The immediate aftermath of the Sealing. That check was a straight-up insta-fail. But at some point between then and now she's been beaten down enough that you could manage it.
So the DC might not necessarily be 100 or even particularly high, it's just that there's a large modifier that goes against our roll?
Basically. It's my way of modelling the various things on her end that make convincing her harder.
Missed this somehow. There are (extremely difficult) ways for numbers to outweigh that kind of power disparity, but more to the point, Oni was exhausted. He and Carrick were evenly matched. In fact, Carrick was the superior fighter. The fact that Carrick was trying to keep the fight away from the human world was Oni's only advantage. He was tapped out and heavily injured. When House Stauber made their move, the margin was substantially thinner and Oni couldn't even move his right leg.
And Vina? Are you saving that for a lore post?
Man, I am missing everything. Vina's regency was disastrous because she was a newborn orphan with no Lord or Matriarch to guide her, her mother had been quietly mobbed to death, her Clan in general was hostile and skeptical of her place in general after what her father pulled, and she was educated poorly. She was a remarkably talented woman, and that's the only reason her reign wasn't an unqualified disaster from start to finish once she grew up and set aside her (various, competing) regents. She was singular and deliberately ill-prepared for her position.
I stand with you.
It's because of her emotional state that we should do it now. If we wait, she'll have gathered her thoughts and because she was rejected by her community she'll be more closed off than she is now or ever before. There is no other time when she is more likely to be convinced to break the Seal than now.
No, please, please, don't try and just make her reverse the sealing right now, this is a great time to try and get a wedge in (By establishing us as someone who's trustworthy and could give help if needed) but I really don't think we should jump straight to trying to get her to reverse the sealing, yes she's in a particularly emotional state right now but that could just as easily mean that she'll jump right to becoming even more protective of the only things in her life which don't hate her, it could be make it far easier for future action if we do that instead.
How doesn't it fit the character? It's freeing Jaffur and that's her number one priority, greater in priority than how she frees him.
I was seeing her "I just want to be normal and have friends" aspect of her personality as winning here. And I don't think Kakara would see the oppertunity. Its definatly just my own oppion though. I'm not trying to force it on anyone.
