The cave gave way to a pit of bones pretty early on (like not too far past the cave part). It was a pretty wide open chamber. I couldn't make out the ceiling, but it appeared all black up there, further beyond the pit was the light still shining (so in theory the ceiling could have been very low I just couldn't see it). The bones were unsettling, mostly because they were picked clean (probably by the herald for something to eat, I couldn't exactly hear or see any small animals to kill for food), but also because there were a lot of them. Like I was beginning to believe that herald that I was sent here to die by an unkind god (or gods since she apparently speaks for them all). I was wondering if this was just where the creatures of this place discarded their bones or if this was where whatever captured them ate them when I felt like something was right above me.
I didn't want to look up, because I knew doing so would lead me to madness. It was like the difference between thinking you are about to die and knowing it. So instead of looking up I just ran, because you know whatever was above me couldn't have been good and whatever was ahead of me had to be better (my logic is impenetrable don't even try!) Behind me I heard a thud and turned around to see a gigantic freaking spider. Like so big it took up almost the entire room I was fleeing from (which gave rise to so many questions about how a spider that big existed on the people sent to this place, or how it got in the room to begin with). It tried to impale me on one of its freakish legs and I dodged to the side, which unfortunately took me away from the place I was running toward and more towards a damned wall, which is what the spider wanted obviously since it pinned me in with its other leg.
"Look can't we talk this out?"
"No." I was terrified even more the creature could speak, even if it just told me no. Maybe that's the only word it knew. It was a no spider (no hope, no end to the terror, no uhh shit can't make this a three). I scrambled on the ground and the only weapon I could come up with was a broken femur of some poor bastard who came before. The no spider lunged in and I stabbed up wounding it (or just pissing it off) in its flailing it clubbed me away from the wall where I had been trapped. Which was good, though the wound it gave me obscured my sight and made it hard to see which was bad. But I was able to stumble out of the spiders room and I had my new bone weapon, so you know I wasn't completely useless! And the spider was trapped in its bone room (or so I thought at the time but now I know it wasn't... but you know things to come!).
So it was a total success for me as my first challenge of being a god. Complete victory bring on the next one!
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