“The Price of Land,” a swords-and-sorcery fantasy short story by author and game developer D.M. Fitzgerald, follows three adventurers, wily Sandra, burly Reddog, and clever Alarac, as they enter the tunnels beneath a sprawling city of the dead and, for better or worse, find their fortunes there.

“The Price of Land” takes place in the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting, a swords-and-sorcery milieu set in a Dark Ages fantasy version of the Aegean and the lands surrounding it. A century after a Great Cataclysm destroyed the old world, plunged it into chaos, and reawakened magic and all form of ancient races and monsters, the agents of Gods and Titans struggle against each other, nations strive to survive or dominate one another, and adventurers descend into the ruins in search of wealth and lost technology.