Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Lone Wolf: A Lively Jaunt Through the Graveyard

That's the kind of spirit I'm looking for, guys! Into the graveyard we go!

As you descend the ridge towards the Graveyard of the Ancients, you are aware of a strange mist and cloud that swirls all around this grey and forbidding place, blocking the sun and keeping the Graveyard in perpetual gloom.

A creeping chill seems to penetrate your very bones. Back to the Future becomes startled and no matter how you urge him on, he refuses to go any nearer to this dreadful place. So you must leave your horse and press on by foot.

Turn to 284.

NO! First Paradise and now Back to the Future?! Why, god? WHY????

Your passage through the Graveyard will not be easy, for the ground is broken and covered with a thorny graveweed. This wicked briar tears your cloak and cuts your legs. The air hangs heavy and still. Foul gases seep from open crypts and the haunting murmur of distant whispering fills your ears.


Carefully, you approach a gap between two ancient pillars, and part the graveweed with your cloaked hand. Suddenly, the ground collapses beneath you and you fall in a tumble of earth and stone.

Turn to 71.

You are winded but not hurt. You have fallen fifteen feet or so through the roof of an underground tomb. The walls are sheer and you cannot climb them. An arched tunnel leads out of the tomb towards the east, in front of which lies the sarcophagus of some ancient noble.

If you wish to use the Kai Discipline of Sixth Sense, turn to 65.

If you wish to open the sarcophagus to see if it contains any treasure, turn to 242.

If you wish to leave via the tunnel, turn to 104.

If Jesus wanted us to just go around, knocking over sarcophagi all willy-nilly like, he wouldn't have given us the Sixth Sense talent.

Your senses scream at you that this place is very evil. Leave as quickly as you can.

Turn to 104.

Praise Jesus!!

The walls are dank and slimy. The stale air chokes you and cobwebs brush across your face. You can feel panic grip your stomach, as the tunnel gets darker and darker.

You reach a junction where the tunnel meets a corridor leading from north to south.

If you wish to turn north, turn to 26.

If you wish to turn south, turn to 100.

Well, I have to go eat a bowl of Cap'n Crunch now then go to work. So you guys decide whether we go North or South and it shall be so. Part of me still wanted to kick open that sarcophagus....