For months now you've been toiling in the mines of the Chaos Cult, a group of dark and twisted sorcerers who have abducted you from your home village and forced you to dig for rare and valuable black diamonds to be used for purposes unknown. The Chaos Cult are cruel and violent masters who have worked you day and night until your bodies and spirits were broken, feeding you little and whipping you often.
On this night, as the lot of you are sleeping in the underground dormitory that is your only respite, you are suddenly ripped from slumber by an explosion and the massive earthquake that ensues! The passageway back out to the dig site where you've suffered sixteen hours a day for the last ten months is thunderously sealed by a deluge of stone as the walls collapse and the ceiling caves in.
You are gripped by a sudden wave of dread and a feeling of unease as though something important about the world had changed, but you knew not what. In the thrashing and upheaval of the earthquake, the door to the guards chambers just beyond your dorm has jarred loose from it's frame and light streams into your usually dark room from beyond...