Episode 38: Hello Darkness

## Synopsis

Sammie is buried alive, witnessing her own funeral in the process. She finds herself lost in a black void, but manages to break the illusion in order to see a door. She exits the door and into the basement hallway of the country club. Henry can't seem to find a way out of the darkness he's trapped in.

## Episode Description

The heroes are running out of sanity and hit points, but there are still rooms left. How much more can they handle?

## Key Events

* Sammie experiences her own funeral. She sees through the illusion only to find herself in darkness. She eventually finds a door and escapes.
* Henry is stuck in the darkness, he can't seem to find a way out.

## Summary

Sammie wakes up and finds herself in an extremely small room. It is pitch black. She can't even see her hand in front of her. She takes a moment to heal herself and then tries to light her hand on fire to see what's around her. The wall in front of her catches fire and she's forced to put it out.

Suddenly the room shifts and Sammie is on her back. She can no longer move. She hears footsteps on gravel outside of the space she's in. The footsteps stop and she stops moving. The 'roof' of this room comes off and Sammie is suddenly blinded by sunlight. She then hears a pastor start to talk about how they're all gathered here to honor the life of Samantha Overbrook, cut down too soon. She starts to see all of her loved ones approach and put black roses on her chest: Elise, Grandma Francesca, her father, Henry, Bjorn.

The lid is placed over the coffin and then Sammie is lowered down. She can then hear shoveling noises and dirt hitting the lid of the coffin. She's suddenly able to move. She pounds on the lid of the coffin, but nothing changes. She tries to push her magic out around her to free herself, but it blows back in her face. She suddenly starts to feel tons of tiny little bugs start to crawl and bite all over her. These bugs are starting to eat her alive. She starts to brush them off but they come right back. She lights her hand on fire and uses the flame to keep the bugs off of her.

Sammie closes her eyes. She tries to take deep breaths to focus on calming herself down in order to see through the illusion. When Sammie opens her eyes, she is on the cement floor of a garage holding ATVs and golf carts. Sammie looks down at herself. She no longer sees the black blood poisoning, but her skin looks damaged and burnt. Her feet are bloody from the broken glass. She heals her shoulder where she remembers the the wendigo had attacked her anyhow.

Sammie hits the garage door opener and sees it open up into pitch blackness. She reaches her hand out, but all she feels is cold. She shoots a fireball into the void, but the void is so black it just swallows all the light. Sammie feels as though she needs to walk out into the void. She can't see or feel anything around her except the cold. She tries to light fire in her hand, but nothing happens. She walks forward with her hand out, but can't feel anything.

Sammie opens up her third eye to try and see any magical sources around her. She's immediately blinded by the amount of magic around her and turns it off. Yet again, she tries to focus on the fact that this isn't a real room, that it's a purely magical space. Nothing changes at first, but then she feels a door in front of her. She opens it and steps through. She finds herself in a hallway. There is a set of stairs at the end of the hallway. She calls out for Bjorn and Henry as she approaches them.

Henry is still in the pitch black darkness. He turns on his dragon eyes, but is still unable to see anything. Henry tries to make and throw a fireball to see if there is anything in this darkness. He watches it wink out of existence in front of him. Henry sits and waits. Nothing happens. The space is so quiet that his breath sounds thunderous in his ears. All he can smell is his own singed clothes and skin.

Henry starts to think that maybe this room isn't real. Maybe nothing he's been through is real. But he can't deny that he's hurt and things have been happening to him. He sits in the dark and starts to break down.

## List of Appearances

* Sammie Overbrook
* Elise Romano
* Francesca Romano
* Henry Marlowe
* Bjorn Olafson
* Tony Alvarez

## Trivia

This is the only episode in the nightmare arc that Bjorn himself isn't in. He's only briefly mentioned in Sammie's room.