Hunt the Executioner (Ryojin)

This time, Ryojin reached and pulled forth the snake coin. A winding brass road? The lowest of the three.. but king of his realm huh? If not the snake, he had to take into account what else out of a hawk, a rat, and a skull could be a winding road. A soft gulp would be audible from his closed lips. What would happen if he managed to pull the wrong coin? What was going to go wrong? He pushed the thoughts into the back of his mind. There wasn't time to worry about that now.

Ryojin would make his way down the hallway marked with the number three, still using the red stones to light his way. The tunnel was creepy, made of dark stone, with etchings of history across its surface. The walls appeared to tell a story, with various different depictions of war and battle. He eventually would make it to the end of the hall way to see a wooden table built into the wall. On this table rested four round tokens, like giant coins, and looked like they could have slotted into the holes on the wall back in the main chamber.

On the table would be an inscription that read:

"The second brother of wealth, but still the king of the sky, a weaker foe to be preyed on"

Beneath the writing would rest four tokens, each one being made out of a different material and would bear a different picture. There was:

-A wooden token bearing the picture of a snake
-A golden token bearing the picture of a rat
-A copper token bearing the picture of a skull
-A silver token bearing the picture of a hawk

Ryojin picked up the silver token depicting a hawk this time. He couldn't think of any other king of the sky. He would then continue and proceed onto the fourth hallway. He felt as though with this one he hadn't done so bad.

Ryojin would make her way down the hallway marked with the number four, still using the red stones to light his way. The tunnel was creepy, made of dark stone, with etchings of history across its surface. The walls appeared to tell a story, with various different depictions of war and battle. He eventually would make it to the end of the hall way to see a wooden table built into the wall. On this table rested four round tokens, like giant coins, and looked like they could have slotted into the holes on the wall back in the main chamber.

On the table would be an inscription that read:

"We all bow before the king, a shining inevitable end"

Beneath the writing would rest four tokens, each one being made out of a different material and would bear a different picture. There was:

-A wooden token bearing the picture of a hawk
-A golden token bearing the picture of a skull
-A copper token bearing the picture of a rat
-A silver token bearing the picture of a snake

This time, he reached forth and pulled the golden coin. This coin held the skull. The King. People were the king in this crazy world. A shining inevitable end? Just like the end of the man who held the blade itself perhaps? He would go from here toward the area where the four holes rested in the wall providing that nothing interrupted him. He would make his way to the four holes, and press these coins into each hole in the same order he had grabbed them. Wood first, then copper, then silver, then gold. I, II, III, IV. Just as the halls had been numbered.

As the four medallions would be placed into the stone door, they would sit for a second, until a loud click could be heard. The stones would rotate, seemingly unlocking the doors, as the stones would click, causing the doors to slide through the sand, opening up the chamber behind. A thick, warm breeze would escape the chamber, billowing through the hall way. As they stepped through the stone doorway, the room would come into full view.

A long rectangular hallway would open up, three stone walls and a sandy floor. The room would appear to be completely empty, just an empty sandy room, no windows or doors. However upon further inspection, you would see ten stone coffins propped up against the walls, five on the left and five on the right. Above each coffin would be a red gem, similar to the ones on the statue. illuminating the room and the coffins. On each coffin would be a name etched into its surface.

- Miyamoto Musashi

- Achille Marozzo

- Tsukahara Bokuden

- Mohamuro Stern

- Fiore Dei Liberi

- Donald McBane

- Johannes Liechtenauer

- Zabuza Momochi

- Zarek Kanda

- Momichi Stalwart

Ryojin would do as he had done in the room with the statue. He would look through the red stones he had to see if they offered any further input. If that didn't work, he would then try to pluck the red gems from these too, just as he had from the statue.

As you peer through the red stones, they do not appear to help in any regard, not illuminating anything hidden or new in the room. You then try to pluck the red gems from above each stone coffin, finding that these are lodged in the stone, and almost impossible to remove.

At this point Ryojin would begin to try prying the coffins open, beginning with the one that shared the last name of the woman, stern. Surely something here would give way. Hopefully. If this didn't work he would have to approach everything a bit differently.

