The diner door swings shut behind Remedy and Zara, cutting off the wet night and the neon buzz outside. Across the room, Tanner and Chuck are already waiting in a corner booth, tablet glowing between them.
Tanner
You came back fast. Good. We found something.
Remedy and Zara slide into the booth. Tanner turns the tablet around, showing a rough route sketch layered over a blue pulsing scan.
Chuck
That pulse is not random. It matches the mountain interior, like it is guiding, or shifting with us.
Zara leans in, eyes fixed on the screen. Remedy sees a narrow path marked deep beneath the old entrance, then a warning line across it.
Tanner
If we go now, we have a shot. If we wait, that route seals and we lose Galgok again.
Chuck
We need a plan before morning. A real one.
The tablet light flickers over all four faces as the next move hangs in the booth between coffee cups and torn napkins.
✓ Quest Accepted
Form a real plan to enter Galgok
“Trace the path on the tablet and ask Tanner to pinpoint the exact entry timing.”
SUCCESS (Superb Investigation, rolled -1)
Remedy drags a fingertip along the blue line, tracing where the scan bends under the old entrance. The tablet’s glow tightens on her hand while the seal line flashes farther ahead.
Remedy
If we enter here, when is the exact window?
Tanner
Before first light. Not at dawn, before it. Ten minutes, maybe less, when the pulse drops.
Chuck leans closer, then taps a second point Remedy has found, a thin side cut the others had missed in the blur of the scan.
Chuck
That branch is real. It gives us a second chance if the front line closes early.
Zara straightens from the screen, shoulders set, while Tanner zooms the path and marks the timing with a thumb on the glass.
Tanner
We leave on my signal, when the pulse dips and the road is clear enough to move fast.
Remedy’s route hangs complete on the tablet now, entry point and timing pinned together, while the blue trace keeps breathing under her fingers.
Quest Complete
Form a real plan to enter Galgok