In Vaulted Halls Entombed story
A MARSOC team are sent to rescue a hostage from insurgents. As they follow them deep into the mountain tunnels, they find the hostage's and insurgents' bodies eaten by a swarm of mysterious spider-like creatures. The team loses four men to the swarm of spiders and other traps within the tunnels, leaving team leader Sgt. Coulthard and Harper as the only survivors. The duo finds a glowing light and follows a mysterious sound into a deeper chamber, revealed to be a prison containing a gigantic, eldritch deity. The deity induces visions of world destruction in Coulthard and Harper, convincing Coulthard to release it, and forcing Harper to kill him. The deity then instructs Harper to release it. She is then seen walking into the desert with her eyes gouged out and ears cut off as she mutters an alien language. Cast: Joe Manganiello, Christian Serratos, Jai Courtney, Debra Wilson, Fred Tatasciore, Noshir Dalal, Stanton Lee, Jeff Schine Directed by: Jerome Chen. Story by: Alan Baxter.
5 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. monster | choice | The soldiers battled hostile, spider-like creatures. The two survivors Coulthard and Harper ultimately faced Lovecraftian horror of unclear origin. |
| comrades in arms | major | The story follows a team of six soldiers who ventured into a cave system on a hostage rescue mission, not knowing that a ancient malevolent entity had been imprisoned there long ago. |
| demon | major | Deep inside the cave system, Coulthard and Harper encountered a Lovecraftian horror, perhaps an ancient evil deity. |
| human self-sacrifice | major | In one interpretation of the story, Harper sacrificed herself by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her ears to prevent the evil entity from getting out of its underground prison. |
| facing a hostage situation | minor | The soldiers set out on a mission to rescue a hostage who, according to their intelligence, was being held deep inside a cave system. However, their mission quickly took a strange turn when they found the skeletons of the hostage and his captors. |