Advancement

[Anastasia]

'She's fine, Alicia. Shaken by the brazenness, but fine in body.' Empress Sulia sends back.

[Ebiris]

I'm glad. Did you catch who did it?

"No permanent harm done it sounds like," she says aloud for Marchalu's benefit. "Moving on?"

[Anastasia]

'A sophisticated golem,' Is the answer, 'One with annoyingly no memories to comb.'

"Ahem," A clearing of the the throat before, "The one other point of immediate possibility is Kavaya. It's a small Astral free holding, and a succubus with known ties to Malcanthet currently owns it. It's a mish-mash of vagrants and travelers with no real goal or agenda, but there's been more bad than good coming out of it since the succubus took control."

[Ebiris]

That is annoying. She sends her commiserations to Sulia.

"Minor, but we can nip it in the bud before it grows into a bigger problem," she says to Marchalu. "What do we know about the succubus in charge?" It's probably something she can delegate rather than handle herself. Rosewater is more her speed but until they get a solid lead she'll have to stay her hand.

[Anastasia]

More paper shuffling.

"Marilye," Is the answer, "She styles herself Lady Marilye, though the title doesn't seem to be earned. She is, ah." A chuckle, "A crusader of Malcanthet. A dark paladin of slaughter. Though by reports she also has some skill at arcane magic and is...my. She uses a two bladed sword." Is the conclusion. "Quite well."

[Ebiris]

"That's rare to see," Alicia says. "Almost makes it a shame to kill her... though we'll want her captured and interrogated anyway. How far does her martial and arcane skill extend, do you know?"

[Anastasia]

"Last I heard, not too far. 4th circle, though she's a better unholy paladin," Is the report. "If she's not holding back. I hear she mostly wins battles in the succubus way: With her mouth."

[Ebiris]

Taking that, Alicia mentally pegs her as being around basic marilith tier. Threatening on a mortal scale but hardly insurmountable for her resources to handle without her needing to take direct action. "We can work with that. Know much about her allies or other local defences worth worrying about?"

[Anastasia]

"They tend to come and go, but I hear she has a loyal cadre around her. A tiefling assassin, a human warrior, a cansin sorcerer and several others." Marchalu says. "Plus whomever happens to be there."

[Ebiris]

"We'll arrange a snatch squad to go capture her and see what she knows that can help us. Either way she'll be taken out of circulation, and we can keep trying to find leads on Rosewater," Alicia says in conclusion. "Keep up the good work, Marchalu."

[Anastasia]

"Thank you, Alicia," Is the answer, then...

Okay, so how are you going to play all this?

[Ebiris]

So from the sounds of it this Marilye and her party are probably around CR 18, so I'll put together some of our guys of equivalent challenge rating and send them over to beat her up and capture her. We can then get any info she has about Malcanthet-based activities elsewhere.

Otherwise continue the hunt for other Malcanthet stuff and more leads on Rosewater through existing methods.

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d100
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 70 > [d100=70]

Cool, any particular actions on Rosewater or just generic ones?

[Ebiris]

It's under Marchalu's control as part of the realm activity, but we'll put extra focus on Hades and the Styx in particular since it's probably related to that.

[Anastasia]

Sure thing, gimme a d100 real quick.