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Magic sword of light

from HDK 87 † The Tower of Doom by FVRFVR

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The corridor is carved with mysterious bas-reliefs, encrusted with moss and limestone. It is the entrance to an ancient elven tomb. The corridor ends with a smooth wall on which the face of a sad young elf is carved. He has hollow eyes, naturally the shape of the two jewels you found set first in the spider and then in the basilisk. You stick them in the holes. They sparkle. The wall disappears by sliding across the floor. A vision of majesty and beauty appears before you: a circular room of white marble lit by magical torches. The walls are hidden by a tangle of vines, evidently magical too. In the center you see an altar on which lies the marble reproduction of a warrior elf. Leaning against his chest are a large white daisy cut as if it were just picked and a sword with a long thin blade that looks like crystal. Mysterious eyes open among the brambles on the walls and stare at you. When one of you grab the crystal sword, mouths open between the brambles and begin to chant a dull “ohm”. The sword glows and produces shards of light that hover around the room like dust. Those of you who hold the hilt of the sword have the feeling of being at a crossroads, of having to make a drastic choice. The room is shaking. The choice, whatever it is, is made. The ceiling begins to crumble, until large blocks break off and fall on top of you. Only a providential (perhaps magical?) alertness allows you to dodge and save yourself. A conduit has opened up on the ceiling that leads much further towards the open sky. The mouths stop intoning the disturbing ohm and start blowing with increasing force so that a vortex forms in the room. All of you are lifted up to the ceiling and sucked into the shaft until you are spat on the bare ground, stunned. Although it seems to have lost all semblance of magic, the crystal sword is still with you: evidently the elven gods have deemed your choice right and have given it to you. But what is the choice you have made? You don’t know. However, your mission is clear to the spirits who live in the woods: to break the curse, to defeat the ghost of the Lord of the Wood so that his resentment and his guilt slip away from these lands.

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from HDK 87 † The Tower of Doom, released February 22, 2022

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DIY label focused on ambient punk, minimal-synth, dungeon-drone, wartime music and post-nuclear wave. Managed by a creative punx collective from Milano city.

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