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(OOC: Quick question... still tweaking my character's build a little bit. How do you use passive perception/investigation? Trying to decide whether my character should have the Observant feat or if I would be better off with something like Alert or Shield Master. Doing my best to catch up here...)

A massive woman is also at the black market, well armed but lightly armored, clothed with thick animal skins and furs. She is clearly a descendant of the giants, one of the mountain-born people known as the Goliaths.

She is mostly here looking for information. Ever since she was rescued from one as a child, it has been her life's goal to hunt down hags and other dark spellcasters. She doesn't trust magic much, but she understands that sometimes one must fight fire with fire, hence the powerful magic items she carries. The conversation that the dragonborn is having catches her attention, though.

"Save this town from what, exactly?" she asks, interjecting herself into the conversation.

Perception: 21

 *passive perception i have never had to roll on so i would do the alert feat as it will come in handy later on*

*You can clearly tell that the Dragonborn is lying about the 'home'. he is talking about a massive cave with minions*

"the letter doesnt say what but it is something very bad"

(OOC{also the hermit is the first main quest})

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"Many years ago an old friend came to my...home. {perception check of 12 or higher to see if he is lying} and gave me a letter with the instructions that sometime in the future group of people would come to this town to save everyone and it is my duty to join them and do what I must to save them. Whoever the letter said something else but it was torn at the bottom. My old friend told me that I must visit the hermit on the hill outside of this town to get the rest of the letter."

 Wouldn't this be insight? Perception is for physical things while insight is for reading into a person's intentions. (yes I know that Zania (Mister_Whisker's character) would have passed either way but this is mostly for the future.) Also I have to get lunch so expect me to be back in a few minutes.

*oh. thanks for telling me that.*

*[at the dentist, just got a filling]*

Saguaro would like to look for any desert animals.

*Should I roll for investigation or perception?*

*ok*

*what do you mean 'desert animals'?*

*like animals you would find in a desert, like snakes and scorpions and vultures*

*So do I roll investigation or do I roll perception? They have very different modifiers.*

*you are in a tavern. your quest is to talk to the dragonborn about the hermit. there will not be desert animals in a tavern*

*sorry, thought we were at the black market place still*

Saguaro will try to order cactus juice.

*oh never mind. that is the other group. yes there is a stall selling poisons. you can check there. 3 stalls down and to the left*

I would like to see if there are any stalls selling equipment. (this was edited because I thought we moved to the tavern but apparently that was the other group)

*he is avoiding the truth about where he lives*

"Why you lying about where you live fella" he says to the dragonborn as he starts looking for equipment stalls Natural roll 1 because I don't know what skill that is.

"fine. I live in a large cave about 150 winglengths from the town with minions. happy?"

"No, I want to know why you hid that in the first place" Insight 8

"because I dont trust you."

"Very well, I can understand that, I have trust issues too, I'll stop questioning you now" *may I look to see if there are stalls selling equipment in the black market?*

*other side of the warehouse*

Zania glances at the dragonborn skeptically... she knows he is lying. Perhaps he has a good reason for being evasive. Then some half-orc calls him out for his lie, and Zania can't help but sigh.

That being said... she does not like the fact that there is apparently no information whatsoever about the nature of this grave threat to the village. Even so, she can't help but suspect that it is exactly the kind of evil that would fall squarely into her area of interest and expertise.

"I see..." she says slowly. "Well... I suppose that you don't know what you don't know... but... I think I may be of some assistance. I have spent many years hunting hags and dark mages. My name is Zania Stonebreaker."

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*oh never mind. that is the other group. yes there is a stall selling poisons. you can check there. 3 stalls down and to the left*

 *Oh okay.*

Perception: 11 +5.