"Listen Dahn," Tehr said as he spoke to the boy, "I could threaten you.  I could make it clear how much trouble you could be in for lying to me.  I could even remind you that with my magic,"  He tapped the side of his head, "I can tell when you're lying."  He could actually read the boy's surface thoughts, and should be picking up a little more than he was.  But he chalked it up to the boy's nervous fear.  "But I'm not going to do that.  I'll tell you why.  Because I was young once and I know what it's like to make some bad mistakes, and I think maybe you got caught up in something without realizing how it was going to come out."<br/><br/>He paused to let the boy reflect, and used the chance to read the boy's surface thoughts hoping for a clue, "But here's what I'm going to do for you," he said, "If you come straight with me now, I'll see that you're treated right fair.  I know you wouldn't want to hurt anyone, but there's a lot of bad people out there that do."  He thought for a moment about what he knew of the church of the one god, then smirking as something he remembered reading came to him.  *<br/><br/>"Doesn't the book of the one god say in the book of Exodus,<em>'If, however, a man acts presumptuously toward his neighbor, so as to kill him craftily, you are to take him even from My altar, that he may die. He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.'</em>?"  Tehr paused and looked at the boy and said, "You know your scripture well enough to know that it is said in Exodus 14-15.  Not that if a man does kill a neighbor craftily, but acts so as to kill.  Further, the Queen is the mother to all of our land.  Of that there is no doubt."<br/><br/>Tehr paused again,  "Now, if you help me, if you bring the vile serpents to justice, lawful and goodly justice mind you.  I shall do everything in my power to see that you are given time to make recompense for your actions.  Maybe we can find you a monastery where you can pray for forgiveness and find absolution from this act that you had a hand in.  What do you say?  Wouldn't you rather work with me and find salvation in your god's eyes than be branded a traitor to your queen, be put to death, burn in hell for eternity, and know that the true person behind your crime walked away to do so again?"<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Fucking YOWZA with those two rolls!!!!  I don't know if you want to give a synergy bonus for Tehr's intimidate, since he brought up the bible so well... but I got a 24 on intimidate anyways so whatever.  :)<br/>Also, Tehr is using detect thoughts to read his surface thoughts, especially hoping for a name or an image of what the person looks like who may have set up the queen.<br/><br/>https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=56558<br/>Roll Result: rhev rolled: 1d20, adding 5 to the total<br/>Comment: <strong>knowledge religion</strong> roll<br/>Result: 20, <br/>Total: <strong>25</strong><br/><br/>https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=56559<br/>Roll Result: rhev rolled: 1d20, adding 5to the total<br/>Comment: <strong>Intimidate roll</strong><br/>Result: 19, <br/>Total: <strong>24</strong></div></div>