Ways this might end:
tragedy
escape
wrath
without answers
broken by revelation
justice for the gaolers
alone

Once you are lost, your desires no longer change the world.

Some names:
Gallus
Melora
Azazello
Nightjar
Eleven
Jonah
Chamuel

Ways this might begin:
a question
naively
red-handed
pursued
as hope gutters
with a knock in the storm
in ecstasy

Some places:
the sabkha
the temple of the lens
your cell
the huddled ruins
the lair of your enemy
the gallows

You may give away your coins. You may take others’ beads.

The game is over when each of you has suffered enough.