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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6210657" data-attributes="member: 386">Sounds cool.  I'll pick the Underbelly.I'm not sure how much M.O. I can give you yet - give me more first!  Frame the scene for me.  If I had to pick a goal for this transition scene it would be "I want to find out any and all dirt on the chamberlain."Edit 1: (I generally stay away from the internet over the weekend, sorry about that)Quinn smiles and slinks off into a dark corner.  A few words of power are spoken*, and he emerges as a beautiful and exotic young woman.  He approaches the silk-swathed man and, prostrating himself, he says in the sweetest and meekest tone he can muster: "Oh great lord, I ask for your kindness.  I have become separated from my master and I fear the worst in this strange place.  Can you provide me with your protection?"* - <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4291338/" target="_blank">Disguise Self: Bluff + 5 (1d20+18=33)</a>Edit 2:         [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] :(I also note that I forgot to specify my Intent, which was simply to get him to talk.  Oh well!)Quinn forces himself to suppress an instinctive smile - he chose his target well.  What else might he be hiding?  Quinn quickly scans his prey - mannerisms, the way he holds himself, facial twitches - anything that might give him an insight into the type of man he's facing.Quinn reaches at the coin quickly - as quickly as a starving refugee offered a life-line would, of course - hoping to produce a tell: which muscles tense?  Does he move in the way a practised warrior would, or does his hand twitch, ready for the gestures that accompany a spell?[Intent: I want to know what kinds of powers this guy has - martial, arcane, etc. <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4291447/" target="_blank">Insight (1d20+17=25)</a>]Quinn bows and graciously accepts both the coin and his touch.  He backs away, still bent over, and disappears into the crowd.[I'll see what the results of the Insight check is before I plan my next move.]Edit 3:        [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION][Creepy - <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4292209/" target="_blank">History (1d20+17=18)</a>]Quinn will skulk along in the shadows that he is so used to with his weasel familiar at his feet.  "Not sure I should do this by myself," he thinks, "but at least I have you."  His familiar twitches his nose.[Intent: I want to see what they're up to with the body - some sort of foul ritual, no doubt.  <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4292213/" target="_blank">Stealth (1d20+18=22)</a>]Edit 4:      [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION]"Maybe this one will have some answers for me," Quinn thinks.  He scrambles back, trying to stay in the shadows as the huge bulk of man approaches him.[I want to lure him away from his master where I can try to melt his brain.  To do that I'll use Hypnotism or Illusory Wall, assuming he doesn't just follow.  I'm not really sure how this is going to work - if I have to deplete his HP or if a few good rolls will do it.  At any rate, here are the rolls to try to lure him away: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4292760/" target="_blank">Hypnotism & Illusory Wall (1d20+18=22, 1d20+18=21)</a>  (Doesn't look like it'll matter much! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )]Edit 5:    [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION]Panic, pure and simple.  I never should have tried this without my companions.I like to stay in the immediate situation, so let's try that: casting the Illusory Wall, and seeing him fall prey for it, allows me to control my fear and use it to my own ends.Quinn reaches into the Shadowfell and tears a piece of it loose.  Grim shadows of fear and terror assault the man's mind, forcing him into a panic.  "You should have known to fear the shadows," Quinn says.[Intent: I want him to be terrified, fighting here in the dark.  Roll upcoming.][<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4293305/" target="_blank">Grim Shadow & damage (1d20+17=31, 2d8+9=25)</a>  Looks like that worked.]Terrified, his mind reeling under assault from powers not of this world, the hulking brute drops his lantern in a panic.  Its flame flickers, casting eerie shadows across the walls.  He sees a figure move in the shadows and he clutches the steel in his hand in a tight fist.[I'm probably going to use Murderous Twin, but maybe after I use Ghost Sound to cause a distraction to hide.  At any rate, if he approaches me, I'll use Vanishing Swirl to go invisible and slip out of his reach.]   [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION]<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4293664/" target="_blank">Arcana (1d20+19=33)</a><a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4293670/" target="_blank">Murderous Twin (1d20+20=30)</a> (cashing in a Healing Surge - strain and focus on the spell, calling up my own fear and pouring it into the shadow-creature)Edit 6:  [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION][My rolls: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4294705/" target="_blank">Beguiling Flash, Suggestion, and Illusory Obstacles (1d20+18=26, 1d20+19=25, 1d20+18=34)</a>]A Beguiling Flash illuminates the swarm of giant rats and sends them skittering away for a moment.  Quinn steps out of the shadows - still in his feminine guise - and extends a hand.  "Your life is in my hands now," he says, weaving subtle magic into his words, "Give yourself to me."  The mind of the brute burns.The rats turn back towards their prey.  Quinn speaks a word of power and waves his hand, and the rats begin climbing over each other in a confused mess.  The brute reaches up, Quinn lifts him to his feet, and the pair flee the scene.[I think those were successes.  The intents were: 1. to force the rats back away from the brute and save him from immediate attack; 2. to hammer it home that the brute is mine now - I wasn't sure if this was a valid intent, so I also threw in 3. to make sure the rats would not be able to catch us.  Hope that works.]Assuming two successes...1. "Your old master said that everything was going to change - what did he mean?"2. "Does your old master have any ties to the king or his courtiers, including the chamberlain?"Edit the last: [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION]Quinn sends the brute back to his old master.  "Keep your new allegiance a secret, and do not betray me - for I am now and forever in your mind: you will know I am there when you feel the prickling of the hairs on your neck, when you feel that you are being watched when no one is around, when the shadows creep too close."And I'll head back to my companions after dispelling the Disguise Self illusion.</blockquote>

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