Quest Update: "Vythrax's Trial of Bread and Bravery"
Objective: Bake a loaf so epic it impresses a dragon who's basically Gordon Ramsay with scales.
Reward: Passage to the Heart of Glimmerfen, maybe some dignity.
Failure: You get to be the dragon's toasty side dish.
The stone platform in Vythrax's lair looked like a medieval baking show set, complete with a flour-dusted slab, a pile of yeast that smelled suspiciously alive, and a rolling pin the size of a small tree. The dragon loomed over us, its furnace-eyes glowing, its tail twitching like a cat watching a doomed mouse. I stood there, Wyrm's Quill in hand, its glow pulsing like it was trying to tell me something—probably "You're screwed, Cecil." My crew surrounded the platform, looking less like a baking team and more like a group of parolees forced into a cooking class. I was supposed to bake a loaf to impress a dragon who'd probably eaten bakers better than me for breakfast. No pressure.
