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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 17, 2018 0:06:55 GMT 1
Better Angels - Audience with Ysilla: 6d6k5+5 21Laena having had a pleasant bath with one of her sisters a couple of days prior, she decided to see if she could repeat the event today. She'd been meaning to spend time with Lady Ysilla for a while, but never found the time. Now, however, with her intentions made clear to Lord Bryce, the matter became suddenly urgent. While she doubted Lord Bryce consulted Lady Ysilla on most matters of import, he may well ask her her opinion about Laena. Laena wanted to make sure that opinion was positive. Plus, for all that she presented a childish front, Lady Ysilla was not someone Laena wanted as an enemy. She was of the Blood of the Dragon, and dragons, however friendly they may appear, were territorial beasts. She would not underestimate her. Plus, she had a lot to do this morning, so it made a lot of sense to double-up where she could.
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Post by Father on Oct 17, 2018 10:56:28 GMT 1
Even naked Ysilla stands out, her skin is not as soft and perfectly smooth as Shiera's, rather it is taut over well defined muscle, though not so bulging that it is visible under the loose and airy gowns she prefers, her stomach would have been impressive and difficult to resist caressing had she been a knight. Unlike Shiera, she does not gracefully slide into the water but drops down with a splash followed by a very girlish giggle. "It's a good thing that you suggested this, or else I might have dressed up like a boy and see if I couldn't find Ser Aladore on my own, only the seven knows what to do with myself if I actually were the one to find him." She sounds a bit too serious for that to be brushed off as a joke. |
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 17, 2018 12:44:42 GMT 1
"Probably be captured yourself." Laena replies, blandly. "Which would go very badly ... for them. It seems nearly half of the people I've spoken with this tourney have found some way to mention how charmed they are by you. Especially our siblings. For all the ... excitement so far this morning, it is still largely political. Were word to spread that they had captured you as well, well, I think it would result in the kind of lesson that is passed down for generations as to why you don't meddle with the affairs of dragons." Laena's smile as she says the last line is quite predatory, and rather amused. She considers a moment. "Why do you want to join the search? Are you looking for excitement, or do you primarily want to help?" From her tone, she's not judging one motive over the other.
Might as well kick off the main motive now. Better Angels - Intrigue Initiative: 6d6k5 27 Not certain, but *fairly* sure I have initiative, here. Objective: Charm ID: 13 Base Composure: 12/12 Better Angels - Start of Intrigue - Deception (Act): 6d6k4+2 17 +1 ID / DoS vs Awareness (Empathy) |
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Post by Father on Oct 17, 2018 18:35:27 GMT 1
"Huh, maybe I'd let them catch me, and make them all fight over my affections like they do in the pits of Slaver's Bay" Her mind walks off to mysterious places. "And when the sole survivor comes to claim his prize, it turns out that they didn't tie me up good enough, or searched me enough to find all my knives, and THEN! As she says the last word, she lunges straight at Laena with an outstretched fist shooting out of the water disturbingly close to her neck, thankfully no knife in that hand, otherwise it would likely have cut into her throat before she even realized the danger. "I never think that far ahead, really, I just want to do something, and then I do it."[/B]
She can't beat that initiative 0 DoS on your Deception Free Deception: 6d6k4 15 Also 0 DoS Objective: Friendship. ID: 12 Composure: 12 DR: 4
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 18, 2018 3:33:02 GMT 1
Fortunately, Laena can pass her freezing in surprise off as simply being unflappable. She'd suspect many people of trying to kill her when he guard was down. For some reason, Ysilla hadn't made the list. After mentally correcting that, she doesn't crush Ysilla's little fantasy of her captors fighting over anything other than their order. Still, after a moment, she blinks. "Wait ... *all* your knives? How many knives do you normally carry? Should I be listening the next time you dance for the sound of a couple-dozen knives gently clinking together?" She certainly wasn't going to criticise Ysilla for arming herself. If the Starling's Megelle had a weapon and the will to use it, her entire situation would have turned out rather differently. Sure, she'd probably have been killed, but she'd have a good chance to get a fatal blow on Lord Merryweather first. And the life of a commoner to kill Lord Merryweather was a good trade in anyone's book. Well, except maybe the commoner's, she supposed. "I intend to be investigating the area around the crime scene, along with a few people from my house, looking for clues. I can't promise much in the way of excitement, and there'll be nothing in the way of danger, but if you want to help, and it won't get either of us in trouble with Ser Desmond or Lord Bryce, I'd welcome the company." She offers. It's a soft-sell, her tone implying she certainly won't take any offence if Ysilla declines.
Okay, this looks like a basic influence race, so I see no reason not to do 5 rounds at a time, to make things easy and get the mechanics out the way ASAP. Better Angels R1-5 Influence (Charm-Act): 5#6d6k4+5 23 21 26 24 23R1: 3 DoS - 12 Influence (8 after DR) (Composure 4/12) R2: 2 DoS - 8 Influence (4 after DR) (Composure 0/12) R3: 3 DoS - 12 Influence (8 after DR) (Composure -8/12) That should be more than enough. |
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Post by Father on Oct 18, 2018 10:31:39 GMT 1
"When I am not hunting villains or really angry at my brother? Just the one." She likes the sound of clinking knives. "Most of the time, grabbing their fingers and give them a twisting twirl does the job, knives are so messy, all that blood being hard to remove from my clothes and hands afterwards." If she actually had done any of that, well, who could know.
