<span style="font-size: 80%; line-height: 116%;">[Spot retry 1d20 (15) + 4 = 19, failure]</span><br/><br/>"Kobolds?" Alyssa whispers. She quickly scans the rocks again, but her current position affords her a poor view of the cliffside. Not wishing to alarm the kobolds above by staring for too long, she returns her attention to her companions. "Should we address them, or wait? Perhaps they'll leave of their own volition..."<br/><br/>Instead of a direct answer, Alyssa half-hears, half-feels a faint chime, as if someone had rung a tiny bell inside her ear. A telling silence from Mindy identifies her as the power's source, but tells Alyssa nothing of its nature; it reminds her of her own magical incantations, but ever-so-slightly different in a way she can't explain.<br/><br/><span style="font-size: 80%; line-height: 116%;">[Psicraft: automatic failure (untrained)]</span><br/><br/>After another moment of quiet, Mindy speaks.<br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Mindy wrote:</cite>"We can't risk letting them find the shelter. Sorry about this little delay."</div></blockquote><br/>"Miss Mindy?" Alyssa whispers, her concern apparent. "You won't harm them, will you? They've done nothing to threaten us..."<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;">I now have actual, non-Gaia art of Alyssa, courtesy of <a class="postlink" href="https://aryion.com/g3/user/Nitro_Titan">Nitro Titan!</a> Thanks, Nitro!<br/><br/><div class="inline-attachment">
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