You wander through the shadows, wondering if there will ever be salvation, if you will ever feel the cool wind against your skin once more. There appears to be an opening ahead, a welcome relief after the tight corridors and tunnels before. \n\n[[Go Forward]]

You turn around to stab the Medusataur, and get your head taken clean off. Your still conscious head hits the floor. It's cold. So cold. Your journey is at an end.

You cast a shield about your body, and dive into the demon's open stomach of teeth and tentacles. He makes several grunting noises, sounding extremely confused. He attempts to chomp into your flesh with the teeth in his stomach, but your shield protects you. \n\nLighting up your hand with a fireball, you set his innards on fire. He begins making a low, gutteral scream, garbled with you still in his mouth. Making sure you don’t breathe in the smoke, you climb out. The demon's skin begins to glow bright red, the fire rendering his fat. His screams stop as what’s left of his respiratory system dissolves. He falls to his knees, his arms and legs shaking, dropping his knife.\n\n<<set $bossesKilled = $bossesKilled + 1>>\n<<set $boss2kill = true>>\n[[Drink His Blood]]\n[[Push the Table to the Tunnel and Leave|Juncture 5]]

You start picking up shards of glass, using them to see when you should dodge Medusataur's attacks. You gather ten or so.\n\n[[Use Your Magic to Forge the Shards Into a Mirror]]\n[[Stab the Medusataur with the Glass Shards]]

You gather the fallen blades in front of you using telekinesis. “DIEEEEEE!” you scream. The swarm of blades is sent forwards with more force than intended; you should scream every time you attack something! Some of the blades hit their mark and stick the beast in it’s gut and chest. You roll out of the way and turn to face it again.\n\n<<set $hitsOnDino = $hitsOnDino + 1>>\n<<if $hitsOnDino lte 2>>\n[[Continue to Fight|Round 2]]\n\n<<elseif $hitsOnDino is 3>>\n[[Finish the Monster Off|Kill]]\n<<endif>>

You step through the door into a dark tunnel. The disgusting smell of rotting flesh protrudes from the other end. You walk forward slowly and carefully. As you continue your descent, the walls start to become slippery and wet. Blood? Or perhaps some kind of mucus? It’s too dark to see.\n\n[[Continue|Slip]]

A large swarm of bats fly at your face, startled by your presence. You fall backwards, startled and scared.\n\n[[Pick Yourself Up]]

You cast a spell to make the pieces of the mirror one whole, and turn around with the mirror in front of your face, hoping this actually works. You hear the Medusataur shriek, and the room goes silent. You peek over the mirror, trembling. The Medusataur is totally turned to stone. You did it!\n\n<<set $bossesKilled = $bossesKilled + 1>>\n<<set $boss3kill = true>>\n[[Chisel Off a Chunk of Stone to Get at That Sweet Sweet Demon's Blood|Drink the Blood]]\n[[Leave the Room|Juncture 7]]

“Ice to meet you”, you say with a gritty voice as you direct two beams of ice at the beast’s feet. The ice quickly melts from the excessive heat in the colosseum. You wonder to yourself, “Why did I think this would work? I'm in a desert!”. The beast turns towards you and takes long lunging steps in your direction, knocking you off the ruin with its charge.\n\n[[Fall]]

You head back.\n\n[[Enter Tunnels|Juncture 3]]

You keep on climbing, and run into Satan. “You brought this on yourself, stupid” he says, as he impales you on his pitchfork and, with a flourish, throws you over the bannister. You keep falling and falling for all eternity, never reaching the bottom. Why didn’t you take the hint and go back? Why? WHY!?

