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In Which Korvosans Rally & The Dead Envy The Living
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Correct again. 

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Wait, correct about what?

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I've got communications established. 

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I don't buy it.

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You don't buy what?

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That the Argona person is a pagoda.

It feels too easy.

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But the handout wouldn't mention pagoda if we weren't going to meet one.

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False.

The handout's taken from "Escape From Old Korvosa." All we know is that there's a pagoda in that adventure, not this one. 

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I presume that the adventure doesn't have any rakshasa immortals either, but they were still in the handout.

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Actually they weren't, but, uh, I think the pope's general point stands?

Paizo plants a thousand plot hooks and has the page count to use three.

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So pagalaladas exist just as a smokescreen for the real rock shasas?

I don't know guys, I feel like if everyone's making a big deal of them, they're bound to come up.

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You're saying that if it's on-screen, it's important?

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I guess pretty much?

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Our rakshasa was outed as a rakshasa on-screen.

If she's a pangolin, none of that was important.

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I... think you put your finger on it there, Altronus. Seconded. 

If she's straightforwardly benign we have nothing to do in this scene. 

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Would your characters be thinking along those lines?

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Yes.

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I still think that the handout wouldn't mention pagodas if we weren't going to meet one.

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In-character, the Megapope wants to give everyone a chance. But the base rates on redeemed fiends are real low. He needs evidence.

And Glorio's story feels like someone making excuses to me.

I'm going to roll Sense Motive.

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Glorio Arkona has 20 ranks in Bluff.

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Well, in-character I think he's telling the truth!

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Is your character not the least bit suspicious that out of character, where you aren't directly exposed to his exact words and expressions, Glorio is way less convincing?

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It feels off to me too. 

This doesn't feel like the most natural version of the world where Melyia Arkona is a pagala rakshasa, I think the most natural version of that world would be like, Melyia immediately saying "don't freak, I'm a pagala, a traitor against rakshasa-kind, you can check with Abadar's truthtelling!"

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Yeah, who does he think he's fooling?

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