The floor bucks under Yllamaris, and the crimson runes blast white-hot. Stone seams split wider, grinding like jaws. Above, the ceiling lowers, not falling but flexing.
The cavern walls slide apart in a wet, heaving lurch. A slit of darkness opens ahead, and breath, hot and rancid, rolls out from within the rock.
The Stranger
Hold still, or it wakes angry.
A hooded figure drops from a ledge into the flare, boots skidding across the runes. Their lantern is gone, their hands bare, and a hooked dagger gleams at their hip.
The Stranger
You have been tugging at its tether all night. Now it knows your scent.
The beast stirs again. Dust showers from a ribbed arch overhead, and the widening gap ahead offers the only clear path out.
The Stranger
Run if you want, Half-elf. I am only here to make sure it follows you first.
+ Story Quest Added
Escape the waking beast
+ Scene Quest Added
Survive the cavern collapse
“*I chuckle - "so, I'm in the belly of the beast and it's asleep. Will you prevent me from helping it reach the next life with my blade?" *I attempt to find the beasts head and coup de grace it”
SUCCESS (Good Melee Combat, rolled +1)
Yllamaris
Yllamaris gives a dry chuckle. “So I am in the belly of the beast, and it sleeps. Will you stop me from helping it reach the next life with my blade?”
The Stranger
The Stranger bares their teeth in a thin, humorless grin. “No. I mean to see where your blade lands.”
Yllamaris drives forward through the tremor, boots skidding over the rune-lit stone. The purple runes blaze along his sword as he angles past the Stranger and toward the pulsing dark ahead.
The opening yawns wider. For one brutal heartbeat, a vast, half-seen shape fills the tunnel beyond it, all bone ridges and twitching flesh, its skull sunk low inside the cavern’s living walls.
Yllamaris finds the beast’s head and brings the blade down in a clean, killing arc. Light snaps through the wound, and the thing’s heaving motion jerks hard before going slack.
A shudder races through the chamber. The walls convulse, then loosen, and the hot breath turns to a ragged sigh as the beast fails into stillness. Dust pours from the arches like pale rain.
The Stranger
The Stranger looks from the quieting maw to Yllamaris. “Well struck. Now move, before this place decides to collapse around you for sport.”
Quest Complete
Escape the waking beast
“"Hmm... As you wish... Don't have too much fun down here." *I chuckle, then cast teleport out of here”
SUCCESS (Good Agility, rolled -1)