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The Starfallen Vein

Mine the starfallen vein under the mountains and forge the first bar from it in a century.

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Walkthrough

  1. Stage supplies at Snowthorn
    The banker stacks crates against the back wall. 'Picks, files, dust masks, three weeks of food. Whatever you don't take, I keep. Whatever you bring back, I weigh.'
  2. Sink the approach shaft
    The shaft goes down clean for twenty fathoms, then bends east toward the mountain core. Old timber braces, untouched. Someone started this work and never finished it.
  3. Test the approach vein
    The vein here is honest titanium, nothing more. You strip enough to pay for the expedition and keep moving. The deeper readings still point east.
  4. Cross over to Grimstone
    Grimstone banker takes the blueprint copy without a word, reads it twice, hands it back. 'Ledge entrance opens at the high cut. Wardens still walk it. Pack a second blade.'
  5. Take the high ledge and the sentinel
    You climb to the ledge and the deep sentinel turns to meet you. The fight is short. The ledge is yours and the vein is open above it.
  6. Charge a strike sigil at the arc
    The arc smith burns a strike sigil into a working blade. 'One swing on the vein. Make it count. The slab won't hold a second.'
  7. End the inner sentinel
    The inner sentinel was awake when you arrived and would have stayed awake forever. You closed its eye for it. The chamber is yours.
  8. Strike the starfallen vein
    The strike sigil flares once and the vein cracks open along its length. You pull more starfallen ore in one cut than the foundry has seen in a generation.
  9. Bank the haul in Grimstone
    Banker weighs the first crate, weighs it again, sets the scale aside. 'You'll want to smelt this where it was meant to be smelted. Not here. Take it back to the foundry.'
  10. Smelt the first starfallen ore
    The foundry holds its heat for the first time since you lit it. The ore takes the fire on the third pass. A river of molten metal runs into the mould the master cut a hundred years ago.
  11. Cool the bar in the river field
    The blueprint calls for a slow quench in still water, not the foundry trough. You walk the bar to the field's runoff pool and watch it hiss for a long minute. It rings true when you tap it.
  12. Finish the first starfallen bar
    Hammer counts, heat curves, every line of the blueprint. The bar comes off the anvil dark and bright at once. The first new starfallen bar in a century.
  13. Register the bar at the market
    The clerk weighs it, stamps a fresh ledger page, and writes your name as the smith of record. 'First bar of a new vein. The trade will be talking about this by sundown.'
  14. Bring the bar to the prospector
    He turns the bar over in both hands and laughs once, dry. 'I told them my seam was strange. Nobody listened. Keep the bar. You earned it twice over.'

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Reroll Credits: 55