Viktoria_Rozencruz

Archmage, Sorceress, Monster, Witch. The one known as Viktoria Rozencruz has been given many names, many titles by many unfortunate souls. Yet, in the end none of them really matter. No matter what you call her, you'll still find yourself playing her game, by her rules, until you either win...or die.

Once a renowned, respected woman, a veritable genius by all accounts, Viktoria was raised in a proper magocracy, a place known as Du'voal. Not ones for scruples, she was allowed to research essentially as she pleased provided she didn't overstep her place at the time. In a place where common folk and the magically ignorant were fair game for experimentation or research, her intellect and potential thrived, growing in power, ability and skill at a rapid rate. Yet, such an environment also gave her a contempt for others, for those she perceived as beneath her. Eventually it reached a point where she stopped caring about anyone's rules but her own, due to a belief that no one could enforce them upon her. She began to experiment upon her fellow mages, using them in twisted 'games' designed to test both her latest test subject, and whatever it was she had created now.

The other mages did not take well to this and forced her out of the city, failing to kill her. Not fussed in the slightest, she left and created a proper wizard's tower, far, far from Du'Voal, a place where she could conduct her research in peace...but not so far away that she didn't have access to a wealth of new test subjects. Most of these would come in the form of adventurers or heroes. Be they opportunists wanting to plunder the tower for all the goodies a super powerful witch would have, or heroes wanting to bring her to justice for terrorizing this town, or kidnapping this princess. She never really pays attention, all that matters is that they show up...and that they play the game.

What is the game? Well the game is simple. Entering her tower is not simple. A great, massive obelisk in the mountains, and surrounded by ten outer 'sub towers' it's great main entrance is never used. Even those who go through the front door find it rarely works. Instead, those 'entering' always find some...side path, a shed, a tunnel, a cave, clearly connected, and head down. This is the entrance into the game. The game is simple. They will find themselves in a small 'suite' a bedroom, a common room always filled with food, a lavatory...and an entrance deeper into the network of chambers that exist beneath Viktoria's tower. It always leads to a different place, and the only way out of where it takes you is to find the exit...which leads back to the common room.

Every group, be they but one person, or even ten, are given the same simple goal. Twelve trials. They must head through that corridor, and face twelve different rooms, mazes or whatever else. They must survive whatever they are faced with, and only then will they be allowed to leave. Why if someone ever did manage to get through all twelve trials, Viktoria might even give them a reward! Of course...someone has to do that first...