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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9222166" data-attributes="member: 1282">CHANVATI dismounts and strides confidently up the stairs, ducking under Pa'avu's arm to enter the antechamber. He calls out behind him, "Beets, look after the little ones for a moment. And keep an eye on that brother of yours." He continues forward.<Camera cuts to close up of Bita-Bousseh, looking directly into lense with "is-he-effing-kidding-me?!?" look on her face. She grabs her blind twin by his manacles, and the two, along with Hazard the hound--until Pa'avu stops Hazard and motions him back to watch Pari and Farzin--slip beside the mighty Goliath before she enters, allowing the doors to close behind her.>The Merchant-Prince continues confidently across the room, beneath the suspended statue of that Hoary Ruler, and straight past the Oracle, whom he had said was the object of their consultation. He stops below The Mind, unsettling where it stands nearly motionless on the mezzanine."We meet again!" Chanvati calls out. "And I have learned much since that last meeting. Tell me, this creature known as Caiphon is from A Realm Beyond, is it not? And your people were once a living lattice to protect our realm from what lies there. We learned all the stories at Xerxes's when I was there. But what I have just now come to understand," he pauses, his brow wrinkling for a moment, "is your role as an advisor to the Empress in such matters, how some dereliction of duty allows taint from that place to sweep across our lands, infecting Half-Giants in the foothills and our citizenry back home. I demand we speak with Empress Scheherezade and her other advisors immediately, for you to reveal to all of us what you know and how this incursion can be stopped!"[HR][/HR]Chanvati makes a Primary Skill Arcana check to elucidate the role of shardminds as purported protectors of the mortal realm from Caiphonian influence, and The Mind's failure here in this regard, r(2) +16 = 18 Moderate DC. Fails. TRIGGERS PHILOSOPHER'S CROWN DAILY POWER: Trigger: You make an Arcana, Dungeoneering, History, Nature, or Religion check and dislike the result.Effect: You reroll the check and use either result. R(10) +16 = 26 vs. 19 Moderate DC. Success.</blockquote>

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