You keep on climbing, and count out another three hundred steps. You look over the bannister again. You seem like you are no higher up. Sprawled on the steps is a dry skeleton with a piece of paper and quill in its hands. You pick up the piece of paper and begin to read the contents. “This staircase seems like it goes on forever. Why didn’t I go back? Why, oh why, didn’t I go back?”\n\n[[Keep Climbing|Keep Climbing 2]]\n[[Go Back |Endless Staircase]]

“I’m just warming up”, you say as you form a solid ball of fire and send it flying at the dino’s head. You manage to knock off more blades, but its charge is unhindered. You roll out of the way and turn to face it again.\n\n[[Continue to Fight|Round 2]]

You bolt away from the demon and head back to the small indent in the wall where you fell from; however, the tunnel is much too high. The tumor is still there, extruding from the ground. You attempt to use it as a trampoline, but you can’t reach any grippable surface to begin an ascent.\n\nThe monster comes up behind you, and you feel a sharp pain in your back. You turn to see his knife covered in your blood. With nowhere to run, you collapse to the ground, and he scoops you into his mouth. Your journey is at an end.

You start climbing the stairs, and count the steps as you go. You reach three hundred, and look over the bannister. The floor seems pretty close still.\n\n[[Keep Climbing|Keep Climbing 1]]\n[[Go Back|Endless Staircase]]

A sphincter in the fleshy walls opens, and you venture through it. There is a radiant beam of light before you. You step into it, the brightness forcing you to close your eyes. You feel your feet lift off the ground as you ascent towards the source of the light.\n\n<<if $demonsBloodDrank is 0>>\nYou feel your feet touch the ground, and open your eyes. You are at a lake just outside of the village that burned you. You look at your reflection in the lake to find that you look unchanged from your experience in Hell.\n\n[[Go Get Revenge]]\n[[Let It Go]]\n<<elseif $demonsBloodDrank is 1>>\nYou feel your feet touch the ground, and open your eyes. You are at a lake just outside of the village that burned you. You look at your reflection in the lake to find that your eyes now glow orangey-red, and there are subtle horns poking out of your hair. To be honest, you look fairly badass.\n\n[[Go Get Revenge]]\n[[Let It Go]]\n<<elseif $demonsBloodDrank lte 3>>\nYou feel your feet touch the ground, and open your eyes. You are at a lake just outside of the village that burned you. You feel a pain on your back, and reach back to find that two small, leathery wings have sprouted from your shoulder blades. You look at your reflection in the lake to find that your eyes now glow orangey-red, and there are a pair of horns sticking out of your head. To be honest, you look fairly badass.\n\n[[Go Get Revenge]]\n[[Let It Go]]\n<<elseif $demonsBloodDrank is 4>>\nYou feel your feet touch the ground, and open your eyes. You are at a lake just outside of the village that burned you. You feel a pain on your back, and reach back to find that two massive, leathern wings have sprouted from your shoulder blades. You look down at your hands, and see that your flesh has become a light purple leather, and your claws have become talons. You look at your reflection in the lake to find that your eyes now seem to billow with flames. Out of your hair sprouts two massive, coiling horns. Your humanity has been stripped. It would seem that you are now a demon.\n\nYou go to the village, and the villagers start rallying to stop you. As they proceed down the main road towards you, you cast a fireball from your hand towards them. The fireball is larger and hotter than any you have ever cast before. Is this the power that the demons’ blood has bestowed upon you? The villagers hit by the fireball turn to ash instantly, and those near them are badly burned. They begin to flee. As you chase after them, you notice the mayor, who has been trampled by the fleeing villagers. “No, no, please! Have mercy!” You plunge a taloned hand into his chest, lifting him into the air. He screams in pain as you lean in close to his face and say, “go to hell”. You cast ice beam from the hand holding him up, and he is launched into the air by the force of it. He lands several meters away, his frozen body shattering as it hits the ground. You smile, but your revenge is far from over. \n<<endif>>

You confidently pull yourself through the last crevice before finally reaching the opening. You close your eyes for a moment to bask in your success, and enter the large opening.\n\n[[Open Eyes]]

The blood tastes like beef, with a hint of snakey goodness.\n\n<<set $demonsBloodDrank = $demonsBloodDrank + 1 >>\n[[Leave|Juncture 7]]

