dramatispersonae

KNIGHTS

There is cauldron in the center over your area. The walls are tinged in your team's colors, but besides the cauldron, it's bare.

The water in the cauldron is glowing faintly.

Then, Nimue speaks, and as she speaks, the cauldron begins to reflect her vision.

"There lies a kingdom in ruin... Through no fault of its own. All of its inhabitants dead, or lost to the world. Though it lies in ruin, you can see the the faint remnants of the beauty it once contained."

A pause, her voice sounds fainter now.

"Heroes... you have choices that we do not. How... would you use them...?"

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--ah.

Depends.

This Mordred--if he was trusted enough, he would have his own guard. So there would have to be enough to combat against them.

He'd have to be discredited before the king left.

If he has the king's trust, it will be difficult to discredit him.

Plus, he has magic. He could use that.

It's not like we're helpless ourselves. Waiting until he lets the enemies inside to stop him is too risky.

I agree.

Disrupting the signal to allow the enemy in would be priority if we know who is the guilty party.

[or we could just kill him and face the king's wrath buuut...]

We could just wait to confirm who he is and kill him quietly.

... and then the king would figure us for traitors.

Let's not get executed by our king.

Thus the "quietly".

How about we save the murder for when we can be assured he hasn't left other things in play and our king won't find out.

Alright, so find him and keep close tabs on him, while cutting off his ability to act.

That's risky though.

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legitimizes - 2012-11-23 12:37 (UTC) - Expand

The problem is confirming who he is. If he's subtle, it's possible he may place a scapegoat.

It's possible, but unless we wait until the last minute, won't that always be a risk?

Killing on suspicion alone isn't beneficial. You may end up killing allies and doing the traitor a favor.

Then cut off his actions as we confirm it.

There's another way! this guy... if he's set up a time and place with the enemy, that means there's got to be communication between the two! How about finding a way to disrupt or change what's communicated?

That would actually be pretty effective. The problem is knowing how to and which enemy he would be communicating with, through which medium.

He's subtle, so it wouldn't be overt like a message.

There'd definitely be traces though, and, I mean... like I said, there has to be more than one subtle and smart guy who can use magic. So how about just finding a guy that's loyal to the king, who could do that!

So take on a magic-user loyal to the king to find it out.

Sounds like a plan.

But there's still be the issue of discrediting Mordred enough so that he won't have another chance at it.

Don't finding the messages alone discredit him?

Again, you're assuming that he won't have a backup plan to ensure the messages cannot fall into the wrong hands.

Or that it's even a physical message. Magic, remember.

Argh, now who's over-complicating...! I don't have a better idea, do you?

I'm not. You're the one who established he's subtle. Subtle means not getting caught which means knowing the best ways to communicate without being revealed. How else would he have set up this appointment with the enemy?

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Not if they don't have his name or it's not enough proof. He could say he was framed.

But it'll definitely put him in suspicion at least! That stuff sticks, and people'll definitely be way more watchful! At the very least, he'd be under pressure.

It's the first step! So what's the second step?