“After hiding the ledger with great care, I go in search of Osric, intending to intimidate him even more thoroughly to ensure his silence.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +0)
Timothy tracks the heavy footsteps of Brother Osric to the dim arched corridor near the infirmary. He lunges from the shadows, cornering the monk against the cold stone wall.
Timothy
You would do well to forget the ledger you saw, Osric. My patience for your interference has reached its end.
(His eyes widen. He trembles, sensing the strange, hollow intensity in the boy’s gaze.)
Brother Osric
I... I saw nothing. I have no memory of the book, Timothy. Please, let us speak no more of this.
(His surrender is too quick. He is terrified, but he knows too much to be truly silenced by mere words.)
Brother Osric presses his back harder against the mortar, his breath hitching as he waits for Timothy to move.
+ Scene Quest Added
Extract the ledger's location from Osric and depart
“I persuade Osric to tell me where the ledger is, using my theology and oratory to impress him with my importance and authority, and my diplomacy to persuade him.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Diplomacy, rolled -1)
Brother Osric
Your tone... it carries the weight of the Archdeacon himself. I see the light of the righteous in you, Timothy. Forgive my insolence.
The monk sinks to his knees, his trembling fingers clutching the hem of Timothy’s tunic. He whispers the location of the ledger, his voice barely audible above the distant tolling of the chapel bell.
Timothy
He is broken, finally. The fear of God, channeled through my own conviction, is a sharper blade than any steel.
Brother Osric
It is beneath the floorboard in the scriptorium, under the rug by the west window. Please, I have confessed. Do not let them know I spoke.
A heavy silence descends as the truth settles between them. Brother Osric hides his face in his hands, waiting for a mercy that Timothy has yet to grant.
Quest Complete
Extract the ledger's location from Osric and depart
+ Story Quest Added
Retrieve the ledger from beneath the scriptorium floorboards