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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9312954" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>Level +2(10)/Complexity 2 Skill Challenge (DCs 13/18/26)</p><p><strong>4/6 Successes</strong> (0 Hard DC available)/0<strong> Failures</strong>/1 Secondary Skill Available/0 Advantages available)</p><p><strong>Goal</strong>: <em>Deal with the cultist nearing the hearth with the bundle of kindling (slay and deal with the body/the missing personage before the cult becomes the wiser), pilfer the book, egress from the Manor, and access the book's mysteries and the Truename of the Rakshasa (their Firstname before their soul became corrupted and their reincarnation loop began; this would include a Thievery Secondary Skill to open the locked book and a History Primary Skill to pour through the byzantine text and learn the name). This will earn a cascading final success in this nested SC...of the nested SC...of the macro-SC!</em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p><em>The vitality-sucking, malaise-inducing music holds no sway over the priest. The entirety of the cult, led by the very-worried-about-her-home Matron Maderra Lirr, panics at the smoldering rug and the threat of spread of the burning embers near the fireplace. As they wash to the other side of the room like a rolling tide, Valak is easily able to swipe the book and head out into the front hallway, the foyer, and out the front door. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The chamberlain is busy dusting and straightening affairs in that large hall. </em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p>So only a few questions remain:</p><p></p><p>* Remember, the Primary Skill DC is going to be <strong><em>LOW </em></strong>here as you charted the lyre-music course and its potential consequences rather than the family dog. With your +2 from the Nature Secondary Skill here, your Athletics (buffed +5 by Aspect of Might; 6 +5 +2 + r(1) = autosuccceds vs 13) automatically passes the <strong><em>LOW </em></strong>DC, while Stealth only needs a 2 to hit DC 13. If you fail with Stealth, its going to yield a complication where you have to deal with the chamberlain. Obviously, you can't fail with Athletics, but the fiction would mean that you're hauling up the entry-way with speed, no concern for dampening your presence. You'll be flinging the front door open and out onto the lawn and off. However, that means the chamberlin will have spotted you and the cult will be aware that there was an intruder. Consequently, if your subsequent History fails for the book after your auto-successful Athletics, I'm bringing in a cult complication. </p><p></p><p>Now, if your subsequent History with the book fails and you've gone the Stealth route here, I'll be bringing in dark forces inherent to the book itself as a consequence. So which route are you going here? Or do you have some kind of other action declaration on your mind here (that I'm not seeing the inherent fictional positioning for in my mind presently).</p><p></p><p>* If successful, where is Valak running off to in order to pour over the text for the Rakshasa's Firstname (before the fall and the reincarnation loop of corruption)? Is he going back to Morgans should things go south and dark forces emanate from the book? Is he going somewhere in solitude so he doesn't endanger anyone should reading the book prove dangerous?</p><p></p><p>Regardless, <em>make your choices and resolve everything. If you have success on the egress move (whatever it is its at <strong><em>LOW DC</em></strong> due to prior), go wherever you're going with the book and resolve your Thievery SS + History PS.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 9312954, member: 6696971"] Level +2(10)/Complexity 2 Skill Challenge (DCs 13/18/26) [B]4/6 Successes[/B] (0 Hard DC available)/0[B] Failures[/B]/1 Secondary Skill Available/0 Advantages available) [B]Goal[/B]: [I]Deal with the cultist nearing the hearth with the bundle of kindling (slay and deal with the body/the missing personage before the cult becomes the wiser), pilfer the book, egress from the Manor, and access the book's mysteries and the Truename of the Rakshasa (their Firstname before their soul became corrupted and their reincarnation loop began; this would include a Thievery Secondary Skill to open the locked book and a History Primary Skill to pour through the byzantine text and learn the name). This will earn a cascading final success in this nested SC...of the nested SC...of the macro-SC![/I] [HR][/HR] [I]The vitality-sucking, malaise-inducing music holds no sway over the priest. The entirety of the cult, led by the very-worried-about-her-home Matron Maderra Lirr, panics at the smoldering rug and the threat of spread of the burning embers near the fireplace. As they wash to the other side of the room like a rolling tide, Valak is easily able to swipe the book and head out into the front hallway, the foyer, and out the front door. The chamberlain is busy dusting and straightening affairs in that large hall. [/I] [HR][/HR] So only a few questions remain: * Remember, the Primary Skill DC is going to be [B][I]LOW [/I][/B]here as you charted the lyre-music course and its potential consequences rather than the family dog. With your +2 from the Nature Secondary Skill here, your Athletics (buffed +5 by Aspect of Might; 6 +5 +2 + r(1) = autosuccceds vs 13) automatically passes the [B][I]LOW [/I][/B]DC, while Stealth only needs a 2 to hit DC 13. If you fail with Stealth, its going to yield a complication where you have to deal with the chamberlain. Obviously, you can't fail with Athletics, but the fiction would mean that you're hauling up the entry-way with speed, no concern for dampening your presence. You'll be flinging the front door open and out onto the lawn and off. However, that means the chamberlin will have spotted you and the cult will be aware that there was an intruder. Consequently, if your subsequent History fails for the book after your auto-successful Athletics, I'm bringing in a cult complication. Now, if your subsequent History with the book fails and you've gone the Stealth route here, I'll be bringing in dark forces inherent to the book itself as a consequence. So which route are you going here? Or do you have some kind of other action declaration on your mind here (that I'm not seeing the inherent fictional positioning for in my mind presently). * If successful, where is Valak running off to in order to pour over the text for the Rakshasa's Firstname (before the fall and the reincarnation loop of corruption)? Is he going back to Morgans should things go south and dark forces emanate from the book? Is he going somewhere in solitude so he doesn't endanger anyone should reading the book prove dangerous? Regardless, [I]make your choices and resolve everything. If you have success on the egress move (whatever it is its at [B][I]LOW DC[/I][/B] due to prior), go wherever you're going with the book and resolve your Thievery SS + History PS.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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