You roll to the side, and the giant spider careens into the wall. Disoriented, it stumbles about for a few moments, and collapses to the ground.\n\n[[Poke One of the Faces On Its Abdomen|Next1]]\n[[Cast Ice Beam|Next2]]\n[[Cast Fireball|Next3]]\n[[Try and Find an Exit|Next4]]

You dart backwards to what you think is a safe distance behind a boulder. The urchin creature rises from the ground on two massive legs. Having unearthed itself, the great beast actually looks more like a tyrannosaurus covered in spikes. It shakes off the sand and rocks from its body and roars a mighty roar which sounds to you like the screams of the damned. After a quick scan of the area, the two of you make eye contact. It starts to charge, slowly at first, but picking up speed alarmingly fast.\n\n[[Duck Behind the Boulder|Duck behind the boulder]]\n[[Jump]]

You struggle against your bonds, but it’s no use. These villagers are no strangers to tying knots, if the gallows in the distance is any indicator. The mayor watches you struggle, and laughs. The villagers join in.\n\n[[Continue|Mayor]]\n

You attempt to climb down the side of the plateau even though it seems impossible. You start scaling the side of this massive cliff face when a flying demon swoops at you, slashing your back. You recoil in pain, losing your grip. You begin to fall; it feels like an eternity until you finally land. Death was inevitable. Escape was impossible. Your journey is at an end.

Delving deep into your ancient knowledge, you draw on the power of mana to prepare a spell.\n\n[[Cast Fireball|Fire]]\n[[Cast Ice Beam|Ice]]\n[[Cast Telekinesis|Telekinesis]]

<<if $trample lte 1>>\nYou blast a ball of fire from your hand at the spider, but its carapace doesn’t seem to take any damage. The spider scrambles back up and starts walking around again.\n<<endif>>\n<<if $trample is 1>>\nYou try to throw another fireball at the spider, but are again trampled. This time, your leg is broken in the chaos. You try to get to your feet, but collapse immediately, screaming in pain.\n<<endif>>\n<<set $trample = $trample + 1>>\n\n[[Keep Fighting]]

You roll around him, barely dodging his knife. As he pulls his knife from the wall where you just stood, you ready a fireball. You throw it at him, engulfing his skin in flames. He screams out in agony, smoke coming out of his nose. The flames die down. His skin should be extremely burned, but it appears untouched. You'll have to be clever to defeat him.\n\n[[Attempt to Escape]]\n[[Trick the Monster]]

“They call me ‘H’, 'cause I turn asses to ashes”, you exclaim. You chuckle to yourself as two great balls of fire form in your hands. The beast turns towards you and charges again. You throw the first fireball at it’s head, knocking off more blades but doing nothing to stop its rush. It roars once more and you throw the second fireball directly into it’s mouth. That doesn’t seem to have much of an effect either. The beast knocks you off the ruin.\n\n[[Fall]]

The blood is a pretty hot, but it is sweet on your tongue.\n\n<<set $demonsBloodDrank = $demonsBloodDrank + 1 >>\n[[Push the Table to the Tunnel and Leave|Juncture 5]]

Your death, as it turns out, is not quick. The spider’s venom is necrotic, and it isn’t so much hungry as it is malicious. It bites you in the shoulder, walks away, and watches you squirm about in pain as your skin slowly turns a sludgy black color from the shoulder outwards. As it reaches your throat, you feel your airway tighten, and you start convulsing. You wonder what made you think that praying would work. You are in Hell after all. Regardless, your journey has come to a sad, gruesome end.

