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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9264172" data-attributes="member: 1282">All right, continuing here in my role as keyboardist for both of us, this is how we would like to proceed:From Chanvati's perspective, what is imperative is keeping bloodshed from spilling past the walls of the arena into Bantouk. To this end, he will seek to parley with "the steward" Gae'al alludes to above (is that Bita-Bahlin? someone else?). The Legion must have its sport--their martial culture demands no less--but Bantouk's citizenry must be spared the worst depredations of the occupying force. However, Chanvati will not conduct this "interview" without Pa'avu's physical presence, and Pa'avu will not allow the humiliation of the bystanders described above to stand. So with that in mind...[HR][/HR]PA'AVU cocks her head with disbelief at Gae'al's dismissal of the shameful activity now permitted in the Congress of Savagery. Has her hero fallen so far, cowed by her defeat at the hands of Gormandt and Grimtail? Is she just inured to the insult? Or biding her time for proper justice? No, it is that her l'pagb'gin has weakened with the occupation and needs buoying."This will not stand.""Come, boy," she growls in her gravely voice to Hazard, and the two ascend in bitter determination a nearby staircase--Pa'avu taking three stairs at once with each great stride--to where the three drunken Bladelings laugh and congratulate themselves on their antics. Chanvati races behind to keep up with the pair. The three straighten up to meet the challenge of her approach. Pa'avu stops within a hand's breadth from the tallest of the Bladelings and looks down into its purple face, flecked with red. The Half-giant looms without speaking for a moment, then two, a full foot taller than the biggest of her antagonists. The silence is broken as Hazard growls behind her."It is not unheard of among my people to urinate upon a foe after vanquishing some great enemy. We respect displays of dominance. But these people are civilians. You dishonor what it means to be a warrior. Make restitution to the father, now, so that his son will not grow up with a model of weakness in his head."[HR][/HR]Pa'avu makes a Primary Skill Intimidate check to cow the Bladelings into shame at their behavior, r15+13=28 vs 20 Moderate DC. Success.I believe you would like the opportunity to change the fiction before we proced further, but the greater goal here, linking directly to the goals of the SC, is for Chanvati to follow this move up with some kind of check (probably Insight but maybe Arcana) to read these foot soldiers among the Legion of Ruth in sussing out how the common, "enlisted" soldier feels about the state of affairs during occupation, irrespective of what is reported to or by officers and other commanders.</blockquote>

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