Levels' of Five Arc
First level:
We all board a mysterious bus with a driver wrapped in cloth and something suddenly makes it to where we unwillingly sit down in the seats of the bus. The driver takes off into a dark tunnel that seems to go on and on until the surroundings turn red, the bus suddenly turns into a train, and we start to see a town that has nothing but a desert wasteland from the edge of it to all the where the eye could see.
Upon arrival, we meet Kenny, a man in their mid-twenties in a Western sheriff outfit. He welcomes us to the town and tells us where a tavern and inn are and we choose to go to the tavern immediately after the bounty hunter(Xraycrazy) tazes the Human resource officer(Cayden Goon) of the party 3 times and also tazed Hayden once.
We chose to sleep at the inn when in the middle of the night the programmer(Hayden) of the party heard a phone ringing downstairs; after they went back to sleep ignoring the phone the HR officer woke up to it next and chose to wake up everybody, and so everyone went downstairs to investigate the ringing phone. When inspecting the phone the cybersecurity man(Royal Chaos) looks at the wiring seeing that it was connected to the wall inside a wooden board with no outlet.
The party decided we should tear down the plank from the wall. Goon wanted to punch it at first until he was informed that Xraycrazy had steel-toed boots where we decided that I would kick the board down; when doing so we saw that there was nothing the wire could be connected to, however the phone still rang.
Hayden decides to answer the phone hearing a voice that feels familiar but we are unsure about threatening us. Then suddenly there was a loud howl and scratching at the door followed by three knocks. Goon got curious and went to try and open the door and in that split second Xraycrazy decided to taze him before he could open the door.
After he finished being mad about being tazed 4 times he took out his phone and used the flashlight to look outside the window. In that instance a blurry figure sped across the window leaving a scratch mark on it like it had claws made of diamonds. Goon then thanks Xraycrazy for tazing him.
Everyone decides that it would be best to wait out the night and ask around town in the morning. After everyone slumbers through the night the party goes downstairs to an old lady at the front desk where the phone was ringing the night before; she sets food on a table and offers it to us although we don't feel hungry at all. Then the party starts to discuss everything that has happened thus far.
The conversation started with the blurry figure that left the claw mark on the window and what it could be and the phone call with the phone that worked without a connection which made us think we could be in hell possibly the first level known as limbo. With that theory, we decided if we are in hell we probably shouldn't eat any food offered to us.
Everyone chooses to split in to to investigate the town Xraycrazy and Goon go to the police station to talk to Kenny and talk about the phone call and the blurry creature the party saw last night while Hayden and Royal stay at the inn with Royal go outside to look at the town seeing the police station, a horse shop, a courthouse that gave off an ominous vibe, a tavern, a brothel, the inn, and a bunch of elderly people walking around.
Hayden speaks with the old innkeeper lady and asks when she came here she answers "Since the boom of 1947". Then out of in-game dialogue, Hayden and Goon start saying that the time period doesn't fit the setting until Xraycrazy tells them that they were telling us their cause of death.
Now back in the story dialogue, Hayden asks if there is another town nearby and if it would be possible to leave this one to go to it, and the old lady starts to flip out saying "Leave? Why would you want to leave? THERE IS NO LEAVING THIS PLACE!" Hayden immediately says "I don't plan on leaving, I just asked because I'm curious about the culture."
She then appears to calm down then says "Oh, well there's nothing but this town here sonny" Hayden then decides that it's high time to end the conversation with the innkeeper after asking if the food we didn't eat cost anything and she said that money wasn't used around these parts. Now to Xraycrazy and Goon's excursion, they made their way to the front door of Kenny's police station. We knock on the door and Goon reports the phone call with the death threat to him. Kenny starts asking if we have seen the stalker on the phone but we never met the person before at least not according to the knowledge we have at the moment.
Xraycrazy then proceeded to ask if there were any bounties on anyone but Kenny flipped his shit saying "No this is my job are you trying to steal my job." Xraycrazy then replies with "No sir, I was just curious is all."
Kenny proceeded to go back inside to do something and whilst he was doing so Goon and Xraycrazy discussed whether they should attack Kenny or not. We decided not to since he had a revolver on his person and was unsure how death would affect us in a place we believed might be hell. When we decided against attacking Kenny he came back outside and asked if he had anything else we wanted to ask with an untrusting stereotypical cowboy voice.
We asked him if there was a way out and got the same answer Hayden did minus the person flipping out part. After he calmed down he dodged all our questions that pertained to the creature and questions on how to get out of what appears to be limbo. With almost no answers Goon and Xraycrazy decide to go back to the inn and regroup with the others.
