Rolled 15, 1 = 16 (2d20)
>>6119350“Kid… Khorine… I don’t think you’ve really though this through.”
Khorine glowers at you, but the haughty disdain is a poor mask for her worry. You see through it like sheet-glass. She doesn’t interrupt you, and so you continue:
“I’m the only one who can control CZ when she gets like this.” Not strictly-speaking true, but close enough. “If she sees you have me trapped in this splinter-ridden bondage-cage situation, well…”
You cluck you tongue and trail off suggestively, as another series of cracks and crashes attests to yet more carnage on the forest floor.
“I can handle her,” Khorine insists. “I don’t… I’m strong here! This is my place of power?”
“Oh, Attunement is it?”
That shocks the faun anew, as she boggles at you.
“How do you know about <span class="mu-i"> L'Hal'l ulu Seib'n wun Lisse'</span>?!”
You roll your eyes, and reply: “Yeah, that’s a real pretty language an’ all, but we just call it <The Right of Attunement>. Feycraft, right? Fairy bullshit ta’ mix-‘n-match bits of people and places together? Lets ya’ have extra power in a place? ‘Zat how you’re controlling so many ‘twig blights’ at the same time?”
The goat-girl opens her mouth to say something but stops herself, as the sound of wanton destruction gets closer and closer. There’s something ELSE to it, you can tell… But what? Ugh, no time to trick her into spilling her guts—if Carazzi gets here, no joke, she MIGHT just do that literally!
“We can talk shop later,” you say. “Hurry up: let me out if you wanna' live!”
“You're threatening me? In my own home?!”
“I'm givin’ you an out,” you correct her tersely, “despite you bein’, let’s be real, an AWFUL fuckin’ host.”
Khorine gulps, hesitating as she reassess the danger of you and your sort-of sibling, and comes to her conclusion…
<span class="mu-r">Rolling a diplomacy roll, with a bonus die for Linguistics, and at a reduced DC because ZZ’s empathy leans away from monsters and towards humans, fairies, and other ‘civilized’ and ‘good’ beings, with further advantage because of CZ's combat dominance down below</span>
DC 11/14/17, the higher the degree of success the better the outcome 