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<blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9256183" data-attributes="member: 1282"><p><strong><em>CHANVATI</em></strong><em> observes silently the students for a moment, their faltering attempts to stack stone upon stone recalls his days as a youth (so much younger than his current 26 years!) working similarly with Tectuktitlay, Mirage Moonstar, and the other professors of Xerxes's school. Ah, if he had but had the opportunity to study with the great man Xerxes, himself! Ah, youth! Ah, regret!</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Then the Merchant-Prince turns his mind, and the full force of his psionic potential, to the psionic mallet and very real gong. The bossed, brass instrument is suspended in an elaborate frame of carved wood set between the master and the source of the counterpoint of drips falling from the Dusk Wall and collecting into a shallow pool at its base. The psionic mallet quivers as Chanvati feels Tectuktitlay resist and attempt to retain control, but student has exceeded master. Chanvati pauses just a half-moment to read Tectuktitlay's emotional response, then strikes the gong not on its boss but next to it, the repeated E flat note abruptly curtailed with a single, triumphant D.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Rocks fall as the assembled students lose focus on their task. Who would challenge the master in this way, in his own hall?!? A few gasps and even an audible whisper or two reverberates in the great space. "New master ... impertinence ... will they duel?"</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Tectuktitlay, meanwhile, unperturbed, eyes closed, simply repeats his question, "W<em>as Zalthomet ultimately deliverer from woe or did he send us spiraling headlong into it? You have not answered me, Chanvati ... Stout-mind no longer, it seems. Chanvati, Master of the Ego Fortress!" There is a gentle chiding in the stressing of that last title.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>Chanvati considers. "Master Tektuctitlay, there is much I wish to beg of your wisdom on this matter. It is my own conclusion, based on copious research and lessons in this very institution, that Emperor Zalthomet hastened Hageri's woe, for in the founding of the Senate of his time he conceded too much power to the Church of Omthala in the establishment and control of that hoary body. The people of Bantouk wanted accountability, not outsiders with their own agenda, separate from Empire! Omthalans have always despised Hageri's rulers for their official sanctioning of Mavi-ishiq, Lord of the Heavens; and in assuming a place of prominence in the old Senate this rivalry bled into partisan political behavior.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>"So it is my assertion that Zalthomet misstepped by allowing any religious interference in governance whatsoever. Would the power of the Imperial body be counterbalanced by a Senate, that assembly must be drawn from the heads of merchant houses and guildmasters and esteemed nobles and even tradesfolk of the lower caste, those with a vested interest in the eternity of Empire, not those with concern primarily for another kind of eternity.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>But Zalthomet's plan was a good one, if poorly executed, I think. It is on this matter that I seek your own, estimable opinion."</em></em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p>I'll accept the challenge and wager against your (1) above: Chanvati uses Insight as a Secondary Skill to discern what effect striking the D note might have on his former master, reading the acknowledgement of Chanvati's rise to power not as threat but as an accomplishment the mentor should be proud of in his former student, +17 vs 13 Easy DC = autosuccess for +2 to </p><p></p><p>Chanvati's Primary Skill Arcana check to wrest control of the psionic hammer from Tectuktitlay, r9+16+2 SS=27 vs 27 Hard DC. Juuuust made it. Success x2.</p><p></p><p>For your (2) above, Chanvati makes a Primary Skill History check to establish his understanding of the historical record, r3+16=19 vs 19 Moderate DC. Wowzers. Could these rolls be any closer? Success.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darkbard, post: 9256183, member: 1282"] [B][I]CHANVATI[/I][/B][I] observes silently the students for a moment, their faltering attempts to stack stone upon stone recalls his days as a youth (so much younger than his current 26 years!) working similarly with Tectuktitlay, Mirage Moonstar, and the other professors of Xerxes's school. Ah, if he had but had the opportunity to study with the great man Xerxes, himself! Ah, youth! Ah, regret! Then the Merchant-Prince turns his mind, and the full force of his psionic potential, to the psionic mallet and very real gong. The bossed, brass instrument is suspended in an elaborate frame of carved wood set between the master and the source of the counterpoint of drips falling from the Dusk Wall and collecting into a shallow pool at its base. The psionic mallet quivers as Chanvati feels Tectuktitlay resist and attempt to retain control, but student has exceeded master. Chanvati pauses just a half-moment to read Tectuktitlay's emotional response, then strikes the gong not on its boss but next to it, the repeated E flat note abruptly curtailed with a single, triumphant D. Rocks fall as the assembled students lose focus on their task. Who would challenge the master in this way, in his own hall?!? A few gasps and even an audible whisper or two reverberates in the great space. "New master ... impertinence ... will they duel?" Tectuktitlay, meanwhile, unperturbed, eyes closed, simply repeats his question, "W[I]as Zalthomet ultimately deliverer from woe or did he send us spiraling headlong into it? You have not answered me, Chanvati ... Stout-mind no longer, it seems. Chanvati, Master of the Ego Fortress!" There is a gentle chiding in the stressing of that last title. Chanvati considers. "Master Tektuctitlay, there is much I wish to beg of your wisdom on this matter. It is my own conclusion, based on copious research and lessons in this very institution, that Emperor Zalthomet hastened Hageri's woe, for in the founding of the Senate of his time he conceded too much power to the Church of Omthala in the establishment and control of that hoary body. The people of Bantouk wanted accountability, not outsiders with their own agenda, separate from Empire! Omthalans have always despised Hageri's rulers for their official sanctioning of Mavi-ishiq, Lord of the Heavens; and in assuming a place of prominence in the old Senate this rivalry bled into partisan political behavior. "So it is my assertion that Zalthomet misstepped by allowing any religious interference in governance whatsoever. Would the power of the Imperial body be counterbalanced by a Senate, that assembly must be drawn from the heads of merchant houses and guildmasters and esteemed nobles and even tradesfolk of the lower caste, those with a vested interest in the eternity of Empire, not those with concern primarily for another kind of eternity. But Zalthomet's plan was a good one, if poorly executed, I think. It is on this matter that I seek your own, estimable opinion."[/I][/I] [HR][/HR] I'll accept the challenge and wager against your (1) above: Chanvati uses Insight as a Secondary Skill to discern what effect striking the D note might have on his former master, reading the acknowledgement of Chanvati's rise to power not as threat but as an accomplishment the mentor should be proud of in his former student, +17 vs 13 Easy DC = autosuccess for +2 to Chanvati's Primary Skill Arcana check to wrest control of the psionic hammer from Tectuktitlay, r9+16+2 SS=27 vs 27 Hard DC. Juuuust made it. Success x2. For your (2) above, Chanvati makes a Primary Skill History check to establish his understanding of the historical record, r3+16=19 vs 19 Moderate DC. Wowzers. Could these rolls be any closer? Success. [/QUOTE]
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