Beneath The Village

What is it all about?

The Adventure is a quest beneath the Village for the legendary Door with Four Locks, which many say is the gateway to Paradise. Beyond the Door an adventurer will meet the Gods, and if he answers their questions, be transported to the most wondrous place in the Universe. The Door is guarded by traps, monsters, and intregue. Beneath the Village lurk evil undead, cruel Dark Elves and vicious monsters, death comes quick and easy. Luckily there are many clues to aid you on your way.

Where is it?

The Adventure mainly takes place beneath the Village, and within the secret corridors of the Wizard's House. To enter the Labyrinth one starts at a door in the Temple. However there are also many lesser locations about the Village that you may wish to consult for clues, along Pit Street for instance, or in the Town Hall. You may also want to find the people giving descriptions of the important buildings in the Village, and to view some of the Information about the Grand Empire, the world of the GEAS Village. Finally there are many people to talk to, including the Barkeeper, the Town Sage and mysterious strangers, in the Inn, who can give you valuable advice before you start the quest.

What does it look like?

The Adventure is split into a number of HTML files, each of which is in turn split into many paragraph long sections describing particular locations, in the best-selling vein of the 'Choose your own Adventure' books. Clicking on links in the text of these paragraphs goes to other paragraphs, or to other files. At all times the current paragraph is the one at the top of the window. If you want to take the adventure seriously then you can make your Netscape window smaller to show only one paragraph at a time, but it isn't really required. In most parts of the adventure scripts and forms will protect information you really shouldn't see.

Unfortunatly the adventure is text based. There are pictures here and there to give atmosphere, but I have tried to keep the numbers small enough to avoid slowing down the loading of each section. When you engage in a conversation you will be presented at each junction with a list of things that you might want to say, or actions that you could take, just as you are presented with a list of possible routes to take while in the labyrinth.

In some places you will find objects whose names are given in bold, or which bear three-letter codes in bold, (e.g. XSD). You should remember these names and letters! They will be required later on to enter into a form to prove that you have really found the object. If you forget the code then you will have no choice but to go back to where the object was and look again, so write them down.

Section Guide

In the hopes of trying to get more people to go to all of the Labyrinth the following list of links will enable those of you who wish too, to get directly to the start of each section of the Labyrinth, though not directly to the Door with Four Locks or the final section! Each section has a name which is displayed in the headers of the paragraphs in that section, and a short description below.

• Section 1. The Serpent Tunnels
  Entrance from Temple
  The first section of the Labyrinth, an easy complex of short tunnels and a few minor traps.

• Section 2. The Catacombs
  Entrance by the Serpent's Head
  Huge dilapidated catacombs streach beneath the Village, filled with the ancient dead, but perhaps there is something living here...

• Section 3. The Dark Elven Killing Ground [new]
  Entrance from the central chamber
  Only the very brave risk venturing where the Dark Elves walk, but the rewards a valient or clever adventurer can gain here make it all worthwhile.

• Section 4. Beneath the Wizard's House
  The hidden Doorway
  (Not so hidden if you go from here, but of course only people who have been everywhere would use these shortcuts... ha!) The enigmatic Wizard who built the Village knew all about the Labyrinth, and extended it into his own domain. Be very careful here, there are as many false clues as real ones.

• Section 5. In the Walls [Duel with the dark Elf]
  Down the corridor from section 4
  My personal favourite for a long time, featuring a detailed duel with a deadly Dark Elf warrior, as well as even odder encounters with some of the Wizard's personal staff.

• Section 6. The Door with Four Locks
  Before the Guardian Beast
  As any who follows the clear route to the Door will realise, the Dark Elves don't want anyone to reach the Door unless they say so. Only a combination of artifacts from other parts of the Labyrinth and help from the surface will pass this beast.

• Section 7. The Tomb of Kings
  Entrance form the Skull Passage
  Venture further into the crumbling tombs and clash or bargain with powerful undead. To enter here is to risk your soul, but the price may be worth it.

Back to the Village

To the Adventure Doorway in the Temple