[HQ Ignorance] Scene 55: The Damned Dam Breakers!

[Nic Hughes]

Lev Lafayette wrote:
> --- Nic Hughes <nicolas.h at virgin.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> OOC: Lev, we can pick up with Aalmon whenever you
>> think it dramatically 
>> appropriate.
>>     
>
> Sure, let's assume that Aalmon has found his way
> approaching from the south flank of the mercenaries
> towards where the dam used to be. The "most
> dramatically" appropriate time for him to meet up with
> the mercenaries would be just before they recombine
> with the remains of the western zombie and skeleton
> armies. I am presuming you have two saddlebags of gold
> and valuables etc. What's your general approach here?
>
>   

OK as for the gold I am assuming it would take a *lot* of cash to bribe 
a whole army so what Aalmon has is a convincing down-payment - perhaps 
one-third of a full-on bribe to change sides or enough to persuade them 
to turn round and leave without a fight.

Aalmon is using his stealth and perception magics to let him check out 
the army as it tries to make its way through the woods, what he is 
looking for are Theoblanc's loyalists who will be there to keep the 
troops in line. He wants to initially approach a part of the army that 
is out of sight of those loyalists, which would normally be damn hard 
but in a forest should be quite possible. He will ask Beast to watch his 
back and be ready to go back to the others with the news if it all seems 
to go wrong. Then he will go in under a flag of truce and largely let 
the gold talk for itself although I daresay his persuasive and seductive 
magics might help things on a little, as would the fact that so far 
Theoblanc's army has taken a major setback in the battle for no real 
loss to their enemy.

Aalmon will give the impression the merchants of the city are the ones 
offering employment to the mercenaries and he might let them jump to the 
conclusion that he is a mercenary in their employ as he will act in 
every way as a military man. No need for them to know that there are no 
mercenaries in the city. No need for Theoblanc to find out who is 
directing the defence if the approach goes wrong, sometimes a half-truth 
can be more misleading than a lie.

Nic

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