Charm: 3#6d6k4+2 17 17 21 Looks like a solid loss.
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 18, 2018 17:00:11 GMT 1
She looks at Ysilla searchingly. "I'm probably going to regret asking, but what do you *do* with all those knives when your brother upsets you? Slice up all his clothes while he's *ahem* distracted by a young lady? Blunting his razors just before a morning where he needs to look his best? Scratching an amusing message into his armour?"
Utterly crushing my younger sister. I'm such a good sibling...
That's +2 Disposition, and +1D to my next intrigue against her. Potentially very useful.
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Post by Father on Oct 18, 2018 18:59:32 GMT 1
"Ruining things is much too mean" She declares. "Mostly it's him being mad at me for doing things he doesn't like, and he is very protective of where he keeps his clothes when...distracted. Ever since that time when I took his, and those of the young lady, bundled them up and tied them to the back of the crankiest goat we had, it really didn't hated me tackling it to the ground, so it was damned if it would let anyone else do it to get the clothes back. They stayed in that barn for a long time before Desmond decided to be a spoilsport and find them some other clothes to wear while the guards were sent to catch it. Farman just took his crossbow and shot it instead.
"I guess having him run after it naked as his name day was too much to hope for"
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 19, 2018 17:25:48 GMT 1
"How inconsiderate of him." Laena replies, dryly. "After all, if you go to all the trouble of wrestling a cranky goat, he's just not getting into the spirit of things if he's not willing to do the same, to protect the modesty of some fair maid. While naked." She's clearly having some trouble keeping a straight face as she speaks. "Maybe if he particularly upsets you one time, you should commission a painting of the event as it *should* have been, quietly have it hung up on a wall in a discreet corner, and see how long it takes for him to notice."
Laena is giggling so hard at the thought, however impractical it may be, that she has to pause for breath for a moment. "I presume Ser Desmond doesn't ever upset you? He doesn't seem the type, from what I've seen of him."
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Post by Father on Oct 19, 2018 20:00:17 GMT 1
"You know the worst of it? The slimeball thanked me for giving him a reason to suggest that they might as well pass the time waiting for someone to come find them by...enjoying themselves" She grimaces. "It never ceases to amaze me how easily they fall to his charms, oh, they like it sure, but for pleasure men are so very unnecessary. They can't seem to get their mind to think of anything else once they have had a taste, oh the fun to be had to send them on a merry chase."
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 20, 2018 22:20:20 GMT 1
Laena raises an eyebrow. "Forgive me if I pry, but do you intend to rely on those 'alternatives' for pleasure indefinitely? Or might the right man, one who can sate needs more than the merely physical, perhaps one day show you that the act your brother so frequently and easily partakes in need not be so sordid?" She tries to keep her tone even, to imply that both paths have their upsides.
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Post by Father on Oct 21, 2018 0:48:10 GMT 1
"I intend nothing, I just do as I please, maybe I'll get madly and passionately in love with someone again, maybe I'd want him because everyone else does but can't have, like that Lord Marq that have half the ladies of the court preening if he so much glances in their direction" Ysilla shrugs. "Settling down with someone isn't me at all, grannynuncle claims I might have a different opinion ten years from now, but then I'll be almost thirty and that's like, really, really old. Or maybe it's just having children that does that to you? Hard to say when few ladies of that age are without any" It's hard to tell if she's aware of Laena being a mother or not. "Isn't many like me either, some of these supposedly young ladies act as if they are gray in the hair already, why, I have sisters with wizened white hair, too" She giggles at that thought. "But sister Mya doesn't act like that at all, so the color doesn't matter much at all, now does it?"
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 21, 2018 16:40:30 GMT 1
Laena blinks, trying to process the flood of information, and latches onto a word. "Hold on, again? Get madly and passionately in love with someone *again*? Did a m- Did someone break your heart?" Her tone implies that if so, that someone may well regret that choice in the near future, if they don't already.
"And, for what it's worth, I believe it to be having children that makes you old. Holding a human life in your hands, that's wholly dependent upon you, and looks up at you like you're the Mother herself, ... it changes you. And I don't think you're ever the same again." A small half-smile. "But maybe there are other ways of being old, or getting older, and I just haven't discovered them yet."
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Post by Father on Oct 21, 2018 17:57:30 GMT 1
"Hah! Like I would let anyone, oh no, I have the blood of the dragon, I get exactly what I want, but that sort of wants passes, fun while it lasts, can't really let such dalliances be common knowledge, though, would get everyone else so embarrassed on my account, as if they did it and were ashamed of it, why are everyone so silly?"
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Post by Laena Pyre on Oct 23, 2018 1:02:32 GMT 1
"One of life's greatest mysteries, sister."
I think I've gotten everything I wanted narratively and mechanically from this conversation, so I'm happy to end things here, particularly as I have two other NPC-intrigues going on at the same time now.
If you want to carry on to reach a particular point, though, that's fine.
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