You examine all of the walls, but there is no clear way out, except for where you came from. Looks like you’re going to have to fight. You turn around to see that the spider is walking about the room again.\n\n[[Keep Fighting]]

Unable to stand the heat and the overwhelming feeling of sorrow, you return to the dark caves you emerged from in search of a different path; hopefully salvation will be down another corridor.\n\n[[Leave the Caves|Juncture 6]]

You enter the most unnerving chamber yet, and that’s saying something. The wall of this large circular room is covered in living, breathing faces in rows and columns all talking and yelling at each other or just to themselves. They don’t take notice of your presence. At the far end of the room is the large face of an old decrepit man, whose height reaches all the way to the ceiling.\n\n<<if $bossesKilled lte 2>>He’s the only one not talking, just giving the whole room a blank stare. \n[[Turn around|Juncture 7]]<<elseif $bossesKilled is 3>>\nThe large old man’s mouth is wide open as if he’s stuck mid-yawn. His throat looks like a hallway, and you see a door at the end.\n[[Step Through the Maw|Final Boss]]\n<<endif>>

You press your back against the boulder and brace for impact. The ground quakes with each approaching step, and the force of the collision of the beast’s body against the boulder knocks you to the ground. Some spines break off it’s shoulder and rain on the ground around you. While it recovers, you scramble up a small ruin nearby and stand to face the monster. It’s time to cast a spell.\n\n[[Cast Spell]]

You run to the door handle, and jiggle it around, but the door won't open. You'll have to stay and fight.\n\n[[NO! I WANT TO LEAVE!]]\n[[Start Picking Up Shards]]

Hitting the ground with a hard thud, you roll to the side just before the stone structure topples over to where you were just lying. The monster shakes it’s head to recover again, shedding more blades. You stand up, and shake off the shock of the fall.\n\n[[Fight On|Round 2]]

You call, “hey, you dropped something!” Using telekinesis to pick up the fallen spikes, you send them flying back towards the beast’s face. The spikes pierce its face, and it rears it’s ugly, bloodied head and turns towards you. With an even louder roar than before, it charges at you again, knocking you off of the ruin.\n<<set $hitsOnDino = $hitsOnDino + 1>>\n\n[[Fall]]

You leave the village as it burns behind you. The mayor’s screams as you plunged the knife into his stomach were as much music to your ears as the crackling of the fire behind you is right now. Hopefully the next village isn’t foolish enough to cross you.

You pass through the now-open giant door, and as you pass the threshold, it slams shut behind you. You push against it, but it won’t budge. You venture further into the room. The walls have the same fleshy quality as the antechamber, and are coated with spiderwebs. You hear a clacking sound above you, and look up along the walls to the ceiling, where a gigantic spider is pedaling along a thread of webbing towards the ground. It touches down and rears, its chelicerae, forelegs, and pedipalps wavering at you. Its abdomen is an eerie, flesh-colored membrane of wailing human faces. It starts to charge towards you.\n\n<<set $hit = 0>>\n<<set $trample = 0>>\n[[Try and Dodge It|Roll]]\n[[Cast a Fireball|Fireball]]\n[[Pray]]\n

This blood is a little weird tasting. Which is a pretty damn strange thing to say.\n\n<<set $demonsBloodDrank = $demonsBloodDrank + 1 >>\n[[Head Out of the Room]]

You conjure a small flame and light a nearby hellstick (they're like sticks, but in hell). The flame lights the walls around you. You throw the flame into the void, and it falls for a long time, until you see the light no more. \n\n[[Listen Intently]]

You slowly trudge through the confines of this rocky tunnel. Rats scurry past in a frantic escape, scratching and clawing their way through. The closer you get to the opening, the more clearly you hear the sounds of crying and moaning. You fear the worst, but such a sound is not uncommon here; one begins to wonder if they are beginning to go mad, or if all of the horrors are truly real.\n\n[[Pull Through Cracks in the Rocks]]

There is a massive staircase leading upwards. You look through the center of the spiraling steps to try and see the top, but you only see more and more stairs.\n\n[[Start Climbing the Stairs|Start Climbing the stairs]]\n[[Head Back|Juncture 2]]\n\n

