Brennan Otthild:
In reply to Ciryl Fontaine (msg # 328):
There's that, as well. I don't have any good options either.
Foe 1: The Inquisitor
- Support from a huge and powerful organization that can track us easily and move quickly
- Technically the legal authority on these matters, so it's real treason to fight him
- No paladin and not physically intimidating, so beatable but...see points 1 and 2...
you guys don't know it yet, but if he rode his horse to death to get here, he's pretty out on a limb and/or desperate. he might be more negotiable as an individual than he wants to let on.
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Foe 2: Springheel Jack
- Can track us easily and move quickly, but only at night
- Can kill humans with one hit, in a blur of motion
- Somewhat tied to the town, and definitely a Bad Guy (tm) doing Bad Things (tm)
this is the big daddy and in-character Ciryl really wants to put a bow on this. I feel like we don't have a lot of room to work here aside from getting the inquisitor to yes definitely lend a hand and get this done before more pressing matters happen he doesn't have to like it, he doesn't have to consider us equals, he doesn't have to trust us, but we need him to work with us instead of against us.
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Foe 3: The Priest's Cult
- Tied to Springheel Jack, but separate in scope and complexity and perhaps even motivations
- Eyes and ears everywhere
since this one is kinda technically under Titus's thumb at the moment, I have no major fears about it, and no qualms about selling them out to the inquisitor if we can get away with Titus's life and be rid of Jack at the end of the day.
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Foe 4: Lord Garr
- Still marching (ostensibly) to deal with the murdered bride thing
- Big army, legal threat to us
I'm just gonna stamp a big "not my problem" on this one. it does seem a more long-term issue regardless
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ASSETS
- Titus (Out of Mana)
- Deev (Scared and Fragile)
- Bryce (Defected)
- Cyril (Imprisoned)
- Brennan (basically on what's left of a 2-hour parole)
I have no idea what to do.
we really need to get the inquisitor to be an asset, even if only for the shortest term. I dunno what kind of leverage we have on him, and I'm not completely against the idea of pulling a fast one on him when it's done (however well that may or may not work out) but given how we have consistently come up against a wall trying to suss out Jack on our own and with our limited resources we need a definite solution to what I think is the most pressing hangup, that being the magical mystery man with fantastic and terrible powers. Every other problem is a lot more mundane and manageable.