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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binks" data-source="post: 6610404" data-attributes="member: 6775039">Rawr and I lay down on the rise, quietly and carefully observing them with our eye-line just high enough to take in what is before us.  I want to approach them in time but I need it to be on good terms immediately.  I'm thinking on my understanding of the primal spirits and of the cultures that venerate them.  What do those cultures appreciate.  What do they consider peace offerings?[sblock]Spout Lore (Int)4, 2 + 1 = 7The GM will only tell you something interesting—it’s on you to make it useful. The GM might ask you “How do you know this?” Tell them the truth, now.[/sblock]I've been on the prime world for many years now.  The people of Giliad's Rest and the surrounding territories all have a strong undercurrent of primal spirit worship.  They may appreciate the Gods from afar, but there is little in the way of clergy here.  The Gods are distant things to them while the primal spirits connect to their everyday lives.What's more, receiving my ranger training in the Feywild taught me to be close to all things natural.  Although the Fey Courts are the powers of my homeland, I learned of the spirit world long before my time here.  One of the primary reasons I was chosen for this particular mission was because of my understanding of the people of this world, their primal spirits, their Gods, and their ways of life.  I could easily assimilate into their ways of life through that common connection.While I'm watching and listening to them, I'm getting out a length of rope to deconstruct.  I'll spend 1 AG for this.  I'm going to attempt to quickly, but expertly, make ten dreamcatchers in the motif of the Fate Weaver.  One for each of the children.  Veneration of primal spirits means that dreams are a sacred thing and vulnerable to evil spirits just as well as good.  I'm going to use the dreamcatchers as a peace offering.Hopefully I have time to listen to the women talking.  Hopefully they have something insightful for me.  I want to specifically pay attention to any dissension in their ranks regarding the death cult and the Far Realm presence.  Primal people should be aghast at such a marriage I would think?[sblock]Discern Realities (Wis)6, 5 + 2 = 133 questions and + 1 forward when acting on each.* What happened here recently?* What is about to happen?* Who’s really in control here?[/sblock] I'm going to take all of my weapons off and place them on this side of the ridge that I'm looking over.  I'll bundle up and thread each of my dreamcatchers over every one of my ten fingers, one for each child, so they are hanging.  I bear the look, and smell no doubt (!), of a primal creature through and through so I have no doubt of my appearance.  I'll walk down the hill and invoke one of my teachers, inspired by Albert Einstein of course (!), when addressing the women and children as they look at me."Coincidence is the Fate Weaver's way of remaining anonymous."  I'll pause to look them over and gauge their response."It is good fortune that I have come upon you."  I put my hands out before me revealing the ten suspended dreamcatchers.  "These are for them."  I nod to the children.** These next words I speak quietly as I approach the three women so the children cannot hear me, "But freedom from your captors and from a fate far worse than death...one not of the Fate Weaver's designs...and the right to openly worship the primal spirits is what I promise you and your children if you will but hear me out."[sblock]Parley (Cha)5, 5 - 1 (+ 2) = 11.I merely want them to regard me as non-hostile, hear me out, and take what I'm about to say seriously.Leverage is my invocation of their totem spirit as the force behind our meeting and the sincere offering of the dreamcatchers for the children.[/sblock]** Small edit.</blockquote>

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