…a grotesque rotting hand which pulls you into the shadowy abyss at the bottom of the chest rather than the legendary treasure which you were seeking.

The power of Greyskull.

An empty bag of Whiskas and the remains of a tiny Kilrathi.
(if I should win, I'd really like Wing Commander 1+2 thanks!)

A half-rotted banana and the original draft for the Battlefield Earth movie. You are now cursed.

...to find a frame. In the frame, a picture of a beautiful maiden more fair than any man has ever seen. The frame is made of solid gold and the design makes it look like the maiden in the picture is sitting in a garden of roses...

thanks bard ^^ (I feel like I want to continue with this story but I don't want to diverge the trhead :D)

A mildew-ridden cloth doll. As I reached in and picked it up, a vision overcame my senses of the past this doll has seen. The dungeon I was in, now a young girl's room in a modest stone abode, the chest now a simple dresser by a bed.

Suddenly, bandits stormed the home, slaying her parents in the other room. The girl awakens to the shrill screams of her mother being slaughtered and her father's yell as he attempts to protect his family. She scrambles for her dolly that lay on the dresser just as the bandits enter her room. They look down at the little girl, now cowering in the corner and clutching the doll to her chest. Grinning, a bandit tosses the girl over his shoulder and they leave the home to return to the camp.

Now at the camp, the girl is faced with the bandit leader, deciding what to do with her. He tells her she can be as his own daughter or she can be cast out to die. Reluctantly, the girl stays with the bandits and spends several years growing up as the leader's daughter until one day...

She awakens to find her leader slain in his bed, blood trickling to the floor and the blankets coated thick in the red liquid. A lower bandit managed to gather the courage to rise against him in order to rescue the young woman from her coerced familial ties. She takes her doll from a bag nearby and the two run off under the dark of night and escape to a dank cave by a calm river a couple of miles away from the camp. Curious why he did the deed, all the young man had to say was, "Unrequited love". He said no more.

The next day, they left the cave knowing the bandits would be on the look out for the bandit and daughter responsible for their leader's death. They managed to make it to a walled town a few days later, foraging for food and making use of the river as they went.

Once in the town, they tried to make a living doing what they could. He would hunt and sell the meat and fur from his kills, she would sew clothing and weave material for the townspeople. However, they knew their livelihood couldn't last, and one day their fears came to fruition as the bandits they ran from came upon the town en force, with a swell of new-blood and other tribes to back them up.

As the town came under heavy attack, the two lovers made sure to grab the weathered doll and swiftly retreated to the keep at the rear of the township and were escorted inside for protection. Having heard the cries of those in need outside, they went underground to the dungeon in the hopes that the bandits would not think to search there and locked themselves in a cell, just in case.

Inside the cell was a box, and the young woman placed her companion through all her life, the doll, inside the container. She proceeded to use a strip of her dress and created a makeshift lock for the box, making sure the bandits could not retrieve it.

The bandits never made it down to the dungeon. The people of the town never returned either, and so the two lived the rest of their brief lives inside the dungeon cell in each other's embrace until time took them from one another.

The vision ends and I see the skeletons of the lovers in the corner, eternally embraced.

I open the chest and find inside TET's hat and his album with slow jams :D

Thank you bard :P

As I reach for the chest, I open it up to see an old book with a distorted looking face upon it. Just as I am about to reach for the book I remember the words of the court mage to recite the incantation. Aloud I proclaim "KLAATU BARATA N..." I stop to realize I have forgotten the last word. "Neck Tie...Necter...Nickle...What was that word??? It was DEFINITELY an N word..." After thinking I come up with a brilliant plan and aloud I proclaim "KLAATU BARATA N-*cough cough cough*...OK THEN THATS IT!" I reach for the book and pick it up, and I hear a crash of thunder and the ground begins to shake. "HEY WAIT A MINUTE, EVERYTHING'S COOL, I SAID THE WORDS, I DID!!" I screamed. All of a sudden the chest slams forward with a deep void which begins to pull me in. I am violently pulled towards the void as I try in vain to grab onto something to as I am pulled into the trunk. The trunk slams shut, then lets out a little burp...and finally the words are heard coming from the trunk "groovy!".

OR since this has Ultima games...

I reach for the latch of the trunk, to which I pull back and begin to lift the lid. The unforgettable sound of a ripcord echos as I realize too late the trunk is booby trapped. KABOOOOOOOM! I am sent flying backwards into a pit of instant watery death. My last words screaming as I go flying back "DAMN YOU PLATFORMING!!!"

As I open the chest, I find prepaid GoG cards inside. Now I can buy GoG games without having to use PayPal or a credit card. But only until I run out of those cards, as that chest contained the only ones in existance.

Marcellos Wallaces soul?

I open the chest and discover a ... treasure!!! Hell, what freaking curiosity did u expect?

a shotgun, better than swinging that old sword all the time.

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Vital for the battle against the killer rabbit with it's huge teeth and lunging ability.

...a sheet of paper containing a gift code for each game on GOG on it.

If only...