This is an R.E.I. co-op studios production.

You are deep underground.

There are millions of tons of earth above you, pressing down on a little cave that you

slide along.

But cave is too grand a word now.

What was a cave is dwindled to a tiny crevice, a crevice that you're trying to squeeze

yourself through.

Every time you cram yourself forward another inch, you're sure there's no possibility of

going any further.

The cold walls press against your ribs until you feel your heart beating in the rock, and

the crushing earth seems to take shallow breaths right along with you, and with every breath

it closes in a little tighter.

But with a slow, supreme effort you pull yourself from the vice and into a larger chamber.

You take a moment to rest, leaning against a massive stalagmite, and look, someone has

been here before you.

There's a rope, an old hemp rope, such as no cave is used for 80 years, tied around

a boulder just ahead, stretching down into a pit in the floor.

An interesting historical artifact you think to yourself.

Well, until you notice that the rope is moving, jumping back and forth along the edge of

the pit, in little motions growing larger, like something's climbing up it, nearing the

top about to emerge right in front of you.

But what is it? What could be coming up?

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