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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9287994" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p><em>Deep in the dark bowels of an otherworldly, unhallow domain, a roiling miasma swirls around the spectral form of a skittering behemoth. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Still wearing the horrible injuries in unlife as it did in life, Grimtail undergoes wretched transformation; elongating, splintering, molting, oozing as shadowstuff.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Rise Nightwalker," a terrible voice as old as the world slithers from somewhere. "Become my Shadowcrawler. If they will subvert my designs on Time and on Death...then you will steal the lives of their beloved...one by one..."</em></p><p></p><p><strong>COMPLICATION FROM SUBVERTING THE TEMPORAL CONTINUITY</strong>: Nerull claims Grimtail's soul and changes the creature, enlists it into the dread God's employ. Offscreen, I'll assassinate vulnerable, established NPCs from our game on failed Primary Skill Checks now and again until you put a stop to this.</p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p><strong>4/10 Successes</strong> (1 Hard DC available)/0<strong> Failures</strong>/2 Secondary Skill Available/2 Advantages available)</p><p><strong>Goal</strong>: <em>Elevate and maximize the young Empress' capacity of rulership (first 6 successes) and convince her to establish a new political order in Bantouk with a counterbalancing Senate (last 4 successes).</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><Empress</em> <em>Scheherezade's Journal></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Day 12</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I am puzzled.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Something strange happened at the Congresss of Savagery. Something more than is being communicated to me. Everyone is so very tight-lipped. Like they're protecting me from something?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I can't stand it!</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Now and again, I'm witnessing strange events that I can't tell if it is real or if it is my mind playing tricks on me:</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* My shadow seems to behave abnormally, seeming to very briefly defy natural law as I know it.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* The sound of the fire in the hearth isn't...quite right...like its backwards?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* I know that Tawny Eagles can bear a resemblance to one another. But on the evening after the events at the Congress I was sky-gazing on my balcony. I saw one take flight from its perch on my balcony rail...it snatched a tree snake and flew off. I looked back to where it perched prior. By the Gods, I <strong>swear </strong>I saw another of its exact like take flight in another direction! </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I have exhausted my resources in the royal library looking for fables or such events on record. What I can find strikes me as fantasy or just...too...odd.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>I will ask them tomorrow and they will give me an answer.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><and so she does></em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p>Scheherezade is committed. If you tell her true and explain the event or give it historical context (possibly putting her in danger...but maybe danger she could manage?), its at the <em><strong>MEDIUM DC</strong></em>.</p><p></p><p>If you try to beg her off the subject or bluff her in some way (or something like this), its at the <strong><em>HARD DC</em></strong>.</p><p></p><p>What do you do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 9287994, member: 6696971"] [I]Deep in the dark bowels of an otherworldly, unhallow domain, a roiling miasma swirls around the spectral form of a skittering behemoth. Still wearing the horrible injuries in unlife as it did in life, Grimtail undergoes wretched transformation; elongating, splintering, molting, oozing as shadowstuff. "Rise Nightwalker," a terrible voice as old as the world slithers from somewhere. "Become my Shadowcrawler. If they will subvert my designs on Time and on Death...then you will steal the lives of their beloved...one by one..."[/I] [B]COMPLICATION FROM SUBVERTING THE TEMPORAL CONTINUITY[/B]: Nerull claims Grimtail's soul and changes the creature, enlists it into the dread God's employ. Offscreen, I'll assassinate vulnerable, established NPCs from our game on failed Primary Skill Checks now and again until you put a stop to this. [HR][/HR] [B]4/10 Successes[/B] (1 Hard DC available)/0[B] Failures[/B]/2 Secondary Skill Available/2 Advantages available) [B]Goal[/B]: [I]Elevate and maximize the young Empress' capacity of rulership (first 6 successes) and convince her to establish a new political order in Bantouk with a counterbalancing Senate (last 4 successes). <Empress[/I] [I]Scheherezade's Journal> Day 12 I am puzzled. Something strange happened at the Congresss of Savagery. Something more than is being communicated to me. Everyone is so very tight-lipped. Like they're protecting me from something? I can't stand it! Now and again, I'm witnessing strange events that I can't tell if it is real or if it is my mind playing tricks on me: * My shadow seems to behave abnormally, seeming to very briefly defy natural law as I know it. * The sound of the fire in the hearth isn't...quite right...like its backwards? * I know that Tawny Eagles can bear a resemblance to one another. But on the evening after the events at the Congress I was sky-gazing on my balcony. I saw one take flight from its perch on my balcony rail...it snatched a tree snake and flew off. I looked back to where it perched prior. By the Gods, I [B]swear [/B]I saw another of its exact like take flight in another direction! I have exhausted my resources in the royal library looking for fables or such events on record. What I can find strikes me as fantasy or just...too...odd. I will ask them tomorrow and they will give me an answer. <and so she does>[/I] [HR][/HR] Scheherezade is committed. If you tell her true and explain the event or give it historical context (possibly putting her in danger...but maybe danger she could manage?), its at the [I][B]MEDIUM DC[/B][/I]. If you try to beg her off the subject or bluff her in some way (or something like this), its at the [B][I]HARD DC[/I][/B]. What do you do? [/QUOTE]
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