In the narrow alley, rainwater gathers beside the captive, lean-built with rough stubble along his jaw, a middle-aged man in a torn brown coat with graying hair and a swollen cheek. The interrogation passes in grim silence, kept off-camera.
The Captive
The mask... he came from beneath the old chapel. Not the House of Faust. Another place.
He coughs hard when allowed air, then clutches at the stones. His eyes track Yuri with terror, but also with the certainty that he knows one fragment more.
The Captive
He asked about the amulet. Said someone had hidden its trail... in the bell vault.
The alley falls quiet except for rain ticking against warped shutters. The man’s next breath, and whatever answer follows it, remain within Yuri’s control.
The Captive
Please... I can tell you where the chapel is. Just let me breathe.
✓ Quest Accepted
Get the captive to reveal the chapel's location
✓ Quest Accepted
Locate the masked man's chapel
“I hold the man up high as I continue glaring at him. "Where is this chapel?" I say, my hand tightening around his collar. "Are you suggesting that the masked man belongs to another church?!"”
SUCCESS (Fair Intimidation, rolled +1)
Yuri seizes the torn brown coat's collar and lifts the captive high, his boots leaving the rain-dark stones. His swollen cheek tightens beneath her glare.
Yuri
Where is this chapel? Are you suggesting that the masked man belongs to another church?
Her grip tightens. The captive's hands claw uselessly at the cloth while rain slips from his graying hair and patters onto his coat.
The Captive
No church I know. The chapel stands north of here, beyond the ash market, where the old bell tower leans over the marsh.
The Captive
He did not belong there. He entered beneath it, through a sealed stair, and came out carrying the amulet's trail.
Fear strains his voice thin, but the directions are clear. Beyond the alley mouth, the rain-blurred road runs north toward the distant marsh.
Quest Complete
Get the captive to reveal the chapel's location