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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9262772" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up    (y)"  data-smilie="22"data-shortname="(y)" />THE CONGRESS OF SAVAGERY/ARENA (MEDIUM DIFFICULTY)Complexity 2 SC, Level 13 SC.Goal: Surveil the Congress of Savagery to confirm the degree and form to which the unrest among the Legion of Ruth as reported by Rietka exists.DCs 14/20/290/6 Successes (1 Hard DC available)/0 Failures/2 Secondary Skill Available[HR][/HR]Gae'al's eyes stay fixed upon the route Gormandt and Grimtail are delivering below.  She has clearly already sized up your collective.  Lack of intensity in the eyes.  Lack of the signature combination of tautness, limberness, and excited anxiety that portends a physical clash."You did not come here for battle and bloodshed.  I would offer you refreshment, but, given the lack of coin flowing to our coffers, we are operating on a tight budget.  That goes for dignitaries foreign and domestic, I'm afraid."Directly across from your position, a bladeling warrior pantomiming an usher, replete with stolen garb, sees a few low caste members to their seats; a human father and young son.  It is clearly a humilitating strategem as shortly thereafter a trio of drunken bladelings urinate on the father from their seats above.  The father nearly rages to a physical alteration but then quickly comes to his senses, consoling his small boy from his fright and mustering himself to endure his humiliation."What does one do with this?  I levy complaints to their steward but I get little in return.  When you see enough of this, it becomes difficult to render unto boredom when sheer cruel nature appears the better fit."Rietka's eyes flash with anger.  Though her hand does not reach for the pommel of her flail, the fingers flex.The hulking goliath registers it with the most subtle of smirks in the corner of her mouth.[HR][/HR]What interests you in the scene before you?  Gormandt and Grimtail's brutality and antics, playing to a crowd that barely exists?  The dwindling coffers?  Gae'al's accrued anecdotes to date?  Her provocation with Rietka and/or Rietka's response (do you want to inflame that?)?  The Legion's steward housed in The Arena.  The incident across the way in the seating?Something else?Regardless, MEDIUM DC.</blockquote>

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