un: unlikely friend

[allforthecause]

[ Stealing a second pendant wasn’t easy, exactly, but not was it particularly difficult. As shrewd as merchants were, they were simultaneously arrogant when they thought they were going in for the kill - so using Kahl as a distraction (deliberately looking both well meaning and slow with too much coin weighing him down) made it easy to slip the device away and make his own exit long before the man noticed. He and Kahl met up again in a dank little corner, dark and damp, and crouched down over it as they changed the username and prepared their post.

They needed to get the word out - and quickly - but doing so as themselves would only paint a target on their back. So. Burner device, pretend to be a native from the city, get the word out, then ditch the device as soon as they were done.

Time to go. ]

To our foreign guests:

You’ve been promised to Rakkathu as bodies for his horde. Our King plays your host but has already cut a deal - your lives for ours. Or at least some of them.

A dozen plus a tax - this is what he has been promised.

My conscience won’t abide for it. You’ve done nothing but help where and when we’ve asked, only to get this in return. Don’t let him sacrifice you. Murder won’t buy us freedom, whatever our masters believe.

Please. If you’re anywhere near as strong as I think you are: help free us from him once and for all.

-L

[ ooc: comments with this icon and the un “unlikely friend” are from kahl and cass’s burner phone stolen pendant. Any replies from Kahl or from Cassian’s un “bee” are from their personal pendants. ]

Comments

un: a civil serpent | text.

[inferus]

( Wrath cannot blame the king for making such a deal if he truly did - it is one of the bloodier, more difficult parts of war, which few ever truly experience. People like to be noble. They like to make what they believe to be the most morally superior choice, ignoring the cost at times, ignoring the many more lives that can be lost in the name of trying to protect every single one.

War changes people, and now there is only the words of one missive which one of their own carried to Rakathu (which can be altered or changed) and the words of someone anonymous over the network to go by. Beyond all of that, there are many forces at play here. There is simply not nearly enough information yet for any decision to be made with this information beyond looking into it more closely. )

How did you come across this information?

It would be unwise to take it as absolute fact when there are many both within the castle and outside of the castle who would benefit from turning this group against this side, turning us against one another, including Rakkathu.

Regardless we should not jump to conclusions nor act impulsively. ( The group has a habit of doing so. )

un: unlikely friend

[allforthecause]

Caution is wise, I can only give you my word. More than that will endanger us both.

But you can’t appeal to him, or change his mind, if you do not know that the exchange has been requested.

[inferus]

And your word means nothing. I do not believe you are who you say you are, and I certainly do not fear knowledge gained. ( let this undead warlord come for him, and wrath will show him what the true king of hell can do. )

Your words could be Rakkathu's. Fed to you in one manner or another if I choose to believe you truly have no ill intent. You have yet to explain exactly how you received this information, and you create more danger for the people of this siege by not being specific in exactly who you are, what you've found out, and how you have found it. Whether you realize it or not, you serve Rakkathu.

un: unlikely friend

[allforthecause]

Yes. Some of what I have given are his words directly.

A dozen and a tax.

Do what you want with the information. Believe me or not. But you know more than you did an hour ago.

All I’ve given you is more context than you had. And a reminder that nothing is free.

[inferus]

And what words were those in response to? The Undead Warlord may make his demands, but we do not know what the king would have said in response nor can we assume there was any arrangement to hand members of our group over based on that alone. Perhaps the demand was given to be intercepted and to create the very strife seen here, to harm this side.

And I am aware far more than any mortal that nothing comes for free.

[allforthecause]

If you need the king’s words, then ask him.