While Royal is still outside of the inn looking around at the town Kenny appears before him to inform him that town folk want to invite the newcomers, our party, to a party at the tavern before nightfall.
Royal tells him that we will all be at the party when it is time to go there. Everyone now regroups at the inn and discusses everything that has occurred. During the discussion, we all decided to confirm that we are one hundred percent in a version of hell and that this could be limbo and lust since there was a brothel which maybe led to the second level of hell.
With this, they decided if they wanted to go to the brothel or the party that they were invited to by the townsfolk and Kenny the Sheriff; Everyone decides that we should go to the party just in case the brothel is just a building and not to anger the towns folk by trying to leave cause they appear to get mad if you try to do so.
After a little more talking and discussion of if we should attack Kenny cause fuck Kenny we decided to start heading towards the direction of where the tavern is at. They arrive at the tavern and Kenny points them to an empty table. Everyone sits down at the table looking around at the inside of the tavern with swing doors at all of the festivities.
The rag-tag party sees old couples dancing to the sound of an old man playing the banjos on a stage with chit-chat echoing all across the wide space of the tavern. Xraycrazy decides to talk to an old lady and proceeds to ask them what the name of the town is because the whole party didn't think about it until this moment and she excitedly says "Well this town is Noname because this town has no name." Which lets everyone at the table know that this is for sure the first level of hell known as limbo.
With this information, the party starts talking in a whisper about everything they've already discussed and starts brainstorming ways to possibly get out of limbo. A drunk Kenny then walks up to the table asking them what they are doing just sitting at the table and not enjoying the festivities that the town folks' party has to offer. During that exact time, the townspeople start to leave the tavern in what seems to be a rush but the party is too distracted by the drunken Kenny to notice that it is starting to get rather dark outside.
When a loud ear-bleeding howl shot through the room Kenny glanced out of sight and exclaimed "Oh shit it's getting too dark outside!" In that same instance, a tall muscular man wearing an all-black outfit with a black hat and two revolvers at his side that had modern pistol magazine mags walked through the door. Kenny was gone in a flash until Xraycrazy glanced under the table and saw Kenny looking at him with his fingers pressed against his lips hiding beneath the table.
The big man quickly explains that he is the judge and slips that there are 5 levels in this hell by accident. He slams down a wanted poster onto the desk and the photo on it shows the cowboy Kenny who was wanted for messing with newcomers that arrive in hell and possibly other things that the Judge says he has been looking for him and asks if we have seen this man the party doesn't tell him yes or no and keeps talking to him about the levels of hell and what he does at the courthouse then he says he just judges people then punches the table in two grabbing Kenny and says "You have been judged."
Xraycrazy quickly and sneakily steals the revolver that was on the hips of Kenny and succeeds with three bullets falling out of it but no one notices but Xraycrazy. Then when the judge looks outside the tavern via the swinging doors, he says "Fuck it's too dark!" and 3 then muscular black creatures with claws like diamonds and skull masks on their faces run through the swinging doors at the judge.
Judge drops Kenny on the ground and slings out his two revolvers shooting the 3 powerful-looking creatures in the head with ease and walks out the swinging door to walk to the courthouse. You can hear his gun firing as he is killing more of the creatures on his way.
At the same time, Kenny gets up from the ground and runs to a wall that has a curtain appear and it opens a door. Now the party must decide if the safest option is to follow the judge or go through the door that was opened by Kenny the wanted one.
After a quick conversation, everyone decides to do a wisdom check to see which one would be the wiser one to follow; after making a successful role they are told that the Judge can kill the creatures but he won't try and protect us if we get attacked so we would be on our own while Kenny only falls up. Going off this small bit of information the makeshift team decides to take a risky gamble and follow Kenny.
Now that everyone quickly rushed into the room they saw Kenny sitting on a chair with a string connected to the sky in his hands while seeing that the door behind them disappeared into thin air. Kenny glares at everyone who has entered his room and states "So you chose to follow me, that was a wise move." Then he pulls on the string and the room goes dark then the light reappears and the room turns into a white open space to a small narrow brick room that only goes forward towards a lonesome door.
Xraycrazy decides to investigate the gun that he snagged from Kenny and discovers that the gun's bullets had weird symbols that resembled that of paper bombs from Naruto. After discussing if the door should be trusted or not, everyone decided to go ahead and go through it because what choice did they have in the matter when there was only one possible direction to go?
So they all got together and walked out the door one by one to see brushes that seemed easily tearable with a ragged old wooden sign covered in moss that had the words The Maze of Desire engraved on it.