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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5385460" data-attributes="member: 42169">"I am presently available, if that’s what you're trying to fish out." "And taint my bloodline with that of the proletariat?  I think not.""And how exactly would retrieving goods from a stranded caravan, be understood as an attempt to destroy the Martian Union?  As you may already know, we are not going to give you second chances. You are still alive because you are useful, either because you can give us information or as a hostage; so you should tell us everything, and explain your reasoning and reasons. Unless you want us to think you are not useful any more. I think you might picture what we would do to you in that case.""The merchants are trying to dismantle the union!  They seek anarchy, not order.  The seek individualism, not collectivism.   By abandoning our creed and foregoing the union's rules and bylaws the merchants are stating that they have the right of autonomy and that they can choose how and when they can do business.   If they have their way, we will become a society of slaves.  We will be indebted to the merchants who can set the prices of goods according to their own whims.  The landlords will raise rent to point where we must decide to either starve to death or to pay room and board.  Making matters worse overseers will have the ability to terminate a citizen's employment or lower their pay without explanation.  Why, all because they are seeking to undo the protective regulative measures our fore-fathers set up to ensure that everyone in our city-state is safe, productive and without fear of loosing one's livelihood. The merchants are evil, evil people and they need to be stopped, at all costs." Lady Rasputina stated in an fanatical manor while revealing her began to reveal some of her preconditioned delusions.    Seif motioned at his gun.  "From my father as well... It will still kill; is made to kill." He then tore away at Lady Rasputina's coat sleeve, reveling the  strange bracer the woman wore.OOC: I intentionally kept the bluff ambiguous.  After all if she got the "mysterious" item as standard equipment a few red flags would be raised. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The bracer appears to have an elaborate clock face consisting of two sets of concentric wheels which rotate so that the time is readable only as the numbers line up to two small indicators.  The main clock face is a 12 hour, 60 minute, 60 second clock.  The secondary clock-face is a 40 minute, 60 second clock.OOC: Yes, I decided to undo the pre-game martian time standard retcon.  Each of the Great Cities and surrounding settlements tend to use different standards.  Victoria Town observes 24 hour day with a 40 minute 'non-hour' in the middle of the day during which time (and most work) effectively 'stops' for 40 minutes. This 'non-hour' is locally known as 'noon-rest.' The most extreme example of time discrepancies is illustrated by the Olympians whose time measurements are based on "Earth" standards.  That is they use a 24 hour clock, with a 365 day gregorian year opposed to the 669 day martian year. Attached the the clock is a thin metalic box that is about two inches long. The box appears to have three panels.  The first and the third panel appear to be covered in some sort of metallic grated mesh, while the center panel contains what appears to be multiple small beveled dials and knobs, an indicator gauge, what appears to be two flat slide button with three settings and push button.OOC: Without experimenting, a knowledge: Tech check to know exactly what it does.  However, since the device is based on multiple pieces of common tech, an Intelligence check to guess various functions.  I'll let you re-roll the checks because it wasn't described beforeOutside."I don't think they saw us, but if they're buzzing this area, I don't think we can count on them only doing a single pass, especially with one of their own on the line," Brian says. [color]"How much further until we're out of this canyon? If it's more than a few minutes, we might want to look at how we can camoflauge ourselves until we can be sure the patrol's clear."[/color]ooc: Teamwork would come into play if you are assisting in the roll, not if you are the main person doing the roll.Lord Burroughmeister quickly began to scribble on his map before picking up his radio. "About ten minutes for this canyon at our current speed.   We leave this canyon in about 20 minutes."</blockquote>

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