Hunt the Executioner (Imino)

It finally made sense. Imino would walk to the next tunnel to get 4 more tokens. The King, that takes all, a reaper that shines so bright. Golden Skull. The Second brother, silver second only to gold. A silver Hawk was required. Most likely, a copper snake needed to be found and a wooden rat. She went for them.

Imino would make her way down the hallway marked with the number two, still using the red stones to light her 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. She 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:

"A winding brass road, deadly with each turn, the lowest of three, but a king of his realm."

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

Imino would make her way down the hallway marked with the number one, using the red stones to light her 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. She 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 lowliest of creatures, living beneath our floor boards, the final splinter in the board of death."

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

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

What... what is this? Ten coffins... It wasn't something she had expected. She recognized some of the names. Miyamoto Musashi, a legend, the sword saint, Zabuza... They... were they previous wielders of the Executioners blade? Where was the last one of them? This was the fifth room... there were 10 coffins... Did she need to find imposters or the real deal?

Mohamuro Stern... what a strange name... the first name she did not recognize... but the first bit was Japanese. Same with... Zarek Kanda.... and Momichi Stalwart...

Imino opened the tomb of the first fake she thought was fake. Mohamuro Stern.

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.

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 imbedded 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.

She pulled out the letters, adding the letters of "Blade" and pulling down the center lever. The liquid was still flowing.

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.

She put the heart shape in first. The final answer was what she was not sure of. it was either stern or death. However, the wife was the one who had saved him. Ultimately it would have been death who killed him? There could be another answer but for now, with blood knee deep she put in the words DEATH in the final lever and pulled.

You quickly put the word DEATH 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 final word.

Damn, she panicked, her fingers shuffling. She put in the words stern and pulled on NO! it was curse. the Curse claimed him. She put in curse and pulled.

You quickly put the word CURSE 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. The red liquid now up to your chin, your having to push your way through the thick sludge as hard as you can, hoping you have enough time to solve the final word.

She waddled over, picked up a few extra words and came back. She put in the word demon, pulled on the lever. and would use the last of the air she had to breath it in and hold it.

You quickly put the word DEMON 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 imbedded into the wall. This glass object took the shape of a skull, and was the exact same size as the hole in the center wall. Rushing it over to the wall you put the glass skull in the slot, only to hear a loud clank as both items now rest in the openings of the walls. The red liquid around you stops pouring, and then begins to drain, flowing through openings in the floor. You watch as a small opening appears under the two glass objects. As you pass through the opening a familiar scene unfolds.

You step into a small sandy room, no doors or windows, only stone walls. Before you sits another stone statue, depicting the large image of the Executioner and his blade. However this statue appears to be a bit different than the one before it. Where the eyes rest, are instead two deep concave holes, hollow and empty. At the base of the statue is another plaque with another inscription on it.

In your hands, heart and head, your final journey, to face the dead. Through the eyes once more, see your fate, time to descend through your final gate.

As you peer through the red gems and scan the statue, nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. Unlike the last statue that had a glowing chest, this one appears cold and solid. As you continue to investigate the entire room through the red crystals, you do not find anything of interest. You then kneel down and start to check the floor. As you move sand around, you see a small metal door in the floor, much like a trap door, however there is no way to open it or pull it up.

You return to the previous room, making sure to collect both the crystal heart and the crystal skull. Taking them with you back into the room with the statue, you keep a firm grip on them as you climb up the statue and insert the smaller red gems into the eye sockets, mimicking the way you found them. As you insert the red gems into the statues head, you here a click as you turn around and look down. The metal trap door as appeared to open, the gems in the eyes releasing a trigger. Now with the heart and the skull in your hands, you approach the hole. Looking down, you see nothing but darkness, but feel cool breeze lifting up from the pit. Inside of the pit is a metal chute, much like a slide, that descends down beneath the floor and into the darkness.

You slowly descend down the chute, keeping pressure on the edges as not to slide down quickly. only seconds into your slide, you feel the edge of the chute with your feet. The red glow from the gems above provide just a little light, allowing you to see inches in front of you, before it all turns to darkness. Based on the feeling and the glow of the light, you can vaguely tell that this chute drops off into an open pit. You have no idea how deep the pit goes, or how wide across it is. You squint, trying to see if you can locate a wall or an edge, but there is none. Just a looming open pit sits beneath your feet, the chute ready to plunge you into its dark mysteries.