Nogandar
The conduit is shattered, but the architect of this misery remains. The Archive Keeper stands, yet that is not their soul behind those violet eyes.
Archive Keeper
The gargoyle king seeks a path where none shall exist. Your ancient hunger is a blight upon the loom, Nogandar.
Nogandar
The shards are floating. Controlled. This puppet of the Queen intends to entomb me in my own wreckage.
Nogandar
You are a hollow shell, voice of the Weaver. Step aside, or I will turn your borrowed grace into dust.
Archive Keeper
My mistress has waited long for such a feral pet. Your rage only tightens the threads that bind you.
The obsidian shards vibrate in unison, their razor edges pointed directly at Nogandar as the Archive Keeper raises a hand, gathering a swirling vortex of necrotic energy.
+ Scene Quest Added
Defeat the Archive Keeper
“I melee rush him”
FAILURE (Superb Strength, rolled -2)
Nogandar
The threads are thick, but my momentum is absolute. I will crush this conduit before the spell completes.
Nogandar
Your mistress's tapestry ends today.
Nogandar lunges forward, his massive frame a blur of muscle and fury. He strikes the air where the Keeper stands, aiming to shatter the necrotic focus.
Archive Keeper
Fool. He still fights with the strength of a beast, forgetting that the weave responds to the caster, not the brute.
A pulse of violet static erupts from the Keeper's palm, catching Nogandar mid-leap. The gargoyle's claws graze empty air as a concussive wave of necrotic force slams into his chest, sending him sprawling into the jagged wall.
Archive Keeper
You are a weapon that has forgotten how to be held, Nogandar. Now, drown in the rubble of your own impotence.
“I melee him”
SUCCESS (Superb Strength, rolled +1)
Nogandar
The kinetic force of my charge will shatter that barrier. She is nothing compared to the walls I have toppled in ages past.
Nogandar
Your strings are frayed, little puppet.
Nogandar drives his talons into the core of the necrotic conduit. Obsidian shards hiss as they vaporize under his touch.
Archive Keeper
The weave is not yours to command, ancient stone!
The conduit ruptures with a deafening crack. A cascade of molten glass rains down, but the Keeper's desperate magic tears a hole in the floor beneath Nogandar.
Nogandar
The ground vanishes. Do I dive into the abyss to strike the Keeper mid-fall, or do I anchor myself to the ceiling and wait for the dust to settle?
Quest Complete
Defeat the Archive Keeper
Attribute Upgrade: Strength Superb→Legendary