Castle Suterrea

Castle Suterrea is the third round of Intense Struggle S2.

Description
This round is set in an abandoned castle, which was once the capital of a wealthy kingdom. Now it is inhabited by monsters and its treasures are strewn throughout the castle. It may also be full of traps.

Events
Karen has glowing red eyes (something that always happened in her game when someone killed another player), she and Sarika explore the castle. Marcus gets stuck in a magically looping corridor and is soon joined by Lloyd, who has like the previous round, adapted to fit the setting. He is an elven mage in a hawaiian robe. Karen fights a skeleton and ends up rescuing Marcus and Lloyd from the corridor in question. Sarika encounters a mimic who rips out of one her hands and takes her staff. Afterwards she encounters Reudic who, for reasons best known to him, decides to drug her and follow her around.

Lillian is chased by the mimic and runs into Marcus, Lloyd and Karen. They fight off the mimic and another mimic and their mother. One of the mimics kidnaps Lillian and escapes with her. Sarika finds Lillian's guardian bracelet in the corridor and the others show up. Reudic gets annoyed that they are all so concerned about this girl who cannot look after herself when the most important thing to him is an individual's ability to survive. Lloyd casts a spell on the bracelet to lead them to Lillian but Reudic steals it, intending to kill Lillian to prove his point.

Reudic escapes and the rest of the group go down to the treasury where Karen makes incredibly short work of a dragon and gets a new sword. Marcus pockets a magic wand. The one remaining mimic tells Lillian the history of this castle and wants to induct her into their family. Reudic shows up and interrupts this, he tries to kill Lillian but the mimic wants her alive. The others show up just in time for the mimic's brother to show up. Reudic drugs them all with powerful hallucinogens and they have crazy nightmares influenced by The Darkness. Lillian fights off The Darkness with her optimism and manages to reclaim her guardian bracelet. The guardian fights The Darkness and makes it retreat. As soon as it has left Reudic seizes the opportunity to shoot Lillian with one of Marcus' guns.