Commander Korth
Do not touch it yet, my liege. The metal screams. It wants to pull us into that light.
Kalazan
The core is vibrating at the same frequency as the warhammer.
Commander Korth
Look at the floor tiles. The violet light is surging. If that core breaches, the whole atrium will be consumed.
Kalazan watches as Commander Korth steps toward the colossus, his hand hovering inches from the chest plate, fingers trembling with a desperate hunger for the power within.
Commander Korth
If I can stabilize the housing, this machine will serve us, not the mountain.
The massive colossus groans, its internal gears grinding against the stone floor as a blinding white light spills from its chest, spiderwebbing across the bronze tiles beneath Korth's boots.
+ Scene Quest Added
Stabilize the Sky-Forge Atrium
“I cast calm spirit on it”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled +1)
Kalazan
The energy here is raw, ancient, and entirely too chaotic.
Kalazan raises his staff, weaving a complex sigil into the air. A soothing, iridescent mist flows from the tip of his wood, washing over the violent, shuddering light of the colossus.
The piercing screech of grinding metal abruptly softens to a harmonic hum. The blinding glare in the chest cavity fades, settling into a gentle, pulsating warmth that fills the atrium.
Commander Korth
The pressure... it is gone. He actually quelled the beast.
Commander Korth
It is stable, my liege. The housing remains cool to the touch. You have tamed the core itself.
As the white light wanes, a singular, perfectly cut gemstone falls from the core's housing, clattering onto the bronze floor at Korth's feet. It is etched with the same sigils that now glow softly upon Kalazan's staff.
Quest Complete
Stabilize the Sky-Forge Atrium
+ New Item Acquired
Star-flecked gemstone