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<blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9533953" data-attributes="member: 20459"><p><em><strong>PA'AVU</strong> stands silently alongside her young student, listening carefully to the complaint made to Scheherazade during a fitting for royal robes. The seamstress is sharing details of the simmering situation at the barracks to her sovereign, details related to her by one of several brothers once garrisoned at the northern gates: "I do not even understand why they are still here!" is her plaintive cry.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The young sovereign looks up at her goliath tutor, her expression a clear query for advice. At this, Pa'avu cocks her head to the side, thinking through some details she has only just begun to notice in the bladelings: a dullness to the sheen of their metallic spikes; a blankness in their gaze; a growing aggressiveness born not out of their natural tendency toward competitive behavior but out of boredom, from being cooped up. The goliath has been seeing more and more instances of these things, but -- in retrospect -- last night's dinner with Rietka and Yazdan began to put all these pieces together. When she was not snarling at Chanvati or glaring at Hazard, Rietka was staring listlessly into space, a mirror of what Pa'avu now realizes she has been observing for quite some time.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>And now the puzzle is complete.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"They are not meant to be here," she intones, in her deep gravelly voice. "Bladelings thrive in the desert: it feeds them physically, mentally, and spiritually. They are stagnating here in the city. They must return: their well-being depends upon it. Even Rietka."</em></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pa'avu makes a Secondary Skill Insight check to read between the lines of bladeling behavior (r8+13=21 vs DC 17/Success) to aid</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">her Primary Skill Nature check to recognize the cause of the bladelings' mental, spiritual, and physical deterioration: r8+17+2 SS = 27 vs DC 24/Success</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nephis, post: 9533953, member: 20459"] [I][B]PA'AVU[/B] stands silently alongside her young student, listening carefully to the complaint made to Scheherazade during a fitting for royal robes. The seamstress is sharing details of the simmering situation at the barracks to her sovereign, details related to her by one of several brothers once garrisoned at the northern gates: "I do not even understand why they are still here!" is her plaintive cry. The young sovereign looks up at her goliath tutor, her expression a clear query for advice. At this, Pa'avu cocks her head to the side, thinking through some details she has only just begun to notice in the bladelings: a dullness to the sheen of their metallic spikes; a blankness in their gaze; a growing aggressiveness born not out of their natural tendency toward competitive behavior but out of boredom, from being cooped up. The goliath has been seeing more and more instances of these things, but -- in retrospect -- last night's dinner with Rietka and Yazdan began to put all these pieces together. When she was not snarling at Chanvati or glaring at Hazard, Rietka was staring listlessly into space, a mirror of what Pa'avu now realizes she has been observing for quite some time. And now the puzzle is complete. "They are not meant to be here," she intones, in her deep gravelly voice. "Bladelings thrive in the desert: it feeds them physically, mentally, and spiritually. They are stagnating here in the city. They must return: their well-being depends upon it. Even Rietka."[/I] [HR][/HR] [LIST] [*]Pa'avu makes a Secondary Skill Insight check to read between the lines of bladeling behavior (r8+13=21 vs DC 17/Success) to aid [*]her Primary Skill Nature check to recognize the cause of the bladelings' mental, spiritual, and physical deterioration: r8+17+2 SS = 27 vs DC 24/Success [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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