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Abandoned Factory

There are two distinct sections of this forgotten factory. The first is a series of spiraling hallways going ever deeper into the earth. Along each edge of the square structure, as one continues further into the darkness, are old, corroding machines. Conveyor belts, scaffolding, leaking drums of fuel, chains from the celing, and giant, metal body parts of an ancient, unfinished behemoth. The generator still works, but just barely enough to provide a fourth of the lights and cycle the air enough to breathe. At the bottom of the spiral is where the next section begins. Shooting up, straight through the center of the spiral, a quarter-mile on each side and half a mile back up to the surface, an almost completely empty, rectangular room. Dominating the middle of the room is a square, metal column, raising half-way up the middle of the area and taking up the center 'half' of the room it's in. The only way up without any transportation power of your own is a grove on each side with metal ladder-rungs wedged into it. The top of the center room is opened to the sky, but this deep in the earth, even high noon seems dim and far away.

Bone Forest

Deep in the woods, there's a strange place that people say is haunted. For damn good reason they do. For a half mile in every direction from the center, the grassy, soft loam of the forests and plains of the region gives way to nothing but the dryest sand. What's more, the trees instantly turn from sturdy wood to hollow bone. But they still look quite like trees, with one central white spike jutting out of the ground, and branches spitting off of that, and more off those, at very natural angles. There are no leaves, of course. The only landmark to speak of is in the very center of the area, where the top half of a human skeleton hangs limp from the 'trunk' of one of these morbid trees. It is not impaled upon the tree. It is a part of it.

The Gulag's Gauntlet

Deep in the center of the ancient, twisted metal ruins of a gigantic prison designed to house those of superhuman ability, a single room still operates. 'Room' is a very loose term in this case, as it's actually a pocket of extra-dimentional space. The warden and all his guards called it the Exaspiration Room. The prisoners just called it The Gauntlet. It was designed to put the unlucky prisoner through an infinite amount of trials until they collapsed. Inside is a never-ending labyrinth of walls and floors made of metal squares. The auto-run program is always on, and quite literally anything goes. Gigantic columns of steel can erupt out at moments notice, gravity can shift you onto an impalement of spikes, lightning can strike out of seemingly nowhere. It's one giant deathtrap. Though the prison is no longer in service, powerful people pay top dollar to see others fight in this realm of endless threats.