The spectral flames ripple, casting long, unnatural shadows across the dais. The rift pulses, its light bleeding into the pale, frozen shards of wax scattered across the floor.
Scavenger
Drop the steel, puppet. The blade is worth more than the life you are currently rotting from the inside out.
Arion Touvengard
This scavenger does not know the price of his own greed. He reeks of grave-soil and broken bargains.
Arion Touvengard
You seek a tomb, scavenger. Step closer if you wish to reside within one.
The Scavenger tilts his head, his sickly lantern casting a pallid green hue over his jagged, iron-plated armor. He shifts his weight, fingers tightening around the cold, rusted hilt of a hunting cleaver.
Scavenger
He moves like a string-pulled corpse, but the blade... it hums with the hunger of a dead god. I only need to harvest the metal before the rift claims us all.
+ Scene Quest Added
Defend the blade from the scavenger
“Arion assumes control of the host to expertly knock the blade from the scavengers hands before stabbing slashing his blade towards the brigands neck stopping it just before contact. "You know not the powers you wish to interfere with. Pursue another mark or share the same fate as this wretch"”
SUCCESS (Legendary Melee Combat, rolled +2)
Teal energy surges from the blade, flooding the host's arm with cold, unnatural force. Arion moves in a blur of preternatural speed. His palm strikes the Scavenger's wrist with a sickening crack, sending the hunting cleaver spinning toward the edge of the dais. Before the man can register the loss of his weapon, Arion lunges, the tip of his own blade coming to a halt a hair's breadth from the Scavenger's throat.
Arion Touvengard
You know not the powers you wish to interfere with. Pursue another mark or share the same fate as this wretch.
The Scavenger freezes, his breath hitching as the icy, teal glow emanating from the sword illuminates his wide, terrified eyes. The rift above groans, spilling a fresh torrent of unstable light across their struggle.
Scavenger
This is no mortal man. The steel… it is wearing him like a suit of leather.
Quest Complete
Defend the blade from the scavenger