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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ukingsken" data-source="post: 4854306" data-attributes="member: 78358">As Miranna opens the doors two Dragonborn, one with bronzed scales and the other whose scales seem to be made of polished silver, snap stiffly to attention. Their uniforms confirm your suspicion that it is indeed the town guard.By invite of Lord Hastesh you are to attend Nodate this morning at Silverflame House. Follow us. The guards turn in unison, every movement the epitome of precision and perfection. As if by unspoken command they both step off towards the gates Mr. Bricks and Brenwar investigated the night before.As you approach the gates they swing inward and the guards never miss a step, although the silverscale acknowledges the gate guard with a loud salute, claw smashing on breastplate. Inside the gate lies exactly what Mr. bricks described, a small courtyard with three buildings. You move towards the largest of the three and through another gate, this one iron wrought. Again the silverscale salutes as you move past.Finally you begin moving around what must be Lord Hastesh's home, though it looks like it's actually the original keep that stood here before the town cropped up in it's bailey and around it's walls.Rouding a corner you pass through a small archway into a beautiful garden. A pool of water in the center drains through a small brook down a gentle slope to the back before disappearing through a grate in the wall. Surrounding the pond are beautiful arrangements of exotic flowers and bamboo groves offer privacy and shelter from prying eyes. Near the gardens center a large area is covered in stones and a regal dragonborn of the same polished silver hue kneels in silence, his hands folded on his lap. A small stone basin of water rests on a pedestal near where you stand.Go and kneel with the Lord, he will address you when he is ready. I have been informed you are not aware of Nodate. I would hate to see the lord's morning so disrupted so allow me to briefly instruct you. The silvered guard very quickly explains what will occur during the Nodate and then quickly adds Our lord is benevolent and your earnest effort should be sufficient. Now go quietly and join him.Bowing toward their lord the two guards turn and quietly leave the way you came in and the party is left facing the paved flagstones.[sblock=Nodate] Each of you is to wash you hands and mouth in the stone basin and kneel before Hastesh. He will prepare tea and serve it to you. As you each receive your tea in turn bow to lord Hastesh then bow to the next guest in turn before raising the tea as a symbol of respect, rotating the bowl and drinking the entire cup. Return the bowl to lord Hastesh and wait patiently as each person partakes in order. Then lord Hastesh will serve some food and it is during this time you may speak casually but politely. Once food is served the utensils will be cleaned in front of you, it is custom that you all examine the utensils as they are cleaned. You will then rise, bow once more, and exit the way you came in.[/sblock][sblock=ooc] I thought about running this as a skill challenge but since you already have one going on I thought that might get complicated if we had people trying for success in two different skill challenges. Instead if each of you could simply roll an intelligence check to ensure you remember the instructions, I think it will go just as well to play it out RP style, and let you have some chances to earn success in your ongoing skill challenge.And don't worry if you fail the int check, as long as not everyone fails you should survive <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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