Note to self: do not try to enter a challenge with only 1 day left to do it. I can't see straight any more! So it may not be my best work, but it has a story:

My platform mockup is based upon the Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 9 specifically:

Tablet nine opens with Gilgamesh grieving for Enkidu and roaming the wild clothed in animal skins. Fearful of his own death, his object is to find the legendary Utnapishtim ("the Faraway"), and learn the secret of eternal life. Among the few survivors of the Great Flood, Utnapishtim and his wife are the only humans to have been granted immortality by the gods. Early in his travels, Gilgamesh crosses a mountain pass at night and encounters a pride of lions. He prays for protection to the moon god Sin before sleeping. Then, waking from an encouraging dream, he slays the lions and takes their skins for clothing. Eventually, after a long and perilous journey, Gilgamesh comes to the twin peaks of Mount Mashu at the ends of the earth. The entrance, which no man has ever crossed, is guarded by two terrible scorpion-men. After questioning him and recognising his semi-divine nature, they allow Gilgamesh to pass and travel through the mountains along the Road of the Sun. He follows it for twelve "double hours" in complete darkness. Managing to complete the trip before the sun catches up to him, Gilgamesh arrives in a garden paradise full of jewel-laden trees.

[So in the mock-up Gilgamesh just reached the end of the road in the darkness and finds the garden paradise.]

Just to throw a little more Assyriology out there: the powers Gilgamesh can select are 1. fire (when Shamash offers him his protection at the start of his quest), 2. earth (or cedar, when Gilgamesh defeats Humbaba the guardian of the cedar forest) and 3. wind (I know it looks like water) (when Gilgamesh defeats the Bull of Heaven). He will collect more powers throughout the (non-extistant) game.

Since characters are definitely not my forte, the sprite is inspired by a Mesopotamian warrior by PHATandy at DeviantART: http://phatandy.deviantart.com/#/d3iw1a7