Hey mate, I'll try and answer the questions as best I can.

1. We only collect one Relic which summons the Conflux and the Minotaurs at the back of the room. If we were to collect two, that would initiate BOTH portals sending out Praetorians. So we essentially lock it down, limit it to the first wave.

2. He sits there killing Minotaurs for 10 minutes while I try not to fall to my death. I believe he used Word of Crota and Swordbreaker. Those absolutely slaughter Minotaurs. It was /u/Ace_astra who helped me.

3. If either of us died, we would spawn at the Gatekeeper checkpoint because either a) my dying drops the Relic, b) him dying feeds the Conflux.

4. No. Not in one run unfortunately. I think it has to be segmented. So there is a split when I get to the top of the Jumping Puzzle because you cannot bring the Relic into the next area. And there's a split near the top of the Templar's Well because the little panel slides back.

I'm not too sure what the trigger is for the panel, I want to do some more testing to figure out if the panel slides back when a) you reach Atheon's Glass Throne, b) it slides back at the beginning of the Jumping Puzzle or c) it slides back when you all die/wipe/load in an saved checkpoint.

I desperately want to do it as a non-segmented run, but unfortunately I need a team of people to help me - and at the moment my crew's lives are pretty full!

1. I barely ventured anyway. It was like a Patrol but without the Patrol missions. I would see people pass the entrance, and I'd ask what they were doing. It ranged from doing the Gatelord mission to doing Patrols.

Unfortunately I could never get a friend to go on a Patrol and have them sync up with my instance. Even if they did, the sync plates don't activate on Patrol mode.

1. I'll recheck all these areas and more. I'll make a compilation video of my findings. But at the moment, there's nothing seemingly special about these areas.

Thank you so much for watching, spending the time thinking about these questions and actually voicing them. I hope you enjoy whatever else I bring forth!