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ÖRNATORPET - The frozen lake

from HDK 130 † HDK Dungeon​-​synth magazine # 8 by V.A.

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A rumor has spread far North, near the village of Vardu overlooking the immense expanse of the Great Infinite Ice. Thirty years ago the villains killed a woman, throwing her into the freezing waters of Lake Omsk. The woman was named Eili and that night she drowned. She was a commoner, a servant at the house of Sigve, the local lord, and his wife Thelma. The strange thing is that, since then, the lake has remained permanently frozen, while in the past, during the short summer of the tundra, its waters melted. It had ever been possible to navigate for at least two months every year. Now, since that day, not anymore.

A subtle uneasiness has spread among the inhabitants of Vardu, mixed with superstition, for those icy and mysterious expanses. But Lake Omsk is also a valuable source of food for the population. Fishermen walk the large frozen mirror and make small holes in the surface to drop their bait in the fishy waters that still flow under the frozen surface. Someone swears they saw Eili still stirring under the thick frozen surface. A few people say they saw her still alive, through the ice, watching them with a look full of hatred, so they fled in panic. But if someone has seen her once, there is no more escape: this explains some mysterious disappearances of the inhabitants of Vardu...

Old Eskil is a native of those lands. Now that he is very old, he has promised to give you a lot of his money earned during his life as a trader. A large amount, which would be very convenient for you. But on one condition: free the village of Vardu from what he believes is a terrible curse of witchcraft origin.

You’ll have to find out what neither you nor old Eskil still don’t know: it was Sigve who spread the rumors about Eili’s alleged witchcraft.
The rough local lord had discovered that his bride Thelma and Eili were having an affair. The two women loved each other. He, blinded by her anger, has paid some villains to infame her with the accusation of witchcraft. He just wanted to push her away. But she resisted. And so, in that cursed night thirty years ago, everything went wrong and Eili was killed. Since then, her grudge makes the lake perpetually frozen and sometimes takes shape, stirring poignantly under the thick layer of ice.

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from HDK 130 † HDK Dungeon​-​synth magazine # 8, released July 14, 2022

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