The Dungeon Master

"Well, well, well. Aren't you a curious little thing" You hear through the halls. All light is gone, and this mysterious voice carries loud through an echo. You keep fearing you'll hit something, your steps slow and gradual.

"I didn't think anyone would have made that choice. At least, not their first one. I had hoped to take delight in watching someone break, and yet it would appear that's already been done for me."

"Where are you" You ask sheepishly into the dark void "Who are you?"

A single pillar of light fills the distance, and in the light is a mysterious cloaked figure "I am who I choose to be. Do you know who you are? Truly, who you are? Remove the lottery of birth and the hand of fate, and look just at your soul. So few dare look that deep inside, and so that's why I'm here. As well as you, though I didn't suspect we would be here face to face"

"I don't understand" you reply, almost whimpering

"No, I wouldn't think so. You especially. I mean, did you not even look to see what your other options were? You had a literal world of possibilities in front of you, and you went the possibility of blind subservience, and while that certainly doesn't grant you points for your self-worth, there is something to be said for honesty."

The cloaked figure and the light vanish, only for the light to reappear above you, and the man suddenly reappear behind you. The hood of his cloak is removed, to reveal and old haggard man, whose face changes before your very eyes to a man roughly the same age as you "You were given a choice. Anything and everything in that room would have opened the doorway, and allowed you a life you never could have imagined."

"This doesn't make any sense. Who are you?"

"My name has not been said for quite some time, and you will not be the next one to utter it, I think." Suddenly, the column of light dissipates, only to be replaced with a room full of light. An impossibly large structure, possibly underground, spreads out before your eyes. Some of the walls shift, many of the staircases appear to go towards nowhere at all. Suddenly, your hands and feet are bound and chained, impossible to move in any direction. "All you need know is that to you, I am Master. Not just A master mind you, but the master. Master of space and reality. Everything bends to my will. I am The Dungeon Master, a master you volunteered to serve, which I must say provides me with curious possibilities. While I ruminate on that idea, tell me what you think..."