Current Events > I dont understand the Ring of Gaia dungeon in SMT IV. (spoilers?)

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So there's four guards in front of four branching corridors from the starting area. The first makes you pay $5,000 to go into a terrible poison hallway that just leads to two people. One says he has a Silver Coin but won't sell it to you because he "doesn't sense strength." The other guy sells you a Gold Card for $10,000.

Go back to the corridor and go to the next guard (the other two just say to go to her) and she tells you that you need a Gold Card. Show it to her and she'll say "if you're not just content with the south and west corridors, you can pay $50,000 for a chance to get the Platinum card."

Even though she says that, there's no way for you to go into the south corridor she's blocking unless presumably you pay the $50k-- which I don't have, partly because of a super fucked up move that enemies in this area have that literally halves your money.

But that's honestly besides the point. The point is that all throughout the game the Ring of Gaia followers will tell you that they only care about strength. Yet in this dungeon they refer to strength as the amount of money you can pay. What?? Why doesn't the game let me tear all of these guards limb from limb with my demons, which I could easily accomplish? You're even here for the purpose of assassinating their leader, so it's not like you need to be diplomatic for story purposes.

Tl;Dr I don't know how to progress because the dungeon has a dozen paywalls instead of gameplay

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