Kalazan, Unit Captain Brann, and the Dark Arcana Caster pick their way down the treacherous white slopes, but a sudden, unnatural mist swallows the Spire. The air turns thick and biting with frost.
Unit Captain Brann
The sound of those footsteps... it is not natural. Something is hunting the resonance of the Lens.
Kalazan
The mist is dampening the magical signature of my staff.
The Dark Arcana Caster
Commander, we cannot remain on the open slope. The fog is unnatural, and whatever stalks us knows this terrain better than we do.
Kalazan spots a jagged opening in the mountain face, a vein of exposed ore glowing with a faint, rhythmic pulse. He signals his companions to retreat into the shelter of the tunnel.
They slip inside, leaving the swirling mist behind. The tunnel is silent, save for the low, hummed vibration of the mountain itself. They are far beneath the Spire now, deep within the Frost-Vein Caverns.
+ Scene Quest Added
Survive the Frost-Vein Caverns
“I summon skeletal crows to fly out the cave and attack the caster casting the mist”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled -1)
Kalazan
The fog is a tether, and I must cut the hand that holds it.
Kalazan raises his staff, its black wood pulsing as he channels the dark arts. From the jagged edges of his robes, shadows coalesce into shape.
Three skeletal crows tear themselves from the ether. With a discordant rattle of bone, they launch themselves back toward the cave mouth, diving straight into the unnatural wall of mist.
Unit Captain Brann
What sorcery is this? I hear... screaming coming from the fog.
The Dark Arcana Caster
They found him, Commander. The shroud is fraying. Look, the mist is dissolving into gray ash.
Beyond the tunnel entrance, a hooded figure stumbles into view, clutching a perforated chest as the spectral birds vanish, leaving only the sound of a fading, raspy death rattle.
Quest Complete
Survive the Frost-Vein Caverns