The Scribe
You led me into this death trap, monster. I am not dying in this pit for your ancient vendettas.
The Scribe
He thinks he can use me like a key to the nodes. I have to lose him in the twisting cracks before that thing under the floor reaches us.
Nogandar
The worm is skittering. If I follow him, I might lose the path to the node. If I stay, I face the brood-spawn alone.
The Scribe vanishes into a vein-like fissure, his ragged robes fluttering against the sharp, cooling stone. A deep vibration hums through the floor, rhythmic and hungry.
Nogandar
Run then, coward. My reach is longer than these tunnels.
Nogandar pivots. The stone beneath his feet buckles, rising in jagged, segmented plates as something massive forces its way toward the surface.
+ Scene Quest Added
Survive the brood horror
“I cast a copy and then cast stealth and retreat to a more hidden spot nearby”
SUCCESS (Superb Stealth, rolled +2)
Nogandar
The hive breathes, and it wants me buried. I must leave a shadow for it to hunt while I slip into the dark.
Nogandar crouches, his muscles tensing as he channels the arcane reserves within his chest.
Nogandar
Find me in the dust, spider-spawn.
A perfect, shimmering duplicate of the gargoyle lunges toward the shifting obsidian plates, drawing the attention of the rising horror.
Nogandar
The creature strikes at the illusion with mindless fury. Now, silence is my shield.
Nogandar melts into the deep gloom, his presence masked by the very walls that pulse with necrotic decay, watching from a hidden ledge as the hive-born monster tears his double to shreds.
Quest Complete
Survive the brood horror