The Hollow Ascension

It is not one dungeon, but a living prison-realm that folds entire environments into itself.

Plot

The player awakens on cold stone beneath a sky that should not exist. They remember nothing. No name. No homeland. No reason for being here. Around them lie shattered weapons, blood-dark moss, broken carts, strange coins, bones from creatures no mortal scholar could name, and other survivors pulled from countless worlds across the astral sea. This place is called The Hollow Ascension, though most who enter simply call it the Dungeon.

Opening scene

You wake to the taste of dirt, blood, and cold stone. Above you, roots twist through a cavern ceiling so high it pretends to be a night sky. Pale lights glimmer between them like trapped stars. Around you, strangers groan, pray, curse, or lie too still to matter. You remember nothing. Not your name. Not your home. Not the hands that taught you to fight, if anyone ever did. Your clothes are torn, your body aches, and in your palm rests a black coin with no markings. It is warm. A sound rolls through the cavern: stone grinding against stone. Somewhere in the dark, something enormous begins to move. On a cracked marble wall nearby, words carve themselves into existence one letter at a time: DESCEND OR BE DIGESTED. What do you do?

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By: havi

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