Temple of Blood

Temple of Blood is a location in Needles. Enter the large building in the north-west of Needles. The southern door of the building is the main-entrance. The door to the east is the entrance to the garage.

Background
This is the home to the cult of the Temple of Blood.

Gameplay
If each party member carries a Robe in their inventory (you don't have to wear them), you won't have to fight two guards in the hallway. You still have to fight random encounters, though. And you want to kill those guards anyway. So don't bring Robes (and I doubt you'll have found that many anyway, unless you got lucky in the downtown basement). There are squares in the temple which raise or lower the frequency of encounters depending on whether you have Robes, but the difference will hardly be noticeable, and there's little to stay around for.

The seats in the main gathering room feature callouts to the paragraphs. Don't be taken in by the fake paragraphs. The real paragraph will mention the word MOTEKIM. You can also find this in one of the rooms to the left. North of there you can torture yourself in several ways: Step on the electric floor, sit in the electric chair, or walk into the laser beam over the bed. Turn off the laser instead and you can recruit Ralf the bum.

Return to the altar room and cross it. Raid the locker rooms and kill the gamekeepers. When you agree to play, you're teleported onto the chessboard (no way back, but it's no big deal). The correct path is 1n, 4w, 2n, 5e, 1s, 2e, 4n, 2w, 1s, 4w, 2n, 2e. Add that up and you get "30" (or "thirty"), which is the answer to the question. For every time after the first that you step on the wrong square on the chessboard, everyone will be zapped for 5 points of damage irrespective of their armour. If you want to run quickly across the board you can take "only" 10 points of damage by going north once, west once, then north to the exit.

If you get it wrong you have to do it all over again, if you get it right you end up by a lake of blood.