Objective
Open the hidden passage below the Rainfall Hermitage.
Reminder
Turn-based puzzle: 5 successes before 3 failures.
Mode
Scene Mode
Scene Reference (DM)
Act 1 - Strange RoadsOpening Read Aloud
The trail leads to a small back shrine built around a round stone basin. Rain falls into the basin from nowhere. The water should ripple from the drops, but instead it reflects a staircase that is not in the room. The reflection shows wet stone steps descending into darkness. On the real floor, there is only flat rock. Prayer marks circle the basin. Healer marks. Warding marks. Restraint marks. And beneath them, almost hidden by age, a second lens socket, empty and cracked. Alden went below. But the room does not know how to become a door anymore. Roll initiative.
Scene Summary (DM)
Atmosphere
Sacred, strange, urgent, and threshold-heavy.
Scene Goals
Players use checks and First Fracture boons to make the reflected staircase real.
Environmental Features
Important Notes
Checks: Arcana, Religion, Investigation, Survival, Athletics, Thieves Tools, Persuasion, Performance, Medicine. On success, stairs open cleanly. On failure, stairs open but something below hears them.
Clues with Linked Checks
Checks are shown directly underneath the clue they belong to.
No clues entered for this scene.
General Scene Checks
No general checks entered for this scene.
Spotlights
Pacing Notes
DM Shortcut Summary
Trigger Events & Escalations
Fail-Safes & Recovery Paths
Scene Reference (DM)
ready
Scene Notes
Scene Memory
No scene memory saved yet.
NPCs and Scene Assets
Edit Scene AssetsNo scene assets assigned to this scene yet.