00:36:27 Devastator: I forgot to ask which character to start with.
00:49:08 Devastator: Dragonkid, Blaster Mage, or Assassin Mom?
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04:47:18 Devastator: gah, good to see ya.
04:48:27 Devastator: Just good to see somone.
04:48:31 Devastator: feeling a bit down.
05:16:03 Devastator: well, Sessh is gonna meet up with someone you haven't seen before in town.
05:16:09 Devastator: the local Klamati cult.
05:16:53 syv: The ACTUAL local secret society~
05:19:10 Devastator: Nah, the order is very good.
05:19:23 Devastator: they're just not good outside their wheelhouse.
05:20:07 syv: The people worshipping the minor spirit, who suck at being a secret society?
05:20:15 Devastator: Since their membership is city Tulians and only city Tulians, they normally recruit one person at a time and do it by invitation.
05:20:31 Devastator: And they don't worship the minor spirit.
05:20:52 Devastator: They're awful at having to work outside their group.
05:21:01 Devastator: but they're very good when it comes to actually doing things inside the city.
05:21:16 Devastator: and it's the Order of the Extinguished Flame.
05:21:59 Devastator: They also try to keep a damper on the local politics. Trence upset that a bit, but they're a good part of why the city works.
05:22:40 Devastator: Essentially it's like the city is run by the Illuminati while the government factions try to manage the country.
05:22:56 Devastator: Tulia has way too many actors.
05:24:19 Devastator: They'll show up again, for sure.
05:25:31 Devastator: but yeah, they suck at the whole secret meeting thing, because their members keep in touch by the equivalent of house parties or visits to play cards or such.
05:25:38 Devastator: And their heavies are a couple of formal adventuring parties.
05:26:05 Devastator: essentially, they have no tradecraft because they don't need any.
05:26:41 Devastator: Now, the Klamati cultists, on the other hand..
05:26:51 Devastator: they have tradecraft but they essentially have no power inside the city.
05:28:09 syv: The order was just... pretty much just insulted for their entire appearance, and did nothing of note.
05:28:21 syv: Their spirit broke through Farflame's protection.
05:28:40 syv: ...And you immediately insulted them further by saying the spirit got crazy lucky and shouldn't have managed that.
05:28:53 Devastator: Klamati should have broke through.
05:28:56 syv: They were depicted as a joke the entire time, so I think of them as a joke :v
05:29:02 Devastator: Trence no-selling it was ridiculously rare.
05:29:11 Devastator: That's fine! It's exactly the impression they would have on Sessha.
05:29:23 Devastator: well, not that ridiculous.
05:29:34 Devastator: but it was less likely than Trence not resisting and getting Geased.
05:30:14 Devastator: Also, their first actual introduction was cleaning up an ambush with no problems at all.
05:30:31 Devastator: and getting away in the process.
05:32:54 Devastator: Anyway, pursuing them was an option during the downtime, and you might have ran into one of them if you met up with someone in power.
05:32:59 Devastator: but you didn't do either of those, so..
05:33:12 Devastator: This is fine, there weren't any wrong choices, just other options.
06:03:24 Devastator: I suck at politics. Shouldn't keep this up for long.
06:06:55 syv: ...Also, what exactly is Sessha doing?
06:07:18 syv: Just trying to get the location of the Four Swords?
06:07:48 Devastator: irregulars are people like you guys who are fighting for the city but not soldiers.
06:08:00 Devastator: Sessh wants to get intel on the Four Swords, but needs to deal with this guy first.
06:08:52 syv: It seems like they're not a great source. They tried to get info and hurt themselves.
06:11:46 syv: I actually think #2 is better, but #1 feels less stupid.
06:12:20 Devastator: Yup. 1 might not get you anywhere.
06:12:34 Devastator: but yeah, if you do 2, cult leader might try to insert the knife somehow.
06:12:56 Devastator: Mind you, sessha should get a pretty good save against figuring that out, and the whole 'massive seige' thing is going to make it hard to contact the concordat.
06:14:26 syv: The simple way to insert the knife is to just fucking lie.
06:14:34 syv: "I don't want to encounter Spar."
06:15:02 syv: [Hmmm. Spar is at the gate.] "Go to the gate, that should be the safest place."
06:15:15 Devastator: That's assuming the guy knows.
06:15:24 syv: If he *can't* offer that level of info, then he's useless anyway.
06:15:34 syv: Which is why 2 is probably the better option.
06:15:56 Devastator: you don't know what the guy knows right now. Probably something. Probably not everything.
06:16:20 syv: "We should do the option least likely to be helpful because it wastes the least time"
06:17:17 syv: Secret's prolly better to call in on a rank 2 dragon form, anyway.
06:17:42 Devastator: Trence isn't present.
06:18:30 Devastator: But the Twelfth-level Professional Assassin is capable of making intimidation attempts.
06:19:07 Devastator: Admittedly, Dragon Trence would be a positive modifier.
06:20:59 syv: I don't mean call in the favor now.
06:21:06 syv: I mean save it for the next act.
06:21:38 Devastator: ahh, it's not something that solid. Something solid like that was traded for like her shield-penetration ability.
06:21:48 Devastator: this is more like getting Klamati to shout at the guy.
06:22:30 syv: So rather than Klamati owing a favor, it's more like Klamati valuing Sessha and her work in general?
06:25:35 syv: It would be stupid to try and fuck over your god's pet hero.
06:26:11 Devastator: Yeah, but could be a long week.
06:31:39 Devastator: she's also not quite at pet hero level.
06:31:44 Devastator: pet hero is more like Trence.
06:36:02 syv: Trence seems like more than a pet for Farflame.
06:36:14 syv: Trence is more like... Farflame's only son.
06:37:14 Devastator: but I'd put pet closer to Trence and Farflame than Klamati and Sessha.
11:31:09 syv: "The mirror itself is black and does not reflect anything. Only a grey spiral is visible in the mirror."
11:31:25 syv: Also known as: "Very crappy mirror"
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