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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9417973" data-attributes="member: 7028554">LIEF stammers, looks for the words to explain...everything. It's too much. To tell people like Starn, Sariel, and Vorn what he is, what he was forced to do—happy to do?—for the Elect was one thing. To reveal that to this holy man, in front of these children, with the startled eyes of the lyre player on him, a girl whose skull he could have just as easily caved in with that sling bullet. He'd sooner tear his claws out. He'd rather let the Mogul's jaws close around his face.The shifter spits out one word. "Please." He pulls the elf back across the road, up the steps, and into the temple. Lief shakes his head when Ressilmae, still woozy from the Elect's arcane working, tries to pull away, batters him with questions. Lief lets the priest go and hauls the mattress aside. The primordial runes stink, the grooves in the wood filled with a still-wet resin, the spit-mixed brew of strange moss and the jerky-like hide of some poor victim."I was one of them," Lief says, tears in his eyes. "I'm still one of them!" He collapses at Ressilmae's feet, wracked by sobs for the first time in his life.Intent: Show Ressilmae what Lief is, and why he needs his help.Primary Skill: Athletics. r(6)+7 = 13 vs. Medium DC (13). Success.Later, after Lief's composed himself and Ressilmae's made sure the children got home safely, the shifter does his best to tell his story. He does it in fits and starts on the way to the Silver Unicorn Inn. His constant refrain is that no one should believe him, of course not, he's not to be trusted. But the merchants can tell what they know. And if he believes them, then maybe the Markelhays will believe Ressilmae. Then he clutches the elf's arm like a child still in the grips of a nightmare. The Elect has a believer in the castle! "Look!" he says, showing the holy man the cryptic letter with the Markelhay seal.Ressilmae listens, for the most part, asking questions but offering no comfort except his continued presence. Every so often the elf looks back. He sees a large stag following them, head drooped and eyes weary.[HR][/HR]Complexity 2 SC, Level 3 (DCs 9/13/21)Goal (staged): Assess the elven priest of Sehanine, Ressilmae Starlight, and convince him to take on the burden of the merchants' testimony of Kamroth and The Elect affairs.6/6 Successes/1 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/0 Secondary Skills Available/0 Advantages available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Insight, Stealth, Arcana, Diplomacy, Acrobatics, ATK, Athletics</blockquote>

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