The pale glints in the chamber sharpen into steel. The darkness does not hold one watcher, it holds a ring of armored scouts, their sigils catching the weak light.
The Unseen Watcher steps back into view at their center, calm as a priest at an altar, and lifts one hand toward the scouts as if presenting a prize.
The Unseen Watcher
There. Measure her. Let the goblin show what the trail has found.
Teef stands in the broken chamber with her warhammer ready while the scouts spread out, boots scraping stone and root. Their blades rise in a practiced arc, not yet striking, only testing the circle.
The sigils on their armor match the watcher’s true allegiance. This was never a guide. It is a hunt.
More than one. They are already in a ring.
✓ Quest Accepted
Break the scouts' formation
“Teef swings her hammer in a circle around herself.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Melee Combat, rolled -3)
Teef turns the circle of threats into one swing. Her hammer whistles low and wide, a hard iron arc that catches the nearest blade first and then the wrist behind it.
Steel rings out. Scout One jerks sideways, Scout Two loses his spear line, and Scout Three ducks too late as the sweep forces them apart instead of together.
The formation breaks. For one breath, the scouts are no longer a ring, only three men scrambling for balance around a goblin who owns the center.
The Unseen Watcher
Hold the line! Close on her!
Teef's hammer finishes the circle and bites the stone floor with a crack that shivers through the chamber. Dust jumps from the broken rings of root and stone.
The blow saves her space, but the force jars her arms raw and sends a sharp sting through her forearm wound. The chamber answers with a louder, uglier echo, and the scouts reset with murder in their eyes.
Quest Complete
Break the scouts' formation