In the sub-basement, the last villagers are gone. Only Tarran, broken chalk, and the Translucent Elder Apparition remain beneath the town hall's cracked bones.
The apparition lifts glowing hands and chants. Above, stone groans like a waking giant.
A beam tears free and crashes down beside Tarran, spraying dust and shattered mortar. More cracks race across the ceiling.
The widening floor breach still leads up through the wreckage. If Tarran flees, she may live. If she stays, she can force the whole ruin apart and climb on the collapse.
A Translucent Elder Apparition
Be judged, beast. Leave this place beneath its own ruin.
Tarran
The way up is above.
Tarran plants her claws in the broken stone, facing the falling roof as the chamber shudders around her.
✓ Quest Accepted
Escape the collapsing town hall
“Tarran attempts to jump out.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Athletics, rolled +0)
Tarran drives up through the broken floor, her claws biting stone as the chamber erupts beneath her.
A slab caves inward where she was crouched, and the apparition's beam of judgment slams into empty rubble instead.
Dust and splinters whirl around her horns as she hauls free of the sub-basement rim, rising past the breach.
A Translucent Elder Apparition
No. Remain and be buried.
Its glowing hands keep chanting, but the ceiling answers first, cracking open in a loud rain of stone.
Tarran clears the collapse and lands among the wrecked upper floor as the room below groans and drops away.
Behind her, the breach widens into a jagged throat of darkness, and the apparition still hangs below in cold judgment.
Quest Complete
Escape the collapsing town hall