Ramtal Slave Dungeon

06:31 minotaur21560: Having received new orders from his Lord Darkram Eternal Ruler of Ramtal, the Torturer emerges from the guard house into the central court, his face completely covered with the mask of execution. The rest of him as usual exposed, but for the belt of tools and blades, and the clamps that bite his hairy chest. He leans, straining all muscles as he drags into place the final trunk of a great frame, tree-like, the last in a line of similar devices. They are like a grim forest of crosses.
06:32 minotaur21560: I stand back, look up at this grove of pain, and nod. I turn to see the slave Elias, kneeling before me. "Boy, your obedience will be tested now. Strip!"
06:34 Elias_Hyrs: I pull off my loincloth.
06:34 Elias_Hyrs: "What's happening, Master?"
06:36 minotaur21560: "You will experience each of these crosses... Your limbs will be stretched in agony... You will taste each of the pain... the different shapes will affect you as if you have committed different crimes. Feel the dark stain of your misbehavior. Remember all the moments of wrong thoughts. I will hang you on the first one now!"
06:38 minotaur21560: The Torturer grasps the boy round his thin chest, climbs the short ladder to the first rack of pain... The arms are stretched out above his head, like a V. His wrists are snapped into metal manacles... He dangles from chains, his chest stretched... as the torturer fixes the athlete's ankles to the two sides of the great round trunk, bending the legs outward. "This is the First Hour of Agony and the Color of the Pain is yellow-orange."
06:41 Elias_Hyrs: "Ugh!.. What have I done to be on the cross again?.."
06:44 minotaur21560: I look up, my eyes stern and unforgiving behind the mask. "There is no cause and effect here, boy. There are only two truths: that you are a slave, and that it pleases the god-emperor to see you suffer. This is the next step on your agonizing pilgrimage to redemption. Show us the spectacle of an innocent in pain!"
06:49 minotaur21560: "Each of these trees of torture is like a thread, a colored strand in a great tapestry of pain. And this Prison will become the basilica of agony, the greatest monument to the Empire of Ramtal. You will test them all. But you, if you are truly innocent, will not receive the deepest harm from them. You will pass through the ordeal and emerge better, cured, grown, matured."
06:50 minotaur21560: "Like the blade of a sword that is forged in a Conflagration!"
06:50 minotaur21560: And here the Torturer raises arms high, and makes the Gesture of Empire... the thumb and forefinger passing across the throat...
06:53 minotaur21560: "Through suffering you will be purified... The strain of each muscle as you hang is like the note in a divine melody...That you suffer proves that you are highly regarded. That you are in agony is the sign that you will be a man, subject to the Justice of Ramtal..."
06:54 minotaur21560: "Because it is the Will of Darkram, our Father and Lord, that you will be made better through this torment."
06:56 minotaur21560: "Imagine, once you have tested all of these trees, the spiked ones, the round ones, the upside down ones... all of these crosses... how much you will know of pain. And at the end, imagine that each one of them will be occupied by a different slave, and you will take the central place. Each of you will be like blossoms on the branches of these trees."
06:59 minotaur21560: "Only suffering educates for eternity! Obedience is not apart from suffering! Eternity is not apart from duty!!" And again the Torturer raises his arms high and with an attitude of ecstasy looks at the athlete's twisted body.
07:15 Roid_Irongut: I enter the dungeon from my lair. “Emperor Darkram!” I kneel and bow down my head.
07:17 Darkram_The_Great: "Good morning, Captain. You must guard slave Elias. Our Grand Executioner must go for a while, so you will watch over slave as he is on the cross. Understood?"
07:19 Roid_Irongut: Sweat drip down my temple. My duty is to serve the dark lord but my will is to save slaves from this dungeon of cruelty. I know I should move but my body remains kneeling in silence.
07:20 Darkram_The_Great: "Something wrong, Captain?"
07:24 Roid_Irongut: “No…my lord…” I growl deeply and stand up. My muscular legs move toward the slave boy. “Attend…slave.” I speak while my back is shown to the dark lord, so he will not see my face full of pity and reluctance. I stand beside the cross and gaze at the slave boy.
07:30 Elias_Hyrs: "Ugh... Well, the most favorite guts of dungeon is here... Ugh..."
07:31 Roid_Irongut: “Kid. Are you alright? What have they done to you?”
07:31 Elias_Hyrs: "Ugh... It's alright. I deserve it... Ugh..."
07:36 Roid_Irongut: “As you say kid.” I turn my head aside so I don’t have to watch you suffer. “Remember the salve you delivered to me?” I still got some left in my drawer. I won’t be in my lair for a while and you can have it when I’m not around.” I whisper
07:37 Elias_Hyrs: "Why do I need it?.. Ugh..."
07:37 Roid_Irongut: I peek at your scarred body. “Just in case.”
07:38 Roid_Irongut: “When the executioner and general comes back, more scars will be lashed upon your skin boy.”
07:40 Elias_Hyrs: "Ugh... I'm only crucified. Nothing else... Ugh..."
07:50 Roid_Irongut: I nod and pray the dark lord will not unleash his burning anger upon this slave boy.
08:53 minotaur21560: I return from the guard house, still in full executioner's mask, the rest of my uniform as normal. I stop for a moment, staring at the boy on the cross, then my eyes fall on the bull-like body of Capt Irongut. I nod curtly. "You are guarding the slave, Captain?"
08:54 Roid_Irongut: “Welcome back executioner.” I nod. “Indeed my orders are to guard the slave.”
09:00 minotaur21560: I stare at Elias again. He hangs from the crossbeam and seems to show an expression of pain. So all is still well.
09:01 Roid_Irongut: I notice your gaze and clean my throat. “I made sure he suffered on the cross.”
09:01 minotaur21560: I give a brief sidelong glance without replying.
9:04 Darkram_The_Great: "Continue crucifixion, Minotaur!"
09:05 minotaur21560: I jump...as if surprised in a guilty thought, then drop to one knee, head down... "Yes Lord!"
09:07 minotaur21560: "Now is the time for the second Station! The boy graduates from mere simple pain, in the key of yellow-orange, and modulates to magenta with gold! This pain is focused on the ankles and the head. And the feeling in the heart, sickening sense of dislocated guilt."
09:08 minotaur21560: I climb the short steps and lean my torso against the athlete's chest as I open manacles on his far wrist. His arm falls forward round my shoulder. Then when the other arm is free, I undo the ankles. Lifting him, I descend and move to the second cross. It stands like a pine tree, with wide branches lower down the central trunk.
09:12 minotaur21560: On the new tree, the boy is again hung with limbs splayed, attached by chain, but this time an extra piece of engineering allows him to be displaced once he is fixed. At the base of the tree I turn a crank, bending into it with all my weight and little by little, spreadeagled Elias is inverted so that his feet are where his head should have been. When it is finished I turn to look, seeing him dangling upside down, seeing gravity pull on him, on his body parts... his face begins reddening with the flush of blood.
09:18 minotaur21560: Bit I must focus... in service of the one true king and his Eternal Empire, and of this vast monument of pain that I build to commemorate it. So I will intone to the boy, to the Lord King who watches from above, surrounded by the flames of his office, to any who will listen: "Feel now, boy, this magenta pain as the blood rushes to your head, as your member hangs as nature never intended, as your limbs strain. This is the fate of those who have deviated from the path. This is the violence that is repaid a hundredfold to those who should know better. Your inverted pose is the picture of the Wrongness of your spirit. Feel this and consider... Feel this and yearn for the chance to mend your ways!"

