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LAURA: What is your name?
TALIESIN: Oh, my name is Molly to my friends, and
we’re friends, now, aren’t we? Pleasure.
LAURA: Molly. Look at this guy.
TALIESIN: Mollymauk. Molly for short. This is
Yasha, she’s a charm.
ASHLEY: Hello.
MARISHA: Yasha. Yasha.
TALIESIN: Now. Would anyone like a fortune read?
LAURA: I would love one.
TALIESIN: Do you have coin?
LAURA: Yes. How much do you want?
TALIESIN: Two copper.
LAURA: Two copper, okay, I just got some copper.
Here you go.
MATT: Mark down your two copper. (laughs)
TALIESIN: I am taking this in. All right. (sighs)
I’m going to try and do this.
LAURA: Oh my gosh, really?
MATT: So, as he pulls out a small set of cards and
begins to shuffle them, go ahead and roll an
insight check.
ASHLEY: (deadpan) He’s really quite good, you
all should line up and get your fortunes told.
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Let’s do a 16 there.
MATT: Okay, so you get a brief conversation here,
you get a pretty solid read: the excitability, the
eagerness, and the exuberant interest in just
getting in your face that this person wants– any
fortune you tell will probably suffice. Go ahead
and roll a sleight-of-hand check as well.
SAM: Look at this fucking game!
(laughter)
TALIESIN: Also 16.
MATT: Yeah. And you feel pretty confident that her
eyes are locked onto your eyes at the moment and
not the deck, as you set up a proper reading. And
the cards are shuffled, set, you place them before
you, and you may give your fortune.
SAM: I’m going to just keep my eyes open for any
tricks of the hand, sleight-of-hand-y-type tricks.
MATT: Make a perception check.
SAM: Okay. Perception. 14.
MATT: 14. All right. Everything seems pretty
above-board.
TALIESIN: Your first card, the Silver Dragon. This
is good. You’re pure, you’re virtue, you are a
worthwhile and wonderful human being, obviously,
or creature of some repute.
LAURA: That’s what everyone always tells me.
TALIESIN: It’s true. And heading towards the
Anvil.
LAURA: What is that?
TALIESIN: That is a destiny forged.
ASHLEY: (deadpan) Ohh.
TALIESIN: There is something bright and
adventurous in your future.
LAURA: Wow! You know, we did just defeat a really