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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9383590" data-attributes="member: 7028554">Starn, sensing Sariel will be quick to investigate, walks in the direction of the children. He picks out one who seems likely to be amenable, and talks to the child, asking him what he's seen. "Did you see what happened to Elijah? Have you seen anything like this here before?"Intent: Starn is attempting to learn as much as he can from Little Bobby. He will also gently question anyone else who happens to volunteer. What he's hoping to get is some kind of description and a handle on where the bad guys may have gone, a direction or perhaps if they flew away or something even more arcane than that.Primary Skill: Diplomacy r12 + 5 = 17 vs medium DC(13). Success.Bobby says the shadows reached out and snatched Elijah. "They came from a long ways away, I could see the mountains, and big trees. It was cold and dark!"Lief strolls across the green, keeping a polite distance from the southern end where Starn is talking to the children, but walking close enough to get a better look at those strange shadows. He examines his own shadow, compares it, surveys the clouds, and tries to find out just how localized this odd trick of the light is—and whether it's deeper and weirder in a particular spot.Intent: Locate the epicenter or greatest concentration of unnatural shadows.Primary Skill: Nature r19 + 3 = 22 vs Hard DC(20). Success.One oak stands out. Set back among the trees, its base robed in shadow, but the rest is smooth and white as bone. Like driftwood jammed into the ground, it seems to radiate death—the nearby boughs of other oaks are unnaturally bare, their leaves fallen around the stubborn corpse tree in a ring.[HR][/HR]Complexity 2 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20)Goal (Staged): Investigate the dark influence on the Market Green (i), force it to reveal itself (ii), banish it or destroy it (iii), and save Elijah from its clutches (iv). (iii-iv) being a nested conflict to resolve.2/6 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/2 Secondary Skills Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Diplomacy, Nature</blockquote>

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