RttToFC/Session5
Lei Zu walks the perimeter of the disturbed grave area looking for tracks of a potential necromancer
Alyssa: Alyssa examines one of the holes
Caran: "So, what is this about the Wyld Hunt?"
- Kuros has signed off IRC (Ping timeout).
Lei_Zu: "After you left for Northeast Spoke one turned up at the village near the tomb."
Caran: "Did you see who was leading it?"
Lei_Zu: "One old Water Aspect, a younger Fire Aspect and one Dragonblooded of unknown aspect. We left instead of waiting for their reinforcements to arrive, so we don't know how many more there are."
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Caran: winces at the word reinforcments
Lei_Zu: "They might only have been talking about mortal troops, but we can't be sure."
Alyssa: "And not a risk that I care to take. How are your own soldiers, Caran?"
Caran: "I don't no. The bug caught up to me before I made it to Spoke, and I thought coming straight here was the best course."
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- Mode change "+o Kuros" for channel #exalted by ChanServ.
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Alyssa: "All things considered, your presence might make all the difference," Alyssa says. "Necromancy isn't all that widespread, not on this scale. It's unlikely we're dealing with less than a deathknight."
Lei_Zu: "The question is, what is that Deathknight trying to achieve here?"
Alyssa: "When we find her - or him - we shall find out, I think."
Caran: "Deathknight you say. And a Wyld Hunt on our tail as well?" Caran smiles. "Certainly not a boring life we lead."
Alyssa: "No, that it is not."
Lei_Zu: "So it seems. I must say, I could do without the complication of the Wyld Hunt. The time for that confrontation has not yet come."
Lei_Zu: (damn DB kids on my lawn, interrupting my breakfast!)
Alyssa: "No. But that time is coming. One way or another."
Lei_Zu: nods. "It is inevitable. And the Wyld Hunt is only the beginning of course."
Alyssa: "Yes. Thankfully, the Realm does not seem inclined to send out armies for the moment. Otherwise, there could be a hundred river barges on the river and a Wing of Imperial soldiers enjoying my wine cellar."
Lei_Zu: "In time the Realm as whole will come to object to our presence, plans and achievements."
Lei_Zu: "But that is still some time in the future."
Caran: "Truthfully, I await the day we can stand and face the Hunt on our terms."
Alyssa: "Yes. The trappings of power: armies, followers... these aren't things we had in the past to bolster our egos. We need them as much as they need us."
Lei_Zu: "It's not so much the question whether we can as it is whether that would be to our advantage, I'd say."
Lei_Zu: "A destroyed hunt confirms our presence, leaves witnesses unless we kill every single shikari and proves that we are a grave threat. As long as we avoid a direct confrontation their resources will be drained and further action delayed."
Lei_Zu: "Of course this has to be weighed against the disruption to our plans they represent. But for the moment I don't think we stand to gain from a battle."
Alyssa: "Oh now, certainly. They would gladly lose every member of a Hunt just to kill one of us. We would be the losers if they manage that."
Alyssa: "At some point, however, to be able to throw them back would make a very clear statement to potential allies that we are a power worthy of their attention. And a warning to the Realm that we are not hunted any more, we are hunters."
Caran: "You both say true. Still, I still long to see them all broken and powerless."
Alyssa: "That day will come. I hope though, that it is not also the day that the Demons or the Dead are triumphant."
Lei_Zu: "There is no place for the Dead in the new world order if they are all as enarmored with senseless violence as the Mistress or whoever did this."
Lei_Zu: "If that proves to be the case, they are merely another in the long list of obstacles and adversaries to overcome."
Alyssa: (like Kuros' internet connection)
Lei_Zu: (as long as it merely damaged and hasn't tried to become one with the Void ...)
during the next ping timeout
[23:44:05] Alyssa: "The wagon may be more distinctive than a robe he might not be wearing any more."
[23:44:20] Caran: "Seems like the best choice, though I'd prefer a mount a little more subtle."
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[23:45:40] Lei_Zu: "We will have to fly high enough not to be identfied and low enough to see."
[23:47:18] Alyssa: "Well, if that's how it has to be done then that's all that we can do."
[23:49:07] Lei_Zu: "There might be additional gravesites he has disturbed. If we see more places where the grass is afflicted like it is here, that might help in following him."
[23:49:34] Alyssa: "That would make matters easier... and more horrific."