[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Lord Windos]

Spoiler

Rowan isn't exactly the type to let people off easy either.  "I am not a man to be trifled with, Mr. Schmidt.  Cool that burner of yours, or you will get no more answers from me.  If I knew more exactly about what was going on, then there wouldn't be any need for this cloak and dagger in the first place.  All that is known right now is what Kogeki has informed you about already, and whatever else you may have discovered in the meantime.  In addition, one of the terms that was settled on before the fourth member of this party was approved by the League was that their identity remain anonymous until they are able to properly join us, for the reasons I have already stated concerning public appearances.  My sincere apologies if that isn't enough information for you, Mr. Schmidt, but it is what it is.  If you have any constructive input of your own that might help shed some light on these matters at hand, I am all ears.  Otherwise, if you are going to continue to imply that I am not doing my job properly, then I will have to kindly ask you to keep any further questions and statements to yourself for the time being."

Rowan is not the type of person who stoops to using more vulgar terms to get his points across, and when he's actually trying to be, he can be downright Intimidating.  He doesn't need anything but that 'nice speak' most of the time.

Rowan's Intimidate: 12 D6
(6)(5)(5)(3)(3)(6)(6)(5)(6)(5)(3)(2) 8 successes!!!

That's more successes than Randolph's current Will Score, by the way.  Randolph may be a scary dude just because of his personality, but Rowan has decades more experience and finesse in this Specialty than Randolph does.  With the simplest of statements, Rowan can convey exactly how disappointed he is in an individual's choice of wording or action.  Even the Snowpoint Nurse Joy's Intimidation pales in comparison.

Randolph thinks it'd probably be a good idea to not test Rowan further.  How he responds to that thought is up to the player, of course...(but I reeeeaaalllly wouldn't recommend provoking Professor Rowan, for a variety of reasons)

Randolph eyebrows jumped straight up to his hairline as Rowan went full throttle on his small and scrawny arse in the most polite and well mannered way possible and torn him a new one, all without hardly wavering or really emphasizing that old and refined milquetoast tone of his. Damn impressive performance, right there.

The midget man blinked a few times at Old Fashion, tilted his head at them.....

....and just started to laugh.

"Hah hah hah hah hah! Well, what da you know, there's more to ya than a stiff upper lip and apologist's attitude after all! You've the same mind I have with this whole sodding mess, and you do give more than a damn about it, but you're just better at hiding it! Hah hah hah hah...!"

His laughter continued on for a good twenty seconds, before it finally petered out, him whipping some tears away as he regarded the old scholarly gentleman half-grinning look of newfound respect. Make no mistake, he hardly like the old coot anymore than before - not after that long wait and some choices of his he finds questionable at best - but he could tolerate and accept their lofty and overly formal behavior, now that he'd seen there was real metal in them. Rowan was taking this job just as seriously and gravely as he, but was just handling it in a whole other way, their style. Not the best approach, in his opinion (As fiery rage, indignation, and burning motivation were the best way to deal with pain in the arse problem, in his opinion), but as they say, to each their own.

"I ain't to be trifled with either, and you don't scare me any, but I gotcha. No more throwing a fit with ya with over this job. See no point in it now, heh. I got more questions for ya, but not this minute. Later, between us, and alone, if you don't mind Professor."

Ran says this all his usual gruff sounding voice, but within it anyone could easily hear his own version of 'well-mannered' and polite tones in it, as well as a certain hard-bitten respect only a long hard working man can give.

"As for me having anymore leads on this mystery, I may got one: Snowpoint Temple. These Murals have been popping all over the most sacred or ancient places 'round the region and world, and that cold, dusty old dungeon deeply connected to the local Lore of this area and perhaps even the entirety of Sinnoh, so if wacky and nasty stuff is brewing within Mt. Coronet, I'd bet good money that the Temple has been affected in some way. Might have nothing or just have another one of those foreboding Murals, but maybe. just maybe that place might have some more substantial clues or unknown intell lurking within. Got permission from Candice to enter there, so I plan on chasing it up tomorrow to see if I'm right or not, and taking anyone else who wants to tag along."

"So what do ya think, Professor? Good lead, or bad?"

Well, that was a complete 180 on the blacksmith's attitude. Perhaps not in the way Rowan intended with his stern and Intimidating lecture, but hey, at least they were longer chomping at the bit to give them a Scalding hot tongue lashing!

(Does that constitute as provoking? If it does, I don't care.....yet!)