Prism Palace

A shining brilliance in a sea of grey despair. A place only recently discovered by *Hecate's Pride*, and leaving an everlasting impression on everyone who has interacted with the domain. The exterior possesses the appearance of a vibrant and bright pulsating pyramid which has been turned upside-down, suspended from the figurative sky by rays of tangible light, while the very tip (or bottom) of it is daftly floating on the proverbial surface of solid darkness. The greatest oddity of all this being, how no *Bound* has ever seemingly found this almost flamboyant domain before. The Palace emits such intense light that it produces two blurred mirages behind itself.

## **Discovery**

> *"If only the rest of The Underworld could be this grossly incandescent." - Drama*
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*Brody Bearthorne* discovered this domain with his *krewe* in 2011, after they have found a long abandoned *Avernian Gate* in **Namanock Island**. Within the small forestation of the island, the *krewe* found a small, but restless presence of ghosts which pointed them towards a bunker, hidden below the vegetation. The bunker was made in the image that of doomsayers, people who were expecting the Apocalypse to arrive any day by now. However, in the very end of the small complex, was the *Avernian Gate*. The bunker was retroactively turned into a sudo dig site later, deducing from what remains were left behind. It is unknown if anyone was able to open the gate, but judging from the lack of tales of the **Prism Palace** before, it is very unlikely. The Gate was opened shortly after its discovery, however remained unexplored after witnessing the *domain* it was hiding and until *Brody* gathered a varied and competent team for the full documentation and exploration of the place.

## **Rules**

> *"In this Domain of light. Darkness shall never prevail." - Kaiser Colour*
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The rules of the **Prism Palace** revolve mostly around the safekeeping of the light and appearance and the destruction of darkness and obfuscation.

* **No Ephemeral, Mortal or Bound shall ever hide themselves while their presence remains within the Prism Palace.**
* **No source of light may be extinguished within the walls of the Prism Palace.**
* **No darkness can be brought within the walls of the Prism Palace.**
* **No water may be present within the walls of the Prism Palace.**
* **All Bound when entering the walls of the Prism Palace, must at all times carry and be prepared with light.**
* **Lumen may not see the presence of any Ephemeral, ever.**
* **You may only enter and leave two Chambers within the Prism Palace.**
* **Entrance to the Royal Chamber can be only gained through the Crimson Chamber.**
* **Leaving the Crimson Chamber demands the sacrifice of fire.**
* **The breaking of any rule outcasts all present presence within the walls of the Prism Palace.**

## **The Incident**

> *"We all learned that day, the fault in our ambitions." - Malcolm Livingstone*
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The exploration of the *Domain* has become known as the "Prism Palace Incident" as well within *The Bound* community. The incident included representetives from *krewes* like *Hecate's Pride, Wayward Wanderers, Creed of Seers* and *The Pilgrims,* even attracting the attention of *Drama* as well. Many of them mainly drawn to the anomaly of the *Domain,* while the likes of *Brody* was trying to seek out its secrets.

Gaining entrance to the Palace was the first weirdness, as *The Bound* were required to reflect down a "tangible light" to even reach the gate which led inside on the "top" of the *Domain*. Afterwards they found themselves in **The Hall of Mirrors** and were visited by the *Kerberoi* which ruled the **Prism Palace,** known as *Lady Light.* This is when the rules of the *Domain* were revealed to them.

**The Hall of Mirrors** was that akin to a maze in the regards of its architecture. Unable to determine where one was heading or even where the beginning or the end of it was. If there was an end to it. It encompasses the whole area of the *Domain*, making it incredibly hard to navigate at all within the walls of the Palace. The greater anomaly that made the exploration team more on edge though, was the utter lack of any ghosts within this *Domain*. It took what felt like a day before the team found their first discovery.

**The Spectrum** was the first thing which was not a part of **The Hall of Mirrors**. It is absolutely unknown to any member where it is located at as the lack of directions, navigation and deceiving paths rendered any attempt of mapping the Palace futile. They just understand that it is somewhere within there. **The Spectrum** is a vibrantly and bountifully coloured spiral staircase that spans into different chambers, and possibly the reason the **Prism Palace** creates such brilliant pulses even within *The Underworld*. Later they discovered that **The Spectrum** even had a way to go downwards as well, known as the forbidden chamber of **Lumen.**

At first they obeyed the rules given by the *Kerberoi*. *Brody* neatly and uniformly giving every member of the team a specific chamber they should explore, while he himself went straight towards the one chamber titled **The Crimson Chamber**, in the company of two other powerful *Sin-Eaters*, *Drama* and *Carl Jefferson*. The three of them went through the chamber to find the mysterious **Royal Chamber**.

Meanwhile other teams of three were created to explore the rest of the chambers, discovered to be called: **Azure Chamber, Jade Chamber, Amber Chamber** and **Topaz Chamber**. Each chamber to be discovered to have a powerful Geist entity within it. Each one of them possessing a powerful Clairvoyance towards the future, resonating heavily with the emotion each room was forcing each guest to have, and how their future would have go on if they acted upon these immediate emotions without regards of moral, taboo, societal expectations and care.

