Objective: Emperor Vanis has been found, bloody and delirious, he emerged from a wall in the interior of the city of Ohmen leading to a dark tunnel in the mountains. You were among the first to arrive on site with a small team of soldiers to investigate the tunnel that he emerged from.

Finding the ritual room that Vanis used to awaken the Old Gods, you quickly attempt to gather intel to report back to the summit to stop the awoken monsters. As you approach the central altar in the massive chamber, bolts of green lightning fly, killing the soldiers accompanying you. As the painful lightning courses through your body, you reach out and touch the altar, and the lightning stops, and the cave goes black.

As your eyes adjust you realize you are no longer in the chamber. You are uncertain If you had really transported away, or if this is all a dream. Now the only path before you is to face your own internal monsters to escape. And with some luck, maybe find a way to stop the Old Gods in the process.

Scoring: Minimum 500 words. Grading will be based off of the fiction grading rubric and adherence to the given prompt. Must be submitted as an attached file (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt). Shared GDocs will not be accepted, so if that is where you are writing it, when finished go to File>Download as and choose a file format.