the descent
The mouth of the fissure yawned open like something wounded and long since left to fester. The stone around it was jagged, as if the island itself had been torn apart from within, leaving this great scar to rot in the open air. The violet stone, porous and pitted like bone left too long in salt, glistened with a sheen of perpetual damp. From within, a lavender glow pulsed, not steady, but with a rhythm like breathing—or worse, like something dreaming.
Your descent within will begin with silence.
Not the kind of silence born from peace or stillness, but the terrible, pressing absence of sound that suggested something had swallowed it whole. Even the storm-wracked ocean, only two kilometers away, felt a thousand miles removed. No wind, no birds, no insect drone. Only the faint crackling glow of bioluminescent fungi, clustered in necrotic growths that pulsed faintly along the walls.
The path down is steep, slick with something too dark to be water. The air is thin, acrid with the sour stench of rot and rust. Old blood. Wet meat. And death—layered thick, recent and ancient all at once. Bones littered the floor in heaps: some animal, many not. Shattered ribs. A child’s boot still strapped to a leg. Gold glinted faintly in the funguslight, a ring still clutched in one mummified hand.
And far below, in the violet belly of the world, something moved.
Not the skitter of claws or the hiss of breath, but a low, resonant sound that vibrated through the stone. A groan, or a growl, or perhaps some guttural attempt at speech. It was too deep to name and too long to be natural, and as it wound its way up through the fissure, the light itself seemed to shudder.
Welcome to the Key Quest. This is a hard Level 15 key Quest.
Your randomly assigned posting order is Sunjata, Deimos, thenHadama. You have 24 hrs to reply.
Sunjata HP: 1125/1125
Deimos HP: 1275/1275
Hadama HP: 800/800
Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well.
REMEMBER: KQs are rewarding but dangerous. They may cause death and/or permanent changes to your characters.
Your descent within will begin with silence.
Not the kind of silence born from peace or stillness, but the terrible, pressing absence of sound that suggested something had swallowed it whole. Even the storm-wracked ocean, only two kilometers away, felt a thousand miles removed. No wind, no birds, no insect drone. Only the faint crackling glow of bioluminescent fungi, clustered in necrotic growths that pulsed faintly along the walls.
The path down is steep, slick with something too dark to be water. The air is thin, acrid with the sour stench of rot and rust. Old blood. Wet meat. And death—layered thick, recent and ancient all at once. Bones littered the floor in heaps: some animal, many not. Shattered ribs. A child’s boot still strapped to a leg. Gold glinted faintly in the funguslight, a ring still clutched in one mummified hand.
And far below, in the violet belly of the world, something moved.
Not the skitter of claws or the hiss of breath, but a low, resonant sound that vibrated through the stone. A groan, or a growl, or perhaps some guttural attempt at speech. It was too deep to name and too long to be natural, and as it wound its way up through the fissure, the light itself seemed to shudder.
Welcome to the Key Quest. This is a hard Level 15 key Quest.
Your randomly assigned posting order is Sunjata, Deimos, then
Sunjata HP: 1125/1125
Deimos HP: 1275/1275
Hadama HP: 800/800
Remember to include a summary at the bottom of your post with all action taken. If weapons/upgrades/abilities/items/shifts/etc are used, please include their desc. from your profile at the bottom of your post as well.
REMEMBER: KQs are rewarding but dangerous. They may cause death and/or permanent changes to your characters.
