The Next Step Forward

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+42+15 K:R
<Serith> Iddy roll for Serith < 67 > [d20=10]

[Anastasia]

It's a simple maxim from Tempus's faith. It is, 'If you can make it bleed, you can kill it.' It is held to be a simple statement to warriors and to remind them that no battle where they can wound the enemy is hopeless.

[Iron Dragoon]

"If you can make it bleed, you can kill it."

Alyssa sighs. "Is there some way I can test out of all of this? Challenge the library or something? This is tediously slow."

[Anastasia]

"Well, Queen," Jarem calls over from flipping through a book. "You can, if you can defeat the High Librarian in a game of chess."

[Iron Dragoon]

Uh, I don't even know what kind of rolls or anything that would include. Mind elaborating how that would actually work out?

[Anastasia]

She rolls checks on a skill of Profession (Chess Master).

[Iron Dragoon]

What would I roll? Just an int check?

[Anastasia]

Correct.

[Iron Dragoon]

To hell with that, there's no way I can beat that until I get access to way more stat boosters than I have, or find something to give me ranks in chess master or something.

Alyssa sighs. "I have no true mastery of chess. Seems unusually one-sided. Perhaps I'll start a study of it."

In any case, she begins flipping through the new book.

[Anastasia]

It's about artifacts used in war. It's what you'd expect, no leads. But tucked into the book is an old folded piece of parchment.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa opens it and reads! Perhaps a hidden love letter?!

[Anastasia]

It looks to be a sketch of a building, a floor plan. It has a line that travels through it to an X within.

On a glance it's a floor plain with many rooms and halls that connect, ultimately in a long square.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa studies it, trying to figure out exactly what the building might be for and where.

[Anastasia]

K:A&E check.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+15+20 K:A&E/Cunning Knowledge
<Serith> Iddy roll for Serith < 39 > [d20=4]