Kahrdoom slips down the last stone step into a root-cellar thick with damp earth and old onions. Candlelight trembles over stacked crates, hanging herbs, and a single figure crouched by the wall.
The rogue hisses at a parchment in his hands, trying to feed it into a guttering flame. The paper curls, but does not quite catch.
Pinned above him, a bounty notice flaps in the draft, its inked sketch marking not a man, but an artifact Kahrdoom has hunted for months.
Kahrdoom
The notice is for the prize, not a person.
The rogue looks up, sees the dark elf's trinkets glitter in the candlelight, and freezes with the burning page halfway to the wick.
The Rogue
Easy now. You and I might both profit if you keep your voice down.
Outside, muffled boots crunch on the cellar steps above. The rogue swallows hard, then nods toward the notice as if offering a bargain and a warning at once.
The Rogue
Help me get out before the guard reaches this door, and I will tell you where the relic is going next.
✓ Quest Accepted
Help the rogue escape the cellar
“Assure me you will know the whereabouts of this treasure. Give me proof she says holding the edge of her dagger to his throat”
SUCCESS (Superb Persuasion, rolled +1)
Kahrdoom closes the distance in one smooth step, dagger at his throat, and the rogue goes still enough to hear his own breath catch.
The Rogue
Easy... yes, I know where it goes. I can prove it.
He lowers the smoldering parchment onto a crate and thumbs ash across a wax seal, then peels it free with a shake of his hand.
The Rogue
This crest is from the wagon master. He used it on the route papers. The relic leaves at dawn, by the north road.
The Rogue
And if you want me alive long enough to point out the turnoff, you should put that blade away.
The cellar feels smaller around them as the candle gutters, the proof now in Kahrdoom's line of sight and the rogue waiting on her answer.
“She grabs a black circular disk from her outfit and tosses it on the wall the disc sticks to the wall and grows large enough to crawl through as an alley way appears through it”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +0)