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He should have fallen on his sword. That would have been the sensible thing to do.
Punched his ticket for Elysium right away, no waiting around.
He thought they'd only kill him.
Why did he think that? How stupid was he? Why in the world did he think that?
And now instead of his next great adventure he's flubbed a save against dominate person.
If the four prove themselves reliable and are amenable to it, Kroft would like to promote some of them to Sergeant-level and give them junior Guardsmen to watch, to stretch their rare competence a little further.
But adventuring parties are often averse to splitting up their group, and at any rate telling new hires she's thinking of promoting them tomorrow would make a vice of transparency.
Well well well.
Level two and already rubbing shoulders with royalty.
Be on your best behavior, guys. Don't do anything to get us executed.
Everyone in the city has met the Queen.
Except, apparently, you four in particular.
Okay, but that was a cutscene.
This will be a conversation.
How often do second level characters converse with a Queen?
Please don't make it a conversation.
I have two hitdice and 0 BAB, I'm not fighting my way out of any palaces.
Even yesterday Korvosa was home to less than 20,000 people. Ileosa married Eodred only three years ago, but in that time a hefty minority of Korvosans have had occasion to trade words with her.
And most people in the city had ever spoken with the late King Eodred.
Not to mention that political power doesn't particularly track character level. The only magistrate we have the character level for is an Aristocrat 1, of the heads of noble Houses we have levels for Lord Bromathan is level 4 and Lady Leroung level 3.
Okay, okay, we get it. I am no longer excited about meeting the Queen, happy? But seriously, no one do anything to piss off her or her guards.
What guards? That's what they're hiring us to do.
Hey, Megapope, are you taking down Lord Bro-Man and Lady Leng's names?
Should I be? How important are they?
Not particularly, compared to the heavy hitters in House Ornelos and Jeggare.
Or the second-rung Houses Arabasti and Arkona, or arguably even third-stringer Houses Endrin and Zenderholm.
Bromathan and Leroung are pretty much the poorest and least influential Great Houses in Korvosa - but even the lowest of Korvosa's Great Houses are live players, and who knows how the Vault will settle after being shaken this thoroughly.
I gotchu covered.
Bromathen, Layrowngue, Ornellous, Jegare, Arabasty, Argona, Endrin, and what was that last one again? Zen-something?
House Arabasti as in Ileosa Arabasti?
What's House Ornelos and House Jeggarre doing above the sitting monarch, uh, in terms of wealth and influence?
The Arabasti don't have that long a history in Korvosa, and even before the shadow attack you could count the Korvosan Arabasti on your fingers.
Whereas House Ornelos and House Jeggarre were incredibly rich and deeply entrenched in Korvosa's institutions, even though no one single Ornelos or Jeggarre wielded greater power than King Eodred Arabasti.
It's adorable that you think that.
The King in the NPC Codex is a level 10 Aristocrat. I think we can assume Ileosa won't be any weaker than that.
I'm not with this man. To the extent that I ever was, I now disavow him in the strongest possible terms.
Is there somewhere I can report seditious talk? That sounds like something they'd have in Little Cheliax.
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