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<blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 5686833" data-attributes="member: 100"><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>“Your words are kind and gracious. You do your mother proud. It is late and my song is done; I’m off to dream of the stars above Evermeet. What brings you here at midnight, Hal? Are you visiting one of our guests? I could summon them for you if their light is on and they are awake.”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u>“No need to summon anyone, Milady, though I would ask a question of you. Have you seen a visitor to your establishment, a large muscular woman called Vorass or the Maul? I am told she has been coming here to meet with a guest, a “small wizard,” he was described to me. If you have, could you tell me about their meetings, how long have they been happening for, and for what length of time do they speak?</p><p></p><p>“Milady, I must tell you I dare cross the boundaries of privacy only in the interest of truth, for know I am on an errand of life or death.”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>“Hal, how many decades of life have you seen to know life and death stakes that would cause me to break my oaths of hearth and home? It is common knowledge that I have several War Wizards from Cormyr and their apprentices, along with several knights of the Purple Dragon here to take note of the damage to the Dalelands done during the Scardale uprising but more than that I cannot say.”</p><p></p><p>It is at this point the fact that she has never referred to you as Whitewyrm might or might not become apparent.</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u>“I am child to your immortal eyes, Milady, born of Human and Elf blood yet fully of neither, so my years on this land are but a blink to you. But please do know that in those years I have seen more death than some will see in a lifetime, more violent theft of life than any sane living being should witness, more blood spilled for the mere whim of those in power than any eye should bear. And yet I live and continue to think that there is good in this world. It is a feature of my mortal Human blood, I’m afraid. I would never seek to make you break your oath of hearth and home, may the blood of my father of Clan Whitewyrm be taken from my veins, but someone’s life is at stake. And by the same sanctity of that precious gift the gods have entrusted us all in varying lengths, I will not see life’s flame extinguished if there is no good reason to do so.</p><p></p><p>“Milady Starnar, please I beg of you, help me to uphold Justice. I would be in your debt.”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>You feel the weight of over two centuries of wisdom, leadership and grace in her eyes. She considers your words with all of that time’s accumulated experience and responds simply, almost lyrically.</p><p></p><p>“No.”</p><p></p><p><em>Duel of Wits?</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u>Yup.</p><p></p><p><em>Body of Argument: 5 (Will + 2 successes halved down)</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I have my script for the opening exchange done.</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u><em>Might not want to script before you see her BoA.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>She rolls 4 successes due to her Gray Will. Her BoA is 8.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I think you’ve both stated your BoA’s in words above. Let’s do this. I’m going to prepare her first 3 scripts.</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u><em>(I figured we had both stated our BoAs well just prior, that’s why I went ahead and scripted. If we run into a situation where the BoA isn’t well stated, I will always wait then.)</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u><em>Point – Rebuttal – Dismiss</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u><em>Feint – Rebuttal – Point</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Here’s my feint.</em></p><p></p><p>“Are you sure this is about the rights of your patrons or about your disguised dislike of my mixed blood? Do not think I haven’t noticed you’ve never mentioned my father’s clan name.”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>Her words cut through yours like an elven spear through orc-flesh.</p><p></p><p>“Your claim to the Whitewyrm name is as thin as your right to know my patrons’ comings and goings.”</p><p></p><p><em>2 Successes. Hal’s BoA: 3. Keleb’s BoA: 8. Your scripting instincts were solid but you zigged instead of zagged…just bad effing luck. We should have set more clear stakes but it seemed obvious. If you win, she tells you what you want to know and if she wins, her patrons’ secrets remain secret. Would you like to describe the Rebuttal on Rebuttal, in which you both talk over and past each other to no effect.</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u><em>My rebuttal.</em></p><p></p><p>“My claim to the Whitewyrm name is not what is at stake here right now, Milady, and to drag such a business into this argument is a weak and dare I say cowardly move to dismiss my righteous plea to you.”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u><em>Her’s.</em></p><p></p><p>“Weak and cowardly is you asking me to peak through my patron’s windows and betray their trust for your youngling adventures.”</p><p></p><p><em>Next up, you Point as she Dismisses. You go first.</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u><em>My Point (with a dash of Incite).</em></p><p></p><p>“Milady, I say this to you: you are letting your immortal view of the world rule over reason, and your lack of help could mean mortal blood on your hands.”