/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>Discover the locked door to a dragon's tomb while looting ruins like a common grave robber
>Think you've hit the jackpot, dragon means dragon hoard and the place is still sealed up tight
>Make a trip back to town and spend the last of your meager savings on explosive ruins to get inside
>Return, set the bang letters up and run like hell, these places are known to be trapped
>An earthshaking explosion later and a near cave-in and you stand in front of the charred rubble remains of the doors
>Your heart sinks as you peer into the room
>Lots of ornate carved stone
>A huge granite sarcophagus
>But no gold, no silver, no gems, no nothing
>Of course some dickass thief scored whatever haul was in here first, or whoever lived in this dump of a ruin before it was abandoned
>Approach the stone casket with your iron crowbar, Trusty
>Maybe the previous raiders had enough respect for the dead to leave the body alone
>Might get lucky and snag a headdress or a wedding ring or something
>If nothing else, dragon bones sell for a lot of quid for aphrodesiacs. You could at least make up your losses.
>Those are the thoughts running through your mind as you lay all your weight into cracking the seal on the coffin
>The two ton lid doesn't budge a millimeter
>Nothing. You're going to get nothing
>FUCK THIS WHOLE BUSINESS!
>Start smashing your crowbar in frustration against the coffin
>Fuck this shitty ruin
>Fuck your shitty tomb raider life
>Each strike chipping and scratching the delicate rune engraved all over the lid
>Your hand slips on one enraged strike, the sharp stone cutting your hand wide open
>The blood wells forth and drips down onto the hard rock
>This day just keeps getting better and better
>You're broke, hungry and miles from civilization
>No new prospects
>You fail to notice the stone soaking up the spilled red
>What you do hear is a loud thump inside the crypt, right before your torch blows out
>Then the slow grinding sound of the lid sliding free