The staircase levels out into a vast, silent hall. Ancient statues of forgotten kings loom out of the shadows, their stone eyes following Kalazan as he steps into the room.
Unit Captain Brann
This place feels wrong. The air is too still.
Kalazan
The carvings on the walls are tracking my every movement.
Unit Captain Brann
Stay close, Commander. These statues might be more than just stone.
Kalazan lifts the gilded spear higher. The golden light hits the far wall, revealing a massive, circular archway made of shifting, translucent obsidian.
+ Scene Quest Added
Investigate the Throne Room of the Forgotten Kings
“I cast detect evil and investigate the throne room, casting arm trap on it”
SUCCESS (Legendary Arcana, rolled -2)
Kalazan
The air here vibrates with a lingering, malicious intent.
Kalazan chants a low, rhythmic incantation, his eyes glowing with violet luminescence as he pierces the veil of the room. The arcane resonance ripples outward, washing over the throne and statues.
Unit Captain Brann
What do you see, Commander? The shadows seem to be twisting away from your light.
The magic reveals the truth. A foul, necro-organic corruption clings to the throne like rot, while the obsidian archway pulses with a rhythmic, hostile hunger. Kalazan expertly weaves an invisible, interlocking web of kinetic energy, trapping the floor around the throne in a lethal snare.
Kalazan
The trap is set. Anything that stirs from that seat will be shredded the moment it strikes the floor.
A low groan echoes through the hall as the obsidian archway begins to swirl, the translucent surface turning opaque and churning like a stormy sea.
Quest Complete
Investigate the Throne Room of the Forgotten Kings
+ Scene Quest Added
Neutralize the threat emerging from the throne
“I hide me and brann”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled -2)
Kalazan
The darkness in the vortex is hungrier than the void outside.
Kalazan motions sharply, pulling Brann toward the shadow of a colossal pillar. The two vanish into the gloom just as the churning vortex erupts.
Unit Captain Brann
Something is coming through, Commander. Whatever it is, it is not of this mountain.
A massive, elongated claw, tipped with blackened obsidian shards, reaches out from the swirling vortex. It grips the stone rim of the archway.
Unit Captain Brann
If that thing steps onto the floor, the Commander's trap will turn it into mist.
The entity pulls its bulk forward, revealing a hulking, skeletal frame encased in rotting, ancient armor. It halts at the threshold, sniffing the air with a hollow, rattling breath.
“It cast skin to stone on it when it sets off the trap”
NO (Likely, rolled 88)
The entity steps fully onto the stone floor, yet the kinetic trap remains dormant and silent. The creature's flesh does not harden into stone, and the lethal wards fail to trigger.
“I throw holly water on it and cast dawn”
FAILURE (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled -4)
Kalazan
The holiness of the water does nothing to its aura.
Kalazan flings a vial of blessed liquid, but the water hisses and turns to black ash before it touches the entity. His invocation of the dawn fails to manifest, his magical reserves stalling against the creature's oppressive gloom.
Unit Captain Brann
My steel feels heavy and cold, my lord. The magic of this place is rotting my resolve.
The entity turns its head, a hollow sound like grinding stone echoing through the chamber as it fixes its sightless sockets upon them.
Unit Captain Brann
It is ignoring the trap entirely. We must move before it closes the distance.
The entity raises its free hand, and the kinetic wards on the floor begin to flicker and bleed into the ground, absorbed by the creature's unnatural presence.
“I throw holly water on it and cast dawn”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled +2)
The blessed water erupts in a blinding, golden spray, not merely touching the entity but searing through its necrotic shell with the fury of a rising sun.
Unit Captain Brann
The gloom is breaking... the creature is recoiling.
The skeletal titan shrieks, a sound of fractured marble, as the dawn magic forces the obsidian claw to crumble and fall away from the archway.
Kalazan watches as the creature stumbles backward, its grip on reality slipping as the light purges the corruption from its armor.
Unit Captain Brann
Now, my lord! The seal on the portal is weakening. It is your moment to strike!
Kalazan
The void itself is fraying at the edges of the archway.
Quest Complete
Neutralize the threat emerging from the throne
New Gift: Throne Warden