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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2594424" data-attributes="member: 630">Anguis rolls his eyes.  "Mr. Quinn, I do not want to leave a suspected enemy agent in any position of authority whatsoever.  You are talking as if Lukar has merely commited some personal discretion, instead of being in the service of a foreign power.  I do not want to use whatever hold this might give us to force him to agree with our short term goals--that would be unwise.  If we publicly reveal that Lukar is a Kalurian agent as he desperately flails around trying to avoid a deal that would advantage his people and disadvantage himself, we will be believed.  If we reveal it after he has given us a deal, and can strike a pose as a worthy dwarven statesmen, we will be seen a political opportunists attempting to tarnish his name--we will entrench him, not defeat him.  And as for making Lukar a martyr--if he plays this as I suspect he will, he will be seen as a base villain when this is over, a man who promised freedom to his followers, while hoping to grasp a crown for himself.  If he plays it better, we come up with some punishment that leaves him alive--exile him to Kalur, for example, and while he may gain a hero's reputation, we can make sure that whispers follow him afterwards--far from ideal, but still a worthy solution to our problems."  He takes a deep breath.  "And Sarrom--and my apologies for an honest mistake, for I'd heard it was otherwise--you seem to underestimate Kalur.  They do not want small Tarsur--they want the North, and the revolt in Tarsur is the stepping stone for them.  If they charged in the moment the revolt had occured, they would be seen by the dwarfs as opportunists.  If they come in when the situation is at its worse, they become heroes."ooc--<a href="http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2383856&postcount=1" target="_blank">My source for your name.</a>  See, a fairly honest mistake.</blockquote>

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