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The panda was meditating while the fish increased the price of gravity.
A blue koi landed on reel two.
The blue waterfall on the left brightened.
Its lowest prize moved from €5.00 to €5.20.
The middle one climbed from €20.00 to €20.40.
The top went from €100.00 to €100.50.
The fish disappeared.
The panda remained seated beneath the mountain with both paws together and the expression of somebody who had transcended concern about basic economics.
I was on €1.00.
One spin into Koi Falls: Flowing Fortune and a fish had already swum uphill hard enough to make three cash prizes more expensive.
Fine.
This was apparently how the mountain worked.
There were three waterfalls.
Blue on the left.
Red through the centre.
Green on the right.
Each had its own Koi.
Each had three prizes stacked above it.
Each fish that appeared made its own waterfall richer.
The panda sat between all of them.
He did not manage the waterfalls.
He did not chase the fish.
He did not visibly interfere with the money.
He meditated.
This became increasingly difficult to respect.
A small ways win brought €1.20.
Lotus symbols helped another €2.40.
The dragon Wild appeared later and pushed a connection to €3.80.
The mountain remained peaceful.
Then another blue koi arrived.
Up it went.
The lower blue prize reached €5.40.
The middle climbed again.
The top climbed again.
No payout.
The koi vanished into whatever part of the waterfall stores fish between spins.
The panda continued his spiritual refusal to participate.
A green koi came next.
The green column ticked upward.
No prize.
Then red.
Same thing.
The red waterfall became more valuable.
Nothing paid.
I had entered what looked like a serene mountain sanctuary and was now watching three species of decorative carp repeatedly increase numbers displayed above enormous glowing cylinders.
The fish were not swimming for enlightenment.
They were adjusting the mountain.
Another blue koi landed several spins later.
The blue prizes rose again.
The lowest reached €5.60.
This time the waterfall reacted differently.
The €5.60 prize paid.
Coins flashed.
The little blue prize reset to its starting level afterward.
The panda looked delighted.
I looked at him.
He had done nothing.
Three blue koi had spent the afternoon violating the direction of water.
The panda had sat cross-legged.
€5.60 arrived.
He was somehow still the mascot.
That was the first Koi Falls prize of the session.
Small.
Funny.
Enough to make every later fish interesting.
A red koi landed.
I watched the red values climb.
No payout.
Green followed a few spins later.
Again, just movement upward.
That became the base-game rhythm.
Ordinary symbols paid occasionally.
€1.60.
€2.20.
Another Wild-assisted hit reached €4.40.
But whenever a koi appeared, the whole mountain briefly became more important than the reels.
Blue fish:
watch the blue waterfall.
Red fish:
watch the centre.
Green:
watch the right.
I had become colour-coded by livestock.
The high volatility eventually arrived properly.
Dead spin.
Another.
Small €1.20.
Nothing.
Two Coins landed once.
Then three on another spin.
The Coin symbols carried values but did not become ordinary base-game prizes.
Six or more together would open the Bonus Game.
Three Coins looked promising.
They were not six.
They disappeared.
The panda continued meditating.
I began to resent his calm.
He had three progressive waterfalls.
A mountain.
Koi capable of swimming uphill.
A Hold & Win hidden somewhere above the clouds.
Of course he was relaxed.
I was paying for the scenery.
Another spin gave four Coins.
I counted them immediately.
Four.
Gone.
Later:
five.
Five Coins filled enough of the reels to make the screen look financially serious.
One short.
Gone.
That hurt more.
The mountain had shown me five golden stepping stones and removed the staircase before the final one arrived.
More Koi came during the hunt.
A blue one restarted the lower blue climb from its reset value.
Red moved again.
Green moved again.
No second Koi Falls payout.
The prize cylinders simply continued filling themselves through aquatic effort.
The panda continued sitting.
At this point, I had decided he was not meditating.
He was waiting for the fish to finish the shift.
Then the Coin spin arrived.
One Coin on reel one.
Two more through the centre.
Another on reel four.
Two on the right.
I counted.
Six.
Exactly six.
The mountain opened.
Bonus Game.
Three spins.
The peaceful temple scenery gave way to a darker mountain board.
The bottom three rows were active.
Above them sat three locked rows.
Actual locks.
And beside those locked sections were the numbers that immediately ruined my ability to behave sensibly.
x2.
x10.
x50.
I looked at the summit.
The panda had spent the entire base game watching fish climb waterfalls.
Now I had to make Coins climb a mountain.
The six trigger Coins were already locked in the active area.
Their values were:
1x.
1x.
1.5x.
2x.
2.5x.
3x.
€11.00 already sitting there.
Three respins.
No fish now.
No lotus.
No card ranks.
Money and altitude.
First respin.
Two new Coins.
1x.
1.5x.
Eight locked Coins total.
The counter reset to three.
€13.50 on the board.
Still below the first unlock.
I looked at row four.
x2 waited beside it.
The mountain had effectively placed a rope across the path and written:
bring ten Coins.
