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Chapter 7
by moonblack
Which way do you go?
The Bone Door
You decide that you don't want to risk fighting the ogre, especially when you have no way to know if he is the only opponent waiting for you in the room. The pool also seems like an unnecessary risk - you're not even sure that the 'water' is just regular water and not something else. That leaves only the five new doors. Unfortunately, your close examination of them reveals nothing helpful - as far as you can tell they are not trapped or locked, but that is all you are able to find out. You see no better option than to pick a door at random and hope for the best, so that is what you do.
You open the Bone Door (as you have started calling it in your mind), grip your sword tightly, take a deep breath, and step through it. The world around you blurs for just a moment, and then you see your new surroundings.
You are now in some sort of cave. On the floor you see numerous bones and parts of skeleton, most of them clearly not human. There's also some white dust that you guess must have been bones ones. Looking at the cave walls and ceiling you see even more bones of various shapes and sizes sticking out of them. You also notice numerous skulls stuck in the walls and ceiling, most of them clearly not human. The eye sockets of the skulls glow with light that gradually changes color. That seems to be the only light source in the cave.
You check the door that brought you here and discover that on this side it is a little different. It is still made out of bone, but now it is locked and you see four keyholes in it. Above the left-most keyhole is the engraving of a teardrop, above the next one is an icicle, above the third one is a lightning bolt, and above the right-most keyhole is the engraving of a jagged piece of rock. There's no way to tell if you need four keys to open the door, or just one. In the latter case it will likely matter which keyhole you will use it on.
Next you turn your attention to getting out of the relatively small cave room. There are five exits you can see. On your left is a tunnel that goes stright for a while, before slowly curving to the left. For a moment you think you hear the sound of movement from it, but it is so brief you cannot be sure you did not imagine it. Next is a sloped tunnel that goes down into the ground. The middle tunnel - directly ahead of the door that brought you here - goes stright for a bit before sharply turning left. Next is another sloped tunnel, but this one leads up. And on the right is yet another tunnel that goes stright at first, but then it gradually curves to the right. From it you hear something that might be a woman moaning in pleasure, but you're not sure.
"Decisions, decisions..." You say to yourself as you examine the tunnels and try to pick one.
Which way do you go?
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