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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9246124" data-attributes="member: 1282"><p><em><strong>Skill Challenge</strong>, <strong>Convince the Children of Sorrow to assist your aid to Elena </strong></em><strong>successfully completed.</strong></p><p><strong>Rewards: </strong>125 XP/4 PCs=31.25. Let's say <strong>30 XP/PC.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>The elderly woman, perhaps a little muddled by age, withdraws into her chamber, muttering incoherently and closing the shutters behind her. Yiorgos and the other crooked constables withdraw from the scene. The two goblins--they introduce themselves as Marrow and Pook--shower you with thanks.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"I cud efff stood up t'em meselfff," says Pook, "but I worry ferrr Marrow!"</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>* * *</em></p><p></p><p>Svishka reports back to Rubee your heroic intervention: the goblins spared a beating or worse, the Gray Cloaks delivered a humiliating setback. Rubee considers the bargain sealed: she provides you an incriminating piece of information on Sheriff Davos in return for your promise to help set Beppa free from prison once you've intervened in the planned marriage of Elena.</p><p></p><p>As to that marriage: it is set for three days hence, so that is the fictional restraint within which we'll be working for the Skill Challenge. Davos intends his daughter to marry his friend Cosmo, Guildmaster of the Logging Guild. He's a rising and influential member of the Guild Council, the political ruling body of Ravenswood, and is widely considered to be a candidate for Lord Mayor one day. He's also more than twice Elena's age and rumored to be a raging philanderer.</p><p></p><p>Davos is unlikely just to welcome happily a meeting with a group of ragtag outsiders, one of whom has been providing aid to his daughter and who put off the men he sent as a warning through show of force. So your first move in the Skill Challenge will need to compel that meeting in some way and in some specified location. Should a meeting be at his residence, I imagine that to be an imposing but spartan townhouse (most buildings in Ravenswood, so close to the forest, are probably wooden, but some of the manufactories, the few public buildings (the Guildhalls, the Gaol, a prominent Church, and so on), and the private homes of its most influential citizens are brick and stone, to signify their wealth and prominence). Other possible venues for a meeting could be the Gaol, the Guilds Councilhall, or, perhaps, a more exclusive tavern or entertainment hall.</p><p></p><p>So go ahead and think about how you are arranging a meeting with Sheriff Davos and make a move against the first obstacle (at <strong>Moderate DC 15</strong>) to get things started, and I'll frame the rest of the scene from there.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Skill Challenge</strong>, <strong>Convince Davos to call off Elena's wedding</strong>, </em>L5 (L+3) C3 SC: (8 Successes before 3 Failures; DCs 10/15/22; 3 Secondary Skills; 2 Hard DCs; 2 Advantages (one of which is an additional advantage to the standard ones (see RC 160) to be deployed at your discretion: use the blackmail like a Daily Power for an <strong>autosuccess</strong> against any single skill check in the SC; the details of such will be entirely at your discretion at the time of deployment, based on fictional position established, etc; obviously, whatever this turns out to be might have (possibly serious!) consequences later in play).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 9246124, member: 1282"] [I][B]Skill Challenge[/B], [B]Convince the Children of Sorrow to assist your aid to Elena [/B][/I][B]successfully completed. Rewards: [/B]125 XP/4 PCs=31.25. Let's say [B]30 XP/PC.[/B] [I]The elderly woman, perhaps a little muddled by age, withdraws into her chamber, muttering incoherently and closing the shutters behind her. Yiorgos and the other crooked constables withdraw from the scene. The two goblins--they introduce themselves as Marrow and Pook--shower you with thanks. "I cud efff stood up t'em meselfff," says Pook, "but I worry ferrr Marrow!" * * *[/I] Svishka reports back to Rubee your heroic intervention: the goblins spared a beating or worse, the Gray Cloaks delivered a humiliating setback. Rubee considers the bargain sealed: she provides you an incriminating piece of information on Sheriff Davos in return for your promise to help set Beppa free from prison once you've intervened in the planned marriage of Elena. As to that marriage: it is set for three days hence, so that is the fictional restraint within which we'll be working for the Skill Challenge. Davos intends his daughter to marry his friend Cosmo, Guildmaster of the Logging Guild. He's a rising and influential member of the Guild Council, the political ruling body of Ravenswood, and is widely considered to be a candidate for Lord Mayor one day. He's also more than twice Elena's age and rumored to be a raging philanderer. Davos is unlikely just to welcome happily a meeting with a group of ragtag outsiders, one of whom has been providing aid to his daughter and who put off the men he sent as a warning through show of force. So your first move in the Skill Challenge will need to compel that meeting in some way and in some specified location. Should a meeting be at his residence, I imagine that to be an imposing but spartan townhouse (most buildings in Ravenswood, so close to the forest, are probably wooden, but some of the manufactories, the few public buildings (the Guildhalls, the Gaol, a prominent Church, and so on), and the private homes of its most influential citizens are brick and stone, to signify their wealth and prominence). Other possible venues for a meeting could be the Gaol, the Guilds Councilhall, or, perhaps, a more exclusive tavern or entertainment hall. So go ahead and think about how you are arranging a meeting with Sheriff Davos and make a move against the first obstacle (at [B]Moderate DC 15[/B]) to get things started, and I'll frame the rest of the scene from there. [I][B]Skill Challenge[/B], [B]Convince Davos to call off Elena's wedding[/B], [/I]L5 (L+3) C3 SC: (8 Successes before 3 Failures; DCs 10/15/22; 3 Secondary Skills; 2 Hard DCs; 2 Advantages (one of which is an additional advantage to the standard ones (see RC 160) to be deployed at your discretion: use the blackmail like a Daily Power for an [B]autosuccess[/B] against any single skill check in the SC; the details of such will be entirely at your discretion at the time of deployment, based on fictional position established, etc; obviously, whatever this turns out to be might have (possibly serious!) consequences later in play). [/QUOTE]
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