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"Hey, wouldn't it be a smart idea to smoke out whatever that lives in the cave first and then hit it when it comes out? You have fire powers, you can start a small fire," You said.
Eléonore said angrily, “nobody lives in there! Yesterday, a party cleared this place already, but they were too dumb to bring a map of the antechamber. The only thing left to do is to get the amulet!”
You realize Eléonore never said why she needed this amulet. She moved in before you could ask more questions.
There are no monsters or traps. The dungeon was barren. Even your witch companion is surprised. Other people must’ve been here already as Eléonore had said, though you don’t see any tracks.
Less than fifteen minutes later, you’ve navigated through the dusty corridors, empty rooms and crumbling staircases of the dungeon and reached what felt like the end of a very long corridor.
You and Eléonore are now in an antechamber. The ceiling has small holes from where rays of sunlight from the surface come through. You locate a sunlit pedestal in the centre of the room.
The thing you and the witch were seeking is on it.
This ‘amulet’ turned out to be a chalice of some kind. It’s made of copper, and was green from the tarnishing of time.
“There it is.”
What is it? You ask her.
“It’s a magical artifact. It’s what I’m looking for.”
Ignoring you, she starts moving towards it. You follow her quickly. Eléonore took the chalice from the pedestal. Soon after she did that, the entire dungeon began to shudder. You’ve triggered a trap of some kind.
The two of you must leave at once! You narrowly avoided a piece of falling rock which missed your ears. Eleonore spun around, pointing up.
“Watch out!” She screams.
It’s too late. A large piece of debris falls on you and you black out. When you open your eyes again, you find your lower body trapped under a beam of stone. The entire dungeon continues to quake.
“You alright?”
Eléonore is standing over you. She doesn’t smile.
You’ve broken your leg. Your head is bleeding and you’ve lost the sword.
“I see,” Eleonore said.
You try to get up, but you can’t. A terrible pain sent you back down.
“This dungeon’s about to collapse,” she said.
Help me up, you say to her.
“Huh?” She stared at you. That sick smile of hers returned. “Haa… Why should I? You wouldn’t be able to walk out of here anyways with that broken leg.”
At this point, you realize you’ve been betrayed. Your guts were right in suspecting something wrong about Eléonore. Right from the start, she had no intention of caring about you.
You watch as Eléonore turns and walks away. Large fragments of stone ceiling began to fall, allowing rays of sunlight to breach the darkness. As the dungeon collapses with you in it, you curse your luck - and yourself for trusting that bitch! - before your vision dissolves into darkness, and you are buried alive.
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