closed;

[libratus]

WHO: Ilias Fabria & James Flint
WHAT: Talking future plans, beachside cottages, etc.
WHEN: Nowish
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Last time on Sunk Cost Fallacies Inc...

[ He'd brought a board game, this time. The sort with simple rules, few pieces, and an infinite variety of ways to win. The sort you give a pack of viperine teenagers locked in a tower when you want to keep them both occupied and, Andraste's blessed nightgown please, quiet.

Evidently, that is not a problem Ilias posed very often. But then, 'strategy lessons' wouldn't be much of a cover if he were good at it already. ]

Enchanter Rowntree has a reputation of note, does he not? For Hunter Fell.

[ (It isn't much of a cover. But after the jungle, maybe there's value in a little reminder of civilization, too.) ]

Comments

[katabasis]

[Better. The opposing move is to close along the flank of one of Ilias's pieces, though as of yet he has no capacity to capture anything.]

Which makes the better question, which between the two of them would be more satisfied with the half measure Nevarra is offering?

[Taking the bait of this path is as much flexibility as he is capable of. Never mind his preferences for Voss; if they are going down this road, they may as well interrogate it.]

I believe that under the right circumstances, what Van Markham has promised could take on a more defined shape. That he might be convinced to follow some guidance by an outside hand. But he might just as easily change his mind the moment the throne has been delivered to him. Anyone bringing this to the Grand Enchanter will have to be willing to at least entertain the idea of what is on the table today and how to use that, not what might be there tomorrow if we were to instead meet Van Markham with bared teeth.

[libratus]

Mn. [ Hesitant. Considering. That's far from an ideal outcome, and they have made sacrifices that make anything less a bit difficult to stomach. But far worse, the prospect it would all have been for nothing. ]

For that, I suspect we may have to ask. But I doubt Enchanter Voss has tolerated Averesch for so many years without some willingness to consider Circle reform as a possible end.

[ What else is there to like about him, his personality? ]