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    Synopsis:

    Skull of Vellioth, former Cazador's master. He wants you to stop Cazador. He shows you fragments of his memories about Cazador. Succeeding on several checks during the dialog will give you an edge against Cazador in the final confrontation.
    At the end the skull releases its jaw and get the scroll. NOTE Please set the display name of the skull to Vellioth.

    How to trigger:

    go to Cazador Palace
    goto -1983; 853
    click on the skull or the scroll


  • 13.
    Narrator
    : *The skull waits, patiently. It has but one purpose - for you to witness its memories.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_HasMet_Skull
    • 6. Player: The skull's memories rise and unfold. Let them wash over you.
      • 11.
        Narrator
        : *This skull is all that remains of the vampire Vellioth. He turned Cazador, gave him the gift, and then taught him the rules of vampiric existence.*
        • 31. Player: Concentrate on the memory. What is Vellioth's first lesson? Roll (Wisdom, ) vs 15 (0)
          • 18. [RollResult] True
            • 5.
              Narrator
              : *Vellioth's first lesson is always to dominate. Allow none to be your equal.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_Knows_FirstRule
              • 15.
                Narrator
                : *Vellioth recalls when Cazador reached out to a former friend. His punishment was to watch as Vellioth drained his friend dry.*
                • 20. Player: Concentrate on the memory: What is Vellioth's second lesson?Roll (Wisdom, ) vs 15 (0)
                  • 0. [RollResult] True
                    • 19.
                      Narrator
                      : *Vellioth's second lesson is that power comes from solitude. To share with others is to be weak, and to be weak is to fail... and die.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_Knows_SecondRule
                      • Link to Node 17
                  • 24. [RollResult] False
                    • 25.
                      Narrator
                      : *You are distracted by an errant thought and lose the thread of Vellioth's lesson.*<br>
                      • Link to Node 17
                • 16. Player: Move ahead to the third memory fragment. <br>
                  • 17.
                    Narrator
                    : *Vellioth recalls when Cazador rebelled against him. Cazador suffered eleven years of impalement... because he failed.*
                    • 14. Player: Concentrate on the memory. What is Vellioth's third lesson?Roll (Wisdom, ) vs 15 (0)
                      • 12. [RollResult] True
                        • 1.
                          Narrator
                          : *Vellioth's third lesson is to act not in haste. A near immortal has time to plan, time to act only when others will pay the price of action.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_Knows_ThirdRule
                          • 2.
                            Narrator
                            : *Vellioth recalls Cazador, his lessons learned, killing him in the Rite of Perfect Slaughter. How they both laughed!*
                            • 23.
                              Narrator
                              : *Vellioth recalls Cazador boiling the flesh from his skull and then, to mock him, clamping his Schooling Scroll in Vellioth's jaws.*
                              • 7.
                                Narrator
                                : *The skull's eyes flash a final time and its jaws sag open. The scroll with all of Cazador's rituals is yours. Vellioth is no more.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_State_NoScroll
                                End
                      • 4. [RollResult] False
                        • 8.
                          Narrator
                          : *You let the shock of impalement allow your focus to waver, and Vellioth's words drift away, lost in the mists of time.*<br>
                          • Link to Node 2
                    • 3. Player: Move ahead to the fourth memory fragment.
                      • Link to Node 2
                    • 29. Player: Leave.
                      End
          • 21. [RollResult] False
            • 22.
              Narrator
              : *Your attention wanders for a moment and you miss the import of Vellioth's ghostly whisper.*
              • Link to Node 15
        • 28. Player: Move ahead to the second memory fragment.
          • Link to Node 15
    • 10. Player: Leave.
      End
  • 26.
    Narrator
    : *On the pillow rests a skull with a scroll clamped in its bony jaws.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_HasMet_Skull
    • 9.
      Narrator
      : *The skull's empty eye sockets flare with an eldritch gleam.*
      • 27.
        Narrator
        : *You feel invited, somehow, to witness the skull's memories. It seems... urgent.*
        • Link to Node 6
        • Link to Node 10
  • 30.
    Narrator
    : *The skull says nothing. Perhaps it rests at long last.*LOW_CazadorsPalace_Crypt_State_NoScroll
    End