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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9555288" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Complexity 2 SC, Level 10 (DCs 13/18/26)Goal (staged): <s>Reach the Creep (3)</s> and convince it to help Lief stop Acamar (5), when that version appears 17 years in the future—even if it costs present-day Lief his life (6).4/6 Successes/2 Failures/<s>1</s><s> Hard DC Available</s>/1 Secondary Skills Available/<s>1</s><s> Advantages Available</s>/Primary Skills Exhausted: Endurance, Acrobatics, Athletics, Heal, Bluff* See bottom for prospective consequences of this failureWait.  That is neither flesh nor bone.  Not of this world, at least.That is boneless appendage waving...undulating.  Hook-like...things...adorning it asymmetrically.  Protracting and retracting from some impossible orb-creature...toothy maw abundant on its form.A Langolier.Reaching for Lief.  Where The Creep was...or was supposed to be...alleged to be."Am I still in that terrible place?  In that temporal-spatial membrane from the Far Realm's hellscape...Acamar lurking?"[HR][/HR]Alright, two prospects for consequences from the preceding action resolution failure:1)  A simple -2 forward to Lief's next Wisdom-based Primary Skill Check as he struggles with this madness...with impossible insight.2)  Resolving the above is like a Devil's Bargain; it's vs the HARD DC but (a) it is as if you had an Advantage spent so you can gain 2 successes and (b) this cannot be resolved by the use of a Daily.  Some part of Lief, a simulacrum...or the real thing split off in some kind of quantum collapse (or magical BS), is still in that tunnel in the Far Realm...and that Lief has to fight off this Langolier horde within it to let our material Lief hopefully reassert himself and carry the day.What do you do?</blockquote>

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