So, it seems like the Bowel of Embers utterly crashed on us. The whole party got R0 simultaneously. I gave up trying to log back in with all the 3102 and 30002 errors, but I tried again a few hours later and, lo and behold, I was alive and well standing alone in the Bowel of Embers.

Naturally, I went exploring. Screenshots or it didn't happen, you say? Happy to oblige.







Inside that cave is an invisible barrier that speaks softly "You cannot proceed any further."



In the passages to the rear of the bowel, there is a strange aetheryte that "emits a dull light..." No doubt this is how one can access the bowel by the grace of an Inferno Lantern.





Night fell.



And Dalamud loomed ominously and fixed in the sky.



Day and night.