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ASTARIUM - A moldy dungeon

from HDK 99 † HDK Dungeon​-​synth magazine #1 by V.A.

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You are in the dungeons of a castle whose name you can’t remember... on the upper floors, the celebration for the defeat of the army of the Counts Bishops have gone on longer than expected and the silence that reigns all around seems unreal. Next to you the chains that perhaps held you prisoner are broken: well, you can escape! The only way, however, is to enter the dungeons which, at least in the beginning, are dimly lit by a few torches. As you go on, the stone walls get wetter and wetter and the rock that has replaced the floor at some point seems to move: you have just stepped on something alive... it is a gray slime looking for food (it is a Gray Ooze)! If you defeat it, you continue in what is a real huge dungeon, with crossroads and sudden cracks in the ground. You decide to follow the flame of your lit torch, driven by dark drafts. Further on, a strange phosphorescent liquid lights up the dungeon: somewhere there must be a pale yellow amoeba (it is an Ochre Jelly)... Now you are sharper and wiser, so you get ready for the fight not to be caught off guard.

In the end, you see a glow in the darkness: a little further on, the tunnel seems to widen, is the exit close by? You continue with the last torch you were able to take and in fact the glow gets bigger, but... the opening at the end of this damp tunnel seems to come from a translucent vision. Pieces of broken weapons, coins and partially digested skeletons are visible almost in mid-air: it is the inside of a flickering cube of mucus standing still in front of you (it is a Gelatinous Cube) and behind which a half rusty old grate separates you from the exit...

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from HDK 99 † HDK Dungeon​-​synth magazine #1, released December 25, 2020

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