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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2881925" data-attributes="member: 3448">To the Baron:  It's true, checking would have been a good thing to do.  I think we mostly relied on what we had been told by the Skree and on the fact that she clearly had been able to defeat the assassin sent after her.  As you'll see in a moment, her judgment was validated rather quickly.  (I'm not sure that we had been planning for her to hand out summary execution orders, as opposed to identifying people for further investigation.  She just did.)Re: the disjointedness:  that's partly a result of my efforts to reproduce a rather frenetic session.  We had the feeling at this point of being totally overwhelmed with all the fires we had to put out, running from one to another at a breakneck pace.  I may have also chosen less than ideal break points.And now...------The man she gestured at leapt forward and a set of darts arched out from his elbows at Princess Cecilia. One of the guards reacted almost instantly, flinging himself in front of the princess. The darts embedded themselves in the guard; he twitched momentarily, and then his entire body dissolved into goo. Several other guards and one of the bone devils were killed bringing down the skaven assassin.Alistair looked at the disintegrated guard. "For the rest of these, maybe you could be a little bit more subtle about pointing them out, Aunt Cecilia. I'd rather they not have the chance to do that.""Oh... I suppose that makes sense, dear."By the time the search through the palace was finished, a few additional spies had been apprehended, one more from Hanal and several more skaven agents. She noted in passing that while the various spies were evil, the sense of chaos from them was much greater.Having dealt with the infiltrators, the group escorted Princess Cecilia back to her chambers."Thank you for your assistance, Aunt Cecilia," Alistair said. "We would have been doomed without you.""I'm always happy to help, my dear. And don't worry, I'll go back to my chambers so I don't create any problems for you by being in public. I know that sometimes I say things that upset people...""No, Aunt Cecilia. You will always be welcome in public at my court. We need your skills, and those of those like you, and if we have to hear the occasional secret, so be it.""Oh, thank you, dear.""Are there other members of the family who have the sight? We need to preserve it.""There are, although your line has none of it. But some of your cousins... The sight is not gone from us yet. A few more generations of those of us with it not marrying and it will be.""We'll have to make sure that all of those who have the sight have the opportunity, at least, to marry, and if possible to others with similar abilities. Things are probably easiest when one member of a couple does not need to deal with the other's occasional over honesty."</blockquote>

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