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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9257845" data-attributes="member: 6696971">[USER=1282]@darkbard[/USER] Skill Challenge completed.  Goal "consult with Tectuktitlay about the period following Emperor Zalthomet's reign in the Fourth Dynasty when the attempt to establish a Bantoukian Senate failed" attained."Come forward Time Bender," beckons the stone-faced master.  "The chronopool will reveal mysteries past to you when you stare deeply into its disturbed surface."The drop slides across the granite surface...down...ever down.  It breaks with its maternal stream.  Ripples reveal an ancient past to Chanvati, Time Bender.<The sun.  A roiling surface of angry plasma and magnetic loop.  A massive solar storm gathering and then breaking, a loop of plasma and power sundering into a thousand pieces, falling back to the blazing surface with an eternal promise to rise again.  Zalthomet prostrate, worshipping a figure out of the frame save for the head of an Omthalan staff and casting ambient light that would blind mere mortals.  Radiant-regalia clad Priests of Omthala beset a singular figure of extraordinary power; The First Flame, the exarch of Omthala and leader of the church...overcome with a burning magnitude and a scorching heat ripe to bursting that demands vast distance between the being and its material servitors and laity.  But the power that was sundered that day cannot be destroyed...but rather diffused to constituents only to coalesce once more in a far-flung future.  One by one, each priest assassin has their mundane eyes overcome by a burning flame...the genesis of another loop...>XP & Loot* Level 11 SC = 600 xp* Master Tectuktitlay's Imparted Wisdom - Single Use Consumable  Immediate Reaction - Personal  Trigger:  You rely upon Master Tectuktitlay's Imparted Wisdom to make a Knowledge Primary Skill Check and succeed.  Effect:  Gain 1 extra success.[HR][/HR][USER=20459]@Nephis[/USER]3/4 Successes (0 Hard DCs available)/0 Failures/0 Secondary Skill AvailableRietka menaces "one hit wins the day...make sure it doesn't claim your life" as Yazdan appraises the beautiful partisan, feeling the weight, the leverage, the balance point of the polearm.Abruptly, the Bladeling warrior, a veteran of disciplined phalanxes, rushes Pa'avu at an angle off Yazdan's hip that would tactically make use of his proximity and presence to provide camouflage and cover for explosive, flail-twirling advance! (1)The Bantouk cavalryman, a bit slowed by age, only reacts after the surprisingly sudden charge by Rietka.  His weight dips subtly on the back foot as he circles left a step and then back right, flanking Rietka in her barb-laden stampede. (2)[HR][/HR]On (1):  If you strike while she has this position of tactical cover/concealment, emerging suddenly from Yazdan's flank, make your move against the HARD DC (add +2 defense if its an atk vs AC/NAD).  If you do and you succeed, gain a level 8 magic item; a ceremonial gift from Rietka due to you countering her best efforts in the duel (otherwise this conflict has no Loot rewards, just xp). If you deploy (2), create an opening for the old man to score a hit on the young Bladeling warrior and close out the scene with a burgeoning friendship between Pa'avu and Yazdan and a smoldering, testy rivalry between Pa'avu and Rietka.  MEDIUM DC per normal.If you do something else (3 I guess!) adhering to the constituent parts of the framing above, describe it and resolve.  Remember to take +2 circumstance bonus if you have a fiction-applicable Encounter Power!  MEDIUM DC per normal.</blockquote>

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