Eternal
You can’t afford to linger, you need to get out of here, if not only to escape but also to catch up with the other shadows so you can kill them before they reach Gloom.
You head in the direction where the young royal you killed told you where an exit existed, or at least you hope it does.
Along the way you see some of the guards up ahead still searching for you. Their backs are towards you, so it’s a simple matter of picking them off even in your exhausted state. A bolt hits one in the head for an instant kill, by the time the second one turns around to see his partner slump to the floor you’ve already run up and dispatched him with a dagger to his throat. The third one shouts for help and attempts to fire his weapon at you. You feel the hot burn of lead graze the side of your leg before tackling him and shoving your sword through his chest.
You quickly examine your wound which isn’t life threatening, but it’s enough to cause you to limp a bit. You can hear more guards heading your way, so you continue to press onward, hoping you’ll get to the exit soon. Unfortunately you never make it. You’re so tired from all your magic use that you’re having trouble even staying awake, combined with the fact that you just used up your remaining energy dispatching those soldiers and your limp, you aren’t going very far.
You pass out before the soldiers even capture you. When you come to you find yourself in chains and in a cell. The regal woman you saw when you killed the king stands before you with several soldiers and a dagger in her hand.
“Good, I wanted you to be awake for this. Soldiers, open his mouth. We’ll start with his tongue first, I don’t feel like hearing whatever lies or final attempts at taunts while I show this Empire scum the true meaning of pain.”
You attempt to struggle, you even bite part of a finger off, but it’s about the last damage you ever do to anybody. Some of your teeth are knocked or pulled out and then your tongue soon follows.
The woman…the queen as you come to learn is quite upset with you killing her husband, but even more upset that the young royal you killed was apparently her son. She mentions how bloodshed for its own sake or revenge is mostly frowned upon in the kingdom, but in your case she’s making an exception.
The queen puts you through a long list of agonizing tortures; she never does get the satisfaction of hearing you scream though. She begins to get angrier, which would cause you to laugh if you weren’t suffering in silence. The suffering you feel isn’t from the torture though, it’s from the fact that you only half completed your mission. You can only hope that your deeds will be enough for the Empire to bring down the shadows and the Felkan Kingdom. It will have to be.
Eventually, the queen tires of torturing you and orders her men to put an end to your misery by slitting your throat.
You head in the direction where the young royal you killed told you where an exit existed, or at least you hope it does.
Along the way you see some of the guards up ahead still searching for you. Their backs are towards you, so it’s a simple matter of picking them off even in your exhausted state. A bolt hits one in the head for an instant kill, by the time the second one turns around to see his partner slump to the floor you’ve already run up and dispatched him with a dagger to his throat. The third one shouts for help and attempts to fire his weapon at you. You feel the hot burn of lead graze the side of your leg before tackling him and shoving your sword through his chest.
You quickly examine your wound which isn’t life threatening, but it’s enough to cause you to limp a bit. You can hear more guards heading your way, so you continue to press onward, hoping you’ll get to the exit soon. Unfortunately you never make it. You’re so tired from all your magic use that you’re having trouble even staying awake, combined with the fact that you just used up your remaining energy dispatching those soldiers and your limp, you aren’t going very far.
You pass out before the soldiers even capture you. When you come to you find yourself in chains and in a cell. The regal woman you saw when you killed the king stands before you with several soldiers and a dagger in her hand.
“Good, I wanted you to be awake for this. Soldiers, open his mouth. We’ll start with his tongue first, I don’t feel like hearing whatever lies or final attempts at taunts while I show this Empire scum the true meaning of pain.”
You attempt to struggle, you even bite part of a finger off, but it’s about the last damage you ever do to anybody. Some of your teeth are knocked or pulled out and then your tongue soon follows.
The woman…the queen as you come to learn is quite upset with you killing her husband, but even more upset that the young royal you killed was apparently her son. She mentions how bloodshed for its own sake or revenge is mostly frowned upon in the kingdom, but in your case she’s making an exception.
The queen puts you through a long list of agonizing tortures; she never does get the satisfaction of hearing you scream though. She begins to get angrier, which would cause you to laugh if you weren’t suffering in silence. The suffering you feel isn’t from the torture though, it’s from the fact that you only half completed your mission. You can only hope that your deeds will be enough for the Empire to bring down the shadows and the Felkan Kingdom. It will have to be.
Eventually, the queen tires of torturing you and orders her men to put an end to your misery by slitting your throat.