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It probably really is him this time.

 

"Jean Riudaure! How pleasant it is to finally meet you. What is it?"

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"You as well. Some of your nobility are putting together a party to capture the badger-lich, and they have need of a skillset which is conveniently possessed by one of your Andoren—guests. Given the presumed complications with continuing to hold them I thought you might want to kill two birds with one stone and offer them an adventurers' parole," i.e. the fairly standard practice of tossing your problematic adventurers at whatever other problems you're having. Also, killing birds is a terrible metaphor, that's really not what he meant, but he's not going to allude to secret information without better cause than that.

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Yes, that's the complicated political headache she'd been spending her evening on. "Hmm. Are you familiar with what they did to get themselves imprisoned?"

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"Officially, cod-related industrial sabotage. Reading between the lines, the only cod they have it in for is the Supreme Elect and their actual crime was a reckless and unnecessary attempt to prevent the last-minute export of slaves."

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"I would happily parole them, for some suitable service. But I don't want Marusek to get off that easily for planning and as-good-as-ordering it."

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"What do you want from Marusek? It's not as though you can try her for the sabotage."

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"I want her to not do it again. Which means, in practice, putting her in a position where she's less able to do things like this, because I don't trust her sense or her word to restrain her."

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"Well, then you definitely don't want her to become Supreme Elect, in which case you shouldn't be keeping the sabotage attempt secret. Mostly, her actions are calculated to play well at home, but I think she made a mistake with this one."

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"Yes. I am still thinking about the best way to publicize it; That might be a public trial for the saboteurs, which is why I won't be releasing them for lich-hunting tonight."

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"Very well, your majesty. Thank you, by the way, for all you've done for the war on Hell."

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She didn't do it for you.

"I only did what any good person would. Thank you for your help with the lich." And, here, she won't help with Andoren pirates but she will help with some magic wine that will make everyone on the operation much more perceptive.

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He wasn't suggesting that she did! The great advantage that Good has over Evil is that Good people can help each other without specifically intending to. 

"You're welcome." And he will avoid taking up any more of the Queen's time, and head back to the mansion.


"No luck on the Andorens, I'm afraid."

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"Worth a try. If we still need a burglar, my next thought is to pick one up from the ambient burglars generated by any large city. Not the best plan though, the secrecy and urgency of the job makes it hard to get a burglar of the appropriate quality. Might be easier to just pick up some scrolls of knock and of find traps."

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"I think if we want to try to go through the city for resources, there's a real chance we'll alert her."

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“Burglars can usually be hired discreetly, but you are right. She clearly has some kind of information network in the city.”

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And then there's going to be quite a lot of elaborate strategy discussion, and after a while -

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"We fetch Xavier’s Remesiana party, brief them, and that gives us three teams," Joan-Pau sums it up. "Green team, red team and blue team." Colors work so much better than numbers. “Green team is the Lord Marshal, Count Vidal, Lisandro, Voshrelka, and myself, red team is Archduke Narikopolus, Archduke Requena, Duke de Fraga, Count-Regent Napaciza, Magistros Prosper, Sir Mateu and Melina, blue team casts buffs before we go. We use Discern Location to confirm Eriape’s in the right place, Telepathic Bond all members of green team to Archduke Requena on red team, cast minute buffs on green and red teams, we Pharasma’s Augury then green and red teams teleport into the safe zone, unload, then green team takes earth elemental form while red team gets ready to move. After that, green team earth glides to the edge of the effect to locate the target’s location, alerts red team, Pharasma’s Augury again to confirm there’s no ambush, I summon some earth elementals to confuse the numbers, we cast moment buffs and then we move.

“Green team comes through the wall. Voshrelka, Lisandro and I hit her with Dispels, I counterspell, and Marshal Cansellarion and Vidal grab her and try to get into a bag with her. At the same time the Archduke Requena and Sir Mateu cooperate to break through the floor, Jair joins the grapple, and Archduke Narikopolus, Count-Regent Napaciza, Magistros Prosper and Melina provide fire support and an archers’ counterspell. Sir Mateu and Jair guard at ground level with the archers, Archduke Requena, Feliu and Voshrelka take out anyone in the main chamber and then down secondary threats as needed, Vidal, Jair and Marshal Cansellarion try to get in the bag with her, we drop into the lower chamber and Lisandro teleports green team and the bag out.” He will also carry a scroll for if they need it. “Once the badgers are out of the way, Duke de Fraga dimension doors red team to the surface and we have a bit of a walk.”

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Embarrassingly, he needs a wizard's help to make heads or tails of the scroll of Dimension Door, but at least that can be done ahead of time. The heart of his bloodline powers is encouragement, not escape; leadership, not transit.

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Wait, shouldn’t the more aggressive team, lead by the legendary paladin of Iomedae, be Red team? Or, is it Green team because green for druid, in which case that’s quite the flattery, giving her color precedence over the paladin.

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It's the green and the blue team and then red is a spinoff of green because we have three teams. Because green and blue are the obvious colors you use, if you're only using two colors.

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"All right, I don't think we'll improve this much with another hour's work and I don't think it's worth waiting another eight. I assume some details will change once you're close enough to get a good look at the place from beneath it."

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"I concur. Let's start casting."

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Discern Location.

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"Eriape's Great Badger Lair, Under Mas Blanc, County of Westcrown, Cheliax, Avistan, Golarion, Prime Material"

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"Sounds like she's home."

He will follow up with his share of the buff-casting.

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