[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Re : Scene 106: The People's Popular Front of Lei Tabor

[Lev Lafayette]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 12:11 +0000, Loran wrote:
> [OOC]
> Sorry for an unknow reason I have missed this message.
> But I have found it back on the website.

Having archives is good :)


> 
> [IC]
> Azhur looked at Guillaume sternly.
> - " Master Faust, I dislike being used as a tool while my native
> country and the West in general is still under the deadly threat of
> the Kingdom of War... I think that this bandit lord desserves nothing
> more than a rope around his throat and there is perhaps a way to help
> him to meet his doom..."

"Many would argee with you Lord Azhur. I perhaps erred in describing the
Popular People's Front as somewhere in between banditry and idealism,
for that would make them moderates. In truth, most are both; 'Thinkers
prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out'." 

"I leave the choice with you", the wizard smiles wryly. "I am equally
happy to through these bandits a few coins and be on our way, or to
crack their skulls for the impertinence of their demand. Or even to side
with them to overthrow the Lei dynasty, of whom I have no love."

> The western nobleman pursued, even more insistant, to the Wizard.
> - "I need your advice. From your answer, we may well die or succeed,
> so ponder it well. If the Fellowship agrees to cooperate to this plan
> and especially our Dragonewt, what will happen if instead of subduing
> the officers of the Iron Fort, we speak openly to them of Lord Lei
> Tse's revolt, plot and ambitions ? If they agree to cooperate with us,
> it would be easy for us to pretend that they are subdued and while we
> feign to be successful, we let Lei Tse's battalion enters the Iron
> Fort. We bring Lei Tse's officers to the jails where the kralori
> officers should be standing and instead of victory, we serve them the
> kralori officers to take over them. Having studied the plans of the
> Iron Fort for months now, I've got the impression that the army,
> trapped within the Iron Fort without officers, would be easely
> vanquished by the kralori guards and us, especially if we negociate
> directly with the soldiers who generally don't like to fight for a
> lost cause.

"That is an extremely enticing offer. We would be treated well by the
Kralori, although with some suspicion. You must understand Lord Azhur,
these people are different to us - very different. Whilst we would look
at the righteousness of such subterfuge and understand why we broke an
agreement, they would see it the other way around. The breaking of an
agreement would mean we were untrustworthy - regardless of how righteous
our cause was."

>  Then we will have to get back to Lei Tabor to reduce Lord Lei Tse to
> his minimal level of malfeasance... and to rule after him, I need a
> political power and that why I was wondering about Yao Fune's Sect."

"Could the Yao Fune sect govern? Is that what you ask? Not a chance.
Again, these are different people. We are used to equality, and social
mobility. They are tied to their class for life and more. The Yao Fune
sect are merchants, farmers, craftsmen, labourers. They have no
knowledge or skill in government and the very concept would be alien to
them. Their ability would be.. well, they could stop everything if the
cause and leader was the one they selected."  

> - "All depend of course of the supposed cooperation from the Iron Fort
> Guards. I feel that kralori people will have a difficult time to
> believe a bunch of foreigners like us, even if we are telling them the
> pure and exact truth, but if Serendipitous Seeker accepts to speak for
> us, having observed the obdedience of the kralori to the Dragonnewts,
> then I feel that we will have in him a great asset and much better
> chance of success...

"This is true Lord Azhur, and I think you begin to understand. Even in
an act of apparent deception, a Dragonnewt's word would be accepted.
Something about the illusion of truth, I suppose."

"It does make me wonder though... Do Dragonnewts have spirits of
reprisal?"


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