The violet shimmer of the portal snaps shut behind Kalazan and Korth, leaving them in a suffocating, narrow tunnel. The air is thick with the scent of damp soil and the sharp, metallic tang of Pale Moon sweat.
Kalazan
The stone here feels softer, recently chewed by crude mining tools.
Commander Korth
Listen. The rhythm of their picks. They are carving straight toward the primary ley line junction.
Further down the jagged passage, the flickers of guttering torches dance against the ceiling. Shadows of hunched figures stretch long and jagged, moving with a frenetic, predatory purpose.
Commander Korth
They are too deep. If they strike the vein, the whole sector will collapse.
Kalazan grips his staff, feeling the mountain’s heartbeat through his feet. Ahead, a Pale Moon scout halts, sniffing the air, his ears twitching as he detects the presence of intruders.
+ Scene Quest Added
Stop the Pale Moon excavation
“I cast a powerful cloud of zone of sweet air to billow out expanding into all the digging tunnels”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled +0)
Kalazan
The air in this tunnel is stale, heavy with the dust of their frantic, misguided work.
Kalazan slams his staff into the earthen floor. A pulse of violet light erupts from the wood, surging forward like a tidal wave of pure, enchanted atmosphere.
The stagnant, suffocating air is instantly scoured away. In its place, a crisp and invigorated breeze flows through every crevice and nook of the excavation, pushing back the dark and chilling the sweat upon the Pale Moon tribe.
Pale Moon Scout
The wind... it breathes like a beast. The mountain itself rejects our hunger.
Commander Korth
Look there, my lord. The shift in pressure has revealed a concealed seam of star-metal behind the loosened rubble.
Pale Moon Scout
The Minotaur brings the storm into the deep places. We are hunted by the mountain itself.
Quest Complete
Stop the Pale Moon excavation
+ Scene Quest Added
Secure the vein of star-metal
“I cast dispel evil on the vein”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled -2)
Kalazan
The magic of this vein is tainted, humming with the discordant frequency of the Pale Moon's theft.
Kalazan raises his staff, its violet core flaring with intense, rhythmic power. He channels his mastery over the deep earth, weaving a complex, cleansing incantation that ripples outward in visible, glowing rings of force.
The corrupted shimmer of the star-metal recoils from the assault. With a sharp, crystalline crack, the malevolent energy is shorn away, leaving the ore pristine and vibrating with pure, natural potential.
Commander Korth
The impurity is purged! The vein glows as it should, my lord. It will yield much for our armory.
Pale Moon Scout
You... you strip the mountain's blood for your own trinkets. We were chosen to awaken this stone!
As the light fades, the scout lunges toward a lever embedded in the jagged tunnel wall, his fingers mere inches from triggering a cave-in to bury them all.
Quest Complete
Secure the vein of star-metal