You stick out your tongue and let the blood fall onto it. It doesn't taste that bad.\n<<set $demonsBloodDrank = $demonsBloodDrank + 1 >>\n\n[[Leave|Juncture 2]]

You gather yourself and try looking over the ledge again. The plateau overlooks a massive expanse, where ancient stone structures are falling apart. Demons are flying to and from, and the sounds of pain and torture can be heard ringing through the air. You take in the sights. If it wasn't Hell, it would be almost beautiful.\n\n[[Breathe Deep]]

The spider, having only three legs left, is incapable of walking about anymore. It collapses, hissing on the fleshy ground. You draw your knife. With a snap of your fingers, a flame appears over your hand. You heat the blade with the flame as you walk up to the spider, place a boot on its head, and drive the knife into its carapace with all of your strength. The faces on the abdomen start screaming, and the spider’s remaining legs thrash about, but after a few moments, the thrashing ends and the spider rattles out its last breath. You work your knife out of the carapace, and it is slick with blood.\n\n[[Lick the Knife|DrinkSpiderBlood]]\n[[Head Out of the Room]]

You attempt to jump over him, but the demon is extremely tall, and you trip over its shoulder. He stands over you, licking his lips as you lie on the ground. You quickly get up to your feet. He attempts to slice your throat, but you evade it with not a second to spare. \n\nYou ready a fireball. You throw it at him, engulfing his skin in flames. He screams out in agony, smoke coming out of his nose. The flames die down. His skin should be extremely burned, but it appears untouched. You'll have to be clever to defeat him.\n\n[[Attempt to Escape]]\n[[Trick the Monster]]

You stand directly facing the spiked dinosaur demon. The monster stamps its heavy feet, and starts to charge again.\n\n[[Telekinesis | Telekinesis2]]\n[[Fire | Fire1]]\n

The ground becomes more uneven, and your feet sink into the sand a little more with each step towards the spiny structure. On closer inspection it looks like one giant, grey sea urchin. It’s also clearly alive.\n<<set $hitsOnDino = 0 >>\n<<set $boss1kill = 0 >>\n[[Poke It|Poke it]]\n[[Throw Something at It|Throw something at it]]

Picking up a pebble, you take a step back and hurl it at the sea urchin with as much strength as your sleight frame can muster. It bounces off, and pelts you right in the face. You feel embarrassed. From the base of the spiked mass opens two dinner-plate-sized eyes.\n\n[[Begin Fight]]

You decide against going further into the colosseum because, really, how could this be a good idea. The doors start to close slowly. You start running towards them, but they close even faster. You reach the doors just as they slam shut. The noise is so loud, it stirs dust from all the ledges of the colosseum. The echoes fade and you hear a low rumble coming from the center of the arena.\n\n[[Investigate the Structure]]

As you jab at the eye of one of the faces with your forefinger, the face stops wailing and says, “OW! Jesus, what the hell!?” Other nearby faces come to its support: “That’s rude, man!”; “What’s wrong with you?”; “Just poking us in the face, huh? That’s nice.” This does nothing to affect the spider itself, it would seem, but at least you hurt SOMETHING. The spider gets up and starts walking around again.\n\n[[Keep Fighting]]\n

While you’re still alone, you begin to look for an exit. Whatever caused the screaming will likely be by soon. Wandering around, you notice that the ceilings in this chamber are extremely high, making vertical escape impossible. The tunnel you came through is out of reach. You step around a dinner table next to the throne, covered with various human organs. \n\n“Fwesh… meeeat?”\n\nYou turn your head in the direction of the distorted voice to face a gluttonous, humanoid monstrosity only a few meters away. The creature’s blue skin provides a stark contrast with the red blood and gore all around him, making you wonder, “how in the hell did I not see him come in? Did he just come in from the room in the back so quickly?” His stomach is a gaping hole large enough to fit in, with teeth and tentacles extruding all over. The creature is dressed in ragged cloth, the remains of what looks like an ancient crown, corroded beyond belief, standing proud atop grotesque head.\n\n“So how do I leave this place?"\n\n“Leeave…? No leave. You mine. All mine.” You notice that he only has half a tongue as he licks his lips. \n\n"No thanks." \n\nAs you prepare your magic, he lunges forward in an attempt to grab you.\n\n[[Roll to the Side]]\n[[Leap Over Him]]

