The cargo hold groans, the wooden planks shrieking as the ship's hull ruptures. Corrosive sludge drips from the Void-Stalker’s claws, the creature’s singular, lidless eye locking onto the weakening structural beams. Arion stands rigid, teal energy bleeding from his palms into the host’s stiff limbs, his movements jerky as he attempts to manifest a protective ward.
Captain Halloway
Get away from the hull, you wretched, glowing freak! Your sorcery is tearing this ship apart, and I will not let you drag my crew to the abyss!
Arion Touvengard
The fool sees the shadow but mistakes the lantern for the fire. If the breach is not mended, the void will consume us all before he can even blink.
Captain Halloway lunges forward, his boots skidding on the splintering deck. He ignores the encroaching frost, leveling his jagged iron harpoon directly at the center of Arion’s chest. The air grows brittle, turning the moisture in the hold into swirling, frozen needles of ice.
+ Scene Quest Added
Mend the hull breach
“Didnt the voidstalker get sealed away?”
NO (Unlikely, rolled 71)
The Void-Stalker remains unbound, its presence a jagged tear in the fabric of reality that no seal currently contains. The creature continues to claw at the hull, its existence entirely unconstrained by any ancient wards.
“"Captain, we have far bigger issues than me being on your ship" Arion's host points the ancient blade towards the voidstalker as it moves to strike the captain while he us distracted. The host rapidly slashes the voidstalkers claws warding it off of cleaving the captain in two.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Melee Combat, rolled +1)
Arion Touvengard
Captain, we have far bigger issues than me being on your ship.
Arion Touvengard
The fool thinks a harpoon is a weapon. He cannot see the true rot consuming his vessel.
Arion’s host moves with terrifying, unnatural speed. The ancient blade hums, teal energy crackling like lightning as it carves a shimmering arc through the freezing air. The Void-Stalker’s massive, jagged limb—already poised to bisect Captain Halloway—shatters upon contact with the enchanted steel. The monster recoils, a screeching hiss echoing through the hull as black ichor sprays the deck.
Captain Halloway
What... what in the name of the Council are you?
Captain Halloway
His eyes were empty a moment ago, but now... the light from that blade. It isn't just magic. It's something older.
Scavenger
He just sliced the shadow. Gods, we're all going to die.
The ship groans, the hull plates buckling inward as the breach widens, exposing the swirling, freezing nothingness of the void just inches away from the trembling Scavenger.
Quest Complete
Mend the hull breach