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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3632769" data-attributes="member: 3448">Spring also reported that before he returned to the rope trick, he did some more investigation to determine where the commander of the army was.  He spoke to one of the free-willed undead and said that he had a report for the commander and needed to know where the commander’s tent was.  The undead gestured towards one of the large tents within the camp and said that Spring should take the report to the commander immediately, as the commander jealously guards information and would allow no one else in the army to learn of its contents, even if they would have been able to use the information better.  The undead muttered a little about how the new commander was not up to the standard set by his predecessor; based on some of the things he said, we concluded that the previous commander had probably been a marilith, while the new commander was a glabrezou.  Spring lied, saying that he still needed to finish up the last details of his report but wanted to know where he should bring it when he was done.  He promised that he would hurry with the report to the commander when it was done.With this additional information, we were able to develop a plan.  Both Spring and I quickly hit on the same plan, with minor variations:  if we delivered an “arcane document” to the commander at the same time as we reported to the dragon that the commander was keeping it a secret, we might be able to maneuver them into outright conflict.  Even if they kept their cool, it would almost certainly draw the dragon to the same area as the glabrezou commander, which would allow us to destroy both with a single dose of the bone water dust.  Sergeant Cilorean approved the plan and ordered us to execute it.I quickly constructed a document that would seem, at first glance, to contain magical writings.  I mixed languages freely, using Common, Infernal, and Abyssal words, and recorded everything in a cipher that would require work to deconstruct before the actual text could be understood, without concealing the diagrams that I drew to suggest extraplanar magic.  I carefully drafted it to appear to involve advanced magic, without actually including anything of actual value.  In the hands of a mage with skills equal to or superior to my own, it would not take long to conclude that it was gibberish.  But to a cursory examination, or to a novice or a well-informed individual without true magical training, it would appear to be an unusual, possibly important magical text.Spring tucked the text under his arm and descended from the rope trick, planning on sending a goblyn whose acquaintance he had made to speak with the dragon while he brought the text to the glabrezou.  The commander had other ideas, however.  As Spring dropped out of the rope trick, one of the trueborn awaited him.We all listened carefully as the trueborn informed Spring that he had orders from the general to escort Spring directly to the command pavilion.  Spring tried to talk his way out of it, saying that he needed to take care of something first, but the trueborn was insistent.  We gestured for Spring to go with the trueborn relying on the fact that the trueborn was focusing on Spring while Spring looked at us.  And so, reluctantly, Spring accompanied the trueborn, without having delivered news of his bait to the dragon.</blockquote>

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