Large round room with mirror-covered walls. A powerful lamp emits a bright beam of light through the lens door to the south. Pacing in the reflection, an Artificial Arkean peers curiously at intruders. A vault door leading north is locked, requiring an Arkean ID card to open. Specifically the maintenance card from (1.25) and it requires the code from (2.15).

• Artificial Arkean — Duke of Light, perfect posture, sneers at "matter-beings". Unwilling to allow passage north, claims it is a border that must not be crossed. He is actually a coward and resorts to summoning 2 light elementals if threatened.