Warning: Spoilers ahead for season three of "Riverdale.""Gryphons and Gargoyles" (G&G) is a dangerous game on "Riverdale."The role-playing game, similar to "Dungeons and Dragons," has resulted in two deaths so farRIP Dilton and Benand it's sure to affect more residents as the third season of the hit CW show progresses.Betty and Jughead are working together to uncover the mystery surrounding the game, and viewers are trying to do the same.Here's what we know so far.How is the game affecting Riverdale'The first introduction to the game comes when Jughead tries to ask Ben and Dilton what they are playing at Pop's Diner during the premiere.Dilton tries to answer, but all he gets out is "Gryphons and..." before Ben tells him to shut up.Later, when Jughead is preparing to go toArchie's trial, Dilton knocks on Jug's door in a panic."Ben and I thought it was just a game, a stupid role-playing game, but it's not," he says. "It's so much more. He's real."When Jughead asks who, Dilton eventually responds with, "The Gargoyle King."Jughead brushes him aside and tells him to wait at the Jones' house and they'll talk about it later, but when he returns home, Dilton is gone. A paper covered in weird symbols and what looks to be a stick creature is left. Jughead deduces that the symbols are drawn over Fox Forest Park, so he heads there.He finds Ben and Dilton unresponsive and kneeling in front of what looks like an altar with symbols carved into their backs. Dilton dies in the park due to cyanide consumption after mixing the poison with Fresh-Aid. After recovering in the hospital, Ben then leaps to his death out of the hospital window mentioning that he isn't afraid to "ascend" like Dilton was.Betty and Jughead learn that Ethel is also playing the game. When they confront her, she says she left the figure to protect Ben because they are dating. She also reveals that Dilton had a secret bunker in the woods.Betty and Jughead later find the bunker and discover that the poisoned chalice Ben and Dilton drank from was part of G&G.How do they play the game'In the bunker, Betty and Jug find coins with the Gargoyle King on them, drawings of the king, and various knick-knacks from the game.Betty and Jug also find the missing boy from Dilton's troop who tells them that Ben and Ethel were just dating in the game.Betty and Jughead go to Ethel to ask more questions and Jughead asks what the "kingdom" means. He also inquires about the rulebook, which Ethel refers to as the "scripture."She tells him that he "isn't worthy of the king's scripture," so he asks if she can show him. But she says that only Jughead can play because Betty "will never be worthy, no matter how hard you try."When Jughead goes to the bunker and meets Ethel, she is dressed her Princess Etheline gown. She has him choose a character, and he picks the Hellcaster."Good choice," she says. "That was Ben's avatar. I was supposed to ascend with him but then he betrayed me and finished the game with Dilton instead."After getting through part of the game, Ethel presents Jughead with two chalices. When he incredulously asks if one of them is poisoned, she says it's "gargoyle blood." He drinks it to get the manual and is fine. But before she hands it over to him, she makes him kiss her because it's all part of the "scripture."Ethel then drinks from the other chalice and starts to get ill. He saves her life by getting her to the hospital. She denies being suicidal and then threatens Jughead if he spills the secrets."I told him you were worthy enough to spread his gospel," she tells him.What are all of the connections'The Gargoyle King himself is a terrifying creature who seems to be behind the rules of the game. Ben and Dilton die for him and Ethel bows to the creature in her hospital room saying, claiming that she spread his gospel and soon everyone will join them.Betty also suspects the Farm may be involved became the game seems sort of cultish. But Evelyn shuts that theory down when she says the first time she'd ever heard of the game was from Alice. That adds to the fact that the parents are also somehow involved.After the deaths of Ben and Dilton, the parents gather together to discuss the situation and Hermione mentions their "blue lips" from the Fresh-Aid."We made a pact never to revisit that night," Tom Keller responds.FP and Alice also freak out when they find the player's manual Jughead hid. FP takes it outside and burns it after calling it "pure evil."But it turns out that it wasn't the only copy. Someone, possibly Ethel, distributed a manual to every student's locker at Riverdale High."By next weekend, almost every student at Riverdale High would be playing Gryphons and Gargoyles, and the real game was just beginning," Jughead says.G&G isn't going away any time soon.Read all of our "Riverdale" coverage here."Riverdale" airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.VisitINSIDER's homepagefor more.Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Here's what caffeine does to your body and brain
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