While the three within the **Crimson Chamber**, were demanded to act upon these emotions to gain access to **The Royal Chamber**. The chamber giving way to emotions of deep seethed hatred, anger and violence. It was around this time where the team broke the rules of the *Domain*. Though it is wildly debated to this day between them who started it all and whose fault it ultimately is. Most common theory is the one coming from *Brody* where he claims it was actually *Drama* who started it all, and a claim which *Drama* himself did not ever dispute, nor verify. However, it was at this point where the three *Sin-Eaters* within the **Crimson Chamber** have slain the *Geist* within its walls. Snuffing out the Crimson Light of the **Prism Palace**.

*Brody* as the ever tenacious *Sin-Eater* he is, rather than running away from the mess they have created, convinced the other two *Bound* to accompany him to the **Royal Chamber.** To which they agreed to. It is here where many people are unsure what exactly happened within the chamber, and where the only source of information is again *Brody* himself, as *Drama* never spoke of the event since and *Jefferson* lost any accounts of the **Royal Chamber** ever being entered. However, it is stated by *Brody* that within the chamber they have witnessed a second *Kerberoi,* who introduced itself as *Kaiser Colour*. Bewilderingly, not hostile towards the *Sin-Eaters* who have just broken the rules. *Brody* claims that *Kaiser Colour* is a being of sublime Clairvoyance, and has shown him a future which is descending upon them. He was given clear visions involving the discovery of not only the **Orphic Egg**, but even the **Lost City of Stygia**, and the impending **Great Maelstrom** which is ushered forth by a *Bound* named *"Orpheus"*.

Shortly after the visions subsided, all of them were attack by Phantasmal forces, as they later discovered from the lack of actual wounds. The trio entered the **Crimson Chamber** once more, however it refused to open. By the account of *Brody* once again, this was the moment where *Drama* set *Jefferson* aflame, this act scarring him irrecoverably and causing him to utterly lose all recollection of ever witnessing the **Royal Chamber**. In the meantime, the rest of the team did not fair so well. While *Malcolm* and his team came out without losing any members, the representatives of the *Creed of Seers* suffered the loss of two of their members *Francis Fisher* and *Natalia Bohanon* in the **Topaz Chamber**.

While trying to leave the **Prism Palace** through **The** **Hall of Mirrors**, the final chamber known as **Lumen** rose up from the base of the Palace and gave chase to the survivors. A mass of unbearably hot and blinding light which destroyed ghost and *Bound* within a flash of its proximity. Their saving grace came in the person of *Adrian Neville*, who used her ceremonies to be able to smuggle in *The Hearse* through the gate and be able to burst through **The Hall of Mirrors** instead of navigating through it. The final two deaths came in the last *krewe* member of the *Creed of Seers, Alekos Vougiouklaki* and a *krewe* member of *The Pilgrims, Lillian Goldfield* who sacrificed themselves to slow the **Lumen** down so *Adrian* could complete her ceremonies to make *The Hearse* durable enough to survive the escape.

In the aftermath of the whole incident. The *Wayward Wanderers* have broken up, *Malcolm* going back to New York to settle down after his wanderings, *Darbee* swearing to never let such indignation ever happen within *The Underworld* again, and creating his own *krewe* called *The Sphinx*, while *Jefferson* and *Adrian* to this day are in close contact with each other though don't work together much. *The Pilgrims* held *Brody* accountable for the loss of one of their members, worsening the relationship between them and *Hecate's Pride.* While in a weird twist of fate, gaining more approval from *Creed of Seers* for his willingness to disregard the rules to gain insight. This has put *Carlo "Buddy" Spencer, Anita "Goldie" Cardinale* and *Brody Bearthorne* into sharp odds against each other.

*Brody's* claims of his visions and his interpretation to this day stand on nothing else, but his words. No presence of any legendary **Great Maelstrom** has arose in the years which passed by, neither did anyone discover any more evidence that the *Domain* of the **Lost City of Stygia** ever existed, nor did any sign of the **Orphic Egg** came to be if that is something which even exists as well. People believe that it is the wild speculation of an ageing old *Sin-Eater*.

## **Involved**

> *"Remember. 'Them'. Not what happened. 'Them'." - Drama*
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* Brody Bearthorne - Expedition Leader
* Drama - Second-in-command, member of Royal Chamber exploration
* Carl Jefferson - Member of Royal Chamber exploration
* Malcolm Livingstone - Leader of Azure Chamber exploration
* Darbee - Member of Azure Chamber exploration
* Lillian Goldfield - Member of Azure Chamber exploration
* Francis Fisher - Leader of Topaz Chamber exploration
* Natalia Bohanon - Member of Topaz Chamber exploration
* Alekos Vougiouklaki - Member of Topaz Chamber exploration
* Luca Lisi - Leader of Amber Chamber exploration
* Diego Tévez - Member of Amber Chamber exploration
* Vladlena Kowalski - Member of Amber Chamber exploration
* Ester Schulz - Leader of Jade Chamber exploration
* Sigfreda Nordström - Member of Jade Chamber exploration
* Grace Kang - Member of Jade Chamber exploration
* Adrian Neville *-* Sentinel of the Gate and the getaway driver