The Dungeon

## Area

It is a very dark and lonely area and seems to be located below of the Castle in the lowest compartments. Various cabins are connected by vent shafts or thick metallic doors that Zarah cannot open. The Dungeon also gives Zarah her first glimpse of the Executioner but the most frequent antagonists encountered here are The Prisoners. The name "The Dungeon" implies that the Children are being held there as unwilling guests, by trapping them in prison cells. The Executioner seems to be determining their fate. They even have a play area, but are prohibited from escaping by electric bars on both sides.

## Solution

The Chapter opens up in The Dungeon area of The Queen's Castle. It is a very dark and lonely area and seems to be located below of the **Castle** in the lowest compartments. Various cabins are connected by vent shafts or thick metallic doors that Zarah cannot open. The name "The Dungeon" implies that the Children are being held there as unwilling guests, by trapping them in prison cells. The Executioner seems to be determining their fate. They even have a play area, but are prohibited from escaping by electric bars and barbed wire on both sides.

Zarah wakes up in a dungeon cell, with the cell bars being wrapped in barbed wire. Zarah looks around and sees she is alone.

**Zarah**: "Hello?! Where- Kitty?!"

Zarah finds Kitty sleeping right next to her.

**Zarah**: "Oh...phew! Come here, little guy."

Zarah puts Kitty in her pocket. Zarah bangs and pulls on the bars.

**Zarah**: "I can't...break free!"

She then sees The Protector standing from the other side of her cell. Zarah smiles and begs to be let out.

**Zarah**: "Great, your here! Help me out of this!"

**The Protector**: "Sorry, but not this time."

**Zarah**: "Why not?!"

**The Protector**: "Because I'm disappointed that I JUST helped you, only to be captured AGAIN. Sorry, but if you want my help, you have to earn it. What was your name again?"

**Zarah**: "Z-zarah."

**The Protector**: "Hmph, more like Zero to me."

Zarah frowns as The Protector turns her back on her and disappears. Zarah looks around the room and finds a crack in the wall.

**Zarah**: "Hmph, I'll show her!"

She smashes it open with a metal pipe and witnesses The Executioner enter the cell and grabs an unconcious Blue who is chained up. Blue struggles, but can't break free. The Executioner shoves Blue in a bag.

**Zarah**: "Blue! At least I know where HE is. But where's Kane and Stellar"

Zarah quickly exits the cell before it closes and attempts to follow The Executioner through a long hallway. The Executioner goes through a door Zarah can't open. Zarah is forced to go inside a room full of prison cells. When she is about to exit the hallway, A Hostage sticks his hand through the bars and almost grabs Zarah.

The Hostages are giant humanoid monsters. Half their entire bodies are rotten brownish skeletons and half is covered by rotting skin. Their eyes are black empty sockets or pure bloodshot white. Their hands are long and have sharp claws around the edges. They wear prison like clothes, which is the traditional orange color, most of them being torn off to expose the innards.

Zarah backs away and carefully goes around him. In another room, she finds several Hostages attempting to grab Zarah through the bars. A few of the Hostages rip through the bars and attempts to chase after Zarah themselves. Zarah avoids them by sliding underneath tables. Zarah then enters a shower room.

The showers are all on, creating a smoke misty environment. Zarah then sees a bar of soap thrown in front of her. Zarah is confused until she sees a Hostage covered in soap bathing. The Hostage reaches his hand down, looking for the bar of soap.

**Zarah**: "Gross...Hmph!"

Zarah holds in her vomit. Zarah has to avoid the hands until she gets to a vent drain. She could get rid of the hands entirely by throwing bars of soap next to their hands. Once she slides down the vent, she ends up in The Executioners room.

**Zarah**: "Ugh...that was disgusting...Now, where is that tall man who took Blue?!"

The Executioner is a giant humanoid monster who wields an axe. His face is heavily burnt exposing his fleshy innards underneath. He wears a heavily damaged black rope. His skeleton bones stick out like spikes. He is wrapped around in chains and barbed wire. His eyes are a milky white and are blood shot. His feet are also burnt revealing his skeleton structure underneath.

She witnesses him cutting still conscious children into pieces. He throws the corpses into a nearby dumbwaiter, which leads to ***The Restaurant*** area. Blue is shown freeing himself from the back and The Executioner notices too late, but notices Zarah. The Executioner attemps to catch Zarah, but fails as Zarah runs into the next room. She witnesses Blue attempting to move a giant suitcase.

**Zarah**: "Blue!"

**Blue**: "Zarah?!"

Zarah quickly helps Blue and they escape together.

**Zarah**: "Where were you-"

Blue gives Zarah hug and starts crying, since he thought she was dead. Zarah smiles and pats his back. They are now in some sort of room thats entirely covered in dark fog.

**Blue**: "Oh, no. Not THIS again!"

**Zarah**: "Just hold each other's hand."

The kids walk through until they notice a foggy like monster. The only way to avoid it is by hiding inside nearby boxes. The Monster is shown by black fog paths and if its stomps are getting louder and louder. Blue and Zarah get to the end of the long misty area. Blue and Zarah then enter a room filled with rocks, old TVs, and giant mallets. Zarah leaves and sees The Executioner dragging a bag of corpses and meat.

**Zarah**: "Crud. Blue, the monster is here to."

**Blue**: "What? Oh, you mean him!"

Zarah runs back to hide in a spot with Blue. The Executioner gets distracted and decides to watch TV on one of the old television sets. The channel shows a bunch of children creepily singing to "Row Row Row your boat", "Skip to my Lou", and "London Bridge is Falling Down." Blue and Zarah carefully sneak off and find a room filled with chains and belts. Blue accidentally knocks down a torture device,

**Zarah**: "Blue!"

**Blue**: "It was an accident!"

The Executioner hears this and chases the two children. The two children run up a flight of stairs. Blue and Zarah find leftover food that one can easily slip on. The kids throw the food down the stairs and The Executioner slips on the food and he falls down the flight of stairs. He lands hard on the ground but still alive, but he has crashed into a stack of sharp weapons. The weapons stab into his chest, pinning him to the ground. The Executioner forces himself upwards and runs upstairs with miniature swords stabbed into his chest.

**Blue**: "Woah! He doesn't give up easily!"

**Zarah**: "Blue, follow me and hurry!"

Blue and Zarah run into a torture room. Zarah spots a guillotine and gets an idea. Blue lays out more food and Zarah stands near the guillotine. The Executioner rams into the door multiple times and crashes through it. As he reaches for Blue, he slips on the food and lands inside the guillotine.

**Blue**: "Now, you die!"

Blue and Zarah cut his head off and kill him.

**Blue**: "So, where were you at?"

**Zarah**: "Oh, I've been in the basement of this place"

Kitten pops out of Zarah's pockets and jumps near Blue.

**Blue**: "AH! What the heck is that?!"

**Zarah**: "Calm down, Blue! That's my new friend, Kitty!"

**Blue**: "Oh...Aw, it looks cute."

Blue picks up and hugs Kitty. The Kids run up giant flights of stairs and reaches the castles' **Restaurant**.

## Inhabitants

* The Executioner
* The Hostages
* Blue (Captured)
* Captured Children]]