Three keyholes, no lock
THE BELL BELOW / IV / THE BELL BELOW
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/ + \.-------------------------------------------. | BELL THIEF RANK 3 | | BLOOD [##...... ] 2/8 MIGHT 3 | | FLAME [*** ] 3/3 BURN 3 | '-------------------------------------------'
The first key tastes of river water. The second catches like a thorn. The third hums against the stone.
Beneath the door is an inscription: THE BELL IS A MOUTH. IT RINGS BECAUSE NO ONE ANSWERS.
You can force the door and face its keeper. If you carried all three mercies and still have a flame, you can answer before the hundredth toll is ever struck.
Choose your way
Open the door / face the Bellkeeper
Speak the three mercies into the keyholes / spend 1 flame
What you carry
I. Reed token / Wren remembered; a name can lower a sword.
II. White thread / Edrin's oath; +1 Ward damage against the Bellkeeper.
III. Last lullaby / seven sleepers freed; the Bellkeeper begins with 3 less blood.
Mercies kept: 3 of 3. Weapon: kiln-tempered burial knife.
+ I --- + II --- + III --- @ IV road abbey choir bell + travelled @ here . beyond
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