They're not the fighting type, they only want to talk with you. And they will simply kill you if you're reticent to conversion. If you want to survive, you have to burn the rope before the entities score two eruptions. When the first of them erupts, the last one erupts too, but there is only one eruption. You may ask : who erupts? Officially, nobody does, because everyone is under jurisdiction of King #9.

     Don't be mistaken: they are many. When the first of them erupts, the last one erupts too, but there is only one eruption.