>>5842766“It’s not typical for a… Mage Apprentice, is it?... To just request an audience with the Queen, you understand,” the senior Royal Guardsman noted, gesturing to your buckled wizard-cap.
“I am not just ANY Mage Apprentice,” you humbly bragged. “I am the Archmage’s own Apprentice, Ezreal Van Houtzmann.”
“I had heard that the Archmage was training some half-elf,” the younger Paladin said quietly, and you felt his gaze on the tips of your ears.
“Why didn’t your master send word through the usual channels, then?” the older of the two asked you. “Go back to the Tower, and come back when you’re summoned, Apprentice Van Houtzmann.”
You opened your mouth to speak then shut it, vexed. You dint’ want to do that—didn’t want to share what you’d learned with the Archmage. A part of you recoiled from sharing such sacred, fundamentally-transformative knowledge with your master, even now. Knowing her t be an enemy of the lizardmen and of demons put you at ease, somewhat, compared to your earlier assumptions when you’d first begun to investigate Izzy’s origins… But she was still a cold woman, calculating and callous. Beyond a personal antipathy towards the Hells and their denizens which precluded demonological researches, you weren’t certain she had any such things as a moral compass or as ethical boundaries.
Still, that then meant you would have to find some other way to pass through the gate beyond the guardians and gryphon.
How did you plan to do this?
>Tell them the whole truth of what you’re bringing—a sacred healing ritual of the True Fey[They could react positively, or not… And there will be questions, as well as word may get out]
>Bluff, and tell them a lie or half-truth to explain why you must enter, why they should let you and why you don’t need or can’t get the Archmage’s missive? [write-in, the more convincing the lie the lower the DC]
>Approach Logan Pearce and have him come with you, as a Tower Guardian, making it a matter of joint magical security[Pearce will be involved in the matter, and in what comes next such as meeting the Queen]
>Write-in 