On Wednesday, July 2, 2025 3:38 PM murph via Emerald Flame wrote:
Nia will lurk on the outskirts of town and try to spot a friendly face. She has met Gegren at his forge, so will lurk in those environs.
Nia’s goal is to get more information about the anomaly. While she wants to investigate it, if there are people in town who know more about it, she would prefer to venture out with as much information as she can.
If she encounters a known person, she will ask them:
“What do you know about the light from over the hills?”
“Has anyone gone to investigate it? And where are these people now?”
While keeping to the quieter parts of Locke, Nia does encounter a few familiar and friendly enough faces, though they are not much help in answering her questions about what occurred. The people around town seem to embody a quiet, subdued fear of the situation --- not in a panic or speculating wildly about what lies beyond the hills, but rather just trying not to worry about it, not to think of what if anything might come next. No one Nia recognizes claims to have even started to approach the site. [OOC: but, there might be someone --- talking with people doesn't seem to be Nia's strong suit, but an occasional conversation seems to draw the attention of someone --- a male half-elf, looking to be a teenager --- who seems like they would know a bit more, the question is if they'll talk to Nia. Give me a difficulty 2 Intellect task to have a good social encounter and get some actually useful information. [Nested meta OOC: we will play with the variants of "I call for a roll, you reply, I narrate" vs. "I roll for you when it's obvious you would act" vs. "you tell me you want to roll and preload your action if/when you succeed" and so on as we go. On this one since I'm thinking this is an unexpected opportunity that strikes Nia (or doesn't), I won't just foist a success/failure on you, and we'll explore the normal progression a bit for everyone's sake.] Oh, and I'm assuming, without getting in the way, that you may indeed bump into any of the others, but Gegren hasn't yet gathered any information of his own ahead of time --- perhaps too busy coming to terms with whatever happened with the whole sudden helborn-ness.] -- bss (Brian S. Stephan) | https://bss.zone/ | GPG: 0x80895FCB