Hunt the Executioner (Mikomi)

Mikomi picked up the copper snake token, and headed down corridor 3.

Mikomi would make her way down the hallway marked with the number three, 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:

"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

Mikomi picked up the Silver Hawk. And walked to corridor 4.

Mikomi would make her way down the hallway marked with the number four, 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:

"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

Mikomi grabbed the golden skull. And returned to the wall with the four slots. The tokens would be placed in the following order from left to right.

Wooden Rat. Copper Snake. Silver Hawk. Golden 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

"Vivian Stern was your wife right? Did you take her name? That's adorable" She said, no hint of irony or mocking in her voice.

She carefully pushed open Mohamuro Stern's coffin with a whispered "Sorry"

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.

Mikomi would first place the word "blade" in the CENTER lever. If that didn't work, "sword".

Then "stern" in the RIGHT lever.

Even if Stern didn't work. Mikomi would place the word "heart" in the LEFT lever.

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 appeared 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, contemplating what to do next.

Mikomi ran over to the left lever, placing the word, "heart" into it and pulling the lever.

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 took the shape of a heart, and was the exact same size as the hole in the center wall. Rushing it over to the wall you put the glass heart in the slot, but nothing happens. Removing the blocks from the lever, you watch as the blood continues to rise around you, the red liquid up to your waist now.

Mikomi doubted that whoever built the tomb, that glorified the evil of the Executioner, saw love as anything less than corruption. So, moving rapidly, with speed born of fear, she formed the word "Stern" and fit it into the right hand lever, before yanking down desperately.

You quickly put the word STERN 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.

Ah, there was another answer. The corruption that created the Executioner. The only hint of it written on his statue, the same statue whose eyes the shinobi had removed.

Mikomi formed the word DEMON, and inserted it into the lever.

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.

Mikomi removed the eyes she had taken from the other statue earlier, and inserted them into the empty sockets.

You climb up onto the statue, placing both of the red gems you had taken into the eye sockets. The red crystals slot in perfectly, opening up a trap door in the sandy floor beneath you. You look down from your perch on the statue to see a decent sized hole as opened up in the floor, with a metal slide type chute descending down into the hole.

Mikomi climbed down, and slid down into the chute. However, she was careful, pressing against the walls of the chute with her legs and arms to slow her descent.

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.