Blinking to clear his gaze, Lumian looks upon the place that he has appeared in. It seems to be a relatively dark stone bricked room with barely any lighting from what looked to be luminescent crystals lining the edges of the bottom of the walls of the room. After taking stock of the immediate surroundings, he noticed a door that appeared to be stained in dark oak with a metal lock without a key to exit.
As Lumian looked at the door, words appeared etched into them that reveal that the door is the entrance to a great labyrinth and home to many traps and monsters. Hm, seems that I will need to be careful navigating. Lumian thinks to himself when looking at the words etched on the door. Taking a moment through scrutinizing the keyhole on the door, Lumian spent a couple of minutes patiently opening the lock through lockpicking with the knife, where he finally manages to open the door.
Creak
The door, when opened gave a large creaking noise due to the visibly rusted and unoiled hinges where within, the beyond has an extremely dark tunnel that looks as if it eventually splits into multiple passageways towards the end. Finding a few small stones on the ground, Lumian carefully picks them up and feeling that they do not weigh much, decides to use them in case there are any traps beyond the door.
Clank, Clank, Clank
After throwing a stone as if skipping it on water, nothing seems to be triggered allowing Lumian to sigh in relief that there are no immediate traps along the tunnel. Treading along the path, he suddenly gets the idea to draw his dagger and use the tip to try and leave a mark on the wall of the tunnel in which it seemed to work as there is a slight scratch. Haha, at least this way if I go the wrong path I can walk back without getting lost to try another. Lumian laughed to himself in amusement trying to dispel his current nervousness.
By time he finishes this thought, Lumian has reached the end of the tunnel where it splits up into four different paths. Trying to gaze into them yet finding only the solitude of darkness in all of them only leads him to see that he'll have difficulty navigating them. As he moves to each entrance to see if there were other differences, he feels a spine-tingling chill at the entrance of the third passageway and gazing into its depths only increased his heartrate. I'll pick any other path just not this one, it feels too dangerous. Lumian feeling dread as he thought this, turned, and immediately went down the fourth tunnel just after marking the entrance with his dagger.
Many twists and turns later, Lumian came across a dead end by bumping into the wall. "Oof." After doing so, Lumian walks back the way he came and decides to repeat the process by avoiding the third tunnel, yet each pathway only led to a dead end. "Do I really have to go into third one?" He mumbles to himself in consternation and biting down on his lip before sighing and carefully treading down the path.
As he walked, the skin prickled in tenseness every few seconds leading to a fight or flight response to kick in every now and again. Just as he was about to take another step, Lumian's eyes that were slowly become adjusted due to the dark caught sight of a very thin razor wire eye level.
A bead of sweat dripped down his brow before he walked under the wire, ensuring he wasn't caught on it and threw a stone just ahead in case there were another trap. God, that was dangerous! After what felt like another two to three hours, tensed, Lumian finally reached the end of the tunnel which opened up into a slightly larger space with two doors on the left and right of the room. Another choice?
Walking up to each of the doors, they both seemed to have symbols etched onto them. The left one had what looked to be water with bubbles and steam coming off of it and imagery of what to be a snake or lizard-like creature, whereas the right one had many spider looking imagery of various sizes.
I'm going to go with the spiders; the lizard snake things look like there is terrible terrain to navigate. Lumian comes to a conclusion Though the spiders aren’t even any better, creepy fucks. Opening the door and passing through.
After a short period of time, walking down this path led to small strands of sticky web clinging onto the walls ceiling and floors in which Lumian deftly navigates whilst routinely throwing stones to check for possible unassuming traps.
ClickClickClickClick
As Lumian nears the exit of the winding tunnel, he comes face to face with many rustling, scurrying, clacking sounds from the room directly opposite him. Peering through the makeshift tunnel doorway, he spies a couple of near human sized spiders scuttling around the enclosed room with what looks to be an exit to the left. EW EW EW! Fuck, disgusting creatures. Freaking out, Lumian widened his gaze in abject horror at the size of these monsters before thinking of a strategy to get to that door.
Bringing out a lump of charcoal, Lumian carefully sets it alight using the sparks of the knife against the stone wall. Once it was lit, he threw it to the extreme direction of the right as for as he could.
Clang
ClickCliCkClick
The noise drew the attention of the spiders into the direction of the flaming rock, prodding it to see if there were any reaction, Meanwhile Lumian sprinted as fast and as silently as he can to the door on the left while they were distracted. Hurry! Almost there!
SCREEEEEEE
The spiders growing bored of the flaming rock heard the not-so-subtle sounds of Lumian as he neared the door, letting out a screech realising they were fooled in that moment before pouncing towards him from across the room. Lumian managed to get past the door before blocking it from the spiders by locking it from the inside yet, that didn't stop them from trying to attack their prey.
BANG BANG
Panting heavily, Lumian slumped down onto the ground and leaned against the wall as he caught his breath from running away from these monstrosities. "God...ha...that was...ha...horrifying." Exclaimed Lumian "I NEVER want to see any insects or whatever the fuck they were, the size of humans ever again!"
After catching his breath, he got back up and continued down the tunnel before meeting a small space with a door that glowed slightly depending on how it was approached. Looking at the door, just above its lintel there was a question inscribed in stone that reads; What is Death?
Squinting his eyes, Lumian spent a good half an hour like this before finally making an expression of conviction as he said out loud for the door to hear, "Death is the eternal embrace of sleep at the end of life where all of existence must meet it in some form, none can escape it therefore, death is eternal hence Aeterna Mortem."
I hope that works, after all the believers here spouted about Aeterna Mortem which seems to resemble something along the lines of eternal death. A brief pause leaving Lumian a little tense was followed by a clinking sound before the door swung open as if to invite Lumian for saying the correct answer in order to let him approach the next step. Lumian, taking his cue, walked through the boundary of the doorframe only to see the words.
TRIAL OF MIND PASSED...........................TRIAL OF BODY COMMENCES