![]() ![]() The misfits of the surface were kept in prisons, rather than caves. The Empire realized, overnight, what a brood of vipers they had given birth to. Exile was now safe from threats in the underworld. The others used their skill to help the Exile army defeat the sinister Slithzerikai, a race of vicious lizard men. The strongest of them all, Erika, managed to teleport a group of adventurers to the surface, where they assassinated Hawthorne, the powerful and brilliant King of the Empire. They were a great help in building the nation under the world, and waited for the chance of vengeance. The Empire made the mistake of sending into Exile several powerful mages who had become too inconvenient to keep around safely. There, they survived, endured, and formed a society. Men and women, skilled and unskilled, elderly and young children alike, were sent through a one-way teleporter into the caverns below. For years, the Empire, undisputed master of the surface world, has used these caverns as a dumping ground for the unwanted. It is an enormous network of tunnels and caverns far below the surface world. To exile someone is to declare that person an undesirable, a person who must leave and can never return. An Exile is a person who has been expelled from his or her country. Exile II - Crystal Souls Introduction Exile is a state of being. Most pay little attention to you, but one, a small man, watches you carefully from a little ways away. There are people too, thin, pale people, going about their business. Walls and buildings surround you, made of large blocks of stone crudely mortared together. As your eyes adjust, you see you are in a fort. It is especially difficult to see things about the cave you are in because you are "indoors". ![]() One of its walls stretches up ominously nearby, and in the other directions it goes on far beyond the range of your vision in this dim light. The cave goes on for what seems like miles in all directions. ![]() Green, luminescent fungi on the ceiling show you how high it goes - hundreds of feet. You come to in a giant cave, unlike any you have ever seen before. All of you were taken to a portal, a one-way, permanent teleporter, and thrown in. Living in the light of the sun, however, was a privilege that had just been stripped from you. Well, at least it was considered lenient by those who fit in with society, those who got to live the rest of their lives above-ground. And for those "soft crimes", the punishment was considered just, appropriate, and, most of all, lenient. Of rebelling, or being peculiar in some way, or speaking out against the crown. No, your crime was one of not fitting in. Sentences for those offenses were harsh and generally fatal. You were not thieves, or pirates, or murderers. After all, you had not committed one of the hard crimes. It wasn't as if it was considered a terribly awful sentence, anyway. The trial was completed, and the sentence was passed.
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