LATER

11:04 Elias_Hyrs: "Ugh... How long I am on this cross... Ugh..."
11:07 minotaur21560: You see the body of the slave Brody still swaying below on his ropes... "I have told him about the next cross, boy.... It has special spikes... depending on the attitude of the victim, some may push into the guts, the belly or the soft places of the organs of generation... this in case the victim faces inwards... or in a different configuration, facing outwards, a different spike will enter the colonic canal
11:07 Brody_Bested: As I swing I look upon the slave Elias. Realizing that I might suffer his own fate., And fear comes to me.
11:10 minotaur21560: I place a hand on Brody. "Yes, this one may be more appropriate to test that cross." I raise my head up as if towards the warm sun, full of longing, loyalty, and the wish to serve "Father of Dark Wisdom, Darkram... is it appropriate to let this slave taste the third cross, with its pain of blue-green hue?"
11:11 Darkram_The_Great: "Put Elias on another the cross!"
11:14 minotaur21560: I nod... and step up the ladder to loosen the bonds from the boy's ankles, let them fall into my arms, turn the crank so that his head is at about 8 o'clock instead of 6 o'clock then grasp his body, carry to a fourth cross.

11:17 minotaur21560: This one, this cross , with branches set that require arms to be bent back, and a cross piece inserted to thread under arms and behind shoulder... and there is a great circular disk that allows rotation so that the victim's body can be in any orientation, upside down sideways, right side up. The bonds here are tight, stretching the athlete's chest.

11:20 minotaur21560: It is Elias who is on the cross that threads a beam behind his arms and turns and turns that he is neither up nor down. The cross for Brody is the one with spikes, spikes that will penetrate him from in front or behind. It will be his choice which direction he will face.

