<blockquote><div><cite>Rafe wrote:</cite>"I am Rafe Mohan, scion of the Mohan clan, famous throughout all Alnura!"</div></blockquote><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Knowledge (local): 1d20 (3) + 0 = 3, failure</div></div></div><br/>"Mohan? Alnura?" Sherani asks, giving Lilium's belly a blank stare. The name Mohan fails to set off any immediate bells in the shifter's head- actually, it sounds more like a bad haircut than a clan. It's certainly not a Falteen name, that's for sure. As for Alnura...<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Knowledge (geography): 1d20 (19) + 9= 28, success</div></div></div><br/>When she was much, much younger, Sherani and the other Hara children used to huddle around the campfire every night while her father regaled them with tales of exotic and faraway places he'd visited (or claimed to have visited) in his youth. Sherani's favorites were always the ones about Alnura: a wild continent, covered in think jungle from coast to coast save for the spotted plains where the nobles built their jade palaces. It was a land of noble heroes, fair maidens and vicious bandit cutthroats, all of whom revered and worshipped the spirits of the world in much the same way as her own clan. In short, it was a little shifter girl's dreamland. If only it weren't a thousand miles away across treacherous ocean...<br/><br/>But, if Rafe managed to get here, it means he could just as easily get back... right?<br/><br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>*Rafe's story*</div></blockquote><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Assuming below that Rafe is taking 10 on a Bluff check...<br/><br/>Sense Motive: 1d20 (9) + 1 - 4 (flaw) = 6, failure (Welcome to Suckerville, population one redhead...)</div></div></div><br/>Unlike Lilium, Sherani is a great deal more... well, 'trusting' would be a nice way of putting it. The shifter listens with rapt attention as Rafe makes his offer, eating up every promise as quickly as he can feed them.<br/><br/>Free meals? Yes please!<br/>Treasure? Absolutely!<br/>ARTIFACTS? Hell yeah!<br/>Another ally against Lesik? Well, that's just gravy at this point.<br/>And maybe, just maybe, a journey to her childhood land of adventure...<br/><br/>The tigress nods along with Rafe's salesman spiel like a grade-A mark, until Lilium grabs her attention with her own proposal.<br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Lilium wrote:</cite>"What do you two think? Think we should trust him? Or shall I send him out of my tush tomorrow?"</div></blockquote><br/>"I think we oughta let him go," Sherani says. "I mean, he said he was really powerful, right? I bet he could help us kick Lesik's butt all over the place. Besides... I, uh, kinda like free stuff better than getting zapped." The shifter eyes her friend's belly nervously, as if she expects at to explode it any second.