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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 9534217" data-attributes="member: 1282">Hours later, CHANVATI stands upon a wide balcony overlooking the crowded square beneath the baroque Forum, a gaudy stone building where the Senate holds its interminable sessions. Pa'avu and Yazdan flank him, each back a pace or two. Scheherezade watches, he knows, from below, sequestered within the Imperial Platinum Palanquin. Assembled in the square are hundreds, nay, thousands of Legionnaires, milling about restlessly, their usual order and energy replaced by a lethargy, a listlessness finally identified by his surprisingly trenchant ally. Friend.He spies Rietka beside one of the Legion generals. She raises no hand, makes no sign of acknowledgement.In the windows and on the rooftops of surrounding buildings, the middle class citizenry of Bantouk looks on in a complicated knot of emotions, sensible to the Psion's heightened mind: fear, anticipation, trepidation, an iota of hope."Esteemed partners in our purge against the abominations that beset the Empire," he begins, "I greet you now in my formal role as Senator of this great city!"I come from an emergency meeting called to discuss certain insights into our shared states and destinies."Bantouk thanks you for all you have done in service to preserving the health of the Empire. On behalf of its people, the Senate thanks you. Our Empress, I know, recognizes the assistance you have delivered and extends her gratitude, in turn."But we understand now that if we are to stand as strong allies against the incursions of the Far Realm together, we, each people, must conserve our strengths, follow our traditions, attend to our own needs, disparate as they be."In this vein, we acknowledge how heavily residence within our city has weighed upon you. You are a people of the howling desert, used to testing your mettle against the beasts and relentless sun of that place, not in bureaucratic discourse in the labrynthine chambers of the meeting hall!"There is some rumbling of agreement amid the bladelings of the Legion."If we, the representatives of the Empire of Hageri, are to do our part to eradicate our shared enemies forever, we must stand upon our own two feet and bring our own special qualities to bear. To this purpose, we beseech you to follow your hearts back to the desert lands of your home, in full knowledge that our gratitude to you will never be forgotten, that the friendship between our peoples has been tempered in the crucible of war and cooled in the bath of the Occupation!"Rest confident that I vow to lead the attack personally against the powers of Caiphon that even now gather their strength in the mindbending Beyond."A cheer rings out from the Bantouk citizenry from their places in the surrounding buildings."The occupation is over; you are freed to return to your homes; our war is just beginning! We take out battle to the stars!""Chan-VA-ti! Chan-VA-ti! Chan-VA-ti!" chants Bantouk's citizenry.[HR][/HR]Clearly, Chanvati is making a Primary Skill Diplomacy check here to seal the deal, to convince the Legion of Ruth to withdraw to the desert, their goals here achieved, and with promises for the future. Not incidentally, I am setting up both Chanvati's goal of leading the Senate, formally, and signalling our intention to take the action to the Far Realm against the remnants of those Caiphonian forces that remain.r6+20=26 vs 24 Moderate DC. Closer than I expected! But that's the final Success.We will get a post(s) up soon with updated Quests as the busy holiday season allows!</blockquote>

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