# Short Stories - Exiled Jack (+more)

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**Category:** Creative Corner\
**Tags:** roleplay\
**Created:** [August 23, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/short-stories-exiled-jack-more/134180 "2020-08-23T10:00:31Z")\
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# Chains of Darkness - Darkness (6/6)

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> _I have traveled the darkest parts of the underworld, dropped two men into an abyss that seems bottomless - one wrong step could cost a life - that is so precious here._
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> _Finally I reached the gate, which is shrouded in a strange glow. A man in a hood walked through it. Is this the sorcerer I heard about? I waited for him to go away when I heard a whisper and baby cry._  
> _At the edge of the gate lay the body of a woman who had walked halfway through it, half dead, but still holding the child. Somehow, she could still speak._
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> _She said that only the living can pass through this gate and the Archive Keeper turns everyone into undead before releasing them - to enslave them.. us. Escape through the gates means only death._  
> _Real death. These are the chains of darkness.._
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> _Although I escaped from the chamber earlier, there was no blood coming from my wounds. Apparently I was changed anyway and the Underworld became my home. I took the baby and I will teach her how to survive so she can live and get out of this prison._  
> _Evidently, life can escape death only by creating a new one._
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> _I will call her Asbestos or Zophilia.._

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Did the legendary barbarian really reach the underworld and escaped, or was it just a rumor? We may never know, but we will meet the mysterious hooded man in the story of **Ethernal Lock**.

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