Dust and stone shards plummet from the cracked ceiling, forcing Derick to shield his head with his arms. The floor beneath the Heart Chamber groans and splits, cascading into a dark abyss.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
Move. The path opens.
The Sentinel points a withered hand toward a narrow, crumbling archway that has just been revealed by the shifting floor. Beyond it lies a damp, moss-slicked tunnel.
Derick Force
That passage leads deep into the foundations of the spire.
Garth
Go Derick. I will hold the rear until everyone is across.
Derick Force lunges toward the archway, his boots skidding on loose shale. He, Joi, and the others scramble through the breach just as the Heart Chamber dissolves into the void behind them.
+ Scene Quest Added
Escape the collapsing Spire
“Once everyone is across, you call to Garth, urging him to cross with you”
SUCCESS (Good Persuasion, rolled +1)
Derick Force
The structure is settling but the tunnel ahead remains stable.
Derick Force
Garth, leave it! The path is holding, get to this side now!
Garth
Your voice cuts through the roar, friend. I am coming!
With a final, powerful thrust, Garth pries his blade free from the crumbling stone and leaps across the widening chasm, landing heavily on the mossy threshold.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
The seal is safe for now, but look there, the wall reveals a hidden chamber beyond this tunnel.
Garth stumbles up, his breath ragged, pointing toward a faint, pulsating blue glow emanating from a crack in the far tunnel wall.
Quest Complete
Escape the collapsing Spire
+ Scene Quest Added
Investigate the hidden chamber
“"Lets go! " You yell, and lead everyone to the hidden chamber”
SUCCESS (Good Persuasion, rolled +0)
Derick Force
Let us go! Follow me, there is no time to linger in this rot.
Derick Force does not hesitate. He pivots, his heavy boots finding purchase on the slick stone as he leads the small party toward the unnatural luminescence.
Garth
He always finds the way forward, even when the floor beneath us turns to dust.
The Ash-Wrapped Sentinel
The light calls to the stone I carry. We must move, for the Spire will not remain dormant for long.
Joi trots closely at Derick Force's heel, her ears flattened against the low, rhythmic humming vibrating through the tunnel walls.
They reach the fissure. Derick Force wedges his great sword into the jagged gap, exerting his strength to widen the opening just enough for them to squeeze into the hidden chamber.
Quest Complete
Investigate the hidden chamber