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- | Karina (Ditto) __..| [Front] | 15/15 |
- | Kreldos (Octagon) .| [Front] | 10/10 |
- | Kirisa (Shade) _....| [Front] | 07/07 |
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- Location: The Kraken - Slave Hold
Prologue - Captivity
There are dozens of prisoners here in the hold, captured and herded here over many weeks at sea, just like you. You've all been here, deprived of normal food and water, or fresh air, for so long that none of you have the energy to even converse anymore. You raise your hand and touch your forehead. Above your left brow, it has been branded with a small crude symbol that resembles a pair of barbed teeth. It was done shortly after you were captured, and it dons a strange blue hue whenever it captures the light of the moon.
- Mark of Slavery
A strange symbol occupies the lower left half of your forehead, just above the brow. It glows a strange blue hue when exposed to moonlight. It seems to have no discernible function, aside from marking you as property.
Another boom of thunder accentuates the opening of the door to your hold. You turn your eyes to the doorway. A cloaked figure, covered in black, dripping with cold water steps inside, decisively shutting the door behind it. The water falls from his clothes and drips down the stairs with him as he makes his way down them. You hear shouts coming from above, but you can't make out what is being shouted.
The figure approaches one of the other prisoners, and holds his chain. The prisoner cowers in fear from the figure at first, but moments after, with a brilliant spark of white light from the clench of the figure's fist, the cloaked figure snaps the chain off effortlessly. It announces, in a rough, deep voice.
"Gather all of your strength, ladies and gentlemen, you are about to make a run for freedom." He snaps another prisoner's chain off. "Well, compared to this hell hole, at the very least."
You try to make out his features when he approaches to remove your own chains, obviously with the employ of magic as you're deducted by this point. When you look at his face, a pair of wizened blue eyes stare wildly back at you from behind a grizzled brown beard. The stare that the man returned, you have the impression that he took special note of you.
The shouting from above deck escalates. You can now clearly make out the sounds of combat, of battle cries and clashing steel. Are these people here to rescue you?
The cloaked man speaks: "Find whatever weapons and valuables you can and make a run for it. Our ship is docked against this one, you will be safe and relatively free with us. Hurry, we will not delay more than is necessary."
With that the figure makes for the door. As the door opens again, water and the chaotic sounds of combat pour inside the ships' hold. The man takes a sharp turn and fades from sight. Another boom of thunder is heard, lighting the doorway for a brief second, like light at the end of a tunnel.
Some prisoners make their way outside in a hurry, others remain still in panic. Should you go? What did the man mean by "relatively free?" WWYDN?
The main plot is divided into chapters, each chapter dealing with a different overreaching issue. To move on with the story, you must "solve" the conflict in each chapter.