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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9169999" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Skill Challenge resolved:  Uncover what haunts Red Rock.XP:  350/2 = 175 apiece.[HR][/HR]Through the stone-blessed goliath's primal blessings, the earthen stone resists the call to become shapeless by the fire.  The ceiling of the hewn, spiral stair holds strong.From her vantage in the entry to the spiral stair, Pa'avu can see only stone, but it is as a mirror.  The young githyanki is in the center of the vast chamber beneath, knee-deep in the middle of a pool of astral waters some ten paces across.  Where he stands, this world and another fluctuate back and forth between being present.  His eyes closed and his hands on the hilt of his Silver Sword, the blade bathed in the astral "waters", a ritual is being undertaken.  The earthen substrate shakes wildly; walls, ceiling, floors, all of it.  Cries from the enclave ring out.As the alien youngling performs his ritual to bring his kin streaming into this world, his steed creeps forward like a stalking hunting cat.  Now she understands why the smell of sulfur and pumice assailed her senses so intensively.  Swept horns in frill, the beginnings of a horn protruding from the point of the snout, a Red Dragon the size of a bull elephant stalks in front of its rider and companion, smoke venting from its flaring nostrils...[HR][/HR]If the githyanki youngling completes his ritual (3 combat rounds equivalent of both (a) being in the pool and (b) having no successful move made to disrupt his ritual), then githyanki waves will begin pouring into this world to (without any due diligence) slay those who have threatened their domain by their summoning of The Dread Star Caiphon!If you've got some kind of move here to make before we go to combat, make it.  Otherwise...[HR][/HR]EDIT:  Alright, discussed with the players.  Below is there goal, how this is going to get mechanized, and the situation:GOAL:  We're going to attempt a parley here to stave off combat. I think we've established enough fiction that we can assume Chanvati's psionic reach can read Pa'avu's psychic emanations and that he is well apprised of the situation.  Chanvati will make some kind of Diplomacy (or similar) check attempting to leverage their shared opposition to Caiphon to woo Ishka into an allegiance and march upon whatever upstart in Bantouk dares ally itself with the Dread Star!MECHANICS:  Parley is going to be difficult here.  Full-on zealout with serious cause and instruction to rebuff your overtures.  So right in the teeth of early paragon tier enemy and conflict ask.  DCs jump up pretty quickly right there.We'll go C1, Level +4 (12), so quite a difficult ask here.  DCs of 12 for Secondary Skill and 20 for Primary Skills.  Failures and I'm going to either (a) bring in a Hard DC or (2) activate the Red Dragon in a nested challenge.  On (2), we'll treat that like DW where I'll (1) make a soft move and then (2) you guys will make a move in response.  If you beat the of-level, hard DC (24), you get what you want outright, the beast is momentarily cowed, and we're back to the Parley conflict.  If you only the beat medium DC (16), then same as prior except you suffer a consequence.SITUATION:  The Young Red Dragon is warding that hewn stair down into the chamber.  Its spring-loaded to "be a problem" and is interceding between anyone trying to get to the young Githyanki.  The young Githyanki is hip deep in its ritual in the astral pool, the nexus that is temporally and spatially distorting things locally and will serve as the means for his people to stream into this world.  It fully expects to fulfill its duties here in the next few moments and exalt in victory as his people arrive to execute their crusade.</blockquote>

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