[RP] Play-By-Post Pathfinder

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#6684

Drakor, Arius: the two of you make your way back to the alley! Unfortunately, by the time you arrive, Rafau and your companions are all missing.

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#6685

Drakor walked back to the alley.

(Is there anybody there?)

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#6686

(Nvm)

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#6687

“I already got what I wanted. The rest of this is boring bureaucracy. I want to skip to the part where I get to see his face as he loses.”

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#6688

“Mhmm…makes sense.”

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#6689

Drakor scratched his head. "Huh. Maybe they went to Watch headquarters?

#6690

(Furudo Erika does a lot of court/bureaucracy stuff… character divergence… though there’s a different dynamic, she’s more elevated there)

#6691

“Very well. What statement would you like to testify to?”

“He attacked me first,” cuts in Rafau. “He stabbed me before I laid a hand on any of them.”

The Abadaran looks faintly irritated in the way of a customer service employee who is experiencing the same annoying customer behavior she’s seen multiple times a day for several years but still wishes that someday the customers would stop doing that. “The Watch will have the chance to raise their proposed objections after he’s proposed his statement,” she says pleasantly.

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#6692

Zelsh proceeded to explain everything that had happened. What he said was very similar to what Paprika had said, but with added details.

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#6693

((Plz… I don’t want to go through another trial…!))

“We should probably check there.” Arius agrees.

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#6694

‘I never actually had time to determine what happened before I got there, to be frank. I just assumed the guard took things too far…probably correctly.’

He thinks, but does not speak.

#6695

“I don’t know what he or his companion thought was happening when they attacked me,” says Rafau angrily, “but I can say that I wasn’t the first to draw blood, and that I tried to subdue them until it was clear that wouldn’t work! And I’ll gladly say I’m no cultist, and that I’ve never worshipped a demon lord.”

The Abadaran looks a bit… tired. “Sir, that wasn’t what Mister Zelsh here alleged. Would you like to pay for a second Truthtelling to refute his actual allegation?”

“Fine!” he says. “Take it out of the Watch’s account, for all I care!”

But even as he says it, you can see on his face that the bravado’s gone out of him, replaced with… fear.

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#6696

Drakor nodded and began walking to the headquarters.

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#6697

“You need to refute whether you know the cultists and whether you were involved with the symbol in the cellar.” Paprika spoke with an extremely irritated tone. “It doesn’t matter whether or not you genuinely worship the demon lord or were just doing it for money.”

#6698

“Very well,” says the Abadaran. “Zelsh, you’ll need to permit the spell to affect you — if you successfully throw it off, we won’t be able to verify your honesty.”

She makes a gesture and taps you gently on the shoulder.

(do you choose to voluntarily fail your Will save, as she requested, or do you attempt to make the save?)

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#6699

Zelsh doesn’t even attempt to throw the spell off, letting it affect him.

(Voluntarily failing the will save.)

#6700

Wanderer struggles to hide a smirk. Watching Rafau fumble over himself is hilarious.

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#6701

As the spell takes hold, you all see the guise of a zelekhut inevitable flicker over Zelsh’s face for a moment.

“Very good,” says the Abadaran. “Please repeat your testimony.”

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#6702

If the guard hadn’t shown up, he think he’d be likely to cut a deal of some sort. Get the racket to stop, get the guard to help out in outing the cult, and other such things. Wipe the board clean, then forgive and forget.

Rafau’s fault really. It was easy to get out of this.

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#6703

Zelsh now repeated his testimony word for word since he had been completely honest the first time.