The Mansion

A few hours from town stood a broken down, derelict mansion. Now nothing more than a pile of rubble, long ago it was a rich antisocial man and his estranged daughter. The names of the family are now lost to time, but the tragedy of their lives held together their home for centuries after their deaths remained, living on in a timeloop within the walls for all eternity.

The Man was rarely engaged with society outside of the time that he would spend with the young men who would visit him. His daughter, the Girl, lived her own life. Though she lived in his home, the two were completely separate. She was young, beautiful, and independent, supporting herself through her work as an expensive escort. Despite her father's disinterest in her life, he openly disapproved of her relationship with a man (the Boy) she met from across the country.

Others, too, disapproved of their relationship. They judged the Girl for her career choices, they judged her father for his antisocial behaviour and they judged her fiancee for choosing to marry into such a family. The Man tried everything to stop his daughter from going ahead with this wedding, but she refused to let this relationship go. Eventually, he appeared to give in and agreed to allow her to host their wedding in their ballroom and invited the Boy's family and friends to attend, too.

The day of the wedding comes. A joyous day, filled with champagne, flowers, and wonderful food prepared by the Man's amazing staff. Everything is perfect, exactly as the Girl dreamt it. Then, the Man's plan comes to fruition.

Screams echo from the ballroom. There isn't a place in the mansion where they go unheard as the Man slaughters everyone in the ballroom.

Time passes and a visitor comes to the elderly, childless man, who calls the mansion a tomb. A Warlock, looking to fill a contract he made a long time ago. The Warlock and the Man share dinner together, conversations about the past. Quickly, the Man grows ill. His dinner turns on his stomach as the poison spreads through his bloodstream. The Warlock watches calmly as the soul of the evil man is sent to his own devil.

The Man dies, sent away to never see eternity as his soul is devoured by the devil. The Warlock moves on to collect his next quarry so that he may attain what he was promised. The Tomb, however, remains, held together by the eternal suffering of the many, many souls who died there so violently, so long ago.

When the last piece of the Girl was destroyed by adventurers, the eternal loop within the Tomb finally ended and the place collapsed, as it should have centuries and centuries ago.