The violet sigils shudder, then dim as a robed figure parts the market shadows. Their grey layers drink the light around them, turning Jox’s spellwork sullen and thin.
The Grey-Robed Figure
Enough. Malakor is under the True Council’s custody.
They do not look at Jox. One hand stays lifted toward the suspended senator, as if weighing his worth like a sealed cask.
The Grey-Robed Figure
Your vengeance is a small fire. I am prepared to extinguish it.
jox
The light around them is swallowing the spell.
Valerius recoils at the newcomer’s voice, while the unconscious senator hangs motionless in the pressure of Jox’s magic, the plaza braced between fear and a new, colder threat.
✓ Quest Accepted
Assert dominance over the grey-robed figure
“starts asking about my parents history and who i am while slowley taking the blood out of the senate's body forming a ball of blood above him”
SUCCESS (Legendary Magic, rolled +2)
Jox lowers his gaze to the senator and draws. A dark thread of blood lifts from the unconscious body, slow at first, then gathering into a hovering red sphere above the captive.
The grey-robed figure finally turns their attention to him. Their hand remains out, but the violet pressure around the senator thins under Jox’s will.
jox
Tell me who I am. Tell me what my parents were to you.
The Grey-Robed Figure
You are what survived the harvest. Your parents were marked, taken, and measured for a purpose larger than the council admitted.
Valerius goes still at that, as if the words strike harder than the spell. The blood sphere grows darker, pulsing once above the senator’s chest.
The Grey-Robed Figure
You seek a name, but names are the smallest truth here. You were never meant to remain hidden.
The grey-robed figure inclines their head, not in surrender, but in measured appraisal. Around them, the ring of sigils and the blood at the senator’s eyes glimmer at the same time, bound together in Jox’s control.
Quest Complete
Assert dominance over the grey-robed figure
“jox says to the grey robed guy if you dont speak faster you end up in aplace worst than that senator and i will literally make your flesh outside your body slowly that you will feeling everything'”
SUCCESS (Good Willpower, rolled +1)
jox
Speak faster, or I make your flesh pay before that senator does.
The Grey-Robed Figure
You would do it, then. Good. Fear at least makes you honest.
Jox’s threat hangs in the plaza. The grey-robed figure does not flinch, but their raised hand lowers a fraction, and the blood sphere over the senator steadies in the air.
The Grey-Robed Figure
Your parents bore a mark older than the council. Not ownership, inheritance. A living seal tied to the harvest records beneath the eastern granary.
The Grey-Robed Figure
They were taken because the seal could open a path the council could not afford to leave closed.
Valerius
So it is true... the records were real.
The grey-robed figure’s appraisal turns sharper, almost pitying, as the sigils between them thin to a brittle glow. Blood still threads from the senator’s eyes, dark against his skin.
The Grey-Robed Figure
If you want the rest, come quietly, or decide here whether truth matters more than everyone still breathing.
Quest Complete
Learn the truth about Jox's parents
Attribute Upgrade: Willpower Good→Great