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Chapter 3 by Killnsteal Killnsteal

Climb, or head left or right?

Go Right

You decide to go down the path the right,

A burrow juts out at the end and you pass through it's entrance despite it's sinister looking appearance. Inside the burrow a wide circular room resides, with a strange stone square table-like slab directly in the middle with odd totem or effigy figures around it dug into the dirt. From first guess it looks somewhat like a sacrificial alter a derranged cult would use for whatever crap people like that try to summon or pray to.

But just as you decide to head back up the way you came, you notice the rather distinct shapes littering the perimeter of the dark room. Being caked in the soil and moss of the undergrowth burrow, you hadn't seen them before - but now that you are aware of what they, are your brain lurches into gear as your heart beats uncontrollably and you visibly start shaking so hard that it could easily be described as "vibrating".

Human corpses. Twelve in total, lying untidely around the walls of the circular room. But what is most shocking about them is that they were not just regular corpses, stabbed or killed by any normal means - they were husks of their former selves, literally skin and bone with minimal muscle all around the body. This aspect gave them a horrifying appearance of agony to any onlooker, their eyes naught but empty sockets (no doubt devoured by worms) and stretched terrified looks upon their faces as if whatever had happened to them had in fact happened while they were alive and conscious.

"Well well" a voice echoes from the dark, "Has another suitor come to satisfy my desires?" it huskily asks.

What lurks in the darkness?

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