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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9430885" data-attributes="member: 82106"> Terjon moves out into the town, bringing two large guards with him whom he quickly selected as being known 'head breakers'. After contemplating for a moment he decides his best bet is Dick's Dive. He's fairly sure a certain number of 'toughs' will be hanging out there, despite the early hour. While normally he would hesitate to depend on such men, he thinks at least they will have some actual fighting ability.Soon he arrives at The Dive, and sure enough there are a fair number hard-looking men lounging around the doors and inside. Terjon, with his men at his back, moves to enter. One of the toughs, incapable of allowing a challenge to pass, blocks his way. Terjon raises his hand to halt his men, and pulls out a roll of parchment, reading "By the order of Lord Protector of Winterhaven Sir Ernest Padraig all able bodied men are hereby commanded to assemble for muster!"Terjon of course has no delusions about how this will be met, so he continues "I have a hard fist for any man who won't stand up for this place. You may care little about service or honor, but I'll see to it that every one of you cowards who won't pick up a weapon and fight now will be outside the wall fending for himself tomorrow. I may be hard, but I'm not half as bad as Blood Spear slave driver!"Intimidate vs medium DC 13. Rolling a 10 +9=19. Success The tough draws himself up, but he can see the steel in Terjon's eye. He spits to the side and slowly moves out of the way. Terjon enters and with his men rousts out the lurkers within. Altogether, along with a few other labourers, Terjon returns to the barracks with a good 2 dozen men. "Listen up! You will all be paid, and there will be a bonus when we defeat the Cardinal's men! For now, get yourselves a meal, and we'll muster in the courtyard in an hour to fit everyone with gear and arms, then we'll drill. Any of you have drill experience?" Terjon goes on in this vein, picks out a couple of men to act as sergeants, and generally gets things going. It's a bad militia but it may still be good enough!Complexity 3 SC, Level 2 (DCs 9/13/20)Goal (staged): Rouse the Padraig family from their grief and muster them (RESOLVED) and Winterhaven itself (8) against Cardinal Erban's heresy and impending coup.7/8 Successes/2 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/1 Secondary Skills Available/0 Advantages Available/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Diplomacy, Insight, Religion, Bluff, Intimidate</blockquote>

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