Evan's Curse

Abandoned tens of thousands of years ago, these doors manage to keep the lake, and everything else, at bay. Whatever lurks inside this ancient structure, sealed away from the world so many millennia ago by a mysterious cataclysm has been a mystery. Only recently have men found the courage to dive deep into the lake to find a backdoor into this catacomb, afraid to waltz in the front. Who knows what today's atmosphere could do to the priceless clues that could help us find out what happened to our ancestors so long ago?

Through surveys of this ancient lake, geographers have found that a network of underground caves lurks beneath the deceptively shallow surface. Over time, water has eaten away at the cracks in the man-mad aggregate and found its way through the soil and bedrock. A person wearing a simple underwater breathing apparatus can squeeze through the smallest openings and find vast chambers of both natural and other origins.

Further exploration finds a single pocket of air where, surprisingly enough, one can breath the stale air. If you follow the dripping noises, as a few have done, you can find a break in the ceiling. A passage into the legendary chamber pictured here.

One would presume that once this passage was discovered, scientific expeditions would flood the building to document its every crevice, but few still dare to make the journey. Some say it is the severe claustrophobia inducing nature of the flooded caverns leading down and back up through the bowels of an ancient city. Sources close to the few who have ventured into this strange abyss all report a similar phenomenon.

After a few weeks of strained withdrawal, will quietly renounce his or her intrepid ways and take up a middle management position in a medium to large sized corporation, saying nothing about the apparently harrowing experience to anyone.

What is it about this place that drives these people so sane?