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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8934867" data-attributes="member: 6696971">[USER=1282]@darkbard[/USER]3 Successes (2 Hard DC Available)/0 Failures/3 Secondary Skills Available/2 Advantages Available)The meeting-goers at Ruffly Gelded exchange no pleasantries and its not long after you enter the kennel when the MC begins their seemingly incoherent ramblings.  The overwhelming smell of dog, the stray bark and whimper, the sound of shuffling sandals against the loosely packed earth of the floor comingled with the fabric of the elaborate shrouds worn be the membership.  The subtle smell of Bita-Bousseh's perfume amidst the gathered throng.The distractions to trying to resolve a cipher for the clearly message-encoded "nonsense-speech" are intense.  If you don't break the code in short order, your time here will have been wasted.HARD DC[HR][/HR][USER=20459]@Nephis[/USER]Level +1, Complexity 2 (DCs will be for level 4 so 10, 14, 21 while ATK vs AC is 18/20 and vs NAD is 16/17)Goal:  Get the girl to the Sect of Omthala: her role in life is not as an enslaved person to a merchant but to be in service to the Sect.0 Successes (1 Hard DC Available)/0 Failures/2 Secondary Skills AvailableDespite dusk having fully consumed the cramped public square the market resides in, signaling the end of sales, the place is still abuzz with the noise of conversation and wares being packed.  The 2nd story building tops that flank the relatively small piazza are dotted with shadowy movement.  Each merchant has their own personal retinue of bodyguards, but the state also employs its own security apparatus to protect this important commerce, typically drawn from the ranks of discharged military sling-snipers.Between Pa'avu/Hazard and the girl and the merchant is a wave of people and a good 30 paces at a full gallop.  There are a two ways out of the place and it would appear the the merchant is directing their two, armed and armored, security personnel to cut a path through the crowd in the opposite direction of Pa'avu.  Despite her size, the undulating terrain plus the vast array of people and structures could quickly create a line-of-sight problem for Pa'avu and her quarry.If your first move is to try to evaluate the building tops or the general layout/schematic of the public square, its against the Medium DC.If you're trying to tail/track down your quarry (whether that is physical or social), your DC is Hard!</blockquote>

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