</p><p></p><p><em>Will Test + 1 Persona artha: 2,4,4,5,5 – 2 successes (halved down).</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>“Your mortal view of the world does not allow you to know what reason is, much less sit in judgment over my responsibilities. My inn is and information concerning those sleeping within the protection of my songs and spears are closed to you, young Hal. The one they call Little Wizard is not, in fact, a wizard but an apprentice wizard, studying to be a War Wizard of Cormyr.”</p><p></p><p><em>3 successes. Your BoA is 0 and her’s stands at 6. You have earned a minor compromise. What exactly were you looking for and what do you think is a fair minor compromise?</em></p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>The Elven Matriarch turns and leaves, the autumn wind strumming a few notes out of her harp in her wake.</p><p></p><p>From out a window of the inn, climbs Vorass. A young man’s head peaks out, smiles and kisses her and she deftly pulls herself up for one last kiss before dropping to the ground. He hands her the hammer and holds for a moment.</p><p></p><p>“Be safe.”</p><p></p><p>“No, I’ll be skilled. You be safe, War Wizard.”</p><p></p><p>They are looking at each other one last time and have not seen you yet.</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u><em>Ouch, her Dismissal is actually just walking away. Zing.</em></p><p></p><p>Annoyed at the turn of events, I walk out of the inn. I then notice Vorass. I do my best to hide until she has passed <em>(Inconspicuous Test: 6,2,3,5 = 2 successes)</em>, and assuming she does not see me, once she’s a few step ahead of me I say, “Lovely night for a walk, wouldn’t you say, Vorass?”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u><em>3 successes on her Perception check but she doesn’t have Observation training, so its halved and she did not, in fact, see you.</em></p><p></p><p>Not knowing how much you saw, Vorass plays it cool. “No night this short could be lovely. I’m on the barrel in half a bell. What about you? Business to tidy up at the Silver Shield, Hal?”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">Player:</p><p></u>“You could say that. I wanted to have few words with you, if I may. I am sorry that events tonight with The Hunt did not turn out so well for you. I hope you bear no ill will toward me or my beloved for your—our leader’s actions.</p><p></p><p>“Vorass, we fight a dark fight against an even darker foe. I have learned Blackhand’s reasons to war on the Keep, but what about yours? Please forgive my blunt rudeness in asking; time is short.”</p><p></p><p><u><p style="text-align: center">GM:</p><p></u>“Leader’s actions? The captain didn’t do anything wrong. I thought letting you two in was smart.</p><p></p><p>“I’m a soldier, plain and simple. Its all I know. I’ve warred from here to the Sword Coast and back. I don’t have a dramatic reason for taking on the Hunt’s enemy but I chose to leave the life of a mercenary soldier to do this adventuring. I don’t know what to tell you, Hal. What are you looking for from me and why?”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paka, post: 5686833, member: 100"] [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] “Your words are kind and gracious. You do your mother proud. It is late and my song is done; I’m off to dream of the stars above Evermeet. What brings you here at midnight, Hal? Are you visiting one of our guests? I could summon them for you if their light is on and they are awake.” [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] “No need to summon anyone, Milady, though I would ask a question of you. Have you seen a visitor to your establishment, a large muscular woman called Vorass or the Maul? I am told she has been coming here to meet with a guest, a “small wizard,” he was described to me. If you have, could you tell me about their meetings, how long have they been happening for, and for what length of time do they speak? “Milady, I must tell you I dare cross the boundaries of privacy only in the interest of truth, for know I am on an errand of life or death.” [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] “Hal, how many decades of life have you seen to know life and death stakes that would cause me to break my oaths of hearth and home? It is common knowledge that I have several War Wizards from Cormyr and their apprentices, along with several knights of the Purple Dragon here to take note of the damage to the Dalelands done during the Scardale uprising but more than that I cannot say.” It is at this point the fact that she has never referred to you as Whitewyrm might or might not become apparent. [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] “I am child to your immortal eyes, Milady, born of Human and Elf blood yet fully of neither, so my years on this land are but a blink to you. But please do know that in those years I have seen more death than some will see in a lifetime, more violent theft of life than any sane living being should witness, more blood spilled for the mere whim of those in power than any eye should bear. And yet I live and continue to think that there is good in this world. It is a feature of my mortal Human blood, I’m afraid. I would never seek to make you break your oath of hearth and home, may the blood of my father of Clan Whitewyrm be taken from my veins, but someone’s life is at stake. And by the same sanctity of that precious gift the gods have entrusted us all in varying lengths, I will not see life’s flame extinguished if there is no good reason to do so. “Milady Starnar, please I beg of you, help me to uphold Justice. I would be in your debt.” [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] You feel the weight of over two centuries of wisdom, leadership and grace in her eyes. She considers your words with all of that time’s accumulated experience and responds simply, almost lyrically. “No.” [I]Duel of Wits?