Escape the Gloomer: Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase is the seventh chapter of The Lost Legends of Redwall: Escape the Gloomer.

Gillig enters the lower level of Kotir after distracting some guards, and overhears Ferdy Stickle, Coggs Stickle, and Gingivere meeting with Chibb from their prison cell.

After eavesdropping on their conversation, Gillig picks up some key advice and heads back down to the Kotir Cavern lake. He swims to the cold depths, and retrieves some keys.

They keys were able to unlock one of Kotir's prison cells, where he found a tunnel to the Kotir larder.

In the larder, he was able to eat again, however the continued presence of Kotir's guards forced him back down to the Cavern.

For days, Gillig attempts to enter Kotir without success until at last, the guards are gone. Around the same time, Gingivere and the hedgehogs were broken out by the Corim.

Later, the moles tunnel above the Cavern and begin the flooding of Kotir via the River Moss.

Trivia

• Up the Down Staircase is the title for Chapter 6 of Caverns of Kotir.