The golden thread leaves the crystal tablet and winds across the cabin floor, passing beneath the open hatch toward the vessel’s prow. Its light sketches Namaris in the air.
Penelope
The route is visible, but the drowned watchtowers will not yield to a chart alone. This vessel needs someone carrying the testimony to guide it.
As Alexios carries the crystal tablet toward the prow, the ancient hull unfolds with a groan of living timber. Black water parts, revealing a luminous channel beneath the cliffs.
Wyvern
The bearer must remain before the vessel’s sight. If the testimony leaves the prow, the current will lose the eastern road.
Penelope follows close behind Alexios, while the wyvern watches from the deck’s shadow. Far above, the shipmaster and sailors remain at Crescent Harbor, awaiting their return.
Penelope
The first watchtower is already waking. Its drowned bell marks the safe passage, but the next tower may remember a different oath.
Beyond the prow, the luminous current gathers into a narrow road through the dark water. Three submerged towers rise along it, their sealed crowns flickering beneath the surface.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure the vessel’s passage to Namaris
“I hold the crystal tablet before the prow and keep the eastern road lit.”
SUCCESS (Great Willpower, rolled +0)
Alexios raises the crystal tablet before the prow, his darkened bindings keeping the wounded shoulder close. He holds it steady as the golden route burns brighter across the ancient deck.
The luminous channel answers his will. Its eastern road unfolds beneath the black water, clear from the vessel’s prow toward the first drowned watchtower and beyond.
Penelope
It holds. The current sees the testimony, and the road to Namaris is fully lit.
The vessel glides forward without oars or wind. Beneath the surface, the first tower’s sealed crown opens, and a submerged bell sounds through the hull.
Wyvern
The bearer keeps the eastern road. While the crystal remains before the prow, the drowned markers will yield their passage.
Alexios maintains his position as the ship passes the waking tower. Its pale light joins the channel, revealing the second watchtower farther along the sunken road.
Penelope
The first oath accepts us. Keep the tablet raised, and I will read what the next tower remembers when its crown breaks the water.
Quest Complete
Secure the vessel’s passage to Namaris