The dining hall floor groans and splits under the weight of the spectral guardians, the stone sliding away to reveal a jagged fissure where alchemical fire pots sit in darkened stillness.
Kalazan
The ritual of the skeletons has weakened the foundation more than I anticipated.
Commander Korth
Commander, the stone is unstable. The tremors are not coming from the scouts, but from deeper within the foundation.
The Server
The guests are terrified, Kalazan. The floor... it is bleeding fire light.
Kalazan turns away from the crack, sweeping his robes toward the heavy oak doors leading to the subterranean vaults. He leads the way, leaving the fracturing hall behind to hunt the source of the thrumming.
The group descends into the cooling air of the central shaft, where the rhythmic heartbeat of the mountain grows loud enough to rattle the very teeth in their skulls.
+ Scene Quest Added
Investigate the source of the thrumming in the foundations
“I cast relinquish evil on the pots”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled +2)
Kalazan
The alchemical fire must be purged before the entire foundation collapses into the abyss.
Kalazan raises his staff, the bone white wood glowing with an ethereal blue radiance that spills into the crack.
He invokes the Rite of Relinquishment. The air tastes of ozone and ancient earth as the violet light consumes the volatile alchemical pots.
Commander Korth
The ground is stilling. You have bound the fire to the void.
As the fire dies, a hidden cavity beneath the pots is revealed, containing a cache of ancient, untarnished iron keys.
The Server
My lord, the shaking has stopped... but look what the fissure has unearthed.
Quest Complete
Investigate the source of the thrumming in the foundations
+ New Item Acquired
Ancient iron keys