Next respin.
Two more landed.
2x.
3x.
Ten Coins.
The first lock opened.
Row four became active.
x2.
There.
The mountain had allowed money onto the first terrace.
The values so far totalled €18.50.
More importantly, anything landing on that newly opened row would now be doubled.
The next respin produced exactly that.
A 2x Coin landed on row four.
Under x2:
€4.00.
Another showed 4x.
Also on row four.
x2 made it €8.00.
Twelve Coins total.
Feature value now €30.50.
The upper rows remained locked.
x10 above.
x50 above that.
The Hold & Win had suddenly become mountaineering.
I no longer wanted random Coins.
I wanted altitude.
A blank respin passed.
Nothing.
The counter dropped.
Then the mountain coughed up three Coins at once.
A 1x landed in the lower active area.
A 5x joined it.
And a 2.5x landed on the x2 row.
That one became €5.00.
Eleven euros added.
Fifteen locked Coins.
The second chain broke.
Row five opened.
x10.
I sat forward.
The panda was nowhere on this screen, which was probably wise.
If he had appeared meditating beside an x10 waterfall of money, I might have taken it personally.
The accumulated value was €41.50.
Now the next Coin that reached row five would be multiplied by ten.
It did not take long.
A 1.5x Coin landed there.
x10.
€15.00.
One little gold disc had climbed one row higher and immediately become worth more than most of the Coins beneath it combined.
Sixteen Coins.
€56.50.
The mountain had established a very clear philosophy.
Do the same thing higher up.
Become richer.
Another respin.
Two Coins.
One landed below for 3x.
€3.00.
The other reached row five.
2x.
x10.
€20.00.
Feature total now €79.50.
Eighteen Coins locked.
Two short of the summit.
I stared at the top row.
x50.
Still chained.
The number was absurd.
The Coin values themselves ranged from 0.5x to 9x.
Even a miserable 0.5x Coin up there would become 25x.
A 1x would become €50.
A 9x would become an event requiring the panda to stop meditating and possibly sign something.
One blank respin.
Nothing.
The counter fell.
The next produced two Coins.
One landed on row four.
4x.
x2 made €8.00.
The other landed below.
2x.
€2.00.
Twenty Coins.
The final lock broke.
Row six opened.
x50.
I actually laughed.
The feature had begun with six Coins trapped in the bottom of the mountain.
Now twenty Coins had forced open all three upper rows.
x2.
x10.
x50.
The whole waterfall was available.
The accumulated value stood at €89.50.
All I wanted now was one Coin at the summit.
Any Coin.
I did not need 9x.
I did not need drama.
Put half a euro up there.
I would respect it.
The respin began.
Most of the board stayed fixed.
Empty spaces remained scattered through the higher rows.
Then a Coin landed.
Top row.
I saw the value.
1x.
One.
The smallest respectable whole Coin the mountain could have produced.
x50.
€50.00.
That was perfect.
Not 9x.
Not 7x.
Not some enormous base value arriving already dressed for celebration.
One.
A single ordinary Coin had climbed higher than every other Coin on the board and immediately become the richest object in the feature.
€50.00.
Total locked value:
€139.50.
The mountain erupted in gold.
I thought of the base game.
Blue koi swimming upstream for twenty-cent increases.
Red koi nudging their waterfall.
Green koi doing the same.
All that aquatic labour.
Then one 1x Coin simply reached the top floor and became fifty euros because geography had smiled on it.
The Hold & Win continued from the reset three spins.
No new Coin on the next respin.
Nothing on the second.
Final chance.
The board stayed exactly as it was.
Twenty-one Coins locked across the mountain.
No full screen.
No extra miracle.
The respins ended.
Every value was added.
€139.50.
I checked the arithmetic.
The six starting Coins had totalled €11.00.
The next four brought the board to €18.50.
The two x2-row Coins added €12.00.
Three more added €11.00 and unlocked x10.
The first x10-row Coin added €15.00.
The next pair added €23.00.
The two Coins that opened the summit added €10.00.
Then the 1x Coin at x50 added €50.00.
€139.50.
Exactly.
The mountain paid.
That was a strong win at €1.00 and more than enough to erase the cold base-game stretch.
The Bonus Game disappeared.
The locked rows vanished.
The x2, x10 and x50 summit went with them.
Back to five reels.
Three rows.
243 ways.
The panda returned.
Still seated.
Still serene.
Still looking as though none of this had required his attention.
I gave the base game another spin.
A blue koi landed.
The blue waterfall lit.
The lowest blue prize, which had already reset after paying earlier, moved upward again.
€5.00 became €5.20.
Twenty cents.
I looked at the panda.
We had just unlocked an entire mountain.
A 1x Coin had reached the summit and become €50.
The Hold & Win had paid €139.50.
And Koi Falls: Flowing Fortune had calmly returned to its original business.
Making a fish swim uphill to add twenty cents to a waterfall.
Triple Grand Link Express Hold & Win gives retriggers like false promises in a toxic relationship.