Commander Korth
The floor is softening. If I do not brace this now, the structural shift will bury us before the Cleric finishes his prayer.
Commander Korth drives his boot into the crumbling granite, slamming his shoulder against a support pillar to hold the archway steady. He ignores the grit falling into his eyes.
Commander Korth
Kalazan, focus on the rune. The stone is rejecting us. I can only hold this line for so long.
Head Cleric
The containment is fraying! The heartbeat... it grows faster!
The Princess Dire Ant rears up, her mandibles vibrating against the ceiling, as a spray of dust turns into a fine, black silt cascading from the pulse point.
Kalazan
The rhythm of the pulse is not random, it is mimicking the beat of my own heart.
+ Scene Quest Added
Stabilize the foundation before the collapse
“I envoke the power of moradin into the foundation”
SUCCESS (Legendary Arcana, rolled +2)
Kalazan
The divine resonance is deep, carved into the bedrock itself, needing only a vessel to anchor it.
Kalazan plants his summon skeleton staff, releasing a surge of golden, rhythmic energy that flows like molten light into the obsidian floor.
Commander Korth
The pillar! The stone is sealing itself back together!
The black sludge instantly evaporates into harmless mist, and the creeping fissure in the ceiling freezes as the mountain settles with a satisfied, low-frequency hum.
Head Cleric
The foundation... it accepts the blessing. It is silent at last.
Beneath the dust, a series of ancient, glowing ley-lines ignite across the floor, revealing a hidden map of the hold's deep-level structural weaknesses and potential expansion paths.
Quest Complete
Neutralize the corruption in the mountain foundation
New Gift: Mountain Purifier
Quest Complete
Stabilize the foundation before the collapse