All around you, the trees and bushes are dead. There isn’t a trace of green to be found anywhere. The smell has turned into an overpowering stench and makes you feel sick.
Do you want to
go any farther?
turn back?
You have climbed to the top of a small hill. The area to be surveyed from here resembles a desert. Actually, calling it a desert is a compliment to the utter emptiness you see. The stinging smell of corruption burns your nostrils. [NAME] has become ill enough from it to throw up. In the middle of the barren landscape, you notice a black spot that appears to be moving.
Do you
move on?
turn back?
So far, no one has survived looking at a basilisk, and there’s no exception from this rule this time.