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Quinn Chapman and the Altar of Evil I

Quinn Chapman and the Altar of Evil The flames of Hades flickered off the rough hewn walls of the cavern as I stumbled my way deeper into the earthen maw. Acrid, black smoke invaded my eyes, blurring my vision and clouding my lungs. Dark voices shouted in a rhythmic chant somewhere beyond the hall of fire through which I now walked. My body was cut and bruised; my clothes turned to rags barely clinging to my sweat glistened flesh.  What maligned road led me to my current state of depravity? My mind flickered back to that fateful day in the warrens of Singapore, to one of the myriad of seedy opium dens lining the alleys. It was there that I found the remnants of the infamous Anglo explorer Sir Percival Covington.  I pushed back the shoddy veil of the curtain to find Sir Percival upon his back, clad in sweat-stained khaki and a weeks' worth of grime. So much for the hero of the British Empire. His glazed eyes alighted upon me, and a flicker of recognition danced across his ruddy face
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The Atlantis of the Sands

 

The lost city of Ubar in the Empty Quarter.
Image courtesy of  Nicholas Baum (artstation.com) Excellent work, check it out and support!

The Atlantis of the Sands

Grains of sand danced in the crimson glow of the setting sun as the wind picked up with the coming of night. The last rays of sunset illuminated the crumbling walls and decaying towers of the city in the sands. A city lost to time, whittling away at the edges of man’s memory until it became nothing but a legend. A forgotten center of the Incense trade buried under the dunes of the Rub’ al Khali, the Empty Quarter of far Arabia.

For this was Iram of the Pillars, the Atlantis of the Sands.

For this was a place of cursed evil. Home of demons. Home of the Nasnas.

For this would be their tomb.


I know there is not much too this, and the concept had been done before by the video game Uncharted 3. I cannot help being cliché when it comes to lost cities! I want to tell my own adventure story about Ubar, even if no one reads it!
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