The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
The stone is not enough. The seal rejects the offering, and the depth hungers.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
Stand back, swordsman. The path is fracturing, and what rises from the void does not distinguish between those who bear the stone and those who carry steel.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel plants their heels firmly on the light bridge, jagged blade raised toward the widening, abyssal seam in the platform floor.
Derick Force
The draft from the crack smells like ozone and dead earth.
Joi edges closer to Derick Force, her low growl vibrating against his thigh, as a pale, translucent hand forces its way up from the fissure.
Kellan
Do not break your focus. If the bridge dies, we all fall.
+ Scene Quest Added
Survive the entity rising from the void
“You brace yourself, examining the new entity, looking for the best way to deal with it”
SUCCESS (Great Perception, rolled -1)
Derick Force
The entity's grip on the bridge edge is purely incorporeal, anchored only by the hate radiating from its touch.
Derick Force shifts his weight, the metal of his breastplate groaning as he pivots to trap the creature's rising forearm against the stone edge.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
It seeks a tether to the physical realm. Keep it from crossing the threshold, or the bridge will shatter entirely.
Kellan
I cannot hold the light and the anchor simultaneously. Please, swordsman, sever its leverage.
Derick Force
If I drive my blade through the gap, the energy backlash might destabilize the floor beneath Joi.
A second pale arm bursts through, clawing for a purchase on the shifting light, as the entire structure begins to tilt toward the abyss.
“You command Joi to run to the side of the hooded man where the ground was stable, after the command, you take aim and thrust the great sword into the gap”
SUCCESS (Legendary Melee Combat, rolled +0)
Derick Force
Joi, go. To the ledge.
The dog yelps, ears pinned back against the roar of the abyss, and scrambles toward the solid stone threshold. Derick Force ignores the instability, his muscles coiling into a singular, precise strike.
Derick Force
The weight of the sword is perfect for this gap.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
Strike now. The seal is open.
The great sword descends. It bites deep into the bridge, piercing the ethereal wrist and slamming the creature into the glowing architecture with a thunderous crack.
Kellan
It is severed. The light, it begins to stabilize.
Quest Complete
Survive the entity rising from the void
Attribute Upgrade: Perception Great→Superb