You look the mayor dead in the eyes, and say, “it’ll be you screaming, when you wake up with a knife in your gut!” The mayor punches you in the stomach, and you are winded from the blow. The mayor lifts your face up by the chin, with malice in his eyes. “Shut up, witch. This will be easier for all of us.”\n\n[[Continue|Mayor]]

The room you enter is dark and foggy, with a glittering floor and ceiling. The room is cold enough for you to see your own breath but, despite that, you start to sweat nervously. You hear a soft rustling, or sliding. As you get closer, you start hearing screeching noises, like nails on a chalkboard, and a monster jumps out at you. It has the head of a gorgon, but the body of a minotaur. You try and jump back, but she throws you to the ground with the butt of her battleaxe. While knocked down, you notice the ground is covered in shards of reflective glass. You continue to struggle. The "Medusataur" hits you into the ground again, causing more shards of glass to fall from the ceiling. You manage to get to your feet and pick up a shard.\n\n[[Start Picking Up Shards]]\n[[Run For the Exit]]

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You fight back the feelings of sorrow and pain and choose to attempt to cross the pit anyways. You cast a levitation spell and throw yourself over the edge of the cliff. You manage to make it a few feet before one of the lost souls grabs your ankle. You try your hardest to fight it off and escape but it is already too late; the depths of hell have claimed you and you will spend eternity spinning in this pit of despair. Your journey is now at an end.

Too Bad!\n\n[[Start Picking Up Shards]]

You decide to just move past what the villagers did to you, and move on to the next town. You are just happy to be alive after all the craziness.

You cast a beam of ice from each hand at one of the spider’s legs, and the leg freezes solid. The spider rises to its feet, and as it begins to walk the leg shatters.\n\n<<set $hit = $hit + 1>>\n<<if $hit < 5>>\n[[Keep Fighting]]\n\n<<elseif>>\n[[Kill the Spider|EndSeq1]]\n<<endif>>

You open your eyes; there is nothing. The quiet is so still you begin to hear your own heartbeat as your blood boils with frustration. You scream into the void: “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo….” \nYour voice echoes out, but there is no response. The silence is deafening, and you feel defeated. You wonder if there is an end to this void of despair.\n\n[[Find a Stick to Light on Fire]]

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You quicken your pace out of excitement; you might have finally found an escape from this hell. You emerge on to a plateau, overlooking an apocalyptic medieval hellscape. Large smoldering columns line the walls, giant menacing stone gargoyles loom above, and their eyes seem to follow you around the room.\n\n[[Lean Over the Ledge for a Better View]]

As you walk through the passage way, you hear a low rumbling noise. As you get closer to the sound, you see two large doors, one to your left and one to your right. The passageway also continues onwards.\n\n[[Keep Going Down the Passageway|Juncture 6]]\n[[Go Through the Right Door|Endless Staircase]]\n<<if $boss1kill eq false>>[[Go Through the Left Door|Boss1]]\n<<endif>>[[Go Back|Juncture 1]]

The screams are more apparent, coming from a nearby tunnel. The tunnel emits a reddish light and smoke, which spreads towards the junction as well.\n\n[[Go Right|Scenic Dead End]]\n[[Go Left|Juncture 5]]

You see a fork in the road. Down the right path, you can hear screaming in the distance. Firelight dances off the stone walls. Down the left, the bones of humans and animals alike scatter the ground and walls.\n\n[[Go Right|Juncture 3]]\n[[Go Left|Juncture 2]]

