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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 8923959" data-attributes="member: 1282">CHANVATI bows deeply from the waist. “Your Radiance, however I may be of service,” he intones, aware for the first time that these machinations in which he finds himself embroiled are far more than the dangerous political maneuverings typical of the power brokers in Bantouk; great powers of the cosmos involve themselves, their mortal agents mere pawns in this greater game.Ibhea and the Priestess of Omthala, a gaunt young woman with curly golden locks named Arunny, quite shaken by this whole affair, follow the High Cleric, Chanvati, and Pa’avu, who must duck her head beneath the granite lintel of the cathedral’s main entrance, within, into a small meditation chamber off the main nave. A small magical point of light, a mere echo of the once-blazing, now dimmed Everlight above the cathedral’s altar, hovers at eye level in the center of the chamber, which is otherwise arrayed with nothing more than thin indigo cushions upon the woven rush floor.“If you will allow me, Your Radiance, a few moments of quiet contemplation to center my ki and access fully the psionic energy of my mind, perhaps I can tap into the arcano-elucidatory field to bypass whatever stymies your divinations” Chanvati explains and takes up a crosslegged position on a mat, allowing the hovering light of Omthala’s sanctum to fill his focus and then blur, disappearing entirely in a flash as his mind transcends the physical confines of the chamber. Flashes of tentacled horrors from beyond, scheming figures conspiring in the staterooms of the Imperial Palace, his cousin Amna and Hakhaman meeting with a shadowy form emblazoned with the Imperial crest.Chanvati gasps in horror, taking in deep lungsful of stale air as the meditation chamber and his companions are returned to his senses.“Your Radiance, something most foul and dire is afoot, and I believe it threatens far more than the present communications of Her Lady of Light and her mortal intercessors. A great conspiracy is afoot that seeks to hide its maneuvers from even the most potent light of truth; hence the dimming of the Everlight.” Chanvati continues with an explanation of bargains made with extraplanar powers, alliances between unlikely collaborators, and the necessity of severing House Audaseie’s current leadership from the Sect’s protection or else face cascading consequences from these recondite machinations. The Inquisition must be informed of this threat![HR][/HR]I’m using one of the two remaining Advantages here for Chanvati to circumvent the forces interfering with the clergy’s divinations by accessing a power source external to their sphere to lower the Moderate DC to Easy, 13 to 9. Primary Skill Check Arcana +10 = Autosuccess to complete the Skill Challenge.</blockquote>

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