Ollisir the Silent
The mind of this wretch is brittle. He holds onto his captain's secrets as if they were his own life, but he does not realize that the shadow of Eulstria has already abandoned him to us.
The Battered Pirate
The sand... it triggers the collapse... look for the shimmering silk in the dark...
Ollisir the Silent
Harold, he speaks of a deadfall trap near the tide line. The entire grotto is rigged to bury intruders in a tomb of silt and stone.
Harold Blackhoof
If Vok is that paranoid, the entrance is likely a killing field. We cannot simply charge in, no matter how much I want to end this.
Harold Blackhoof
Ask him about the tides, Ollisir. If the trap depends on the water levels, we may have a window of opportunity when the flow is at its peak.
Ollisir the Silent
Understood, Captain. I will bleed the rest of this filth dry.
+ Scene Quest Added
Navigate the grotto trap
“I say to ollisir, youre drow, they fight deep wars under cities, sneaking, arcana phasing through rock, trapping and anti-trapping each other, can you counter her webs there?”
FAILURE (Good Arcana, rolled -4)
Harold Blackhoof
Ollisir, you are drow, you have fought these deep, shadow wars under cities for cycles. You know the art of phasing through rock, trapping, and counter-trapping. Can you find a way to neutralize those webs before we trigger the collapse?
Ollisir the Silent
I have faced many snares, Harold. Let me peer into the weave of this magical silt and see if I can unravel the anchor points.
Ollisir presses his pale, thin fingers against the damp stone, his eyes glazing over as he attempts to track the arcane flow of the trap.
Ollisir the Silent
The pattern is deeper than a simple ward. It is parasitic.
Suddenly, the drow recoils, a sharp hiss escaping his lips as a burst of violet necrotic feedback snaps back from the stone.
Ollisir the Silent
It is not a mere ward, Harold! It is bound to the life-force of the priestess herself. My probe did not just fail, it triggered an alarm in the grotto. The cave is shifting as we speak.