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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3463013" data-attributes="member: 3448">“If you think that she might be the assassin, how do you want to handle it, your grace?” “We should agree to meet her-- that way we can control the situation.  And then…  I wonder if the Treasury has any devices that would allow me to mimic a projected image spell.  That would let me interact with her, and even cast spells like charm or suggestion if necessary, but still prevent her from being able to attack.” Dame Brionna considered the idea.  She didn’t like bringing a potential assassin even close to Alistair, but it was an opportunity to eliminate a threat.  “I think we could make that work, your grace.” “What’s the Principality of Korflok like, anyway?” asked Kit. “It’s a minor country.  Korflok has many more minor nobles than any other country I can think of, even when you compare it to other Paranswarmian realms.  Their ruler is a Despot, who is a like a king but not hereditary.  When the Despot dies, the nobles elect a new Despot from among their number.  As you might be able to guess, they typically elect a fairly weak Despot so that he won’t threaten their power, but that leaves them weak relative to their neighbors.  The Principality is gradually being partitioned by its neighbors-- Tang, Masque, and the Confederacy of Korflok.” [When the DM gave this description, several of us commented that Korflok is Poland.  He was surprised, and asked what we meant, and we explained about the Polish elected kings and the Diet and how this gradually led to its partition, and he agreed that that was the same as what he was talking about, but that he hadn’t known about that when he wrote Korflok.  He just inadvertently re-invented Poland.] Kit laughed.  “Can you imagine what it would be like to be taken over by Tang?  Having to deal with all of those threes.  That would be worse than just being annexed by another normal human realm.” “And Masque isn’t much better,” added Dame Brionna.  “Although maybe being annexed by Tang wouldn’t be as bad as it appears at first.  I suppose they would all be ones…” “Do we know anything about this Baroness?” “Not much,” said Alistair.  “I’ve never heard of her, or her family.  Presumably, they must be reasonably well placed for the next Despot election to have been able to arrange for a place in the Despot’s party at the coronation, but I don’t know anything beyond that.  Still, are we agreed that we should agree to meet with her?”  After noting no objections, Alistair said, “Dame Brionna, can you arrange that with the Chamberlain?” “Of course, your grace.  I also have news from him-- the delegation from Path has arrived, thanks to the Seachen Chief Engineer’s dire elephants.  Oh, and with your grace’s permission, I’d like to set up an elite group of mages and priests to check all of the coronation presents for evil, chaos, and traps, along with a group of guards to keep them safe.” “And a few of my people should help out with that,” added Kit.  “They may be better at finding certain types of traps.” “Certainly, that makes sense.  Take care of that as well.”</blockquote>

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