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Curse of the Midnight Fens
You stand before a great swamp, spreading out wide
over the distance before you. A natural wonder of murk and
bog, life and death, and darkness.... It falls over this
land unnaturally. Settling on it like a blanket of cold doom.
Strange eyes peer out at you from the undergrowth, unafraid
of your presence. Warily you step down the narrow muddy
path, determined to cross this swamp. After all you are
an adventurer, right?
Immediately the darkness closes in all about you and
your forced to stop and light a torch. It lights up a small
circle about you but can not cut into the darkness at all.
Jumping nervously you feel something moving at your feet and
glance downward you see a three legged snake scuttling
across your boots! Wierd, a three legged snake? What sort of
place is this?
Carefully continuing onward you find yourself in a
darker, more ominious section of the swamp. Completely lost
and at your wits ends, you bump into something. Holding your
torch close it looks like logs stacked ontop of each other.
Hmmm, a cabin! Frantically you feel your way around it
hoping to find a door. Soon your hands meet empty space
and you stumble through the opening and into the cabin.
A sudden feeling of dread overcomes you, and a deep
coldness surrounds you. A loud voice booms, 'You can not
break the curse, these souls all belong to me!' A heavy
presence fills the air, a noise behind you! No! There in
front of you! Beside you! You whirl to face the movement
but nothing.
'Muhahaha! You silly fool, you can not defeat me!
I am the blackness, the shadows, and nothing at all. Beg me
for a quick death and join the other cursed beings in my
domain!' Drawing your sword you shout a vow to make this
fiend bleed before your death. Laughter greets you, and two
strange billowy forms that float through the walls of the
cabin, glowing softly. One carries a strange blade of shadow
while the other clasps it's hands together, long claws showing.
'Come, give in to your death and join us brother, the
pain will not last...' Swingly wildly your blade meets nothing,
a sharp blow caresses your head, and darkness comes swiftly. Date Posted - 06.10.2005
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