You kneel down, setting your shovel aside. You reach out, brushing away the last of the sand from the hatch. The metal hatch is cold to the touch - too cold for something buried under layers of earth and sand. As you brush away the sand, the shapes become clearer and form an inscription. Your fingers trace the jagged runes. They're alien to you, yet somehow familiar.

"Open, and remember."

You read the words aloud before you realize that you're doing. As the last sound leaves your lips, the runes flare with a pale blue light. The air hums like a struck tuning fork, and the hatch beneath you shifts. The metal unfolds like petals, opening inward to reveal a shaft descending into perfect darkness. Old air rises up from the shaft, something acrid but smelling faintly electric.

A faint sound echoes from below - whispers? You strain to listen, but you can't make out the sounds over the sound of your heart thundering in your ears. 

The lighted runes flicker uncertainly, casting long warped shadows down into the exposed shaft. You focus on those shadows, recognizing a pattern. There's a stairway down, down, down, into the earth. A hollow clang echoes upward. Then silence. 

The runes give one final pulse of pale light before extinguishing completely, plunging everything into darkness. The silence that follows isn't empty. It's waiting.

Waiting around sucks, right?

So instead of just waiting around and counting the days until the launch of Nezbrael's Legacy and The Book Bazaar, I thought it'd be fun to play a little game!

This will be a choose your own adventure style game. I just posted the first poll. Vote now to decide how we proceed! This poll will close at 7am PST tomorrow, and another poll will go live shortly thereafter.

Let's hunt some treasure!