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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9441452" data-attributes="member: 6696971">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.5/6 Successes/0 Failures/0 Hard DC Available/0 Secondary Skills Available/0 Advantages available due to Sehanine Priest Ressilmae Starlight/Primary Skill Training exhausted; Religion; Intimidate; Perception; Diplomacy; StealthFollowed by the heroes and those they stewarded to Moonstone Keep, Lady Markelhay, flanked by her bailiff who escorts the manacled former Lorekeeper, leads the procession to the Receiving Hall and her husband.She deadpans "well, we're going to need a new Lorekeeper."Her words echo out in the large chamber and find her husbands ears.  He sits at the long end of the table, the same place you met him prior.  His head rises from the letters he is proofreading and wax-sealing.  He says simply, "Come again?"She regales him the entirety of it.The back-and-forth teeters this way and that, the pair intensifying their tone in frustration and then drawing back into a more measured approach.  Round-and-round they go with Lady Allande desperately trying to impress upon him the seriousness of the charges levied against Kamroth Estate and the evidence lined up against its self-styled Lord; Armos.  On the other end of the increasingly hostile conversation, Lord Warden Faren continuously puts forth a more conservative, utilitarian approach to affairs, going on about how Armos Kamroth has bought and now owns more than half of the properties, lenders, debtors, and farms in and around Fallcrest and surely garrisons at least as much security personnel as they, the Markelhays do.  Even if all of these charges were true, they can't possibly abruptly make a stand against Kamroth Estate.  Such a move should be shrewd, exacting, covert, and most-of-all, slow.  The exchange seems near-to-bursting when the herald calls out from the threshold to the antechamber:"MASTER LORD AND MADAM LADY!  ARMOS KAMROTH WILL WAIT NO LONGER!  PREPARE TO RECEIVE HIM!"[HR][/HR]What do you do?  MEDIUM DC.  You only have a moment to break this stalemate before Kamroth and his retinue come in throwing charges around.  If you don't resolve things here, convincingly, quickly, the failure will trigger a cascade of HIGH DCs.</blockquote>

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