11:25 minotaur21560: And here I must speak to educate the boy Elias who now hangs sideways with arms threaded behind him..."The God-King is the Rage of Ramtal, the firestorm against her enemies.. He set his rage among them in the midst of them./ He set his rage among them with the fire of his mouth./ He set his rage among them with the flash of his eyes./ He set his rage among them with the surge of the gale... This, boy is what you feel as you turn and turn and turn -- that the endless cycles of history only repeat one lesson... the VICTORY OF RAMTAL!" And I strike the pose of triumph, arms stabbing the air, chest spread, the tools and blades at my belt jangling....

11:44 minotaur21560: I look at Capt Irongut as I point to the fifth cross... the pain that is green-yellow like bile... A single trunk with a blunt end, and the four sides with branches held high to receive the wrists and ankles and hold the victim so that he rests on his gut which is placed on the post that strives upward, driven by the body's weight... "This post will make the victim queasy but is not sharp enough to immediately penetrate. Let Elias learn its meaning. Let him profit by its lesson and represent all the slaves so that he may educate them!"
11:47 Roid_Irongut: I growl hearing the bull introducing the fifth torturing cross. just hearing those sadistic words turns the wine sour in my glass .
11:49 minotaur21560: I have the boy in my arms, having taken him off the rotating cross with its beam that threads behind the shoulders, I carry him up now, my arm round him as if he was a bale of hay. I fix him splayed over the top, his belly on the post, then pull each of his limbs downwards and fix them to the waiting bonds, pulling his belly further onto the post.
11:55 minotaur21560: "A shout is wedged in the throat, as the post pushes ever deeper into the boy's gut... and it seems the armies of Ramtal do trample his belly even now, pushing him into the dirt... This is the fate of enemies... to be pulverized and forgotten! Glory to the ENDLESS RULE and RIGHTEOUS LIGHT... the EFFULGENCE of the GOD-King!!!!" Spittle flicks from my mouth onto my beard as the enthusiasm grips me and again my arms stab the air.
11:57 Roid_Irongut: I snort and drink my liquor watching the executioner indulges in his ecstasy

The Next Day

06:43 minotaur21560: The face of the slave Elias is pale, almost light blue, as his head hangs forward. He faces down, as his stomach is pushed up by the central post. His arms and legs are splayed, manacled to four posts that branch upward from the central trunk. The slave is not conscious as I detach the bonds and then grasp him round the waist, lifting him off the central pole. His belly shows bruises. Again I hold him like a bag of grain under my arm and descend the ladder.

06:46 minotaur21560: "Here ends the saga of suffering! Here the testing of the slave, complete, has prepared the way for others to follow. He has proven the Garden of Pain is ready. There will be a day ahead, it shines in the future, beckoningly, and on that day each tree will bear a captive warrior, a slave, a prisoner. Each will be a flower of a different color on a branch. Each pain will rise like offering as they begin to contemplate that obedience and suffering are one, as they realize the Great Dark Father Sees All, Punishes All, Rectifies All!" And I raise both arms in the hieratic pose of loyal service to the realm "Let us Praise his Eternal Reign and let our gratitude be garlands that we offer to him... Darkram, God-King!!!!"
06:47 Roid_Irongut: I hear the thundering words from my great dork lord. My remain strength burst and I jump to my knees. “I shall never disobey your rule my king.” I hold my bleeding navel. “My king…why I feel my whole souls refuses to call him that while it seems so normal to bow before his golden throne?”
06:47 Elias_Hyrs: "Ugh... Minotaur?.."
06:47 Mikey: I see my leader carry the slave over his shoulder. Carrying the slave as if Elias is property, which he is. I start to imagine myself taking Elias. Bringing him into a chamber and using him for my recreation, forcing his thighs to open around my waist. I shake the idea out of my head and I return my focus to my duties. Getting the material to stitch back closed Roid's abdomen.
06:48 minotaur21560: "Yes, Elias, you are awake now. What is it?"
06:48 Elias_Hyrs: "Is... this... over?.."
06:50 minotaur21560: "Yes it is done for now. You may go back to endless service of the Empire and its loyal soldiers. But I think you have earned a rest first." I lift him up and put an arm round his back, clasping him closer as I take him to his cell.
06:50 Roid_Irongut: I bite my teeth enduring the pain when warrior Mikey pushes my intestines back inside and stitch my butchered navel. “You did well warrior…” I nod. “Now watching the torture and learn from executioner. Your captain owe you and I’ll pay it dearly after my rest.”
06:53 Elias_Hyrs: I try to hug Minotaur. Feeling myself very exhausted. Wish to have a warm from the loved one. "You did... Well... Minotaur..." I'm passed out, while still hugging Minotaur.

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