The palace examiner slides the cracked inventory into a layered iron-and-glass reliquary, sealing each seam with silver wax. Doku’s contaminated stock remains behind in the laboratory under the attendant’s watch.
Escorted by the examiner and her two young adult guards, Doku passes through narrow service passages where warding lamps burn blue behind iron grilles.
At the quarantine intake, clerks in white tabards and wardens in dark leather wait behind painted thresholds. Their glances shift between Doku’s emergency writ and the older royal seals.
the palace examiner
No handled material crosses the inner threshold until Lady Nohara classifies it. Her authority governs the medical sorting; royal procedure governs the doors.
A broad-shouldered young adult woman warden steps forward, copper hair braided beneath her helm and a red quarantine sash crossing her gray coat. She holds a slate against her chest.
the quarantine warden
Three carts await inspection, Examiner. Two bear sealed palace medicines, and one carries returned ward supplies. The clerks refuse to open any manifest.
the palace examiner
Then no cart moves. Lady Nohara, the intake is yours to sort before another vessel, seal, or ledger enters the palace wards.
“I go to examine all the different cargoes.”
SUCCESS (Great Perception, rolled +1)
Doku crosses the painted threshold and examines each cart in turn, keeping her parasol closed while wardens draw back the inspection curtains. The intake falls silent around her.
The first cart carries palace medicines in blue-sealed ceramic jars. Doku checks the wax, stoppers, packing straw, and the faint medicinal odor escaping from one cracked crate.
The second cart holds silver-bound ampoules beneath layered felt. Their seals are intact, but gray dust freckles the underside of one protective board where hands would lift it.
The returned ward supplies fill the third cart: empty bottles, stained bandages, chipped measuring spoons, and a ledger wrapped in oilskin. Doku inspects each category for residue and shared handling.
the quarantine warden
The first cart is clean by sight. The second has sealed palace stock. The returned supplies were gathered from the affected ward before your containment.
Doku identifies the returned supplies as the highest-risk cargo, the second cart as conditionally safe, and the first as suitable for controlled release after its cracked crate is isolated.
the palace examiner
Record her classifications exactly. No clerk opens a manifest or moves a container until Lady Nohara’s medical judgment is entered beside it.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure control of the quarantine intake
“"The 3rd one is clean. The second one seems to have grey dust is on it. Seems like a mix of dust and a bit of grey gunpowder. Just have it cleaned before storage. The first one however has a damaged and faintly leaking things. This one quarantine it and salvage what can be taken and throw out whatever is damaged."”
SUCCESS (Legendary Healing, rolled +2)
Doku Nohara
The third cart is clean. The second bears gray dust, mixed with a trace of gray powder. Clean it before storage. The first is damaged and leaking: quarantine it, salvage what remains sound, and discard the rest.
The quarantine warden records each order on her slate. Wardens secure the first cart behind a fresh red cordon, while clerks prepare covered trays for salvage and disposal.
the quarantine warden
Understood. The returned supplies will be quarantined, sorted, and rendered safe before anything usable enters storage.
A masked clerk, a young adult human of unknown gender in a white tabard and close-fitting gray gloves, with the mask hiding the face, inspects the first cart without opening the leaking containers. Sound bottles and intact tools go into clean trays; damaged materials are sealed apart for destruction.
the quarantine warden
The second cart will be brushed and washed at the outer table, then examined again before storage. Its gray residue will not cross the threshold.
The third cart receives a clean green tag and is moved to the approved side of the intake. The first two remain marked under Doku’s classifications.
the palace examiner
Recorded exactly, Lady Nohara. Your classifications and handling orders now govern all three carts.
Quest Complete
Secure control of the quarantine intake