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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9420288" data-attributes="member: 7028554">TERJON glances at STARN, momentarily at a loss, wishing for some arcane salvation. How long has it been since someone asked to be his squire? How long since someone was worthy? And this boy? This boy..."You honor me," he says, "A word?" The knight smiles warmly, and gestures to Lord Padraig. Emil sneers at this awkward deflection. "Unbelievable" he mutters, loud enough for all to hear, as he follows Terjon to speak with his family.Terjon stands between lord and son, as though mediating, but he speaks mostly to the father. "I do not know your son, nor he me. I would never dare question his faith in Pelor, nor his heart. And though no order is honor-bound to accept a request to squire, I find myself...moved." He looks Emil in the eye now. "You do this on a whim, maybe, without consideration, perhaps, but I see it in you—you will keep your oath."He puts a hand on the boy's shoulder, and addresses the lord again. "My oath to you is that, if in a half-year's time I'm still alive, I will return here, and conduct an honest trial to determine Emil's fitness to serve as a squire to me, and to Pelor. I assure you, this is no empty delay. I have enemies. They mean to kill me. I won't make them your enemies," Terjon says to Emil. "Not yet. Six months time, then, to prepare yourself. If I live I'll be back, I swear it."Intent: Delay the squire question, and deescalate tension between the boy and his father.Secondary Skill: Diplomacy. r(4)+4 = 8 vs. Easy DC (9). Fail.Primary Skill: Insight (with penalty for Secondary fail and -1 ongoing). r(15)+3-2-1 = 15 vs. Medium DC (13). Success. Save to stop -1 ongoing. r(12), SE.[HR][/HR]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.2/8 Successes/1 Failures/1 Hard DC Available/2 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; Diplomacy, Insight.</blockquote>

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