<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">This first section is a belated response to Aeryn's two earlier rolls. I replaced the notice in your first roll with Empathy, Aeryn, as it's more appropriate to detecting emotions and increases the roll's result, anyway.</div></div><br/><strong>Inside the Point Respite Magna Sophia chapter house</strong><br/><br/>The smile of amusement had clearly (to Aeryn, at least) hidden a sort of tired complacency, and below that was another layer still: unadulterated (if well contained) envy. Perhaps the woman was suffering from<em>Hidden Dissatisfaction</em>of some sort or another. Or perhaps it was a very particular sort.<br/><br/>The mental check of who's who didn't come up with anything significant. The woman looked rather weather-worn and tough. But it'd be impossible to say whether this this was a result of membership in some ranger or pathfinding association, or simply a product of hard living and time spent in the island's wild places. She definitely didn't have any distinguishing marks of rank or membership on her plain clothing.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">The empathy roll is basically a Create Advantage roll, except in this case it's finding a pre-existing aspect, rather than creating a new one. As usual, the first use of the aspect is free. Unfortunately, there's nothing for the contacts roll to find (aside from clearing her of any potential affiliations).</div></div><br/>"Forget 'bout the food," she muttered, waving a hand dismissively. Though she spoke to Aeryn, her eyes stayed fixed on Eshalu, apparently still wary of the elven warrior. "I'd just as well prefer t' get you guys outta my hair. No offense, but even when you've been on the island for a few months, most people don't randomly run you into a corner when you make sudden movements. So would you mind, uh …" She waved a hand vaguely past Eshalu and toward the doorway.