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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 3626156" data-attributes="member: 13855">A rogue, you say? Skill checks are your encounters. Have success in one lead to bonuses in others, failures lead to penalties. The goal is to end the evening with a high prestige by making a good first impression, establishing your popularity through your dance card, making conquests on the dance floor, avoiding scandals, avoiding getting snowed by social climbers, and getting the good opinion of a handful of key targets.First impressions: Disguise check to start off: higher the check, the more fashionable you appear. Give incentive for buying nobility outfits (+2 to check) and masterwork disguise kits (makeup, the really kickin' dress). This is the first impression she makes on high society. This influences the next encounter...Filling out the dance card: in high society less than a century ago, women wore a bracelet with a little book attached to it, where they would pencil in their dance partners. As it was considered rude to take up a woman's entire dance card, a full dance card indicated popularity in a circle where that was power. Have her do GInfo checks to figure out who would be good partners to dance with, along with Knowledge: nobility to i.d. notorious womanizers, bores, the society woman you have to impress, the lech, and the best catch or conquest at the party. Some bluffs or diplomacies to get suitors to ask her to dance. Make it a tough diplomacy check or hide check to avoid the lech or the oaf or the bore.Dancing: Have perform checks to indicate her grace on the dance floor for several dances. Intermingle a balance check to deal with the oaf who steps on her foot or hem of her dress. Bluff check to avoid revealing that she's been goosed by the lech ("making a scene" would be her fault in a semi-corrupt setting like you describe). You can have a "fight" occur as she dances defensively to up her ac vs. touch attacks from the lech). Have it last maybe 3 rounds, due to the setting and the vagaries of the complex forms of the dance. Success gets her in good with the matron, who admires her grace under pressure in one so young. Diplomacy checks to positively influence the attitude of those people who's good opinion matters. Knowledge: nobility to know what topics are appropriate and with whom. He likes me!: Have sense motive checks to figure out which one's interested in her from the legions who are interested in scoring points in high society. Diplomacy checks to make conquests (a.k.a. draw interest from male suitors, nothing physical).Appraise checks to i.d. what jewelry, clothing, and art work are actually praise-worthy. Failure indicates poor fashion sense and can lead to penalties in social interactions. If she really hits it off with a desirable suitor who's interested in her or if a rake wins the skill check battle, a moonlight kiss on the patio either tops off the evening's adventure as a reward or indicates her naivete and the foolishness of her patron.</blockquote>

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