The ghoul frowns -- a disturbing expression that pulls his loose, necrotic flesh downward such that his forehead looks stretched close to coming undone. He waves his hand dismissively at Ausk's suggestion, and appears about ready to do the same to Kalgor's tale of items left above when Tyrien catches wise and chooses to support the tale-telling.
There's the briefest pause as the undead creature looks the party over, then he carefully says,
"It left something, the one who did all this?" The ghoul gestures back toward the pool where a body lies face down in the swampy water (you notice it has both its arms, so presumably there is at least one more corpse somewhere about), then to the trail of sludge leading out the way you came.
"Give it to me!" He holds out a clawed hand, greedily taking a step closer.
"And remember, the book gives me power, it does. All those ancient secrets. Don't cross me."
[sblock=ooc]The ghoul's decided to continue talking, so it won't effect you this time, but FYI, [MENTION=88649]perrinmiller[/MENTION], bluff to deceive is a full-round action:
d20pfsrd.com said:
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* Deceive Someone: Attempting to deceive someone takes at least 1 round, but can possibly take longer if the lie is elaborate (as determined by the GM on a case-by-case basis)
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If the ghoul had decided to attack, Tyrien would have lost her full-round ready by choosing the Aid. Luckily, the aid provided the boost Kalgor needed to actually sell the lie (otherwise the ghoul would have made the Sense Motive DC).
[MENTION=6667193]sunshadow21[/MENTION], on the matter of actions, technically Diplomacy to change an attitude takes at least a minute. I ruled Ausk was trying to use the 'make requests' application, which is only a round, but since the ghoul is less than Indifferent, the roll auto-fails. Given that Ausk's roll would have resulted in downgrading the ghoul's attititude in the case of attempted attitude adjustment, I figured you wouldn't mind.
Realized I hadn't updated the map with Anaerion's 5' step. The ghoul took one now, as well. Both reflected on the attached.[/sblock]