Syndella left the orc's torture chamber below her as she ascended the spiraling stairs. She had managed to escape unravished... for now, no mean feat considering the predicament she had started out in. What about all the other players? Did they start out in similar dilemmas? Unfortunately there was nobody who could answer her question, since she had yet to find another PC.<br/><br/>Eventually the stairs leveled out into a windowless hallway made of crudely hewn stone, suggesting that she was still underground. The only illumination came from the flickering light of the torch in her hand, its heat the only thing offsetting the cold chill of the surrounding air. The hallway was not too long, with just enough space for four doors on her left side before coming to a dead end. Each of the four doors, made of vertical metal bars that could be peeked through, opened into a slightly different room that all shared one thing in common however: at the far end of each room was another exit. To continue she would need to pass through one of these parallel rooms...<br/><br/>In the middle of the first room was a suit of armor standing upright, helmet bowed, gauntlets resting on the hilt of a greatsword balanced point-first on the floor.<br/><br/>In the second room a fearsome wolf, unnaturally thin with its rib cage sharply defined against loose-hanging hide, was curled up asleep on the floor.<br/><br/>The third room was strangely empty, and its door was also the only one locked among the four... obviously her iron key no longer worked here.<br/><br/>The floor had fallen out of the bottom of the fourth room, leading to a crevasse fifteen feet wide that spanned the breadth of the room from wall to wall.