[center][i]Death does not discriminate. It cares not for your wealth, your pride, your strength or your honor. It can strike in an instant as the blade of an assassin, or torture its victims over years until finally releasing them into everlasting peace.

This place is not so different. With no memory of your arrival, no familiarity with those trapped beside you, you are the victim of death, subjected to the horrors regardless of your past. If the traps and monsters do not rip your life away in a blink of the eye, then time will become your greatest fear as your hope rots and your mind fades into a dull shell of your former self. If even then you persist, then you will suffer at the hands of those who did not.

Perhaps after all of this, you hold with desperation onto the idea that you'll see the light of day once again.
Perhaps.

If this is what drives you, then you better get climbing. The only way is up, and there's only one way to see what's at the top of...
[h1][b][u]The Tower[/u][/b][/h1][/i][/center]

[center][h3]~Prologue~[/h3]
[h1][b][i][u]Left In the Dark[/u][/i][/b][/h1]

[i]Yes, climb and climb, you will. Give yourself goals, it would be all the more pleasing when you fail...[/i][/center]

Cold, dry, empty, and most of all, dark. The enclosure that the adventures and nobles awoke in was about one hundred feet wide in both directions. A single torch rested on a pedestal in the center as well as torches along the walls gave the smooth dark stone of this room a color that mimicked rotting pumpkins, and this sickly coloration faded into blackness upward, the ceiling was beyond the depressing light's reach. Each of the people trapped in this room awoke one by one as if synchronized, each sitting up with a sudden start from the chilled floor and into the dusty and still air around them. The scent of musk was faint but apparent as they looked about, seeing one another scattered across the room.