All Hope Abandon

**All Hope Abandon** is the first episode of Season 5 and the forty-ninth episode of Escape the Night.

## Episode Description

Our adventure into Hell has only begun, when our ship crashes onshore! When the Wraith rocks the boat of our arrival, it's time to find out how to enter Hell, and stop the Wraith, once and for all. But has all hope been abandoned?

## Episode Summary

### Prologue

Mere days after the world plummeted into an endgame, Connor Fawkes was with Max Stratos and Oliver Stone, as he and Max assessed the surges of energy that emitted from the Wraith's wave of literal wrath on the world, millions of cities being torched and burnt to the ground. Connor had already spoken to the United Nations about the situation, and it was up to him and the Allegiance to put an end to the terror, before it was too late for everyone. There was approximately a couple million or so across the world, all spread across the globe stationed in bunkers and aid camps, fearing what was to come next. He recalled the ever-strange Levi Everton babbling about changes to the timeline that could've affected the world's fate, which helped him and the others piece together what had happened. The AEA had invited Savannah and Luke to the present, which erased the second Savant known as Charlie Glitter from all of time. This would then lead to no party being hosted, Celine being unable to help in Salem, and Valeria dying in Salem along with the other twelve guests there, and the Wraith finally breaking free of the cage that the AEA's predecessors had done. It led to a torched world for everyone to come back to. Connor had already got in contact with Savannah, Silvano and Arthur, who had turned up in the Netherworld and now returning to New York.

Then his thoughts was quickly interrupted by Oliver calling out about an energy surge in New York, which led the head of the agency to insist that he investigate it himself. There, Connor met the survivors of the Museum of the Dead, where he then explained what happened, and promised to protect them, so they could get the world they wanted back. After weeks of planning, Connor and his chosen eleven were about to board a ship to the Netherworld in the Mississippi Delta, thanks to the guardian angels' lead combined with Max and Pierce's research. Valeria, Alexander, Monica and Payton stayed behind with the other survivors that were stationed in New York, including Silvano, Arthur, Savannah, Luke Nocells, Miranda, Luke Mathieu, Jackson and Carson, as well Spencer Ashworth and Jordan Winchester. Connor promised to Monica that when the agency could afford to, they would get her in touch with Celine, who was sheltering along with a couple hundred others in Oregon. But while the survivors did that, twelve brave members of the Against Evil Allegiance headed out toward their new destiny... a way to save the world, escape their own night of Hell, where they'll fight to hell and back to restore the world once and for all.

The guests manage to bond over a six-day journey by sea to the Mississippi Delta, but when the ship crashes onshore, has all hope been abandoned?

### Episode 1

As the guests assessed the damage, Connor then told the guests to disembark the ship after seeing the hole in the ship's hull. The guests, with their possessions and weapons, then got off the wrecked ship before they then started to look around. Eugene then discovered a partially smudged plague in the ashened landspace, which Madison used her powder with a heavy heart to reveal what was written on the plaque, which revealed "all hope abandon ye who enter here". Per Oliver's suggestion, the guests then held hands in a circle, soon speaking the plaque's words as a group, which released green smoke. They then were engulfed by the smoke, and they felt like they were falling aimlessly before they landed in a fiery blue landspace that had a hellish river, very unlike their Earth. Brendon and Matthew then found a scroll on the beach, which Madison read to reveal that they needed to venture the various circles of Hell and witness the many sinful doings and suffering of many souls to get to the bottom of Hell, where they could stop the Wraith and save the world.

They then deduce that they needed to find a way to traverse the River Styx in order to stop the Wraith, once and for all. After Madison manages to find an almost-buried chest in the sand, Matthew starts to dig it up while Max rescued his puppet son from the River Styx when he realized he had gone. After the chest is dug up, Brendon then smashed the chest open with his flail, and they then discovered a scroll, a series of bottles and a leather pouch which is full of gold coins. The scroll then explained how to summon the ferryman using the bottles in the chest, prompting the group to prepare the ritual's summoning circle before Oliver manages to light it with Brendon's flamethrower. The circle then lit aflame in a series of colors before it then flickered out, and a silence passed before a barge then was seen traversing the Styx.

They then hurried to the barge when it stopped, and they paid the ferryman with Brendon's coins before they then boarded the barge. As the long dark haired ferryman then departed the dock, the guests then learned that the ferryman had been there for a few months now, while they travelled down the river. They then stopped before the end of the river, where they then discovered a large steamboat, which required them to part with one of their possessions each before they could embark. After they were able to successfully complete it, they then discovered a note that told them that in hell, all good things must come with sacrifices. When they entered each circle, they would face challenges and puzzles that will put them to the test, all put against the guests by a malicious guardian of the circle. At the end of each circle awaited a challenge that two must be voted into, and in the end, one would not survive. However, the life will be traded for an ember of hope that would help them through the trials. The head of the AEA then headed to a nearby room, where he then discovered a treasure room with several burning possessions, before the flames lifted from a beautiful flower crown of daisies put together in a beautiful knotting.

Connor then suggested that Lilith give the flower crown to the ferryman as they mentioned liking flowers, and Lilith agreed as she took the flower crown. Lilith then took the wreath of flowers to where the ferryman was still waiting as they had yet to be called, and Lilith offered the flower crown to them. The ferryman recognized the item, as they then took the flower crown, and Lilith then saw some visions of memories, a woman advocating for freedom to protect the trees, a woman arriving at Salem to protest her cause, a woman who suffered death twice, as the woman was seen being devoured by dinosaurs. And then the vision stopped, as the ferryman took the crown from Lilith, and they nodded in thanks, wishing them luck on their adventures. They then returned to the barge, which then started to sail without a driver, and they then entered a set of doors at the end of the realm. The ferryman then watched them go, as her hood fell off her head, revealing Fiona Vaughn in the flesh, as she placed the flower crown on her head and dissolved away. They then arrived in a forested cavernous realm, where underneath the shadows of the trees, a hooded figure stands deadly still, unmoving. They are almost unseen. Then he is revealed to be Caspian, who slowly took out a bow out of his dark coat, picking up a red arrow from his other. He loaded and lifted up the bow, aimed directly at them. The sharp point of the arrow glistened in the minimal light as the returned marksman prepared to fire.

Then he fired, the arrow striking Connor in the shoulder, as the Savant then told them to run...

## Characters

* Connor Fawkes
* Brendon Burns
* Max Stratos
* Madison Silvestri
* Eugene Merz
* Daniel Fulmer
* Levi Everton
* Lilith Rosestone
* Oliver Stone
* Matthew Howard
* Zachary Burton
* Pierce Cromwell
* Fiona Vaughn
* Caspian Hunt
* Valeria Pierre
* Alexander Boucher
* Monica Castillo
* Payton Hawthorne
* Silvano Lupo
* Arthur Rove
* Celine Harper
* Savannah Ashworth
* Luke Nocells
* Miranda Valentine
* Luke Mathieu
* Jackson Sharp
* Carson Huntington
* Spencer Ashworth
* Jordan Winchester

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