The pale seal still hums over the dragon bone pit. Beneath its surface, the dark shape shifts once, slow as a breath trapped under ice.
Tavern Bard
You felt that too, then. It is not gone, just pinned. That is worse, in some ways.
Lyra
The seal holds, but something lives under it.
Tavern Bard
I know a road into the old cisterns below Veyrholt. If the thing under this pit is tied to the Ashen Covenant, there may be proof there. Bring me whatever mark or relic you find, and I will pay you in moon-silver and a vial of thornglass resin.
Tavern Bard
The resin can steady a healer's spell when the Lumenveil frays. Useful. Expensive. And I would rather not go myself.
A faint tremor runs through the seal. The Bard steps back, watching Lyra and the trapped shadow with equal caution.
Tavern Bard
So. Will you take the hunt, healer?
The dragon bone pit falls into a tense hush, waiting for Lyra's answer.
+ Story Quest Added
Investigate the old cisterns below Veyrholt
+ Story Quest Added
Retrieve a mark or relic from the cisterns
“Investigate the old cisterns below Veyrholt”
SUCCESS (Fair Perception, rolled +3)
Lyra
The resonance of the earth points toward a subterranean tunnel, not just the cisterns.
Lyra traces a fracture in the stone floor. Their hand glows with a soft, pulsing light, reacting to the ambient arcane signature drifting upward.
The ground shudders again, but this time, the vibrations coalesce into a rhythmic thrum, revealing a hidden seam of porous rock that leads directly into the Veyrholt infrastructure.
Lyra
The path is open. The Covenant left a trail of residual malice that leads straight down, deeper than the cisterns.
Tavern Bard
Deeper? That is a bold discovery. Keep your eyes sharp and your staff ready, healer.
With the map of the hidden tunnels now clear in Lyra's mind, they find a loose slab of masonry that shifts with a heavy, grinding sound, granting easy access to the dark descent.
Quest Complete
Investigate the old cisterns below Veyrholt