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Hear the Answer at the Sealed Door - AI-generated fantasy Encounter

Hear the Answer at the Sealed Door

Encounters
Skill challenge · Low · 6 players, level 8

Hear the Answer at the Sealed Door

The party can gain a Reading and the Keepers' trust without disturbing the dead, but pushing for certainty risks losing the Listening Stone.

Run the talk

Successes
0/5
Failures
0/2

Starts Neutral

Base DC 15

Success The party earns Reading 1 and +1 Keeper Standing

Failure Ysmay still gives the party Reading 1

Party 6 players, level 8

System D&D 2024

Cheat sheet

The party wants

Earn Reading 1 and, if Keeper Standing has reached +2, persuade Kavra to loan the Listening Stone.

Success

The party earns Reading 1 and +1 Keeper Standing.

Failure

Ysmay still gives the party Reading 1, but Kjorn blocks Kavra's loan of the Listening Stone.
Clock
5 / 2
successes / failures
Base DC
15
Starts
Neutral

Read aloud

Say this

Ysmay gathers her slate pencils and leads you beneath the carved names; each step leaves a faint note in the rock. At the passage's end, a sealed door waits under a skin of undisturbed dust. The casket knocks, and something beyond the stone answers in the same rhythm.

Who says what

They wantYsmay wants the party to understand the answer without opening or disturbing the burial ground.

LeverageThe casket's patterned knocking receives a matching answer; the Ledger can confirm the door's inscription without explaining the sound.

  • Ysmay

    On the first success, Ysmay stops writing and listens with the party.

  • Ysmay

    On the first failure, Ysmay grips her slate pencils and asks everyone to lower their voices.

  • Ysmay

    After three successes, Ysmay gives the party Reading 1 and adds +1 Keeper Standing.

  • Ysmay

    After two failures, Ysmay still gives the party Reading 1; Kjorn blocks Kavra's loan.

  • If the party swears to leave the burial ground undisturbed and keeps vigil, the GM may award the custom Blessing of the Listening Stone.

Maneuvers

DC 15Ask Ysmay what she fears the answer means; use Insight to notice what she leaves unsaid.
DC 15Compare the casket's rhythm with the sound carried through the name passage.
DC 15Study the Grave-Carver reliefs and offer an interpretation for the group to test.
DC 15Swear to leave the burial ground undisturbed, then keep vigil beside the sealed door.

What the party can use

Perception DC 15: Hear the repeated pattern in the knock.
Arcana DC 15: Read the hum moving through the living rock.
History DC 15: Interpret the Grave-Carver reliefs around the door.
Insight DC 15: Notice what Ysmay cannot bring herself to say.
Lay the Unaltered Ledger against the door to confirm its inscription is honest.

What happens

90 minutes
  1. ·

    When the party first hears an answering knock during the challenge.

    The door answers the casket's patterned knocking. The sound is clear, but reveals nothing about what lies beyond.

  2. ·

    When a character lays the Unaltered Ledger against the sealed door.

    The Ledger glows gold against the door, confirming that its inscription is honest. The sound remains unexplained.

The battlefield

Zones

  1. 1

    Name passage25 ft

    Carved names crowd the living rock. Each footstep leaves a faint, lingering note.

  2. 2

    Stair landing25 ft

    Ysmay gathers her slate pencils here before leading the party below the names.

  3. 3

    Sealed door25 ft

    A sealed door stands at the passage's end. Dust across its threshold shows no recent opening.

What the party can use

Tap a carved name; its note carries down the passage, helping the party hear the casket's rhythm.
Lay the Unaltered Ledger against the door; its gold glow confirms the inscription is honest.
Keep vigil without disturbing the burial ground; the GM may grant the Blessing of the Listening Stone.

Treasure

Kavra's loan of the Listening Stone is available only if the party has reached +2 Keeper Standing and succeeds.

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