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<blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9313520" data-attributes="member: 7044099"><p><em>Valak ducks around the corner as the chamberlain straightens in confusion at the shouts coming from back towards the great hall. As that personage begins to walk slowly in the direction of the meeting chamber, duster held loosely in hand, the avenger crouches down and stills to immobility, then darts forward low on silent feet past him towards the exit from this foyer and the house entire. A momentary step on a creaky board almost gives him away, but just before he'd turn around to gaze over the entry the chamberlain's attention is caught by a bellowed summons from the lady of the house. Slipping out into the grounds, Valak vanishes into the night, book clutched in his hands.</em></p><p><em>______________________</em></p><p>Primary skill use: Stealth to slip past the chamberlain and away. </p><p>R4 + 9 + 2 = 15 vs DC13 <strong>SUCCESS. </strong></p><p><em>______________________</em></p><p><em>A few minutes later finds him cresting a hillock away from the manor house and the town proper. The bright moon shines down, giving him the illumination needed to fumble around with the clasp on the book. While not particularly strong, the lock is small and delicate - and no doubt contains enchantments meant to foil a thief or someone not initiated in the full cult mysteries. Thievery is not one of Valak's strong suits, more a flashing blade from the side, but he can make do with what he's got. A straightened hair pin from his pouch (who knows why that was there) serves just enough to tease the tumblers open, an with a <em>click</em> the lock gives way and the names within are revealed.</em></p><p>_______________________</p><p></p><p>Secondary Skill use: Thievery to get the lock off and get inside the book.</p><p>R10 + 7 = 17 vs DC13 <strong>SUCCESS</strong></p><p></p><p>_______________________</p><p></p><p><em>Turning the pages slowly, he squints to bring the hand written names into focus under the wan light shining down from overhead. Nothing on the first few pages, all names common to the vale here, and as he continues to page a rising sense of dread comes from the book in his hands and the ink starts to run - he can sense he has little time before some enchantment notices he is not permitted to be reading these words and something bad happens. Flipping the pages faster and faster he suddenly arrives at a page blank but for one name, as if the import of that one was so powerful the page could hold naught else. At first the letters refuse to make sense, and then they start to glow silver in the shimmer of the moon; brighter and brighter until with a shout he flings the book away, all he can see the letters superimposed in his vision and folding themselves into the shape of the mark that one sat on Osian's back. </em><strong>RAHAM ELIACH</strong> <em>is the true-name revealed, although as his sight returns Valak is grimly certain that whatever form that fallen Deva now wears, it has surrendered its knowledge of the name which it bore when that spirit was great and good to the dark power this book is dedicated too.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>He gathers the book up and locks the claps once more before starting his slow measured walk back towards Morgan's shop, and the children there to gather up as his small flock to counter the dark designs of a rakshasa and its master.</em></p><p>______________________</p><p></p><p>Primary Skill Use: History to recognize the true-name name of a fallen deva.</p><p>R14 + 7 = 21 vs DC18 <strong>SUCCESS</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zakael19, post: 9313520, member: 7044099"] [I]Valak ducks around the corner as the chamberlain straightens in confusion at the shouts coming from back towards the great hall. As that personage begins to walk slowly in the direction of the meeting chamber, duster held loosely in hand, the avenger crouches down and stills to immobility, then darts forward low on silent feet past him towards the exit from this foyer and the house entire. A momentary step on a creaky board almost gives him away, but just before he'd turn around to gaze over the entry the chamberlain's attention is caught by a bellowed summons from the lady of the house. Slipping out into the grounds, Valak vanishes into the night, book clutched in his hands. ______________________[/I] Primary skill use: Stealth to slip past the chamberlain and away. R4 + 9 + 2 = 15 vs DC13 [B]SUCCESS. [/B] [I]______________________ A few minutes later finds him cresting a hillock away from the manor house and the town proper. The bright moon shines down, giving him the illumination needed to fumble around with the clasp on the book. While not particularly strong, the lock is small and delicate - and no doubt contains enchantments meant to foil a thief or someone not initiated in the full cult mysteries. Thievery is not one of Valak's strong suits, more a flashing blade from the side, but he can make do with what he's got. A straightened hair pin from his pouch (who knows why that was there) serves just enough to tease the tumblers open, an with a [I]click[/I] the lock gives way and the names within are revealed.[/I] _______________________ Secondary Skill use: Thievery to get the lock off and get inside the book. R10 + 7 = 17 vs DC13 [B]SUCCESS[/B] _______________________ [I]Turning the pages slowly, he squints to bring the hand written names into focus under the wan light shining down from overhead. Nothing on the first few pages, all names common to the vale here, and as he continues to page a rising sense of dread comes from the book in his hands and the ink starts to run - he can sense he has little time before some enchantment notices he is not permitted to be reading these words and something bad happens. Flipping the pages faster and faster he suddenly arrives at a page blank but for one name, as if the import of that one was so powerful the page could hold naught else. At first the letters refuse to make sense, and then they start to glow silver in the shimmer of the moon; brighter and brighter until with a shout he flings the book away, all he can see the letters superimposed in his vision and folding themselves into the shape of the mark that one sat on Osian's back. [/I][B]RAHAM ELIACH[/B] [I]is the true-name revealed, although as his sight returns Valak is grimly certain that whatever form that fallen Deva now wears, it has surrendered its knowledge of the name which it bore when that spirit was great and good to the dark power this book is dedicated too. He gathers the book up and locks the claps once more before starting his slow measured walk back towards Morgan's shop, and the children there to gather up as his small flock to counter the dark designs of a rakshasa and its master.[/I] ______________________ Primary Skill Use: History to recognize the true-name name of a fallen deva. R14 + 7 = 21 vs DC18 [B]SUCCESS[/B] [/QUOTE]
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