Laurel lifts the recovered case and passes it across the settling dust. As Starlight takes it, the clasp gives way, spilling a folded map onto the stones.
A dark mark stains the map’s center, shaped like the crude sigil carved into the ogres’ weapons. The ink seems fresh despite the case’s battered leather.
The Ogre Raider
You found it, then. BamRock was only the fist, not the source. Spare us, and we will tell you what lies beneath the mark.
The Ogre Guard
Forbidden knowledge, moon elves. The power was given, not taken. We know the path and the name that commands it.
The trapped raider and guard remain beyond the fallen boulder, visible only through the secured gap. The Lookout keeps their bow trained while Laurel steps nearer, wary.
Laurel
Their lives are in our hands, but so is whatever truth they are baiting us toward. Read the map first, Starlight.
Starlight Clearbottom
The mark on the map matches the weapons exactly.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reveal the truth behind the map’s mark
+ New Item Acquired
Map case
“We don't need them, we have the map. On spare of your life Be gone from here ner to return! Starlight screams to the remaining ogeres”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +0)
Starlight Clearbottom
We have the map. I spare your lives. Be gone from here, and never return.
Starlight’s command rings through the Rocky corridors, sharp enough to outmatch the settling dust. Her bow remains lowered, but Laurel and the Lookout keep their aim ready.
The Ogre Raider
We will go. The map is yours, moon elf. We will not return to these stones.
The Ogre Guard
Your mercy is heard. We leave the corridor and carry no challenge against you.
The surviving ogres retreat through the secured gap, abandoning weapons and turning toward the lower passage. Laurel watches until their heavy steps fade beyond the pine-dark bends.
Laurel
They are gone, and the promise sounded honest enough. You chose mercy without surrendering the road.
Silence returns around the fallen boulder. The recovered map lies open across the stones, its fresh dark sigil pointing toward a path beneath the Rocky corridors.
“Investigate the map”
SUCCESS (Good Reasoning, rolled +1)
Starlight kneels beside the open map, pinning its corners with smooth stones. The parchment shows the Rocky corridors, the Long Road, and a concealed route descending beneath both.
Starlight Clearbottom
The sigil marks a place beneath the corridors, not a destination on the road.
She traces the fresh ink with one careful finger. Three smaller marks branch from the central sigil, each aligned with an old cavern symbol and a narrow passage.
Laurel
Those symbols are older than the ogre raids. The path runs toward the roots of the moon elf kingdom.
The Lookout leans over the map without lowering their bow. A faded line circles the central mark, then ends at a drawn black gate beneath the stone.
The Lookout
There is a gate under the corridors. BamRock’s band knew the route, but someone else placed that mark.
Laurel
The map gives us a name, too. Here, beneath the sigil: the Hollow Crown.
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach the gate beneath the corridors
“First we must prepare , lets head to the tower. We can re supply and rest”
SUCCESS (Legendary Agility, rolled -2)