Into the Depths: Prologue

"...it began with darkness"

 "then there was light...."

"but to every beginning there is also an end"

"But what awaits us in the beyond?"

"For only you can truly see" 

 

"My dearest cousin, I write this to you from the family home. When you get this it's most likely i will be dead, for you see: In my youthful days i pleasured with riches, wine, women and song. I enjoy such decadence to no end. I then discovered something that my father locked away in his studies. It was a map of sorts along with a journal in it was strange writings". With little caution i under took my father's task. So with all the funds that i amassed over the years, i plunged forth into the catacombs that lies in the Grey Burrows, i should've not gone, I should've not gone.
"Master we have come upon the entrance towards the catacombs" said a digger. "Excellent" said a hooded figure only armed with a book and a torch. the excavation team blew off softly the cobwebs and dust to reveal the same strange writings that was in the journal. The hooded figure then quickly open the journal with such haste and fervor he said to himself. He founded the entry he was looking for:

"Here lies those that should be forgotten for all time, Amalaxun the demon of the four winds, Ioezon the demon of false promises and hopes, then the third and last the mightest of them all Eeadar the demon of order who brings chaos, destruction, disease and famine to the world; He who peers into humanities hearts and corrupts them and changes them to serve thee".It was then a chilling cold air breeze in that scared the workers and miners who fled the area with such haste including the horses themselves. "We must press on" the elder man said. As the team went further and further into the catacombs they experience something wicked.

" *evil laughter* Look who has come to play with us brothers"

" ....Indeed dear sister more poor human fools to come and be our playthings"

"You should've not come here to this place for only darkness remains and light is such a trifling thing"

One by one instantly the torches went out and the laughter began again but this time in unison.

"Time...TO DIE! *evil laughter* HAHAHAHAA!"

"My god cousin, i didn't know what happened next.....piano music could be heard,we didn't know where it was coming from, then they appeared...."

The undead has awoken, clinging and grasping onto the poor souls that day who entered the dungeons of the Grey Burrows. One by one they fell with little to no chance of survival; Some who had weak will was turned into the demons that now plague the place. One person's looked himself as he was fleeing in a mirror to see his face being melted off and twisted into something horrible for only him to realize it was not a hallucination but real. Another person with such speed tried to flee the place for only giant winged bats swopping down and carrying the person off into the darkness for only a loud tear sound and then a splash upon the ground. The bats tore that poor soul into two and began eating the remains. A third person who was strong held them off for only to be captured tortured and completely turned mad, that same third person killed two more and offer their corpses to the demons. a forth and fifth person fell into a bug infested chamber only for the bugs to be appearing from within their own bodies and then sudden combustion.

"I couldn't believe my eyes it was like hell itself has come from the depths of the world"The demons marched upon the family home. Killing, twisting and devouring all those who came before them. One maid was dragged into a dream state for only her sanity and humanity to be lost. She slowly lost her hair, her skin began to flake and grew pale, and her eyes turned red; for the tears came down like blood; She gave out a siren like screeching sound that broke all the glass in the vicinity and popped the fleeing humans like a hammer to a melon with such speed and deadly accuracy.

Everyone fled the estate, except for the man who caused it all to happen. He looked himself in his father's room. With supplies to last him forever, but soon they will find him and he will "be one with them". "I know what must be done" said the hooded figure. He pen the letter that you are reading from the very beginning of this tale to you, my dear cousin. Afterwards he set the whole estate on fire and proceed to shoot himself in the head.

You have arrived in the town of Lancaster. What will await you in your journey?