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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 4160313" data-attributes="member: 3448">We informed the Keeper of the presence of the Chaos Champion and her lamias as infiltrators on this side of the Shadowline.  We considered this to be intelligence that might meaningfully affect the Shadowline’s security.  Any further losses to the Shadow would, of course, greatly interfere with our efforts to regain Caldefor.The Keeper thanked us and informed us of some circumstances of particular relevance in light of that threat.  She said, “There is more clingfire coming in a train from the Holy City, to reinforce the Towers.  It is very slow to create, and it was felt that we did not have enough.  An attack on that supply train could cost us dearly.”Sideh asked if we should reinforce the supply train.The Keeper shook her head.  “Probably not.  Even if you could reach it in time, you would be unlikely to materially increase its defenses.  However, you have told us two things of great importance.  First, we must contact the train and have it pull off until its guard can be reinforced.  Second, there must be a leak in the Holy City.  They would not have taken this risk if they did not have some information already, and news of the clingfire shipment is by far the most likely to have drawn them.“You have been very helpful.  I will send your names on with this dispatch, to make it known who has done such a service.  But you should also go to the site of the battle with the dragon-- you may find things that would be useful.”We eagerly headed off.  As we traveled, we discussed how best to cause internal strife within Dragonhold Ripgut.  After some consideration, we concluded that we should leak back reports of Lord Drakhl having betrayed Ripgut to his death.  From what we knew, that seemed like a plausible rumor that would likely turn all of the other forces against Lord Drakhl, who we believed to be the most dangerous remaining foe associated with the Ripgut.  We planned on leaking the news to Liliana, the Chaos Champion.My initial suggestion was to have an obvious messenger carry a message describing a betrayal, so that she would ambush the messenger and then carry the message back across.  The others, especially Sideh, were adamantly opposed to this idea.  I am not entirely certain why.  They focused on the fact that the Chaos Champion would kill the messenger.  For what we gained, I thought that would be a completely acceptable cost.  We could use a condemned prisoner or someone else of low-value-- perhaps someone who was destitute and would be interested in earning their survivors a pension.  Even with that clarification, the others would not consider the idea.After some further discussion, we decided that we would spread rumors among the soldiers and militia.  They would be obvious targets for the Chaos Champion’s spying efforts, and she would also likely consider them to be a reliable source of information.  We decided that Sideh, Alveera, and I would take principal responsibility for spreading the information.</blockquote>

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