Your
previous fight had left you worn. You had stumbled
through a well guarded slipgate, hoping it would lead
you home. It did, but to a place within your homeworld
that Quake already inhabited. Told as an Egyptian
Myth as a secret temple where ancient gods would visit.
No human of present day knew it really existed, let
alone find and explore it. But despite the comfort
of knowing you were back home on Earth, it was too
dangerous in this temple. You knew before you would
find an exit you would come to your last fight. You
had fought for too long. But just as your strength
was getting very low, you found another slipgate.
A slipgate leading out of this violent temple and
back to Quake. You had to take the risk, and hope
the other side wasn't well guarded like the entry
slipgate.
It was. Guarded by more and bigger monsters, this
time you would not be able to fight. So you took off
into a stumbling sprint leaving blood in your trail.
The three Vores could not keep up, you could hear
their mind-piercing screams behind you and knew a
tracking spike would be right on your tail. You managed
to duck off into a side corridor and jump into a small
room, and slam the door behind you. You barely got
it shut when the entire door was blown apart by the
Vore's ball. But you had escaped.
You now had time to look at your surroundings. It
was another kind of Egyptian temple, but much more
like a Quake version. The mixings of an Egyptian temple,
with a cold, war drenched hell-hole of a world. The
structure seemed to be built inside a cave as the
floor was dirt and rock.
You had only enough time to catch your breath before
you heard a roar. And then another. A Shambler was
coming. Nice of him to warn me ahead of time, you
thought, as you ran off in the other direction.
After running for a long time, you fell and decided
to sleep, as you crawled into a crevice hidden by
shadows. Since leaving the Shambler and Vores behind
you had not heard or seen any more monsters, so maybe
you were safe. Just for an hour, you thought.
A few hours later you awoke, strange noises above
you had disturbed your rest. There must have been
a structure above, perhaps built on the surface. And
so you continued. You felt alot better, but unfortunately
weren't equipped very well. In the sprint from the
Vores you had lost all your weapons except an axe,
shotgun and double shotgun. The situation wasn't uncommon,
though. You were constantly leaving everything but
your axe and shotgun in places of no return...
Soon you made a new discovery. It was a slipgate,
and you wondered whether you should step in or not.
Perhaps it led to the temple or structure on the surface?
For sure it must be populated. Then again, these caves
were not. At least back on the surface you won't be
trapped in cold darkness.
You step into the slipgate...
