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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3350920" data-attributes="member: 3448">Lady Constance looked at Dame Brionna.  “Do you wish to kill him, or shall I have my minions take care of it?”Dame Brionna inhaled.  “I think it best that you take care of it.  I will wait outside.”After Dame Brionna left the room, Lady Constance gestured to her young men, whose glamours faded to reveal horned devils.  The devils leapt upon the bound tiefling and tore it to pieces.  Lady Constance watched impassively, waiting until she was sure that it could not remanifest, and then drew forth a golden apple for each of the horned devils.  “Take these to your mother with my thanks.  I am ever in her debt.”  As the devils disappeared, Lady Constance leaned heavily on her cane.  “That took more from me than I would have expected.  He was most powerful, for a tiefling.  With your grace’s permission, I will retire to rest.”“Of course, and with our thanks.  May we ask one of your apprentices to perform some research for us?”“They are all at your disposal,” said Lady Constance, bowing and exiting.The coven apprentices stepped forward and performed kneeling bows.“Research Daliana.  I want to know anything that we can learn about her, but especially the identity of any molydeus brothers she has.”“How can the molydeus be a brother of a marilith?” asked Dame Brionna.  “Why are they different demons?”Dame Agatha, one of Lady Constance’s apprentices, replied, “There is no set form in the abyss, and to be siblings does not mean the same thing as it would for humans.  It simply means that they were grown from larvae together by the same master breeder or demon lord.”“Still, records should include mentions of their ‘family’ connections, and that will allow us to find out more about our enemy.”The coven apprentices hurried off to the library to begin their research, and the Council turned to organizing the strike teams.  They had four targets:  the three brothels and the bladelord in the Great Crypt.  The first three teams all consisted of elite troops, backed by elves from the Eldar’s retinue to handle any particularly powerful drow assassins.  After much discussion, they decided on sending a large group of paladins and rogues-- drawing on the best of the Knights of Valor and of Kit’s rogues to pick people who could be expected to keep their nerve and fight well in the tight quarters of a crypt.  They also carefully drilled recognition signals-- the tiefling had said that the assassin could not shift forms but no point in taking chances.  A group of elite mages and priests accompanied them, to provide magical support and to cut off magical escape.  Finally, Alistair sent a large group of about 100 ordinary elite troops to surround the graveyard as a last check to make sure that the bladelord could not escape.  They also sent a runner to the City Guard, asking them to pick up and detain all 230 of the people on the list of controlled innocents.  There would be time to sort them out and investigate them individually after the crisis had been averted.</blockquote>

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