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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 1819420" data-attributes="member: 19130">As you talk, awareness of a new intrusion slowly grows in you; there's some kind of ruckus going on downstairs.  Since you're in a rather low-grade establishment, this is not terribly surprising.  The voices of the participants are somewhere between conversational and shouting at the moment, but the intervening walls muffle the sound, and you cannot make out what is being said.Adinal - [SPOILER]You're familiar with this particular seedy bar, from previous meetings in this very room.  Bar fights occur on a more-or-less daily schedule here.  They certainly do sound irate, though.[/SPOILER]Narine - [SPOILER]Although you can't make out exactly what is being said, the quality of one of the speakers comes to your attention.  Whoever it is that is speaking the most loudly has a particular tone to their voice, a mix of righteous indignation and unblinking arrogance.  Most people would probably feel quite sorry for anyone having to placate the owner of that voice.[/SPOILER]Feiran - [SPOILER]Some of this stuff is already part of your earlier Knowledge checks.  All you know about the Fortress of Disciplined Enlightenment is the name, culled from a family roll of great libraries.  You don't know why it springs to mind as better than any other, aside from the highly-probable lawful nature of the place, given its location.Asessing someone else's ideas really isn't a skill-check thing.  All you have to go on is common knowledge, what I've already told you, and what they say.You don't recognize the symbol Adinal mentioned.  You also don't know enough about the magical nature of the amulet to speculate yet as to whether you would need it at hand to study it or not.  Your gut says yes, though.Zaerlklemnvis is also little more than a name to you.  As far as you know, all the Proxies are pretty much at the same state of ridiculously powerful relative to you.  Assessing the potency of their churches would be the way to go here, but you have never made a dedicated study of such things.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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