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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9430489" data-attributes="member: 7028554">LIEF considers speaking up for Vorn, but even he realizes how presumptuous that would be. He focuses instead on Lady Markelhay, and this weasel of a man trying to advise her. Seekingstone keeps wringing his fingers, knotting and untangling them as though soothing his nerves. Why would he be nervous? Didn't someone at the Silver Unicorn blather on about the Loremaster's many dealings with adventures, and his normally pompous, untouchable manner.Lief can't sort it out—his supposed man of letters inserting himself into this situation. To what end? How does any of this concern a scholar with inkstained fingers and...There's a brown residue under Seekingstone's fingernails. Bizarre to see for a man of his station. But more than that: The tell-tale sign of a ritualist, and one whose materials go deeper and darker than simple chalk for scrawling symbols. The Loremaster is more than he claims.Intent: Address (2), specifically sorting out why Seekingstone is involved in this situation at all.Secondary Skill: Streetwise, r(8)-1 = 7 vs. Easy DC (9). Fail.Primary Skill: Perception, r(19)+9-2 = 26 vs. Hard DC (21). Success.[HR][/HR]Complexity 2 SC, Level 3 (DCs 9/13/21)Goal: Having secured the safety of the merchants and ex-cultist boy as witnesses, along with the Sehanine priest Ressilmae who has heard their testimony in the bailey courtyard of Moonstone Keep, convince the Markelhays to act against Armos Kamroth and The Elect.3/6 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/1 Secondary Skills Available/0 Advantages available due to Sehanine Priest Ressilmae Starlight/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Religion; Intimidate; Perception[HR][/HR]Lief steps forward. "Lord Seekingstone, if I may, could you tell me" he switches seamlessly to the primordial tongue "did you know they were going to ask me to take your apprentice. Did you request he be disposed of?" The Loremaster's face blanches, the panic of discovery contorting his features before he composes himself, managing a thin smile and mild comment to the lady. "Nonsense. He has the mind of a child, and a worse vocabulary."But Lady Markelhay has torn herself from the tome, at least long enough to take in Seekingstone's fleeting terror. But does she speak the primordial tongue, too?Intent: Confront Seekingstone, tricking him into revealing his sense of guilt.Primary Skill: Insight, r(11)+6 = 17 vs. Medium DC (13). Success.[HR][/HR]Complexity 1 SC, Level 3 (DCs 9/13)Goal: Convince the Markelhays there is at least one Elect spy in their midst.1/4 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/1 Secondary Skills available/0 Advantages available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Insight</blockquote>

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