Hi,
I have a simple question because I don't understand a simple sentence in "7 days..." during the encounter with the Lavender. It is written page 25 that:
"A DC 18 Spot check allows a PC scanning the crowd to notice that Solt is the only person who seems to be browsing the perfumes."
What does it mean?
Thanks a lot!
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Hmm, see what you mean.
Maybe something changed in the editing?
I originally took it to mean that all the other occupants were muscle, but that's not the case, since it mentions a line of customers in addition to them.
On second reading, I read it as 'all the other customers are coughing and wheezing, and desperate for a cure, while he's looking at frivolous perfumes, seemingly without a care in the world'.
Solt is standing in the shop to buy the Liniment. While there, he is talking with the other customers and explaining how well the Liniment cured his plague. Other than Solt talking, there is nothing that distinguishes him from the huge line of customers.
However, if the PCs look close enough to make a Spot check, they see that he is not really interested in the cure. In fact, he is not really in line to get the Liniment at all. He is just wandering the shop slowly - talking about the Liniment, but actually browsing the perfumes. He wouldn't be leisurely browsing the perfumes if he really wanted the next batch of Liniment. Instead of browsing the perfumes, he would want to get the Liniment and get back home.
That's the clue to the PCs that maybe he is a plant by the store.
Solt is standing in the shop to buy the Liniment. He wouldn't be leisurely browsing the perfumes if he really wanted the next batch of Liniment. Instead of browsing the perfumes, he would want to get the Liniment and get back home.
Thanks a lot, now I really understand what it means! Thanks a lot for me and my party who's going to play this scene Friday night!
Thanks a lot!!!