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diff --git a/homebrew/characters/npc/Weslocke.md b/homebrew/characters/npc/Weslocke.md
index 0bbc5561a6be825ad48d4e24636d0c76b2563988..d00adc6970d9d773f8542b98142bbc3c5154df4d 100644
--- a/homebrew/characters/npc/Weslocke.md
+++ b/homebrew/characters/npc/Weslocke.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
Tiefling / Hawty and Arrogant
-Personal assistant to Bathym, and Howalyn's former fiance. She gave her life to free Howalyn from a pact with Bathym.
-With years of torture she was slowly molded into his personal assistant, just as devoid of kindness as Bathym himself.
+Personal assistant to Bathym, and Howalyn's former fiance. She gave her life and soul to Bathym to heal Howlayn from sickness.
```statblock
image:
@@ -66,3 +65,108 @@ - Cantrips (at will) - eldritch blast, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation
- 1st-5th level (2 slots, 5th level) - armor of agathys, charm person, counterspell, dimension door, hold monster, invisibility, suggestion
spellsNotes: "Weslocke typically casts armor of agathys at 5th level before combat (25 temporary HP, 25 cold damage to attackers)."
```
+
+# Encounter Notes
+
+## Tower Scene Setting
+
+The party finds Weslocke at the top of the tower, standing at the center of a ritual circle that pulses with the unicorn's light — stolen, filtered through infernal architecture into something cold and functional. The unicorn is below, in the base of the tower, and its glow reaches up through iron grates in the floor.
+
+Weslocke isn't guarding the room dramatically. She's working. Papers, diagrams, the quiet administration of something she finds beneath her but does flawlessly. She doesn't turn around when they enter.
+
+---
+
+## Dialog
+
+### When the Party Arrives
+
+*She doesn't look up immediately. Dismissive and efficient. She doesn't know them yet.*
+
+> *"I don't recall Bathym expecting guests. And I don't recall caring."*
+
+> *"The shield holds. You've wasted a trip."*
+
+---
+
+### Ask About the Unicorn
+
+> *"It's alive. It's fed. It serves a purpose. Most things here do."*
+
+> *"I didn't design this arrangement. I maintain it. There's a difference."* — said slightly too quickly.
+
+---
+
+### Someone Mentions Howalyn
+
+*She goes very still. Not loud. Not dramatic. Still.*
+
+> *"...Where did you hear that name."* — not a question. Flat. Dangerous.
+
+> *"Don't."* — just that, if they press too fast.
+
+> *"He has nothing to do with why you're here. Choose your next words carefully."*
+
+**If they tell her they traveled with him:**
+
+> *"That's not — he wasn't— "* A pause. She resets. *"He was supposed stay alive. That was the whole point."*
+
+---
+
+### If They Tell Her He's Dead
+
+*Give this one silence. Then:*
+
+> *"...I know."* and a tear forms in her eyes before regaining composure
+
+---
+
+## Combat
+
+> *"I don't get to want things. I learned that."*
+
+> *"I've already given everything that mattered. This —"* gestures vaguely at herself *"— is just what's left."*
+
+**If a player tries to convince her to stop maintaining the shield:**
+> *"You think I haven't thought of that? I am bound. That isn't a choice I get to make."*
+
+**If she's losing badly:**
+> *"He would have hated this. He'd have tried to talk me down."* — almost to herself. *"He was insufferably optimistic."*
+
+---
+
+## The "Losing" Moment
+
+She begins the process of dismantling the shield
+
+> When her HP drops to 0, she slumps to the floor. Then, slowly, she begins limping to the controls.
+
+If intercepted:
+
+> *"I am trying to help you, you absolute idiots."*
+
+> *"He can't hear me right now. That won't last. So either let me go or watch me remember whose side I'm supposed to be on."*
+
+---
+
+## Parting Line — If She Lives
+
+*If the party leaves her alive and she's not stopping them:*
+
+> *"Tell me one thing. Before you go."*
+
+> *"Was he happy? At the end — was any of it — did he seem—"*
+
+> *She stops herself. Straightens. The mask comes back up, but slower than before.*
+
+> *"Never mind. Go."*
+
+---
+
+## Key Character Notes
+
+- **Former identity:** Half-elf. Gave up her original nature as part of the warlock pact with Bathym — the tiefling transformation was the price of voiding Howalyn's contract.
+- **What Howalyn believed:** That she was murdered. He never knew it was a willing sacrifice made for him.
+- **What Weslocke believes:** That Howalyn is alive somewhere, free, living the life she bought him.
+- **What the party knows that she doesn't:** Howalyn is dead — killed by a Maurezhi after she freed him.
+- **Suspected:** Bathym arranged the Maurezhi attack. He let her sacrifice mean nothing.
+- **Her binding:** She cannot willingly drop the shield. She *can* be defeated. She knows the difference and may use it.
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