenna, and is she still sleeping on her BB&B comforter? Yup. One by one the gang bobs up, and even Malak makes it. Conan leads the gang through an underwater tunnel to a new cavern with a series of rough-hewn steps leading upward. People were as hard as iron in the Hyborean Age. Everyone strips down except Malak, and by this point Conan figures he doesn’t have time to bully his sidekick into compliance and says Malak can stay behind as everyone dives in. Mako does that moaning/grumbling thing of his, and determines there’s a way in underwater. In this case, Conan gives up and asks Mako if there’s another way in. Ha! If this has been my D&D group, we would have spent three hours at that place, convinced the Dungeon Master had lied to us and that there was in fact a door, and on the other side of that door, riches untold that he didn’t want us getting! At that point, it becomes a battle of wills between player and DM. After a quick examination, Conan determines there ain’t one there. The gang disembarks along some stone steps and they quickly assume they lead up to a door… only, there is no door. But it’s not supposed to look like a real place, is it? They’re under a matte painting magic castle, so I think it’s perfect. If I was being less charitable-and yes, I know, I’ve been less than charitable so far in looking at this film-the set looks a bit fake. …and I have to say I kind of like the set.
His Star Metal weapon was originally a set of Bolas (enchanted by a potion given to him by Jezmine to return to him at his command) but due to the Bolas getting entangled every time they were used he reforged them into a boomerang, and the enchantment remained intact.Conan guides the boat beneath the castle to a flooded cavern…
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Zula provides spiritual guidance to Conan as well as a cooler head, and in time even taught Conan how to call upon animals using the Seal of Jhebbal Sag. He accomplishes this by tracing the Seal of Jhebbal Sag, the Master of Beasts and the personification of animals in Wasai lore, and chanting "By the Seal of Jhebbal Sag, hear me my animal brothers" and then requesting them to help him in some way, and the magic of the seal reaches the right animals who can aid Zula with the task at hand. Zula is the Prince of the Wasai and sworn bonded-brother of Conan, who helped him escape slavery and lead other slaves to freedom after Zula was unknowingly betrayed by his treacherous and power-hungry cousin, Gora.Īs a Wasai, Zula loves and respects nature and all of its creatures, calling animals his brothers and treating them with compassion and respect, and grateful to them whenever they heed his call for help.