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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3469566" data-attributes="member: 3448">After Dame Brionna returned, Alistair brought up the other half of the scrying.  “I had Reverend Canon Toddle scry on Princess Anastasia, to confirm whether the Cov of Snatterkaz had succeeded in rescuing her.  Here’s his report.”  Alistair passed around copies of the portion of the Reverend Canon’s letter dealing with Princess Anastasia.  “As you can see, there’s a reasonable chance he will succeed, but it could still go either way.” “But he has to save her,” said Kit.  “If he doesn’t, the results will be disastrous.” “We can all agree on that.  But as it currently stands, it could go either way.  We need to figure out some way to help him.” “How, your grace?  I don’t disagree that it’s desirable, but the fortress they are assaulting is far away, and we do not have a lot of military assets to spare.” “What about the Scree?” asked Kit.  “We can contact them through Jet’s dog, and they have provided some assistance to the Cov before.” “We should definitely ask them to help.  And maybe we can do something directly.  We could have mages teleport down there.” Dame Brionna nodded.  “We could indeed.  We’ll have to be careful, your grace; this won’t be a safe operation, and we can ill afford to lose many powerful mages.” “Right.  That’s why I wasn’t thinking of having them actively engaging.  I was thinking more of a diversion.  Teleport in high, cast some illusions to make the ratmen think there is a major assault at the walls, probably with a few actual spells thrown in to make the effect more convincing.  They would draw off defenders from Snatterkaz and then teleport out again.” “I understand, your grace.  Perhaps we should use some of the Coven?  They could make the attack seem more real by sending a few devils, while we would not need to worry about any losses among the devils.”  Or even among the diabolists, Dame Brionna added silently. “Perfect.  And since the skaven are aligned with demonic forces and are holding a Paranswarmian princess, attacking devils will seem both natural and terrifying.  Also, by adding some real devils to the diversion, we make sure that it will succeed.  If they treat it as a full assault, they won’t be able to stop Snatterkaz.  But if they ignore it, the devils will actually be able to inflict real losses on the ratmen and help him directly.  All without significantly risking any of our resources.  And if the Scree can help, so much the better.” “We should also give him more information about where she is,” added Kit.  “I wouldn’t trust that a sending would reach him without detection normally, but while the diabolists are distracting the ratmen, we should be able to slip it past them.” They sent the orders to the Coven and the message to the Scree, and then there was nothing further they could do to help.  Fortunately, they had too many pressing concerns to waste any time on worrying.</blockquote>

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