While dark, it’s starting to feel relatively comfortable - not too hot, not too cold. The lava river is still within viewing distance, but even then, you hardly feel it.\n\n[[Use the Left Passage|Juncture 7]]\n[[Use the Right Passage|Pitfall 1]]\n[[Use the Back-Left Passage|Juncture 2]]\n[[Use the Back-Right Passage|Juncture 5]]\n\n

It is now bright and cold, with the few drafts acting as the only remnant of heat. The ground is now frozen in nice, with several distorted bodies encased within viewing distance.\n\n<<if $boss3kill is false>>[[Go Down the Left Passage|Boss 3]]<<endif>>\n[[Go Down the Right Passage|Antechamber]]\n[[Go Down the Back Passage|Juncture 6]]

You stand on a pile of dry sticks and hay, with your hands tied behind a large wooden stake driven into the ground. A group of villagers surround you with torches in their hands, the only light to be seen on this cold, dark night. The town mayor steps out of the crowd, and leans his face in really close, the light from his torch dancing across his face.\n\n“This is it, witch. You’re going to die. Try not to scream too loudly.”\n<<set $boss1kill = false>>\n<<set $boss2kill = false>>\n<<set $boss3kill = false>>\n<<set $bossesKilled = 0>>\n\n[[Try to Break Out of the Ropes Binding Your Hands| Try to break out of the ropes binding your hands]]\n[[Tell Him You’re Not a Witch| Tell him you’re not a witch]]\n[[Threaten Him| Threaten him]]\n[[Spit in His Face| Spit in his face]]

The smell of rotting, burning flesh fills your nose. You choke on the stench. In the distance you can see what appears to be an ocean of corpses, moaning and screaming as they burn and rot. The sound of a train sounds and alerts your attention.\n\n[[Look Around For the Source of the Sound]]

The spider turns to face you, and charges again.\n\n[[Try and Dodge It|Roll]]\n[[Cast a Fireball|Fireball]]\n[[Pray]]

It is extremely dark. The sounds of flesh being torn apart can be heard, and the walls feel like slimy flesh.\n\n<<if $boss2kill is false>>[[Go Through the Door on the Right|Boss 2]]<<endif>>\n[[Go Down the Right Passage|Juncture 6]]\n[[Go Down the Left Passage|Juncture 3]]

Quickly enchanting your boots, you jump upwards with the strength of fifty strong, independent women. The beast tries to snap at you as it dashes by, but misses and trips over the boulder. It falls over, and some of the spikes on it’s body break off. You land lightly atop a nearby ruin. It’s time to cast a spell.\n\n[[Cast Spell]]

You crawl through yet another dark and seemingly endless tunnel, no signs of life beyond the occasional spider or the screams heard in the distance. Just as you begin to give up hope of ever finding a way out of this tunnel you feel a slight breeze, with the sound of the wind whistling between the rocks.\n\n[[Run Towards the Breeze]]

You scream, “but I’m not a witch! Please, you can’t do this!” The mayor laughs, and says, “it won’t matter anyways, soon enough.”\n\n[[Continue|Mayor]]

One of the blades impales the hulking demon right in the jugular, bringing the beast down with a shriek of pain. It collapses and skids to a halt just before your feet. Blood sprays out of the wound like a fountain, raining down on you. Disgusting, but oddly refreshing. You hear a click as the colosseum doors open.\n<<set $bossesKilled = $bossesKilled + 1>>\n<<set $boss1kill = true >>\n[[Drink Blood]]\n[[Leave|Juncture 2]]

You push on the tall, reinforced wooden doors. After a few moments, some other force takes over and the doors slowly swing open on their own, blowing an arid heat into your face. Before you stands the colossal ruin of a colosseum, its tall pillars eroded by wind and sand, with thousands of empty seats lining the walls, well above ground level. The arena floor is smooth sandstone, littered with boulders, rocks, and gravel. The air is eerily quiet aside from the occasional gust of hot wind, and as you step into the arena, your footfalls echo loudly. In the middle of the arena is a peculiar, spiked structure.\n\n[[Leave]]\n[[Investigate the Structure]]

