Bram is half through the gap when the shrine answers with a scream of stone. The ceiling splits, and ash pours down in a choking curtain.
The Paladin grabs Bram by the collar and hauls him clear. Slaan snaps back as rubble crashes where they stood a breath ago.
Bram
Move. Now.
They lurch into the narrow tunnel Bram was pinned against. The passage is black, tight, and already shedding grit from the roof.
The Paladin pushes ahead, armor scraping both walls, using his bulk to shield the others from falling chips of stone.
The Stranger
The shrine is folding in on itself.
At the rear, The Stranger lingers just long enough to look back at the collapse, cold-eyed. Behind them, the ash shrine seals its own secrets, and the path to the chapel's frame-up runs deeper into the dark.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach the safety of the lower tunnel
✓ Quest Accepted
Find a way through the chapel's concealed route
“"well that's was not good." I raise the mouth and nose guard of my assassin's mask so I don't breathe in the ash and dirt”
Slaan flips up her mask and breathes through cleaner cloth as the tunnel swallows the ash behind them. The Paladin slows a fraction, Bram straightens, and even The Stranger eases their pace. For one thin moment, the only sound is grit settling on stone.
The Stranger
Well. That was not good.