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

[weifinder]

Yes, and some clarity in wording helps to make this person's intent clearer than before.

I would presume all messages would be sent knowing they can, would, and likely are being intercepted more than once along the way. So that is worth keeping in mind. None of these are meant to be secure.

Even if such a deal is made, what is behind it? In thought. I don't need to think someone is beyond foolishness or hubris to believe they're also not this shortsighted given the nature of the siege that's been ongoing.

[inferus]

Regardless of intent, such accusations stated as fact are dangerous.

There are occasionally benefits to making deals with your enemies. The king certainly has had ample opportunity, however, to hand over several of us.

Why wait? Why give us room to stay here at all if he intended to hand us over? And he must know we would protect our own, creating enemies who already reside within his own walls- Far too many questions without answers.

[weifinder]

There's no benefit to waiting on his behalf. We might not have access to everything within the fortress, but we do have access in a more viable way than simply the Gut's Bind. Which by feel is stomping ground for death, some element of seeping from the gateway itself I presume, and the ones at hand for Raichuchu too.