The air in the nursery carries the pungent, wet scent of loam and the faint metallic tang of static electricity. Kalazan steps across the threshold, his heavy boots muffled by the thick layer of moss he cultivated for the dire ants.
Kalazan
The violet haze on the walls is holding, but the structural tremors are still vibrating in my teeth.
Commander Korth
The perimeter is secure for now, Kalazan. But these walls were never meant to hold back the weight of a mountain fighting us.
Princess Dire Ant
The stone is hungry, but the Master's light keeps it at bay. I must prepare the nursery for the brood.
Kalazan brushes a layer of dust from the central nursery dais. As his fingers touch the stone, the faint violet glow intensifies, projecting a flickering, subterranean map onto the ceiling.
Beyond the nursery, the distant, rhythmic thumping of the Pale Moon drills resumes, shaking the hold with renewed, desperate fury.
+ Scene Quest Added
Secure the nursery from the Pale Moon scouts
+ Story Quest Added
Stabilize the hold's foundation
“I cast suns light to burn out the evil in the room”
SUCCESS (Legendary Conjuration arcana, rolled +0)
Kalazan
The shadows here are unnatural, clinging to the stone like living soot, but a concentrated pulse of solar essence will scorch them from existence.
Kalazan thrusts his staff forward. A blinding, golden sunburst erupts from the crest of the wood, scouring the ceiling and walls with pure, searing heat.
Commander Korth
By the ancestors, the taint is boiling away! The stone is finally silent.
Princess Dire Ant
The light is warm, Master. The nursery feels clean enough for the brood to wake.
As the darkness dissipates, the intense light reveals a hidden indentation within the nursery dais that was previously invisible under the grime of the Pale Moon curse.
A soft, rhythmic clicking sound echoes from deep within the newly revealed crevice, suggesting something dormant is beginning to stir.
Quest Complete
Secure the nursery from the Pale Moon scouts