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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9376297" data-attributes="member: 6696971">XP/LOOT* Level 2/Comp 2 SC = 250/3 = 83 xp apiece.* 60 coin* One character gains a level 1 magic item.[HR][/HR]As the sun crests its zenith in the sky, the weary heroes look forward to a much needed, good night's rest.  But first, Starn and Sariel head to Moonstone Keep, the seat of Lord Warden Faren Markelhay, to seek an audience with he and Lady Markelhay.  Starn impresses upon the small window of time that they may have to secure an audience at Moonstone Keep.  Lief reconsiders his accompanying them there, advises he isn't cut out for courtly affairs, and will instead attend to his affairs now and rendezvous with them at the Silver Unicorn Inn this evening.  Starn excitedly endorses the offer![HR][/HR]LEIFComplexity 2 SC, Level 1 (DCs 8/12/19)Goal (Staged): Anonymously reinforce the coffers of Renne's widow and household, surveil for hostiles, and route them should they emerge.0/6 Successes/0 Failures/1 Hard DC Available/2 Secondary Skills Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; naThe Autumn day in Fallcrest.  Its cold.  The stones underfoot are cold.  The windswept streets are cold.  The grim-faced folk offer only coldness.The walk to eastern side of the Bluffs is a relatively pleasant respite for Lief, but when he arrives at the small cabin that marks his destination, the respite ends.  A small child plays at the feet of his mother on the stoop.  In her hand she holds a rope to a starving goat.  She beseeches a dairy trader to take the creature.  Surely he can sure up its body, restoring it to its prior status.  June (the goat) was a fine producer only two months prior.  She'll trade June right now for a single bottle of milk.She's desperate and near tears.The trader inspects the goat with a face that betrays neither charity nor interest.Across the way, on the other side of the dividing dirt road, an abandoned manor lies in molded, decrepit ruins.  In a large, prosperous city it would have been condemned and leveled.  Here in Fallcrest, it persists as a constant reminder of the hard times, the squalor, the decay.  Beyond the fieldstone wall, in the shadow of the open, creaking door of the once fine house...the haunting, long face of the stag stares at Lief in either silent judgement or instruction...perhaps both.  It turns slowly...disappears in the manor house.What do you do, Lief?[HR][/HR]SARIEL AND STARNComplexity 3 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20)Goal: (3 Successes) Secure an audience with the Lord and Lady of Fallcrest.  (5 Successes) Suss out the presence of malign fey influence in Fallcrest and convince the rulers to lend aid to Starn's ingress to the Septarch Tower and in Sariel's search for his missing brother.0/8 Successes/0 Failures/2 Hard DC Available/3 Secondary Skills Available/2 Advantages Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; na* Wager an Advantage on a High DC for 2 x successes.* Spend an Advantage to step down a Medium DC Primary Skill Check to the Low DC.* Refresh a Primary Skill Training.Their horses' hooves clatter off the cobblestones as the pair climb the steep-sided hill overlooking Fallcrest.  The old castle of Moonstone Keep jutts skyward before them, hidden behind the outer bailey.  The smell of stale straw, dung, and  woodsmoke.  The sound of weapons clashing, soldiers milling, orders given and received.  The portcullis is down.  The heavy wooden door that accesses the interior wall firmly shut.  No grim-faced guards man the parapets.  The stable connected to the exterior wall features a young boy and girl, the pair brushing and caring for several horses.  The girl stares heavily at the odd pair as she goes about her work, not listening to the boy's excited news."Did you hear?  I mean...you had to have heard.  All of Fallcrest could hear the sound was so loud.  What I mean to say is, did you hear that Garrison Commander Edmunds is going to be leading a full platoon of soldiers and engineers to the isle of The Tower of Waiting to inspect what happened?"He regards the absence of the girls attention.  "Are you listening to me at all, Gwen?  This is serious.  Ill-tidings, there can be no doubt."What do you do Sariel and Starn?</blockquote>

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