You're relaxing in the pub one night when your good friend tells you about an amazing — and lucrative — opportunity for adventure that he learned about. As described on a nearby sign, the opportunity is an expedition that's being organized to scout the Valley of Death in Middle-earth, for which two skilled adventurers are needed.

The sign promises generous compensation, and your friend eagerly urges you to join him in taking the offer, but having heard dark rumors about the valley, you hesitate. When a grizzled old man who overhears your conversation affirms your fears and claims to be the lone survivor of a past doomed trip, you decide to skip the expedition, and your friend storms off to go without you.

Now your friend has failed to return. Guilty about not joining him, you set out for the Valley of Death, determined to find him and bring him home.

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