You open up Mohamuro Stern's coffin, gently pulling the stone lid from the wall. As you peer inside, instead of seeing the contents of a coffin, you instead see a hole in the backside of the wall, a tunnel descending down into the ground. As you step through the coffin and follow the tunnel, you eventually enter a large stone room. Your feet meet the sandy floor, as you suddenly hear a large bang directly behind you, the opening you just came through now blocked off by a stone wall. You have been trapped inside this room.

You look around, red gems illuminating the room, trying to take in the scene. Thats when it sinks in, something has started pouring from the walls, a thick red substance has started to fill the room, splashing in the sand below, quickly filling up the room. Panic sits in as you try to figure out what to do next. In the center of the room you notice a stone table, with 26 stone blocks, each bearing a letter of the alphabet, A through Z. The blocks appear to be able to be connected to each other, stacking vertically to create words with each other.  On each wall sits a lever, one on the left wall, one on the right wall and one on the center wall.

The handles of these levers are hollow, with enough space to place a 5 block stack, meaning a five letter word was needed to complete the handle of each of these levers. You notice each wall has words inscribed on it beneath each lever.

Center lever
"What you seek is the key to survive"

Right lever
"The one who corrupted the man who slew a nation"

Left lever
"What she stole to save his life"

The room itself was large, but was quickly filling up with this red liquid now. The room itself was ten meters by ten meters, and five meters tall. But the red substance was rising a meter a minute, quickly filling the room around you.

Ryojin definitely came close at this point to a mental break down. He was horrified, tired, and in all truth at this point could've cared less if he got the stupid sword, but he was continuing on none the less. Amidst him nearly melting down as he fumbled for the first five blocks he huffed and went over to the left lever. 'What she stole' to save his life'. He had placed into the lever the blocks to spell 'Heart'. Hopefully he was along the right track. It said love conquered him. The red liquid filling the room. He didn't even want to know what it was. He was sure he knew what it was. He attempted to pull the lever praying that he was right.

You quickly put the word HEART together using the blocks, and fit it into the lever. It slides in without any resistance, allowing you to pull the lever downward. As you do, the lever goes all the way down, clicking and releasing a panel hidden in the stone wall. On this panel you can see a red glass object embedded into the wall. This glass object takes the shape of a heart, as you take out the heart you turn to notice the room has quickly started to fill with red liquid. You now contemplate what to do next.

Ryojin headed back to this table. The words he had in mind were all relatively similar in the sense of letters. He went forth toward the center lever. What he needed to survive was the executioner's blade. The next thing he would spell out was blade and he would pull down the center lever hoping to god he was moving along the right lines. The room wasn't stopping filling at all. Maybe with the next one it would at least slow down.

You quickly put the word BLADE together using the blocks, and fit it into the level. It slides in without any resistance, allowing you to pull the lever downward. As you do, the lever goes all the way down, clicking and releasing a panel hidden in the stone wall. On this panel you can see two indention's, two holes in the shape of an object. The hole on the left appears to take the shape of a heart, while the hole on the right took the shape of a human skull. Removing the blocks from the lever, you watch as the blood continues to rise around you, now at your knees, contemplating what to do next.

Ryojin placed the heart into the panel. He then ran back gathering the letters for W-O-M-A-N. He rushed over to the right lever and input in the letters hoping that everything went okay. As long as everything was successful he would pull the next piece of the puzzle and take it to the indent in the wall as well. So had he been correct? Had his suspicions about the woman been right? The woman corrupted the man? If not, he would still have the word demon ready, but the skull had been human shaped. It wouldn't make any sense.

You quickly put the word WOMAN together using the blocks. As you slide them in and attempt to pull the lever, you feel resistance as the level will not budge. You pull and pull with no success, the blood continuing to rise around you. It now becomes incredibly hard to move as you trudge through the thick red liquid, hoping you have enough time to solve the word.

The next word Ryojin went with was demon. He pulled the lever down. The human skull had been misleading. Unfortunate. What would result out of the word demon? Would it still not be the right word? If this was the case it would be s-w-o-r-d next, but that would be repetitive of the word he had used to open the center. Maybe repetition didn't matter.