"I think an open, honest approach would be better than trying to sneak up; my cousin was a sometime horse-thief, and he told me that if the horse spooks, you will never catch it. These unicorns are intelligent, by any standard, so if they see us sneaking and decide we're up to no good, we might as well quit, because we'll never catch them." Sabynha was still working out in her mind, just how this was going to work at all, but she tried to sound confident.
"Follow me, friends, and try to look... 'unthreatening'."
Sabynha began walking from the forest edge and into the meadow, with her arms wide, and unthreatening. The peace-bond on her blade was clearly visible, and she walked slowly. The vistani called upon everything she knew of her heritage, and spoke as eloquently as she could muster in the fey tongue of her ancestors,
"vedui' vanya shee-rokko lye ier sinome e' seere."
[sblock=actions, translation]I just used an online elvish translator, and used words as close as I could, but the gist of it is, "greetings fair unicorns, we come in peace."
Sabynha is using
Words of Friendship, for a +5 and claiming the +2 for speaking elven. I'm not including anything for 'aid another' checks that anyone else might want to make, nor any potential effect of the peace bonds. I will also use
Inspire Competence to give everyone else a +2 Diplomacy for the encounter, stacking with the +1 Racial bonus I'm granting as well for a total of +3.
1d20+12+5+2=31 Not bad!
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