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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9036239" data-attributes="member: 6696971">3 Successes (0 Hard DC Available)/0 Failures/0 Secondary Skills Available[HR][/HR]Samnang and Phirun extend a thousand mundane blessings back upon the golden priestess, a combination of penance for their internal struggles and true thankfulness for her divine prayers.  They make sure to obscure the Imperial Sentinels table when the fellowship departs Grub for the gates and their exodus into the wild.<cut to the gates>Its the season for imports from the network of enclaves all around The Empire.  Imports means audits and taxes at the gates.  The priests, the blessed, and the scrivener arrive to a mass of exhausted merchants, farmers, artisans, fresh from disembarking their caravan with their beasts of burden and wagons being serviced and cared for by stable hand, farrier, engineer.  Auditors and tax collectors, like vultures to a carcass, descend upon them.  Imperial Sentries mill through the throng, ever watchful, imposing stares, armor, weaponry creating an intentional mood of fear, acquiescence, and order upon the proceedings.  The two stone towers loom with more eyes, the ramparts between them yet more eyes, bows, arrows.  The drawbridge that spans the moat is up.  The gatehouse door is locked with an Imperial Guard manning his post there, keys dangling from his belt.[HR][/HR]MEDIUM DCHow do you get beyond the soldiers, the wall and its moat, and into the wild?</blockquote>

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