World Revolution

[Dracos]

Dracos nodded.  "Okay, feel free to rest, Loremaster.  I think we will need your aid later, but for now we'll be staying here."

"Loremaster Maithias, any news along the scanning things that you did?"

Dracos

[Brian]

"Yes," Mattias says, frowning.  "I've located the other Lorekeeper ... but he's almost at the keep -- he must be hidden among the Dreadmarch."

[Dracos]

"Hmm... Anyone fall for our trap or still empty?"  Dracos asked simply while he pondered.

Dracos

[Brian]

"None have arrived yet.  But we probably would have gotten word of them from the scouts, if we were close enough for them to fall into our traps so soon," Mattias says.

[Dracos]

Dracos drums his fingers against each other.  "True enough.  How accurately can you see with your magic, out of curiosity?"

Dracos

[Brian]

"Well, that's going to depend," Mattias says slowly.  "I can see whatever I set a ward to show me.  Getting the ward into a place where it can do its work is the difficult part."

[Dracos]

"Are you up to a bit of a scouting mission?  I'd like to send about twenty scouts and yourself near the edge of the enemy lines.  If you can perfectly hide that number from vision, you could give us some useful information on how organized their back ranks are and if there are any vulnerable points."

Dracos

[Brian]

Mattias nods slowly.  "We'll need Eske to recover, first," he warns.  "But I could hide twenty or so from sight without too much trouble."

[Dracos]

"I wasn't thinking until later.  Give you and Eske a chance to rest a bit.  Thank you for your aid though.  I will go get a group of men ready to go whenever the two of you are ready."

Dracos, if Eske and Maithias have nothing more to say, goes to hunt down Erik.  "Hey Erik, got a moment?  I'd like twenty of your sharper eyed scouts for a recon mission with Loremaster Maithias."

Dracos

[Brian]

"Didn't we already try this once?" Erik asks, somewhat skeptically.

[Dracos]

"Yes, but Maithias as I understand will be able to keep those going invisible.  That's why it's such tiny numbers.  I know, it's risky, but we need information on their rear flanks if we're to do anything beyond what we've done so far."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

Rez sighs.

"I'll do it, but I don't really konw what we're going to accomplish other than 'hey, they're there, and there's 2 million dreadmarch between us and where we reckon the lorekeeper is'."

[Brian]

Erik seems to agree with Nathan's assesment.  "Well, if you think this will result in anything positive," he sighs.

Mattias and Eske want a few minutes to prepare for this before making it happen, and Erik uses that time to round up willing men.

[Rezantis]

Rez decides, while he has the time, to question Liandral on something that's been bugging him.

"Liandral . . . under the ice, around here . . . do you know what's there?"

[Brian]

"Not really," he says, frowning.  "Why.  I saw you messing with it at one point....  What is it?"