(by Bunty Blood Hunter)
I woke up as usual, somewere in the grassy fields in Ab'dendriel. The sun had already reached the mittle of the sky and while I was laying there in the heat i suddenly remebered! I was gonna go and kill some Beholders with my dear friend Tanirid. In less then 5 seconds i was standing infront of my depotbox trying to find my watch. After turning the depot upside down three or four times I noticed a strange object in my pocket.... Ofcourse it was the clock. I looked at it and got releafed when I noticed that I still had an hour to reach the meeting point, Though I could not stay any longer in Ab'dendriel because you can never know what kind of speicise that can delay you on your way. five minutes later I leaved the town of the elves and headed for the Big old one (A very big mountain in the central part of the Tibian continent). I knew there use to be some Dwarfs at the bridge always trying to cut the possibilety for humans to travel between thais and the northen city's (Carlin and Ab'dendriel), so I took some food with me in case I would need it. After a long journey around the big Femor hills I finaly reached the big mountain wall. A little group of goblins was trying to steal a sign at the side of the road and I couldent let them do that so i charged them with my spikied sword and cut them into peices (luckely I managed not to hit the sign). I looted the goblins and found some small stones and some gp. Happely I continued my journey to meat up with my friend throo the mountains on a small path.while I was walking there, between two high mountain walls I woundered what kind of treasures we would find. I couldent think long though because after some minutes of walking I heard some running steps behind me. I turned around and saw that my friend Tanirid came running. I got glad and greeted him with a loud:
- HI!
I asked him why he was running and he answered that he had got delayed by some Goblins and wolfs on the way. He said he dident know what time it was so he was afraid to be late. I said that we dident have to hurry now when we were together so we started to walk again. When we came out from the mountains we noticed that it was awfully quiet, no more sounds then the tree's moving in the wind and the birds singing there songs. We rushed to the bridge to find four dead dwarfs and some arrows perfektley nailed into the dwarfs head's. It was eather a group of Elves or an very skilled Paladin that had coused that damage. Well there was not so much more to do there so we just crossed the bridge and headed south. Tanirid said we could go into the swamps to find Beholders but I dident want to go there, it seamed to... Well poisonous. After a while of descussion we decided to go and explore some terretory south of the desert because there is said there should be an camp of outlaw's there. We though that if we brought some proof of our victory against the lawless maybe we could recive some kind of revard from the king in Thais. We headed to the desert but after a while we started getting tiered and the sky started to turn dark. We decided to set camp outside a locked tower. There was a sign outside the tower, the sign said: Wolftower. I woundered who would want to live there but dident think about it for long because I fall asleep quite fast. The next moring i got aweakened by my friend Tanirid. He had made us breakfast, freash fish from the river near by. We oat it all up and felt very happy were we sat, just enyoing the life as it should be. But after a while we had to leave. We had to travel troo the desert before it got dark again because camping in the desert is not one of the smartest things you can do. After a long time and after seeing very many strange things on the way we finaly reached a lake. around the lake there was some bushes, green but quite dry. We thought that if there is a lake there gotta be a river or some kind of water source nerby so we gathered our last energy and walked. After 10 minutes of terrefying heat we reached the place were sand turns to grass. A lake was cutting the landscape and we got even more irretated, now we had to walk around it. But as thirsty and hot as we were we decided to just take of all clothes and equipment and tire them together with our backpacks and bathe throo the river. On the other side we put everything back on and refreshed by the water we kept going south. after a while we saw some towers and houses (all very unprofecionally built) in the forest. We found a path that we followed but as we came more and more deeper into the camp we got more and more enoyed by the fact that it was very quiet and not even one single Wild Warrior came charging against us. After a while we entered a house, inside there was a table and a chair and a counter like in a store. Suddenly someone came up the stairs, a Wild Warrior. We drew our swords but as our eyes scanned him we couldent detect any weapon. We thought that he probably was the shop keeper and that was what he turned out to be also. We asked what his name was but he just told us his initial's H.L. We thought that such behavior was rude and walked out of the store. We walked out of the eamty camp and headed into the forest again. We passed a tower with no doors and came down to a little camp with mino's. They were no match for us and we started to look around while we looted whatever they had of worth. As we looked at the house ruins that the mino's had used as a camp we noticed that there was a sign on the roof. We woundered what kind of stupid person would put a sign on a roof so we climed up to check what was wroten on it. When we stood on the roof next to the sign and readed it we understood nothing. The sign said: From this point there is no return!. In a sarcastik tone i said:
- What does that supose to mean? It's just to jump down for god's sake. Tanirid stood quiet for a while and then he walked away to the end of the roof and looked down then he said:
- I think they mean down there.
- Down there? what do you mean with "Down there"?
- Come look, There is a hole here, down into the ground.
- Yea, now I see it.
I got scared looking down there because there was quite a fall, three stairs down. I was just gonna turn my back to the hole to jump down again when Tanirid suddenly said:
- Should we check whats down there? I stood totaly quite and still then i turned slowly and asked:
- Are you realy serious? You think I wanna go down there?
- Well im going down, you can stay there if ya want.
The next you know Tanirid was gone. He had jumped down into the hole and I stood there, chocked of his new side of peronalety. I've found brevery in Tanirid. Or was it stupidity? I dont know. Well i couldent just leave him down there and let him face the unknown by himself so I closed my eyes and jumped down to. I landed on my as, luckely becuse its big and soft. Tanirid said:
- Utevo lux
And "poof" we got light. We walked further into the cave and noticed some groups of Poison spiders, Wasps and Scorpions. we killed them easy though i startet to expect the worst. I said to Tanirid:
- If there's so many poison abilleted monsters down here it wouldent suprice me if there was Giant spiders here to. Tanirid said that i maybe was right and we kept walking but we dident come many steps further before tanirid got hit by a Poison field. Tanirid screemed:
- A GIANT SPIDER! RUN!
We ran back to the corner were we had fallen down and started to trying to find out a way to get out of there. After a while my friend Tanirid said that the onley way to get out was to try to run around the Giant spider. Without me agreeing with him he rushed out into a corridoor were the Giant spider was and ran back and around it into the corridoor again and noticed another Giant spider infront of him! He ran into another corridor that was leading to another direction and came to a place were he could look up and see the sky. He climed up on his rope and was on an island. Now I stood in a corner at the start of the tunnel and he was on an island. We were doomed. after a while Tanirid decided to try to escape but failed and died of some Orc Berzerkers on another floor of the dungeon. Now i was all alone together with some ugly monsters inside a cold tunnel. I stood there day after day, week after week. I almost strated to give up the hope of surviving. And finaly I did. I charged the Giant spiders but turned left into another tunnel when I was almost next to them. I came to a place were I could rope myself up. I had reached the island that Tanirid once had escaped to. I gave up all hope now when i saw that there were no chance of getting to the main land from that island. I took a last breath of the freash air and jumped down again. I stood there, face to face with a Giant spider. I looked him in his four eyes and as my last word spoke:
- I will come down here in another life and then I'll be the one leaving.
The next second.... I was dead.
(Baced on a real story)