Adventure of zombie

Beneath a collapsed hill-fort, your search reveals a stone coffer half-buried in dust. Faint blue light leaks through its sealed lid, promising treasure within.

A boot strikes the coffer aside. In the torchlit passage stands an adult man, broad-shouldered and weathered, wearing scarred steel and a red cloak. His old sword rests in both hands.

The warrior, his iron-gray hair cropped close and brown eyes set in a broken-nosed face steps between you and the coffer. His gaze drops to your giant sword, then returns to the dead gleam of your face.

Steel rings against stone as Garran lunges. His blade crashes into your armor, the impact scattering sparks while the coffer's blue seal flares brightly.

The passage fills with dust and ringing metal. Garran draws back into a guarded stance, leaving the next opening to you.

You surge forward through the settling dust, giant sword sweeping low toward Garran's guarded legs. The coffer's blue seal pulses with each thunderous step.

Garran catches the blow on his sword and pivots aside. Stone cracks beneath his boots as the force drives him toward the sealed coffer.

He snaps his red cloak free from the blade's reach and thrusts for your center, precise rather than wild. Sparks burst where steel meets your armor.

The coffer shudders behind him. Blue light spills across the passage, outlining Garran's stance and the narrow space around both combatants.

You drive in with the giant sword, every furious stroke carrying the weight of your Oath of Vengeance. The vow narrows your assault, making each opening painfully predictable.

Your Draconic Heritage answers with a deep heat beneath your armor. You twist past his thrust and bring the giant sword around, forcing Garran back across the glowing seal.

The blade smashes through his guard and knocks him to one knee, but his sword hooks your wrist before the finishing stroke. Diamond armor closes a fresh crack in your plating, its magic knitting the damage as blue sparks crawl over you.

He wrenches aside and slams his shoulder into the coffer. The seal bursts open beneath him, hurling blue force through the passage and throwing your giant sword from your grasp.

The coffer gapes, revealing a dark crystal treasure suspended in cold light, but the ruptured seal folds the stone floor around it. Garran staggers away alive, while the treasure sinks beyond your reach.

You let the Oath of Vengeance pull your charge toward Garran, making the attack direct and readable. At the last instant, your Draconic Heritage floods your limbs with heat, sharpening the sidestep.

Garran turns to meet your assault, but you slide past his guard instead of contesting his sword. Your shoulder clips him aside as your free hand plunges into the coffer's cold blue light.

Your fingers close around the dark crystal. The ruptured seal snaps with blue fire, but diamond armor seals a fresh fracture across your plating, its magic already knitting you whole.

Garran lunges after you. The coffer's warped stone floor catches his boots, giving you the heartbeat your vengeance would have wasted by turning back.

You seize your giant sword on the run, crystal clutched against your armor, and burst from the collapsed passage into the open night. Dust pours after you.