Into the Dark

On the 2nd of July 2011, a rusty red dust cloud appeared on the horizon outside the Keep's walls. The storm hit the following day, leaving the entirety of the grounds swaddled in dust, and the air unbreathable to anyone who did not have a powerful air filter handy.
Out of sympathy for his guests, Lord Deior opened a series of underground passageways for their use while the weather cleared.
Two groups set about investigating these subterranean tunnels, and found rather more than they asked for.
==Group the First==
Derek Souza, Chloe Saunders and Sollux Captor met outside a locked door. Derek broke it down before they were joined by Commander Shepard and Little Boy. Beyond, the group found a series of eerie black passageways which they set out to explore. They quickly found themselves in over their heads as the passageway behind them sealed shut, trapping them inside, and they were found out by Duran.
He somehow made a small, misshapen portal in the black tunnels which allowed them to escape, or so they thought. They quickly found that they were at the top of the Chapel tower, near the tomb of someone called Holloway.
The group eventually re-entered the black tunnels and came across Nieta. While they lost Sollux in the confusion, they eventually exited via the Ivory Tower, only to find they had been gone for over a month.
==Group the Second==
Vie, Hawke, Captain Jack Sparrow and Alex Marsters also ventured beneath the Keep and soon found a bolted set of double doors. After exchanging words with the guard beyond, they moved on. They had a brief encounter with the stone crocodiles down the sunken passage before happening upon the empty doorway that Derek had already broken down. The team got thoroughly turned around in the black tunnels, discovered that they appeared to both breathe and bleed, and eventually found their way out into the underground book press.
Here they spent some time exploring, before each departing with a blank journal. Jack also made off with some gold foil, blank paper, and an exacto knife.
Hawke later discovered that his journal hid a fragmentary message which he shared with Varric Tethras and Anders.
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