Moving spheres

[Anastasia]

A pause, "I-I am not, ma'am," The devil says, through gritted teeth.

"Ah, then it's not important to know," Latha waves it off, "You may go." She's smiling as they flee, and in your mind, 'Let Hell play mind games with themselves over it, even if it is but a trifle.'

[Ebiris]

'Someone will be losing a lot of sleep over that,' she sends back to Latha, resuming her oversight of the wargames.

[Anastasia]

Give me a d100.

[Ebiris]

[20:53] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100
[20:53] <Rei-chan> Ebiris rolled : 1d100 --> [ 1d100=60 ]{60}

[Anastasia]

The military wargames continue. Your forces do quite well, drilled and maintained to a high order. Everything's going about as planned there.

Near the end, you spy another figure approaching out of the Silver Sea. A single githyanki, surrounded by several armored githyanki. He is rather tall and well kept, clad in mail and carrying a heavy sword at his side. He approaches enough to be seen by the naked eye and merely hovers there, as if waiting.

[Ebiris]

Alicia turns her head to regard this waiting Githyanki and projects her voice to him.

Come, approach and speak your mind.

[Anastasia]

The githyank approaches. He bows and then speaks.

"I am Ambassador Gull'fin," he says, voice guttural and yet polished, coming together rather oddly. "I come as a representative of the Lich Queen. I must inquire before I continue - have you joined the newly born war?"

[Ebiris]

"Greetings, Ambassador," Alicia inclines her head towards him just a bit before answering. "We have not, though we are not impartial and should the Cauldron call for aid we will be obliged to answer."

[Anastasia]

"Then allow me to give you this, in case you join the war," The Ambassador says, handing you a scroll. It reads as follows.

To all it may concern:

The Githyanki have no stake in the this current war. However, as Queen of the Githyanki, I shall establish the following rules to protect Us from this conflict.

1. All Githyanki traders, travelers, diplomats, including servants to them, shall not be detained, attacked or drawn into the hostilities. As neutral parties, any effort to draw citizens and servants of the Githyanki into this war will be seen as an act of war, and may result in penalty up to and including a declaration of war.
2. The property of all Githyanki shall be respected and unhindered. Should Githyanki property be unavoidably damaged or destroyed, compensation shall be provided at terms established by the Lich Queen. A failure to abide by this term will be seen as an act of war, and may result in penalty up to and including a declaration of war.
3. The Astral Plane shall remain free of hostile forces within any area of Githyanki dominance and control. We will see any infringement of this as an act of war, and may result in penalty up to and including a declaration of war.
4. The right of the Githyanki to trade, enjoy diplomatic relations and the other aspects of normal relations with all parties of this conflict shall not be impinged or hindered by other parties. A failure to do so will be seen as an act of war, and may result in a penalty up to and including a declaration of war.  This includes efforts from any side to discourage trade to the warring parties or other parties who trade with a warring party, or any other pressure deemed coercive and towards war aims by one the parties at war or a party working on behalf of a party at war.
5. We have a right to relations free of deception. Any effort at 'false flag' operations to manipulate the Githyanki into a position of war shall be seen as an act of war, with a penalty up to and including a declaration of war.
6. The Githyanki reserve the right to establish based across the Astral Plane, and this right shall not be impinged by other parties. Failure to abide by this declaration shall be seen as an act of war, and may result in penalty up to and including a declaration of war.

This note shall be sent to all parties involved in this war.

Vlaakith, Lich Queen, Queen of the Githyanki, Keeper of the Gith and Sovereign of the Silver Sea.

[Ebiris]

Accepting the scroll, Alicia gives it a read through before handing it to Latha. "So noted. We will bear this in mind for any operations we engage in on the astral plane."

[Anastasia]

"Then I shall inform the Queen of your position," The diplomat says, "Do you wish to add anything else?"

[Ebiris]

"Only that we will of course be monitoring the course of this war closely," Alicia begins. "And any presence we exert on the astral plane will not conflict with the sovereignty of a neutral Githyanki people."

[Anastasia]

"The Queen will hear your words," The Ambassador bows once more, and after a moment's pause, turns and goes.

'Fortunate for Seira on the whole,' Latha remarks, 'Had the Githyanki found cause to cooperate with the efreet, her entire position may have come undone. No doubt Vlaakith will find ways to prosper and profit from her neutrality, nonetheless.'

[Ebiris]

'Of course. But whatever else the githyanki may be, they were once slaves themselves. Seira would have had to work to drive them to the efreet on this matter,' Alicia returns, her gaze once more going back to overseeing her forces as their exercise draws to a conclusion.

[Anastasia]

From there the rest of the exercises are uneventful, at least for now.

Anything else you want to do here?