Roku still grips the silver sword inside the spirit-world likeness of the sunken home. Beyond the restored threshold, Reggie, Jessica, and Vaelith stand reunited, able to reach him now.
Silver script narrows along the blade and pours beneath the mansion floor, becoming a living trail through the reflected stone. Reggie’s dragon-shaped sigil pulses in answer.
the unseen presence
The trail leads toward the betrayer’s recorded name. Follow it, and the first voice may find Reggie through the blood that remembers its sentence.
Reggie Vonland
Then the path is a snare aimed at me. I will not let that voice use my blood to reach you or break free.
Jessica
The house has restored the threshold, but not its mercy. If the trail records the betrayer, it may also preserve the moment he opened the first gate.
Vaelith
The sword is showing a choice, not issuing a command. Its witness may walk ahead, while the blood-marked one remains beyond the trail’s first crossing.
The floor beneath the mansion shifts without sound. A narrow silver fissure opens toward the darkened halls, while Reggie’s sigil brightens and the unseen presence falls silent.
✓ Quest Accepted
Name the betrayer
“I follow the silver fissure toward the betrayer’s name”
SUCCESS (Great Agility, rolled +0)
Roku follows the silver fissure into the reflected halls. It seals behind his steps, leaving the restored threshold visible but distant, with Reggie, Jessica, and Vaelith watching.
The fissure carries him beneath archways engraved with vanished family names. Silver light rises around the sword, and the mansion’s silence fills with the echo of an ancient gate opening.
Reggie Vonland
Roku, the sigil is pulling toward you. I will hold here, but I will not let the blood answer without warning.
The trail ends in a circular chamber beneath the house. A name is carved into black stone, concealed beneath layers of silver script, while a faceless figure, a tall adult man in a weathered charcoal robe with a silver cord at his waist kneels before it.
the unseen presence
You have reached the betrayer’s record, witness. The name was hidden from every heir because speaking it once opened the first gate.
The sword’s pale fire strips away the covering script. One name stands revealed in the stone, and the dragon-shaped mark on Reggie’s distant hand flares in recognition.
Vaelith
The record is complete now. Roku has found the name, but the house remembers what followed when the betrayer spoke it.
Quest Complete
Name the betrayer