The new Void

"Fortunately, Merwin has the skilled outdoorself, Raven, in his party, and she knows how to make fire by banging rocks and/or metal together."

 

...
How did that even start?

By the way,
"Thankfully, Gross walks by and throws a fireflash at the kindling. Then he kills everyone but the Dog for being so bizarre."

 

"Which left the Dog gnawing on one of the sticks of dynamite....
by the fire..."

 

"In any event, with the original door-openers gone, the next adventurers to wander by may easily enter the Institute of Technology".

 

"Too bad he wasn't Merwin, Master of All Unlocking."

 

"And even worse, while the new adventurer is in the Institute, Dog gets bored with the stick of dynamite and throws it onto the fire."