Snow blinds the switchback as Enanita, Veyl, and Brann lurch downhill. Ahead, the Magistrate staggers toward the stone bridge, one hand out against the gale. Behind him, the path cracks with a dry, ugly snap.
Veyl
He reaches the bridge, we lose him in the storm. Cut him off now.
A slab at Enanita's feet splits loose and drops into white nothing. The ledge narrows to a knife edge, and the bridge is still too far to reach safely.
Brann
There, the left buttress. It still holds. Use it, or jump and trust your boots.
Enanita
The buttress is the only stable foothold before the gap.
The Magistrate glances back, sees them, and quickens his stumbling run. Enanita springs toward the buttress as another fracture tears across the ledge, putting her between him and the bridge.
The Magistrate
Keep them off me, or I swear I will bury you all in this mountain.
Wind and snow slam into the bridge approach. Enanita lands on the buttress, the next step now a direct path to the Magistrate, while the ledge shudders hard enough to throw Brann and Veyl off balance behind her.
“I spring from the buttress and cut him off”
SUCCESS (Great Agility, rolled -1)
Enanita launches from the buttress and lands squarely in the Magistrate's path.
He skids to a halt, boots scraping ice, cloak snapping as the bridge stays blocked behind her.
The Magistrate
Out of my way. You cannot mean to die here with me.
Veyl claws for balance on the broken ledge, eyes fixed on the gap Enanita now seals.
Veyl
Hold him there. I am coming.
Brann
He is trapped on the lip. One step wrong and he falls back into the drift.
Snow whips between them, and the Magistrate lifts a shaking hand, searching for another escape.
Quest Complete
Stop the Magistrate from reaching the bridge