Mission:Tip - The Scroll of Shrouding

The Scroll of Shrouding
Alignment Mission
Type	Alignment Tip
Place	Paragon City
Available to	Heroes and Vigilantes
Level range	20–29
Choice	Hero or Vigilante

The Scroll of Shrouding

You find a crudely-written scroll whilst fighting crime. You roll it out and examine the writing on it...

Written in several different languages, this scroll details a ritual that involves covering the sun in a veil of darkness, leaving the City in perpetual night. Looking closer, you can see that it has been copied from the original - which was stored in a cargo ship off the coast of Paragon, along with other powerful artifacts. You do some more investigating to find the Circle of Thorns who- of course - are currently in possession of the original scroll, intending to use it to cover the city in perpetual darkness!

The Circle still needs other materials to perform the ritual of darkness that the scroll describes. If you can discover where they're gathering for the ritual, you can stop them before they can even begin it!

However, there could be even more dangerous artifacts within that cargo ship, waiting to be used by the Circle. Even if this ritual is stopped, the Circle could always get ten more artifacts from that one ship!

Hero Acceptance

Briefing

This ritual can have devastating repercussions to not only Paragon City, but potentially the whole world. Since the sun still shines, it would appear that there's still time left to stop the Circle. You'll have to storm into one of their lairs and make sure that ritual isn't completed!

Stop the Circle's ritual!

The Scroll of Shrouding Hero Mission You track down the location of the Circle's ritual - deep within their city of Oranbega.

Perfect.

Unnecessary Solicitation

As long as the sun still shines, you know you still have time left to stop the Circle.

Mission Objective(s)

Ancient chants echo through the tunnels within Oranbega. You need to hurry to stop the Circle!

• Stop the Circle Ritual!
  • Defeat Archmage Ingus, Defeat Archmage Conflagrus, Defeat Archmage Combustus

You were able to stop the Circle of Thorns from starting the ritual!

Enemies

Circle of Thorns

Notable NPCs

• Archmage Ignus
• Archmage Conflagrus
• Archmage Combustus
• Mangle

Archmage Ignus dialogue

Before combat:

Archmage Ignus: The ceremony shall be concluded as soon as we receive that woman's hair!

Combat start:

Archmage Ignus: You cannot stop us, Character! It is too late for your world!

Archmage Conflagrus dialogue

Before combat:

Archmage Conflagrus: The world will soon bow to our power! The Envoy shall be pleased!

Combat start:

Archmage Conflagrus: Burn in the fires of Hell, Charactert!

Archmage Combustus dialogue

Before combat:

Archmage Combustus: We will proceed with the ritual, with or without the final component, I do not care!

Combat start:

Archmage Combustus: Character! We must proceed, NOW!

Circle of Thorns dialogue

Before combat:

Spectral Knight: What about the dog? Will he still stay with us?

Spectral Knight: The next step of the ritual can commence once we've plunged the world into darkness!

Combat start:

Spectral Knight: Hrmph, an intruder! Summon the help!

Ambush! Mangle will ambush the player once the above group has been defeated.

Mangle dialogue

Mangle: The Circle WILL move forward with this, and you can't stop it, Character!

Circle of Thorns dialogue

Before combat:

Spectral Daemon: What do you think? We will use our new power to enslave him - to make fools out of the Pantheon!

Spectral Daemon: What shall we do if this triggers Lughebu?

Debriefing

You were able to stop the Circle from performing their ritual, though when you investigated further, you discovered the cargo ship full of artifacts has vanished - no one seems to know what has happened to it.

Another problem for another day - one you're confident that you'll be able to solve, when the time comes.

Vigilante Acceptance

Briefing

If something like the Scroll of Shrouding was in this shipment of antiquities, there's no telling what other dangers may have accompanied it. You could spend months trying to determine what is and what isn't dangerous amongst those items. Or... You could always just blow up the whole shipment altogether and be done with it in one fell swoop.

Destroy the entire cargo ship of dangerous artifacts!

It's a good thing you know where you can get your hands on some C4 wall mountings. Take a couple of them and blow up the entire warehouse with everything in it. Let's just hope there aren't any off-duty porters still milling around.

Unnecessary Solicitation

The city could use a break from the sun, anyway.

Mission Objective(s)

The cargo ship is brimming with activity - the Banished Pantheon are here! No doubt to try to get their hands on these artifacts. Too bad for them.

• Plant the C4 to destroy the cargo ship!
  • 3 C4 mountings remaining

The cargo ship begins to rock back and forth, ready to explode!

Enemies

• Banished Pantheon

Notable Enemies

None

Banished Pantheon dialogue

Before combat:

Dry Husk: Those Circle fools will never know that they will help us bring back the Old Ones!

Combat start:

Desiccated Chamber: We won't allow Character to stop us, not when we've come so far!

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Before combat:

Dry Husk: This artifact will be quite useful to us...

Debriefing

You escape from the cargo ship as it sinks into the sea, the flames dancing along the water.

You notice that part of the sun seems to be blotted out - it appears that the Circle did succeed in their ritual and blocked out the sun while you were in the cargo ship.

Paragon City recovered, thanks to the help of some other heroes, though hospitals all around are currently packed with people who were attacked by demonic ghosts during the time of darkness.