The seven separated threads rise from the chamber, passing through the hidden stair and ascending into the archive lattice. Each carries one name toward the Hall of Records.
The half-elf gate guard remains beside Huuuan, while the robed attendant climbs ahead to summon the keeper rolls. Neither leaves the testimonies unwitnessed.
the half-elf gate guard
This will be a formal hearing. The names will be read among the keeper rolls, and no transfer proceeds without witnessed consent.
In the Hall above, attendants clear a long table, lay out blank vellum, and arrange seven shallow warding bowls in a precise circle beneath the archive seal.
the robed attendant
The bowls are ready. Each testimony may be received separately, but the lattice still holds Huuuan’s memory as its connecting witness.
Huuuan Huanza
The memory remains connected to the chamber below.
The seven threads halt above the table instead of entering the bowls. Their light knots together, forming a silent question across the vellum: consent must be witnessed before the transfer can begin.
✓ Quest Accepted
Authorize the lawful transfer of the seven testimonies
✓ Quest Accepted
Provide a willing memory to the archive
“I shock the tips of the lattice and with shock reverse into them, controlling it”
SUCCESS (Mediocre Electric emission and lore, rolled +1)
Huuuan sends a sharp shock into the seven lattice tips. The current reverses through the threads, racing down from the archive seal toward the waiting bowls.
He catches the reversed flow and holds it under his control. The seven lights separate cleanly, each testimony settling above its own bowl without entering.
the half-elf gate guard
The lattice is answering you. Keep it divided, Huuuan. The witnesses remain distinct.
The silent question on the vellum dissolves beneath the controlled current. Each thread now bears a clear consent mark, witnessed by the chamber below and the gathered archive.
The cost strikes through Huuuan’s injured hand. Numbness climbs to his wrist, and the shock cracks across the hall with a thunderclap that rattles every bowl.
the robed attendant
Consent is recorded. But every keeper in this tower heard that force, and they will ask what authority you used.
the half-elf gate guard
Hold the current while the rolls are brought. You have secured the testimonies, but the hearing will begin under suspicion.
Quest Complete
Authorize the lawful transfer of the seven testimonies
Skill Upgrade: Electric emission and lore Mediocre→Fair
“I cast reverse curse”
SUCCESS (Mediocre Arcana and occult magic, rolled +0)
Huuuan gathers the curse’s remaining pressure in his injured hand and casts reverse curse. The seven consent marks flare, then turn inward through the lattice.
The consuming pattern reverses completely. Each testimony sheds its binding stain, and the seven warding bowls fill with calm silver light instead of inherited affliction.
Huuuan Huanza
The curse now carries protection rather than burden.
the robed attendant
The testimonies are cleansed. Not erased, not silenced, but freed from the lattice’s appetite.
A black sigil burns across Huuuan’s palm as the reversed curse anchors itself to him. Numbness climbs past his wrist, and the archive seal cracks audibly.
the half-elf gate guard
You reversed an ancient curse inside a witness hearing. The achievement is real, Huuuan, but now the archive marks you as its responsible caster.
the robed attendant
The bowls can receive the liberated testimonies. We need your authority recorded before the lattice decides what protection means.
✓ Quest Accepted
Have Huuuan's authority accepted by the archive
“I liberate the bowls with charity”
SUCCESS (Mediocre Arcana and occult magic, rolled +1)
Huuuan extends his marked hand over the seven bowls and pours charity through the silver light, asking no testimony to carry another’s suffering. The bowls brighten gently.
Their rims open like pale flowers. Binding threads withdraw from each vessel, and the liberated testimonies settle within them as clear, separate memories, untouched by the lattice’s appetite.
the robed attendant
They are free. The bowls hold witness without burden, and every name remains legible.
The crack in the archive seal widens, but instead of breaking, it releases seven narrow streams of silver radiance. They descend toward the bowls and form protective rings.
the half-elf gate guard
Charity has become the governing ward. You have not merely cleansed the testimonies, Huuuan. You have changed what this hearing can permit.
the robed attendant
The keeper rolls are answering. Look, beneath the seven names. A forgotten eighth entry is rising, and the seal marks it as still living.
Fresh ink spreads across the blank vellum. An eighth sigil takes shape beneath the archive seal, while one unfilled bowl begins to gather silver light.
“I let it act”
SUCCESS (Superb Willpower, rolled -1)
The unfilled eighth bowl rises from the table by itself, its silver light gathering into a steady human-shaped outline above the rim. The eighth sigil pulses once.
the robed attendant
It is not a dead testimony. The roll calls it living, and the bowl is receiving its witness now.
The outline turns toward Huuuan. No face forms, but a thread of the archive’s silver radiance extends from its chest to the black sigil burned across his palm.
the half-elf gate guard
Let it speak without forcing it. The hearing recognizes your marked hand as its connecting witness, not its master.
The eighth testimony enters the bowl as a complete memory: a living keeper beneath the archive, holding the final portion of the plague’s burden and refusing to surrender it to the lattice.
the robed attendant
There is the missing keeper. Alive below us, and carrying the last unshared burden. The rolls have revealed where the testimony belongs.
The eighth bowl seals with a clear silver ring. Beneath the table, a concealed stair answers with three resonant knocks, and the archive’s living wards turn toward the descent.
Quest Complete
Provide a willing memory to the archive
Attribute Upgrade: Willpower Superb→Legendary
“I use natural maian ability to force to sigil mark into a controlled tattoo, of many”
FAILURE (Mediocre Arcana and occult magic, rolled -1)
Huuuan focuses his natural Maian force through the black sigil in his palm, pressing its branching pattern inward and guiding it toward a controlled tattoo.
The mark resists. Instead of settling beneath his skin, it unfolds into many smaller sigils, each circling his wrist and reaching toward the eight silver bowls.
the half-elf gate guard
Stop forcing it. The mark is not becoming one tattoo. It is dividing your authority among the witnesses.
Huuuan contains the spreading pattern before it can enter the bowls, but several fine black lines remain beneath his skin, arranged like a chained constellation.
Huuuan Huanza
The sigil is distributed, not controlled.
the robed attendant
You have not subdued the mark, Huuuan. You have made its refusal visible. Each fragment now answers to a different testimony.
The eighth bowl brightens in response, and the concealed stair gives another resonant knock. The tattooed fragments hold steady, preventing the archive from drawing the burden through his palm.
“I control it with charm”
SUCCESS (Mediocre Arcana and occult magic, rolled +3)
Huuuan turns the black constellation beneath his skin toward the eight bowls and surrounds it with a quiet charm, not force but measured invitation.
The scattered sigils answer. Their sharp angles soften, then arrange themselves into eight linked rings, each resting above its witness without crossing into the bowls.
the half-elf gate guard
There. It obeys your charm. The authority remains yours, but the testimonies no longer have to bear its pressure.
The chained constellation settles into a controlled pattern around Huuuan’s wrist. The eighth bowl stops brightening, and the concealed stair falls silent beneath the table.
the robed attendant
The living keeper’s burden is no longer being drawn upward. Your charm has made a lawful boundary around every witness.
A new line appears on the vellum beneath the eight names: AUTHORITY ACCEPTED, BURDEN UNCLAIMED. The archive seal closes its crack without erasing the record.
the half-elf gate guard
Now we can descend safely. The keeper below remains protected, and the hearing has recognized your control without making you its master.
Quest Complete
Have Huuuan's authority accepted by the archive
Skill Upgrade: Arcana and occult magic Mediocre→Fair
