The abandoned watchtower looms above the wet shoreline, its stones sweating black frost. Serge steps inside, and the air hits like a grave opened under sea spray.
Up in the rafters, something shifts. A robed figure drops without warning, thin as a crow and fast as hunger.
The Thrall
The master keeps the dragon secrets. No one else learns the truth of the tides.
The thrall lands hard, then lunges at Serge with clawed hands, robes snapping around a mark of pale rot on the neck.
Cold spills from the figure in a choking wave, dimming the lanternlight and frosting the broken floorboards.
The Thrall
Turn back, or I open you to the dark!
Serge has only a heartbeat before the thrall reaches him, all gaunt fury and fevered purpose.
✓ Quest Accepted
Stop the thrall
✓ Quest Accepted
Learn what the thrall knows about Phaixonul
“Can I dodge the strike and pin the creature against the wall?”
YES (Even, rolled 19)
Serge
The thrall is overextended, its momentum carrying it toward the stone pillar rather than me.
As the creature lunges, its foot catches on a loose, frost-slicked floorboard, causing it to stumble off-balance and expose a gap in its guard against the wall.
“I shove the thrall into the wall and ask him about his boss and what he's doing with all the corrupted rock”
SUCCESS (Good Strength, rolled +2)
Serge drives the thrall hard into the stone pillar. The impact jars a spray of frost from its sleeves, and the snapped floorboard bucks under its heel.
The Thrall
Ngh... Phaixonul does not keep his secrets in one place. The corrupted rock is a leash, not a treasure.
The thrall twists, pinned by the pressure, its thin fingers scraping for purchase against the wall.
The Thrall
He sends the stone through drowned places, where the flood cannot wash the marks away.
Serge
Who is your master, and what does he want with it?
The Thrall
A lich without his full power, hunting what was torn from him. He wants the phylactery back before anyone else finds it.
The thrall sags against the wall, breath steaming in ragged bursts, its resistance broken for the moment.
Quest Complete
Stop the thrall
Quest Complete
Learn what the thrall knows about Phaixonul