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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Verbatim" data-source="post: 2124458" data-attributes="member: 15549">Ayden was silent as Sarlis began talking to Doratar Terellia and her guards, but wondered how the musician would take the Morninglord's flattery.~Now is not the time to see if Tymora is glancing our way...~Once Sarlis finished his turn back to the center of the room, Ayden stepped forward slightly and knelt in front of the Doratar. While he did not know much of the wood elves, save from his time with Calenthang, he felt that that they often took one's stance as a measure of their intent and wanted there to be no doubt that he was here to parlay, not threaten.While he knew his elvish would never be as polished as those he traveled with, Ayden felt it was still best to address the Doratar in her native tongue."Three days ago, we came to the festival while working for Master Therav, a glass merchant of no meager skill. Along the way, we rescued one of your hunters from the clutches of a spider who had snagged him, and we brought him to the temple to be healed. We sought only to enjoy the festival and to purchase supplies, but those plans changed when something attacked Master Therav in his slumber. We rescued him from a band of brutes known as grimlocks, a race of blind brutes that live in the land below the light. We tracked them to a cavern in the woods, just beyond a black obelisk that had become worn with time."Ayden raised his head slightly until his eyes locked on those of Doratar Terellia before he continued."The cavern was full of grimlocks, as well as other dangers from the deep, and through Finder's grace and the skill of my companions, all save their leader was slain."Ayden paused again as his eyes sought any recognition to his words reflected in her eyes, but his silence only lasted the span of a heartbeat before he once again resumed his tale."A creature from the Abyss led them, a night hag who could bend a person's will to her through dark magics, and although I fell prey to her spells, my companions resisted her and after a battle which cost her a limb, and nearly her life, she fled through a portal and back into the dark abyss that spawned her. However, once again the gods smiled upon our cause, as Master Broddy, a gnomish mage of considerable talent, was able to summon a spell that destroyed the portal and in the process has halted the hag's presence here on the Material Plane."Ayden stood and finally raised his head up fully to address the Doratar."Master Calenthang is a cousin to your people and I would trust him with my life for as long as he will let me. He assures me that if you or your people would have known the true danger lurking in the cavern, you would have dealt with it. We do not seek accolades, nor do I wish to alarm the merchants of what was lurking just beyond the safety of your bows, as I understand all too well the superstitions that merchants believe in. All I ask, is that you assure me of your people's ignorance Doratar, say it but once and we will never speak of it again."[sblock]Sense Motive and Diplomacy checks here also.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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