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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9404808" data-attributes="member: 6696971">PRIMARY Complexity 3 SC, Level 3 (DCs 9/13/21)Goal: Gain access to the grounds and manor of Kamroth Estate to root out the Elect cell's influence and the estate's role in facilitating the ends of the cult's patron, The Hidden Mogul.4/8 Successes/0 Failures/1 Hard DC Available/2 Secondary Skills Available/0 Advantages Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Diplomacy, Perception, Bluff[HR][/HR]LEIF IN THE BUNKER"You reveal yourself when you make the decision of your own blood over a very simple donation of your coin to our cause.  Like your blood, The Mogul does come, foolish merchants.  But unlike your blood's flow, The Mogul's wrath and will are both boundless."<Drip, drip, drip>  The blood flows from the four naked merchants hanging via chains anchored to the ceiling.  Four human attendants, no older than fourteen or fifteen, perform the grisly work of subtly opening them up so that their life ebbs into a catchment basin below.  Not a one of them betray a visage of enjoying it but neither is there an expression of abject revulsion.  One of them, the youngest and a boy, has a hand that trembles as he does his "work."The Snowfang Shifter ritualist looks up at the swinging bodies above her as the chains subtly rustle and echo in the cavernous bunker.  Lief recognizes her face, her voice, her penchant for cruelty, and her fetish for blood-bathing as she does now."I'll return in one hour.  Trust me when I say your bodies will not allow you two.  Patronage and a pledge to our lord will buy you reprieve and freedom.  I think you understand what the inverse will afford you."After entering and traversing a torchlit corridor, Leif takes this in from an elevated, obstructed position roughly the same height as the swinging merchants who are some 30-40 feet from him.  An iron ladder leads to the floor some 15 feet below.  The ritualist is exiting down a ground-level corridor much like the one Leif entered through.What does he do?[HR][/HR]STARN AT THE BACK OF PADRAIG HOUSEA gazebo on the open green features food being prepared by a quad of cooks.A figure dressed in the colors and religious trappings of a powerful figure in Pelor's faith anoints a newborn babe's head with water from a basin and performs various liturgy, ultimately presenting the infant skyward, the full rays of the sun enveloping it.  "I, Cardinal Erban, devote this child, the first of this Kamroth line and the first of all Kamroths to receive such a birthright, to you, our lord.  May your Everlight kindle a timeless strength and wisdom befitting one that is destined is to rule."The small seating arrangement on the green is clearly a select number of the well-to-do of Nentir Vale, including Armos Kamroth himself.  They clap in a monotone and regard each other with smiles that take in their faces full.This is the house reserved for the present Winterhaven Lord, a rough and rustic ruler who commanded The Winterhaven Regulars; watchmen and peace officers all.  Curiously, neither he nor his outfit are amongst these numbers.What do you do?</blockquote>

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