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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9429083" data-attributes="member: 6696971">STARN & TERJONComplexity 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.3/8 Successes/2 Failures/1 Hard DC Available/2 Secondary Skills Available/2 Advantages Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Diplomacy, Insight, ReligionThe mechanical complication here is that I'm removing that +1 Advantage that you did have for beating Erban's posse to Winterhaven and arriving with Sir Terjon, Knight of Pelor.  Now you have only the default 2 x Advantages for this Skill Challenge.[HR][/HR]"You're awake," comes the voice of Ernest Padraig to Starn's ears.Whether Starn actually didn't actually know that the drink was laced with some agent, whether Starn was actually asleep or faking it <"I built up a resistance to iocaine powder...">, he is in the stocks beneath The Warrior's Guild of Winterhaven.Eyes fixed on Starn, the Padraig shouts "bring him in."The door opens and a gruff, bearded, fur & skins from head to toe fellow ushers in Terjon.  "Right this way," says Rond Kelfem, captain of the Winterhaven Regulars and lead Ranger.  Terjon enters the room flanked by a meticulously groomed figure in robes carrying a book.  Terjon reflexively balks and nearly goes for the hilt of his weapon before tempering himself "...what is the meaning of this?"The individual that flanks him speaks as he casually strides toward the bars of Starn's cell.  "The meaning of this, Starn Knight of Pelor, is quite simple.  You know I, Valthrun the Prescient, am gifted by both mundane erudition and supernatural foresight.  I had a vision last night of lamed bird pecking the eyes out of the trusting dog that rescued it from floodwaters.  Further, my intellect has afforded me the understanding that the REAL Starn of Fallcrest's Septarch's Tower is a skilled alchemist.  There is no_way, the real Starn would have failed such a test here.  He would sniffed out the agent I supplied Lord Padraig.  Trivially at that."Valthrun looks at Ernest Padraig who is leaning forward in a simple, wooden chair.Looking back from Lord Padraig to Starn; "this is an imposter before us...a doppleganger most likely...a spy for The Iron Circle meant to ingratiate himself in our midst before taking our eye?  Or perhaps Ferlin Azaer of Fallcrest's House Azaer has sent one of his own here to surveil firsthand our people's 'best stock' for trafficking them to the The Bloodspear Orcs in Stonemarch to begin their siege of Winterhaven anew?"[HR][/HR]What do you do about Lord Padraig's trust here?  Addressing that specifically and attempting to turn that around is vs MEDIUM DC.If you go after the scrutiny of Valthrun here (either the legitimacy or application of his foresight/omen-reading or his erudition), its vs HARD DC.You can do opt into both but, if you do, if you accrue any failure, stop right there.  That will be both a micro-failure and the final failure for the macro-SC and we'll have to Fail Forward the situation significantly with respect to the SC's Goal.</blockquote>

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