Mission:Tip - The Scroll of Shrouding
| The Scroll of Shrouding | |
|---|---|
| Alignment Mission | |
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| 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 |
 VIGILANTE |
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.
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
Notable NPCs
- Archmage Ingus
- Archmage Conflagrus
- Archmage Combustus
- Mangle
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.
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
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.