Kalazan and Brann burst into the grand archive chamber, skidding to a halt on the polished stone floor. The chamber is vast, lined with towering shelves of crumbling scrolls, but the air is not stagnant. A sudden, violent draft whistles through, carrying the scent of damp earth and ozone.
Kalazan
The intruder is not just clawing at support beams, it is destabilizing the archive's foundation.
Unit Captain Brann
Commander, look at the ceiling arches. The entire structure is vibrating. If that column gives way, this entire wing comes down.
Kalazan plants his feet, feeling the tremors beneath his hooves. The intruder, a gaunt figure wrapped in tattered grey robes, pauses its rhythmic scraping. It turns its head with an unnatural snap, locking burning, sunken eyes onto the minotaur royal.
The Mud-Smeared Intruder
You are late, Minotaur. The architecture of your kingdom is hollow, and I have found the thread to pull it all apart.
Unit Captain Brann
Step away from the beam, or I will put a bolt through your spine.
+ Scene Quest Added
Stop the intruder from destroying the archive
“I cast a searing light sphere lighting uo the room”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled +0)
Kalazan raises his staff. A blinding, searing sphere of pure white light erupts from its tip, banishing the gloom of the archive with the brilliance of a midday sun.
The Mud-Smeared Intruder
Too bright. It burns the shadows that hold me together.
The Mud-Smeared Intruder
Your parlor tricks will not fix the rot, beast! Look closer at the stone!
As the light hits the column, it reveals not just cracks, but dark, pulsating veins of corrupted energy snaking deep into the masonry, anchoring the intruder to the very heart of the keep.
Kalazan
The intruder is feeding the collapse through those veins.
Unit Captain Brann
The creature is exposed, Commander. I have the shot.
“I say fire at will and i cast a fireball at it”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled -2)
Kalazan
Fire at will, Brann. Let us see how the stone holds against true heat.
Kalazan snaps his staff forward. A torrent of crimson flame erupts from his palm, swirling around the shaft of light like a whip of living fire.
Unit Captain Brann
For the hold!
Brann releases his crossbow trigger. The heavy bolt whistles through the air, trailing smoke as it pierces the intruder’s shoulder.
The fireball follows, consuming the space around the column in a blinding, roiling inferno.
The Mud-Smeared Intruder
The heat... it severs the connection.
The intruder lets out a soundless shriek as the black veins on the stone vaporize, leaving the column scorched, blackened, and eerily silent.
Quest Complete
Stop the intruder from destroying the archive
New Gift: Archive Guardian