Vote tally - Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
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[X] Play along while the others search for the real Ansefu.
-[X] Try to determine if it really means to impersonate Ansefu by asking leading questions and gauging its reactions. Ask any other fitting questions which might provide insights its mindset and attitude towards us without making it obvious that we are aware of its nature.
-[X] Finally, when there are no more things to learn or when the charade is up, ask it if it wouldn't be more comfortable in its true form after positioning ourselves to avoid a sudden physical attack if it tries to make one.
--[X] Before doing this, we'll try to surreptitiously get people into position to attack if it becomes necessary; i.e. Inge within Snowball range, Zaia nearby and able to use bombs (only after drinking a Targeted Bomb Admixture extract, of course), Wanderer will be nearby but out of sight, etc. Mages will have buffed each other and Swift Pebble, Marcella will have been alerted, etc. Esha will use her Swift Actions each round to maintain a Soul Ward on Roland.
-[X] Assuming violence doesn't immediately erupt, try to continue conversing with the Formless. In this case, Esha will make her way nearby so she can participate in the conversation. Esha will already be using Zaia's Focused Scrutiny extract as there is no reasonable way for Roland to have imbibed it beforehand.
--[X] Roland and Esha will attempt to use a mix of diplomacy and bluffing (enhanced by her Innocence ability), using Aid Another on one another as the situation allows, to try to convince the Formless that we need not be its enemies. We were merely pawns in the plots of others, victims of circumstance who saw no viable alternative once we unknowingly but quite literally stepped into the belly of the beast, whether the plots be the games of a capricious Oceanid whole stole Ansefu in the first place or the tests of whatever sort of monster the "Great Worm" ended up being. We do not wish to be enemies with anybody, though it seems we are fated to be enemies with at least Daemons and perhaps the Dragons if whispers of them stirring from their long slumber are true; with the Formless we do not need to be enemies.
---[X] If, after everything is said and done, it looks like negotiations are going unfavorably to us and the thing will continue stalking us and messing with us, or if it wouldn't even talk to us, consider trying to reach a deal with it by finding something that it might want as recompense.
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