The Priest arrives at the sealed seam, and the black fluid at Sabien’s eye hisses into vapor. Her chant starts low, then climbs, a command that shakes the rack room walls.
The Priest
Join me. Hold the line. Let the mark be burned out together.
Sabien matches the rhythm. The threshold answers with a white glare, bright enough to turn the dark into knife edges.
The Shadow Entity jerks against the light, its split whisper torn raw as the tether to the Borrower tightens, then starts to snap.
The Weapons Master
Keep it steady, Sabien. That stain on your eye, it is not strain. It is the thing marking you back.
The glow floods the seam. The whisper collapses into a shriek, and the Borrower lies still as the shadow is driven flat against the threshold.
✓ Quest Accepted
Cauterize the corruption in Sabien’s eye
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure the threshold against the shadow’s return
“I follow the priest intructions and cast like the priest”
SUCCESS (Good Willpower, rolled -2)
Sabien holds the rhythm with the Priest, and the white fire takes his eye mark all at once. The black seep cracks, whistles, and burns away into clean vapor.
The Priest’s chant drops a half-step, still strong, while the seam stays bright and tight. The Shadow Entity goes flat and thin against the threshold, robbed of its grip.
The Weapons Master
There. It is breaking. Keep your hand in it.
Sabien keeps the cadence, but the effort bites hard. A seam of heat crawls through his faceplate and a fresh trickle of melted residue runs from the corner of the eye housing.
The Priest
Hold. Let it finish.
The last stain flashes white and is gone. The mark no longer answers back, though the cut on Sabien’s eye still smokes.
Behind the vault door, the rhythmic knocking resumes, measured and patient, as if something now listens for the seal to be tested again.
Quest Complete
Cauterize the corruption in Sabien’s eye