Setup
Context: Rags hasn't made it to Woodend village yet, but has befriended Justine, River, and their family in an isolated and flooded Hamlet in the dale who look like they might need help.
Their daughter, Hera came to her and let her know that she feels trapped here and wants to leave in order to find her destiny. Intrigued, Rags has engineered time wine with the girl in order to discover her story.
Goal: Rags wants to tell the girl a prophetic story about what her future might hold if she leaves this place.
Conflict: a journey in which Rags will fortell the girls future.
I am going to roll 2 dice and pick the lowest for the number of stages on the journey (with a minimum of 2).
Roll: 5, 1. So 2 stages it is.
Scene 4
The ritual journey makes sense for this.
First she must create a suitable space, preparing her puppets, creating a stage, setting Hera up as a part of the performance.
Let's make it a bit trickier with tags and statuses on the scene however.
Lowest of 2 dice: 3,6.
So there are status and tags adding to 3.
I'll roll on the challenge oracle to see what: (26) people.
Ok, so it seems they are not completely alone.
There are children playing a noisy game nearby, and of course the ground is still flooded.
First she is going to try and deal with that by drawing the children over as an audience...
*Can she gather the children as an audience?*
+ Passionate puppeteer, ventriloquist, nimble fingers (3)
- noisy game (1)
Power +2: 11(12) success.
Asking Hera for a little forbearance Rags puts on an impromptu show for the children, drawing them away from their game and gathering a little crowd. They gather around Hera, eager to hear a story.
"Sit quietly then young ones" Rags tells them "let me prepare and a story you shall have"
+ Passionate Puppeteer, hand crafted dummy (2)
Power +2: 7(9) mixed.
I'll create the tag the stage is set but I also need to roll a consequence: (31) expenditure.
Rags does a Stirling job in preparing the Hera puppet, but doing so is kind of final. This will be it's last story (she burns the homemade puppet tag from her backpack).
Finally the stage is set and she is ready to begin.
*Rags tells a prophetic story*
+ Passionate puppeteer, prophetic story teller, glimpses of the future (3)
Power +3: 6(9) mixed
Let's see what the consequence is first. (23) Exposure.
That makes sense.
Normally I would roll on the inspiration Oracle to see what Rags foretells, but assuming she manages to get out of this Hamlet Hera is a perfect character to take forward into my next adventure so this is pretty straight forward.
Rags weaves the story of a great Heroine who sets out from home and performs great deeds, eventually joining with a small band of others to save the Dales themselves.
It is an exciting and inspiring tale, and even Rags is shocked by the gravity of the fate awaiting this girl if she steps forward to seize it.
She slowly emerges from her prophetic trance, letting the puppets clatter to the floor. The children cheer wildly. Hera gazes at her in shock.
"Is that my future?" She asks in a shaky voice.
Rags smiles "It can be. It is a possible future. A role that awaits you if you step into it and play the part."
The girl nods numbly, but before she can respond they are interrupted.
They are exposed as a consequence, but I am going to invoke Rags lost in a trance tag to make it even worse. She was so caught up in the prophetic story that she didn't realize Justine had arrived and was watching as well.
And she is NOT happy.
She grabs hold of Justine's arm and drags her away, snarling curses at Rags as she does so.
? Are they magical curses?
+Justine is an old ways practitioner (1)
Power +1: 4(5) no.
That's a bit of luck at least.
End scene
We marked improve on prophetic storyteller.
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