You inserted the dark blue ID card and you could have sworn it said welcome before the cave door opened enough for you to pass through. You were half expecting to find some kind of building. It was however just a cave. The first chamber was quite giant with three separate paths leading off in different directions.
As you stepped inside the door behind you closed. There was a loud thud as it resealed itself. You first looked around for another spot to use the ID card but could not find any. It was unclear how you could get the door to open again to leave.
You searched for clues around the giant open area of the cave for around an hour. You gained nothing further in finding any about this place let alone the way out. It was however clear you had to start checking out different tunnels that went off in different directions.
You first decided to take the tunnel that was to the left. It was clear however this cave tunnel was formed and did not care about having straight lines. It was also not all one-size opening either. In some parts, you had to slowly squeeze yourself to get by. You started to wonder if whatever made the door just took over the cave instead of drilling out the tunnels themselves. Everything seemed to be naturally occurring.
After a while or so going down the tunnel, you ended up running into a pile of rocks. You spent some time trying to clear the path forward. It however seemed to be a wasted effort. On the off chance, a rock was small enough for you to even move. The entire stack of rocks seemed to be rather unstable. You felt like you were taking great risks just trying to clear a path forward.
Lots of heavy lifting and moving rocks later. You took a short break. That is when the entire pile gave way. The very little you had cleared just got recovered from the tunnel collapse. It was clear this was not only unsafe but not going to work out.
With a heavy heart, you decided to turn around and walk back over a mile to the start of the cave network. You can only hope there was no need to go down that tunnel of the cave. At least you had two other directions to go explore next.
You could either go to the tunnel in the middle or the one on the right.
Content is written by @Enjar of @Enjargames. AI artwork was created using Playgroundai.
