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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9384037" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Posting for [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] STARN recognizes this tree from an illustration in an ancient book he, typical Starn, was reading on the sly because Master Nimozaran had restricted it. When Fallcrest was founded, there were dark deeds done under this tree, best forgotten. Among the humans and the native shifters were 2 lovers. Dark Fey hung the human girl to provoke a war. Later the Eldar nobles and the Markelhays ended the conflict, but the shifters were pushed north by Nerathi settlers in the end.* Starn Primary Skill Check check to recall the name of the tree, so can practice it on his tongue in order to speak it and weave a word of binding or commanding; r(1) +10 =11.  FAILS.  Group takes -2 penalty forward to Primary Skill Check.[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/1 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/2 Secondary Skills Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Diplomacy, Nature, History.Starn does recall the facts of the tree correctly.  However, the tree is without name and its history buried to the annals of time for all of Fallcrest's citizenry...that is except for those very few with access to The Septarch's Tower.  The tree lost its innocence during this period.  The water did not slake its thirst.  It no longer reached toward the glorious radiance of the sun.  It now fed on...other things.And it wasn't long before The Unseelie Queen Mab, formerly light of heart but now shadowed forevermore just like the tree, found the broken thing and gave it dread purpose.  It now serves as a Dark Feygrove where Unseelie can enter this world during a New Moon.And...somehow...the tree knows that Starn has uncovered its past, its present.  A whisper comes through the void, something terrible beckons for this is no New Moon.  The frightened children surrounding Starn become transfixed suddenly...they reach out at tendrils of nothingness with marvel in their eyes...desperately trying to touch it...or catch it.  They are drawn to the tree...nearer and nearer... (1) Meanwhile, the keen ears of Leif and Sariel can faintly hear a child crying from the upper boughs of the Dark Feygrove Tree.  As the wind blows to attempt to steal Elijah's voice from their perceptions, the pair only see a cast shadow briefly, but barely more. (2)[HR][/HR]MEDIUM DC for both (1) and (2)First move takes -2 forward Primary Skill Check as above.</blockquote>

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