Recover the Seal of Saint Vey from the chapel ward
Recover the Seal of Saint Vey from the chapel ward
Read Aloud
The chapel steps end in cold stone and damp salt air. Below the floor, a round chamber waits in the dark, its four brass pylons shattered and humming around a sealed iron cradle. The rune grooves on the floor twitch with faint light, and every sound comes back half a beat late, like the room is listening and correcting you.
The Scene
NEUTRALward bypass under hostile distortionBase DC 15Stakes If the seal stays trapped, the marshward above will keep failing and the chapel will keep drawing whatever the seal is holding back.
20 to 40 minutes
Keep the seal intact unless the party proves they can move it without breaking the ward. The keeper wants the relic safe, not the room opened fast.
The ward responds to calm, exact coordination. Anyone who knows chapel rites, bell timing, or lockwork can anchor the rhythm.
- Call-and-response in a single voice
- Tap the pylons in a fixed pattern
- Cover or silence a pylon to break the echo loop
- Use the rune grooves as a timing guide
- Place the iron cradle latch under steady pressure while another acts
- Persuade the chamber keeper to trust a plan
- Religion to read the ward order
- Investigation to spot the broken pylon sequence
- Thieves' Tools to work the cradle latch
- Performance or Deception to keep the echo pattern from drifting
- Cautious, clipped answers
- Repeats one key phrase to check who heard it
- Snaps at anyone who talks over the timing
- Relaxes when the party uses exact, simple instructions
