Assignment #72.4: Whispers from Below

“Is someone there?” she asks in a hushed tone no louder than a whisper.

“Is someone there, someone there, someone…” The echoes come, faintly at first and getting louder like a wind building in strength.

The woman calls over her shoulder for her companion, louder this time, her pulse racing as fear sweat begins to trickle down her neck. “Charlie, hurry up, I think there’s something down here.”The wind reverberates once more up the passageway, the breeze growing with the sound. “Charlie, Charlie, something here... something is… here.”

The Obsidian Archive has been lost for an exceptionally long time, a relic of the society and culture of Oldfaire that many historians and explorers have searched for, although records from the ancient city only mention its name and brief mentions of nearby landmarks long left buried.

An earthquake revealed what Professor Chloe Yannick has dedicated her life’s research to discovering: the Archive itself. Professor Yannick, along with her assistant, Charles Smyth, have gone missing after seeking out the Archive.

Can the Circle follow in their footsteps and, hopefully, recover the pair alive and well? And is there truth to the Professor’s suspicions of the location of the Archive, down below in the Endless Descent?

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Cover: Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan by Juan Gris. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.