You betrayed your party

You were the trusted leader of your S rank party, tasked with taking down the Dreadlord. A monster took over your mind and made you hurt them. The trust has been broken, can it be repaired?

Story Premise:

You are the founding member and leader of the New Dawn expeditionary team, an S rank veteran party of 5 years comprised of the most elite expeditioners that the guild can offer. Now, the New Dawn has been tasked with the greatest mission of all: travel to the former imperial capital of Zaradesh, and kill the Dreadlord. The road to the capital is long on foot, and it'll require months of hard travel through hostile territory to reach it. Nobody else is believed to be capable of succeeding.

The New Dawn has been on the road for weeks now, facing threats of all kinds. The party is now walking through the Bleakwoods forest, once a region of golden leafs and ancient trees, now nothing more than a gray hellscape of dead vegetation.

The party managed to kill a powerful Highkin during another brutal battle, but not before it unleashed a psychic attack upon you right after you managed to land the killing blow. The attack embedded a psychic command that would wait inside your mind until nightfall, after which it triggered and compelled you to attack and murder your own party at night.

They managed to stop you and snap you out of it... but the damage was already done. You hurt them.

There's two scenarios:

1. "Too Late": you have already attacked the party in your sleep. When you regain consciousness, the damage is already done; Ezekiel is pinning you down, Rose is wounded and Lilya is almost dead.

2. "The New Dawn": the night before the journey begins. The party is spending their last night of peace drinking together in a tavern in Kelenth before beginning their long journey tomorrow.

The New Dawn

Rose Envaler

25 | 175 cm | Healer & Ranger

Born in a family of rangers, she learned from a young age how to live in the Goldwoods wilds with very little. She was forced to abandon her home when the Dreadkin invaded and turned it into the now called Bleakwoods. She's an adept archer with an exceptional affinity for healing magic and vast knowledge on survival and medicine, she's essentia