Kesh steps between Veyr and the open register, one hand hovering near the oath-blade. His dark armor catches the feast hall’s torchlight as the barred doors loom behind him.
Kesh
Open the private records, Veyr. Every delay risks the eastern route, and the soldiers who still serve there. Let the witnesses see what your authority concealed.
The nobles draw back from the victor’s table. Servants keep their hands on the barred doors, while the herald’s silver staff remains raised between accusation and judgment.
Lord Veyr
You will not search my private records on suspicion alone. Produce a formal royal warrant, and I will answer before the proper authority.
The Herald
The hall has heard both claims. The question is no longer whether authority exists, but whose authority governs this room.
Veyr’s fingers tighten over the register. Beyond the sealed doors, no messenger arrives, and the silence forces every witness to weigh a lord’s rank against a commander’s written warning.
Kesh
Then send for the warrant while we remain here. Until it arrives, no record leaves this table, and no one walks out carrying another altered order.
✓ Quest Accepted
Obtain a formal royal warrant
“I suppose that leaves nothing but to wait for the royal warrant. Andras thinks to himself. though decides to watch lord Veyr to be safe. "agreed... no one leaves this room"”
SUCCESS (Great Perception, rolled -1)
Andras
Nothing remains but to wait for the royal warrant. I will watch Lord Veyr to be safe.
Andras
Agreed. No one leaves this room.
Andras holds his place beside the victor’s table, his loosened forearm binding tugging as he keeps Lord Veyr in view. The nobles wait in strained silence, while servants remain at the barred doors.
Time passes beneath the feast hall’s torchlight. Veyr does not reach for the register or signal the servants, but his tight grip never leaves its cover.
Lord Veyr
Then we wait. Let the warrant settle what accusation and rank cannot.
At last, a hall servant brings a sealed royal warrant to the herald, who breaks it beneath the gathered witnesses’ eyes. The document commands the private records remain open for examination.
Kesh
There is our authority. Now the records can speak for themselves.
Andras has secured the warrant and the room remains sealed, but his sustained watch cost him certainty: Veyr’s stillness reveals no accomplice, only calculation carefully kept behind his eyes.
Quest Complete
Obtain a formal royal warrant
+ New Item Acquired
Royal warrant