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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9098788" data-attributes="member: 20459">In the brief silence that follows the tiefling's taunting suggestion, PA'AVU kneels on the sand and places one of her great hands on the desert floor, the better to "hear" the movement of beasts and their ilk. So intent is she on discerning sounds of creatures far away that the Goliath barely registers any movement close by until there is the distinct sound of a face being slapped. Pa'avu spares a quick glance upward and witnesses Bita-Bousseh standing before her brother, uttering something surely unflattering in an unknown tongue, before spitting at his feet and turning away. Returning to her task at hand, the warrior closes her eyes to more fully enter into Stoneroot's Blessing and read the signs the earth gives her, both hands flat against the sand. Chanvati stands beside her kneeling figure and - as usual - declares that consulting his accumulated learning will aid their journey, as he begins to expound upon his years of study and vast stores of knowledge. Pa'avu is prepared to let his words wash over her as so much desert wind and not be distracted from her task, but today the words of her Gosb'tar seem less superfluous than usual and paint a picture through which she can read the landscape while discerning its secrets."Unless I am mistaken," begins the Merchant-Prince, "these are the very Blighted Lands from which hailed Lo-Kag, legendary Goliath companion to Genga. Though The Fables of Genga lingers on the duo's avoidance of these barren lands during the Race of a Thousand Heroes, your ancestors had deep roots to this place, Pa'avu, with Lo-Kag travelling from here to Bantouk in his youth. Perhaps you can tap in to that connection and lead us home."His Sahtree smiles to herself, for he has not noticed that she is already doing so. In fact, as she opens her eyes - keeping her focus soft - Pa'avu begins to sense through his words a psionically-induced picture of the old routes which still remain: ground firm enough to hold cattle-drawn siltrunners across the desert, paths through fissures avoiding dangerously loose sand, and so forth.[HR][/HR]We are wagering an Advantage for possible 2 SuccessesChanvati makes a Secondary Skill History check: +14 vs. 13 Easy DC for +2 and an Augmented Adept's Insight: r(4) + 1 =5 for +5 andPa'avu uses Earthen Renewal (Encounter Power; lose 1 Healing Surge) to draw upon Stoneroot's Blessing and see her way through disaster, for +2 to herPrimary Skill Nature check to safely navigate the Worm's territory: r(8) + 11 + 2 + 5 + 2 = 28 vs. 27 Hard DC. Success = 2 Successes.</blockquote>

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