You lose your footing, falling faster and faster down the slimy tunnel. The few breaths you take overpower the rest of your senses, making your eyes tear up and your mouth gag.\n\nYou land abruptly on what appears to be a blood-filled tumor extruding from the ground. The room is dim, but lit enough to see, after you wipe away the tears caused by the revolting smell. Looking up, you notice that the tunnel entrance is too high to reach without some kind of ladder or steps.\n\nTaking a moment to catch your breath, you observe your surroundings. It appears to be the remnants of a throne room in a castle, but everything - the ground, the pillars, and the furniture - are encased with human flesh and tissue. You glance at the makeshift throne in front of you, a compilation of various bones and meat. As you take several steps into this chamber of horrors, you faintly hear screaming and shrieking from the back.\n\n[[Look For an Exit]]

You look around and see what appears to be a train station manned by skeletons herding the masses to their doom. There appears to be no way down from here. You should go back the way you came.\n\n[[Go Back Into the Tunnels]]\n[[Try To Scale the Plateau Anyways]]

Using a spear conveniently found nearby, you poke past the long thin spikes to try and get at the center of the mass. The spear isn’t quite long enough, and your arm grazes a spike and starts bleeding. The blood runs down your arm to your elbow and drips onto the giant sea urchin. The urchin grumbles, and a dinner-plate-sized eye opens to stare right at you.\n\n[[Begin Fight]]

“Where… where am I?”, you think to yourself. You bite your tongue - still hurts, not dreaming. After being burned, you recall watching your body entering a spiral of darkness. So that means…\n\nYou look around - you’re in a dark enclosed prison cell, with a rusted, barred metal door. Suddenly, a demonic voice starts to speak to you in your head. “If you want revenge on those who killed you, drink the blood of demons.” The voice echoes for a few moments, and fades away. "The mayor." You clench your teeth in anger. "Boy, wouldn’t it be nice to fry him." If there's a way out of here, you're going to find it, but perhaps drinking the blood of some demons along the way couldn't hurt.\n\nTime to get out of this prison cell. You conjure a fireball, and blast the weak metal door right off the hinges.\n\n[[Head Out of the Cell|Juncture 1]]\n

You blast a ball of fire from your hand at the spider, but its carapace doesn’t seem to take any damage. The spider scrambles back up and starts walking around again.\n\n[[Keep Fighting]]

You hock up a big ball of phlegm and saliva, and launch it directly into his left eye. “EUGH!”, he exclaims, and sweeps the yellowish-green goop out of his eye. He looks back at you angrily, and delivers a massive backhand to your right cheek. The world spins for a few moments while you gather your bearings. You lift your chin defiantly at the mayor, who leans in close again, this time keeping the torch between you and him. “Go to hell, witch.”\n\n[[Continue|Mayor]]

The mayor backs away, throwing the torch onto the hay. The rest of the villagers start doing the same with their torches. The flames lick up to your feet, and you feel them start to blister and tighten from the heat. In spite of the pain, you try not to scream, but as the flames reach your calves, you can no longer contain yourself. For what feels like an eternity, you scream and writhe against the flames, and as you pass out, you hear one of the villagers talking loudly. “With our torches gone I can’t even see! How are we supposed to get back home?”\n\n[[Continue|Hell]]\n\n

All of a sudden you hear a soft rumbling sound, growing stronger and stronger. Your skin begins to drip with sweat as the temperature rises. You see what appears to be a flame brewing in the depths of the void. Suddenly, the pit fills with flames and the sound of screams and moans as the spirits of thousands of tortured souls echo throughout the room. This appears to be an endless pit of torture and loss. To continue forth would be a grave mistake, rewarded with nothing but pain and death.\n\n[[Go Back Into the Caves]]\n[[Attempt To Cross the Pit]]