{Note: If you’re late to the adventure, you can start out in the thread Solitary Confinement, which will instruct you how to catch up with everyone else. The link is here: http://www.finalhavenlarp.com/phpBB2/vi ... 023#p72023}
You wake up in a dimly lit area and rub your head. When your vision clears you see the faint glow of ice on the walls. You are in an underground cavern. At some point during the night there was an attack. A group of small, grotesque humanoids ambushed you on the road. Their faces were covered in boils, and they didn’t seem to like the lantern light. You put up a good fight, driving them back, but they had something else with them. It was invisible, whatever it was. And, strong. And, it reeked of death. You could feel its grip, but you couldn’t see it.
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Now, you’re here. Someone begins lighting torches along the wall. It’s an elf. He’s sporting several bruises. “I’m sorry,” he says, with a look of utter despair. “Welcome to hell.” For those who know him, you recognize Laurel Greenleaf. You look around to see a dozen or so other prisoners. Many are elves. Some wear an odd, green, metallic collar. If you are a Magus or a healer, you too sport such a collar. It does not come off.
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Other than your clothes, you have none of your possessions. Your hands are free, but a long chain connects one foot to an icy wall. Pickaxes liter the ground, but otherwise you are weaponless. Laurel explains your ugly captors are known only as “The Depraved.” Everyone else has been here a while. Some years. Laurel’s been here a month, though you get the impression this isn’t new to him. He’s scared. “My wife, Alea, and I were prisoners of these creatures many years ago. I escaped. She did not. I’ve been searching for her ever since. But, all I’ve managed to do is get myself captured, again. And, none will tell me what’s happened to her. This particular cavern is new to me, but I do know prisoners rarely get to see the sun again…”
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There is a large crack in the ice wall, and soon the prisoners pick up their axes and resume their work. Occasionally, amongst the ice chunks, they unearth something else: bits of pottery; a rusted candlestick; an ancient shield.“We search for artifacts, though we know not what,” says laurel. “Everything gets set in a pile. Every 3 hours The Depraved return to check on us. If we have not discovered anything new, they beat us. If the beatings aren’t persuasive, they remind us they’ve got our loved ones captive, elsewhere. A son, a mother, a…wife. This is but one prison area of many. “
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At the far side of the cavernous room the floor ends in a jagged chasm. You lean over, and the stench is overpowering. It reminds you of the smell when you faced the invisible “thing.” Iron rungs in the nearest wall lead down.“Occasionally, The Depraved go down there," says Laurel. “There are things that live down there. Things without form. Even the Depraved are scared of them. We stay away.”
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Up here, there is but one tunnel out of the cavernous room. It is bared by a makeshift iron door. It is an easy enough matter to break your chains with a pickaxe, and to bust the hinges on the iron door. But, the prisoners recoil at the mention of escape.“If any try to flee, our family members are as good as dead,” one says to you.
You think it’s best to stay together, and to find your missing equipment soon. It’s bound to be stashed somewhere. Do you wait for your captors to return, go down into the chasm, or escape out through the cell door? Or something else?
