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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9460544" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Complexity 2 SC, Level 10 (DCs 13/18/26)Goal: Convince the kid-bandits to abandon their track of ruthless violence and present them a new course.1/6 Successes/0 Failures/1 Hard DC Available/2 Secondary Skills Available/1 Advantages Available/Primary Skills Exhausted: ArcanaA young, freckled, front-tooth-missing tough draws a makeshift shank from a pocket of his thick-but-ragged tunic.  The panic finally spreads in full as others drop their farming implements and do likewise, backing into a circle to protect their backs.A tindertwig suddenly lights and the face of the Tiefling becomes illuminated by the solitary mote in the dark.  She is scowling.  "Wizard tricks.  I've seen 'em when I was under the Raven's Roost Bandit's banner."  Her voice picks up as she casts it into the dark night.  "They bleed just like normal folk."She then signals for everyone to scatter instead of bunching up (like morons in Fireball Formation!) and makes a subtle gesture to one of the kids (presumably the shiftiest) to skulk off into the shadows and work their way up to the ridge that Vorn dominates.  The kid obliges the instructions."But that archer up there, that is our real problem," she shouts upward as she works some cloth onto the tindertwig for a makeshift torch.  "Its been a long night.  We're tired and hungry and cold.  And saddened by our losses.  We'd offer youn's some hospitality, but my guess is you're other Raven's Roost folk come to take me back...or maybe worse.  Let's talk about your demands," as she stalls to allow the sneak time to climb up to Vorn.[HR][/HR]MEDIUM DC[HR][/HR][USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER] move for STARN"If we were your bandit friends, I expect you would all be dead, save perhaps for you, they might haul you back, take advantage of your talents, and such. No, we're worse, we don't want to kill you, or enslave you, we want to save you. Forces are at work. Once there was light, order, law, justice in the world. Now there is just us. Either you are of the light, as you once were, on the farm, with Old Man Miller; or you are of the darkness, that which will snuff out what life remains, and bring true dark. I believe your people have experienced that, haven't they, tiefling?""So, here's the deal. Soon Johan, and Alvi, will return. Then you will have a choice. You can go back to Fallcrest, to ask for forgiveness and assistance from the Lord Protector, and the priest, Father Starlight. Or, you could accompany us now to Fastormel, where we have business. Either way you'll end up back in Fallcrest, and don't think you can get out of it! What do you say?"* Starn plies them with a bit of Diplomacy; r(1) + 9 = 10.  Failure.</blockquote>

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