- Joined
- Sep 7, 2019
- Location
- Jurassic Park
Mt. Kudremeru Prime, Kanchenanda
Saturday, October 9th, 1886
Saturday, October 9th, 1886
Alice Guthrie was on a mission, and for once it wasn’t on military orders. The eighteen-year-old Caledorian girl’s two-year tour of duty in the Imperial colony of Surabamba had ended when she helped put down the ill-fated rebellion. She was supposed to want to head back home to Radiant City. But in her time away from Caledoria, she’d left behind her girlfriend, Elizabeth Jersey, hooked up with a fellow soldier named Abigail and a local woman named Sajida, and not written once to her siblings, Chloe Rose and Edward. So now with her actions in the war- especially Operation Trench Fall, the coup de grace to the rebels in September- weighing her down, would she be the same person they knew? Could she face any of them, knowing what she’d done? How many people and merfolk she killed? Would she even want to see herself and all her darkness in the mirror?
To stop being haunted by these spiraling thoughts, Alice did the only logical thing: climb the tallest mountain in the world without any ropes, something no one had come back from alive even with equipment. This made her wonder if she had a death wish. She did, at least, have some assistance in ascending it rapidly these past two days with her tight but lightweight and highly mobile Golem armor. It had allowed her to survive thousands of tons of pressure at the bottom of the ocean. More importantly, it carried a massive oxygen tank that gave her the necessary breath to make it.
When she did reach the summit, Alice came face to face with the imposing steps of a freaking castle. That wasn’t something found on any of her maps! And it must have been here, on top of a mountain, most likely carved out of the same rock, for centuries without anyone finding it. Or even any airships spotting it, heavy though the clouds surrounding the mountain usually were. How was that possible?
Alice didn’t have long to think about it, though, before her overworked muscles went limp and she passed out on the stone.