A Sneak Peek ~ Chapter IV

[Captain Del]

As a way to celebrate the tremendous progress I've made so far on the Fourth Guild Quest, I'm treating you all to a few small sneak peeks, which come out gradually one by one as the moment two years in the making arrives. I hope that as we come closer to the day, you all are ready for what is to come - although you'll never be truly prepared.

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"And I can test to this wholeheartedly - what we saw down there wasn't what we planned.

"We were instructed to keep our mouths shut, even though we ourselves were unaware of what we were doing. We were just pointed in a direction, and started digging. And we dug, I tell you - we dug for hours and hours, day after day. We hadn't eaten or slept, as one by one of us fell of in fatigue. But they didn't care - another one of us just took their place, and we went on.

"I don't know why they made us dig so far.... the heat was undescribable, the soot heavy and black as the night, and the rocks that jabbed at us just got harder and sharper as we went on.... before you know it, we have dug ourselves a small tunnel.

"I think it was a few weeks in to the digging... maybe over a month.... when we got where they wanted.

"All I heard was a lot of shouting.... I was trying to widen the shaft, so I wasn't at the forefront of the group to see what was going on. All I know is one of us started running back up the mine, wheezing and coughing as he shouted.

"In a matter of minutes, a group of those soldiers came running down the mine, exchanging whispers between themselves as they violently pushed through us. I got shoved in to the rock at my side, scrapping up my entire arm and side. Of course, it wasn't enough to plague my curiousity, so I struggled to my feet to see what they were saying.

"I could hear them talking about some sort of... I'm not even sure. They spent a minute looking through the small hole that had been poked through the wall, before they started shouting at us to leave. They stabbed anybody who refused to move with their bayonets, and left them to pester and die there.... As soon as we got out of the tunnel, they demanded we never speak of what we were doing....

"I heard their whispers.... it was of.... a city.... no, something inside a city.... something that led somewhere, to a stone... a... Headstone..."


The Crusade that Never Happened Begins
July 2011

[The Stealthy Pirate]

My birthday in July... 0_o