Chapter 2: A Wolf Walks Among Us
With him flat-footed, that will crit. I've got 37 points on him so far (bleeding doesn't stack). He's done.
As Urvan drives a cat's paw into Gratham's throat, he can feel the trachea collapse. The priest reaches up, weakly, one hand on his own throat and the other in a useless defensive posture, then collapses in his seat.
The other priest stares for a second in horror, then jumps up and runs out of the small room.
You have an attack of opportunity. He's running for the front door, just trying to get away, so he's about to have a bad surprise.
Whyneks shakes his head at Ricka, "No, I didn't mean to approach him until you have something. Go in under cover, first. You're getting really good at disguise ..." He makes an unusually long pause, as if this reminded him of something, "... so you should be able to keep from being recognized until you have something to go to him with. At that point, it's up to you whether you keep up the disguise or you approach him as yourself. Either way, if he finds out you're there, use that story of being burned by the police. You might hint at pretending that you were working for him the whole time, but he has to think it is his idea."
The spymaster goes on to tell Ricka about the card house. "Your contact is Aresh Comocker; she's the manager of the kitchen there and also acts as chef when the head chef is out. She'll get you in as a scullery maid, and she'll cover for you when you are away from work. You and she can work out some story. If you get in over your head, she can help you get away from there, but try not to burn her. You also can always run to our old friend Markos the Fat. He's still in his chandlery. Let's go with a recognition code of 'Do you have any candles that smell like a cockatrice?' I'll let him know." He gives Ricka more of the hair dye that he used long ago, if she wants it and sends her off.
Scarlet heads out of the palace, towards the tent city that is growing in the empty space surrounding the palace walls. She wanders to the area she understands that the knights from Skopje are supposed to be staying. The tents are clearly in groups, generally surrounding a collective cookfire. She narrows her search down to three such groups, and then has to come up with a strategy for finding the right one.
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