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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9025857" data-attributes="member: 6696971">EDIT: Just occurred to me [USER=1282]@darkbard[/USER] . Are you wanting to “buy-off” your failure above (with an actual buy-off in the fiction), remove the hoplite as obstacle, and reframe the situation at 1 success/1 failure? If so, that’s cool. Let me know and I’ll change the below (I’ll just strikethrough it and come up with new stuff).Otherwise, if you’re interested in the below instead, we’ll keep it and just make a move.[HR][/HR]1 Successes (0 Hard DC Available)/2 Failures/0 Secondary Skills AvailableSo I think we need to open up the prospects of bribe/charity in order to put into effect the clemency we're hoping happens here.  So, lets go with this;  Defeat this next obstacle to open that up and you can bundle your offering of 180 gps for 2 x successes in the SC.  Sound good?[HR][/HR]As your physical intercession and entreating of the soldier occurs, the dragonborn stares blankly into you with its reptilian eyes...betraying nothing.Looks down at your purse and the offering.  Doesn't take it.Looks back up at your face as it dons its helm.  "Very well clergyman of Omthala.  My role is to enforce the law as I know it.  I can see when my understanding of its intricacies has reached its limit."The dragonborn calls to his sentinel partner to get their superior; Officer Festusha Toqiroth.  Her legacy of proficiency in legal matters precedes her...its good...but not great...there are holes, but her pride makes it such that she is not apt to admit them when they occur.  She strides out of the dome's entrance, partially-unraveled scroll in hand.  Seemingly reading it to herself she begins a procession of "I see...I see...yeeeeeeeeeessssss...I see."  Whether she actually "sees" or whether this is performative is to be determined."Good priest, are you aware of the ballad of The Scrivener's Duty?  Written in The Fourth Age during The Winter Coup and The Fell Harvest?  I believe that has some bearing of legal precedence here, yes?"Looking at your purse and then following a tracing hand on the scroll she bears.  "Yes, yes.  <clearing throat as prelude to reading>  And moneys did not afford the scrivener reprieve from their duty nor the people succor from their starvation nor the farmers the headman's axe after their long folly in handling land and crop."  She looks up from her scroll and at the trio of priests.  "That is what it says here.  So I ask you; should coin afford one scrivener, these many years later, leniency?"[HR][/HR]MEDIUM DCMake your move and on success you can add-on your charity/bribe/tribute/offering of 180 GP for 2 x success.</blockquote>

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