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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9067582" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Goal:  Gain entrance to the church and exorcise the infected before they fully become Caiphon's thralls.Resolved.XP & LOOT* 1000/2 = 500 xp apiece.* 600 coin in the form of Astral Shards shunted through the closed rift.* After driving out or escaping thralldom of multiple terrible entities, one PC or Qamra gains the Boon:<h3>Divine Deliverance</h3>The radiance of the sun and moon drive out the presence of insidious entities from your mind.Daily ✦     DivineImmediate Interrupt      PersonalTrigger: You are hit by a charm or a psychic attack.Effect: You gain resist 5 psychic until the end of your next turn. Also, you gain a +2 power bonus to saving throws against charm effects and psychic effects until the end of your next turn.    Level 11: Resist 10 psychic.    Level 21: Resist 15 psychic.[HR][/HR]* Of-level (7), Complexity 1 Skill Challange (DCs 11, 16, vs NAD = 19, vs AC = 21) to galvanize a religious awakening to Delban and consecrate this place as His holy bastion and these people as First Stewards of The Faith of The Shadowed Sun.  1 Secondary Skill Available, 0 Hard DCs.[HR][/HR]With Caiphon's will smote yet again, the pilgrims and The Blessed Eight (two remaining) emerge from the still-intact church.  The moon looms vast in the sky above; cold yet comforting.  The people of Dolg Hana must sense the miracle at hand as, one by one, their doors unlock and they shamble through the doors like awestruck zombies, parents clasping the hands of their children, mothers swaddling babes.  Xin Mae realizes something potentially historical is at hand and doffs his pack to quickly rummage through his implements and parchment, preparing to document the event for all times.  He stands up abruptly and his head cranes right to left as he follows a figure in full flight.  "Oh dear.  That cannot be good.  No.  Not good indeed."  Absent-mindedly, he callously sighs "...this will spoil everything, won't it?"The young porter who manages Dolg Hana's pack animals rushes out to the small pole barn that protects their beasts of burden from the cruel sun in this inhospitable place.  Whether it was the astral wave from the conduit opening, the cold radiance of the moon looming high above, or the simple excitement of the moment, the town's lone, female Frill-Boned Yak (think Triceratops) is suddenly in labor and she is clearly not ready for it.  The animal begins making a terrible noise of distress and the young porter is working overdrive to get everything ready to attempt to save her and deliver her not-ready-for-this-world-yet calf.A collective gasp from the Dolg Hanans.  The death of their only female yak or the terrible portent of a stillbirth on this night would be an awful setback to galvanizing a religious awakening![HR][/HR]How do you resolve this problem?  If you do so successfully, if you have a move thereafter that exalts in the successful resolution of the plight of the poor mother and her calf or exalting in the deliverance of the town from Dread Caiphon's influence, go ahead and make it.  I'll generate a new obstacle after that.  If you don't have a move to exalt/consecrate immediately thereafter or you get a failure here then stay put and I'll change the situation.Failure means wildland predators or Feral Raiders, always lurking on the outskirts of these towns, will smell or sense the death of the yak and come for a meal...or more.  I'll flesh out that obstacle and it will escalate to the Hard DC.MEDIUM DC</blockquote>

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