D&D Dynastic Delving

Fair warning: this story is designed to be more of a game: it is intended to be read in game mode only: failure to do so can lead to things like infinite loops and chapters which connect to other chapters that just plain don't make sense because they are designed for conditions you have not met. This is your one and only warning!

The Labyrinth of Ambuscade: said to have been created by the gods as a hiding place for the Tree of Immortality when the world was young the Labyrinth has tempted the unwary and foolhardy for eons. The Labyrinth of Ambuscade is an ever shifting maze of stone, wood, brick, and steel that stretches for hundreds of miles beneath the central planes of the Queensland of Lore.

Many have dared the delving of it: few have returned. However those that have have done so laden down with gold and gems, treasures beyond counting. It is said that it was from the inscriptions on the walls that the Dwarves and the Elves took their systems of writing, and that it was here that the Gnomes first learned the precepts of alchemy, it is also said that it was here that a wicked and blasphemous sorcerer first unlocked the hideous rituals to turn himself into the first Lich, and that somewhere in the depths of it's spaces are monstrous things with no names, for no one who has ever met them has escaped to tell the tale.

You are an adventurer, part of the Adventurer's Guild of the Queensland of Lore, and you have made many enemies in the Queen's court. They therefore they have arranged to have you be Awarded a singular honor, the Rank of Count/Countess over the long defunct Castle Manorial of Ambuscade, which among other things gives your family the exclusive right and responsibility to delve into the labyrinth in search of the Tree of Immortality.

You have been accorded a count's compliment of 50 men-at-arms and a 'purse' of 10,000 GP to repair the castle, drawn on the royal coffers. You must then begin exploring the dungeon at once, for it is the eternal desire of the Queens of Lore that they should be able to give their daughters the Fruit of Immortality when they turn 27 years old and thus make them eternally young and beautiful.

Before we go any further however, we need to know who you are, and whom, if anyone, you have to succeed you in your new task...

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