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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9415306" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Alright, that is a wrap for 4 x conflicts between the 3 PCs.VIGNETTE/RECAPS/XP/LOOT/BOOKKEEPING[HR][/HR]What we've established thus far regarding The Elect in Fallcrest:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They are using Kamroth Estate, which connotes that the cult's means and ends are facilitated by Armos Kamroth, to sponsor their rituals.  They're soaking and bloodletting merchants (who Kamroth has in his pocket) for the material ends of their rituals.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The material components of sacrifice for their rituals are blood and coin, metaphorically the instruments of civilization, which allow the host to be rendered to a suitable form for The Mogul's usage.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A fell creature called The Creep appears to have some kind of slave/master relationship to The Elect.  Its a being who venerates Gnaw, the legendary Elder Primal Spirit of scavengers/carrion/rot/decay...and Elder Spirit "of this world" that both rejected it and was rejected by it in its first moments and henceforth.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Elect has some kind of contact within Moonstone Keep...not the Lord nor Lady, but TBD whom and what purchase they have.</li> </ul>What we've established regarding Nimozaran the Green and The Septarch's Tower:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nimozaran had completed some kind of "upload into the collective" ritual in his chambers in the penthouse of The Septarch's Tower.  It appears that this was something that has been cooking for generations of Septarchs and Starn was whisked away to The Tower of Waiting while this "upload" resolved completely.  Was this a formal component of the ritual; upload Septarch and place Septarch apprentice in stasis at The Tower of Waiting for subsequent grooming to be the new Septarch?  Was this just to get Starn out of the way in order to facilitate Nimozaran's "upload?"</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Like Cardinal Erban's Pelor heresy, there is a Pelor-shaped heresy happening here as well.  Some entity is posing as the deity of sun & summer, the keeper of time and enspelling adherents into various forms of ruination.</li> </ul>What we've established regarding Cardinal Erban and Amros Kamroth and Winterhaven/Fallcrest:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Amros Kamroth is buying up properties and merchants everywhere in Fallcrest and surrounds via hard capital, lending and leverage, and just hard extortion and protection rackets (of which The Elect are clearly a part of that last).  He is the majority landowner and business-owner of Fallcrest at this point.  Looks like a soft or hard coup?  Looks like Cardinal Erban is involved or sponsoring it through his faith?  Probably their respective coups in Fallcrest and Winterhaven are conjoined.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As mentioned, Cardinal Erban's conspiracy against Lord Padraig in Winterhaven is in full-throated execution.  Knigh of Pelor Terjon has just tendered his resignation and has just arrived in Winterhaven before Erban et al to convince Padraig of the coming coup.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Someone of consequence appears to have perished in Winterhaven and is about to be put in the ground and eulogized...or perhaps "someones?"  TBD...</li> </ul>[HR][/HR]XP* Starn Minor Quest:  Protect the Knight from the Cardinal's forces and make sure he's able to get to Winterhaven RESOLVED.  125 xp/3 = 41 xp apiece.* Combat XP:  2 Standards (Ritualist and Crucible) + 2 Minions (Acolytes) = 312/3 = 71 xp apiece.* 3 x Skill Challenges:  C2/Level 2 = 250 + C2/Level 2 = 250 + C1/Level 4 = 175.  675/3 = 225 xp apiece.337 xp apiece.LOOT* 200 Coin.* 1 PC gains a level 4 or lower Magic Item.* 1 PC gains a Potion of Resistance.[ATTACH=full]374154[/ATTACH][HR][/HR]* ALL CHARACTERS TAKE AN EXTENDED REST (recover all Dailies/Healing Surges/start at 1 Action Point) and spend 10 coin for rooms at The Silver Unicorn Inn.* NEW QUESTSLief Minor Quest: Find someone the merchants can give testimony to re: the Elect's involvement with Kamroth.Lief Minor Quest: Warn Lady Markelhay about the Elect in her midst.Lief Minor Quest: Ingratiate himself with Loremaster Seekingstone, to find out why the Elect had Lief kidnap his apprentice.[HR][/HR]STARN and TERJON freshly arrived in WINTERHAVEN...Trading out the bright greens and yellows of her faith for the dark colors of death and passing, Sister Linora leads the procession toward the cemetery.  Behind her, Lord Padraig consoles his inconsolable wife who seems to be on the verge of crumpling with every step.  Behind them, three boys spanning many ages preceding manhood tenderly carry a cedar box...a very small, cedar box.  A coffin.  Three boys.  The Padraigs have four boys.  Had.The youngest has succumbed to some fate...perished, aged 3.It will be days of retreat and mourning for the Padraig family.  There is never a time for the death of a child, but this is Ill-timing indeed.----------------------------What do you do STARN and TERJON ([USER=7028554]@Grendel_Khan[/USER] will be playing Terjon for the next few days as we take a break from the affairs of Fallcrest due to a player being unavailable!)?HARD DC for your opening move here (which is about rousing the Padraig family from their grief).As per our discussion, below is the conflict framework here:Complexity 3 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20)Goal (staged): Rouse the Padraig family from their grief and muster them (5) and Winterhaven itself (8) against Cardinal Erban's heresy and impending coup.0/8 Successes/0 Failures/2 Hard DC Available/3 Secondary Skills Available/2+1 Advantages available due to beating Erban's posse to Winterhaven and arriving with Sir Terjon, Knight of Pelor/Primary Skill Training exhausted;</blockquote>

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