[/I] [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] Yup. [I]Body of Argument: 5 (Will + 2 successes halved down) I have my script for the opening exchange done.[/I] [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] [I]Might not want to script before you see her BoA. She rolls 4 successes due to her Gray Will. Her BoA is 8. I think you’ve both stated your BoA’s in words above. Let’s do this. I’m going to prepare her first 3 scripts.[/I] [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] [I](I figured we had both stated our BoAs well just prior, that’s why I went ahead and scripted. If we run into a situation where the BoA isn’t well stated, I will always wait then.)[/I] [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] [I]Point – Rebuttal – Dismiss[/I] [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] [I]Feint – Rebuttal – Point Here’s my feint.[/I] “Are you sure this is about the rights of your patrons or about your disguised dislike of my mixed blood? Do not think I haven’t noticed you’ve never mentioned my father’s clan name.” [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] Her words cut through yours like an elven spear through orc-flesh. “Your claim to the Whitewyrm name is as thin as your right to know my patrons’ comings and goings.” [I]2 Successes. Hal’s BoA: 3. Keleb’s BoA: 8. Your scripting instincts were solid but you zigged instead of zagged…just bad effing luck. We should have set more clear stakes but it seemed obvious. If you win, she tells you what you want to know and if she wins, her patrons’ secrets remain secret. Would you like to describe the Rebuttal on Rebuttal, in which you both talk over and past each other to no effect.[/I] [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] [I]My rebuttal.[/I] “My claim to the Whitewyrm name is not what is at stake here right now, Milady, and to drag such a business into this argument is a weak and dare I say cowardly move to dismiss my righteous plea to you.” [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] [I]Her’s.[/I] “Weak and cowardly is you asking me to peak through my patron’s windows and betray their trust for your youngling adventures.” [I]Next up, you Point as she Dismisses. You go first.[/I] [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] [I]My Point (with a dash of Incite).[/I] “Milady, I say this to you: you are letting your immortal view of the world rule over reason, and your lack of help could mean mortal blood on your hands.” [I]Will Test + 1 Persona artha: 2,4,4,5,5 – 2 successes (halved down).[/I] [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] “Your mortal view of the world does not allow you to know what reason is, much less sit in judgment over my responsibilities. My inn is and information concerning those sleeping within the protection of my songs and spears are closed to you, young Hal. The one they call Little Wizard is not, in fact, a wizard but an apprentice wizard, studying to be a War Wizard of Cormyr.” [I]3 successes. Your BoA is 0 and her’s stands at 6. You have earned a minor compromise. What exactly were you looking for and what do you think is a fair minor compromise?[/I] [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] The Elven Matriarch turns and leaves, the autumn wind strumming a few notes out of her harp in her wake. From out a window of the inn, climbs Vorass. A young man’s head peaks out, smiles and kisses her and she deftly pulls herself up for one last kiss before dropping to the ground. He hands her the hammer and holds for a moment. “Be safe.” “No, I’ll be skilled. You be safe, War Wizard.” They are looking at each other one last time and have not seen you yet. [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] [I]Ouch, her Dismissal is actually just walking away. Zing.[/I] Annoyed at the turn of events, I walk out of the inn. I then notice Vorass. I do my best to hide until she has passed [I](Inconspicuous Test: 6,2,3,5 = 2 successes)[/I], and assuming she does not see me, once she’s a few step ahead of me I say, “Lovely night for a walk, wouldn’t you say, Vorass?” [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] [I]3 successes on her Perception check but she doesn’t have Observation training, so its halved and she did not, in fact, see you.[/I] Not knowing how much you saw, Vorass plays it cool. “No night this short could be lovely. I’m on the barrel in half a bell. What about you? Business to tidy up at the Silver Shield, Hal?” [U][CENTER]Player:[/CENTER][/U] “You could say that. I wanted to have few words with you, if I may. I am sorry that events tonight with The Hunt did not turn out so well for you. I hope you bear no ill will toward me or my beloved for your—our leader’s actions. “Vorass, we fight a dark fight against an even darker foe. I have learned Blackhand’s reasons to war on the Keep, but what about yours? Please forgive my blunt rudeness in asking; time is short.” [U][CENTER]GM:[/CENTER][/U] “Leader’s actions? The captain didn’t do anything wrong. I thought letting you two in was smart. “I’m a soldier, plain and simple. Its all I know. I’ve warred from here to the Sword Coast and back. I don’t have a dramatic reason for taking on the Hunt’s enemy but I chose to leave the life of a mercenary soldier to do this adventuring. I don’t know what to tell you, Hal. What are you looking for from me and why?” [/QUOTE]
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