Four characters approached a shadowy cave, the entrance of which was flanked by stone blocks etched with strange geometric shapes. From the darkness, they heard the sounds of something living scurrying along the rocks.

“What do you do?” dungeon master Jefferson Dunlap asked, opening the game to its players.

Over the next two hours, the party made up of Secretary of State Steve Hobbs and three men incarcerated at the Washington State Penitentiary worked together to explore the cave and piece together the details of what happened there.

Along the way, they used their unique skills as a fighter, rogue, cleric and wizard, respectively, to protect one another through grisly fights with a carrion crawler — a monstrous beast with paralyzing tentacles — and a flying sword.

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