Chapter 1: Scene 6: The Royal Alchemist
Hunter stood when the elevator came down, and bowed when the advisor made his appearance. He followed the conversation closely.
"My Lord, Percival Gallagher at your service, but I go by the name of Hunter now. My Cousin, Sheldon Gallagher is a respectable merchant in town, he runs a caravan supply outfit among other ventures.
"My Lord, There is no plague. You are an alchemist. Quentin here is an alchemist. You have been advised that there is an alchemical substance that creates these giant rats, by applying it to regular rats; that there is an alchemical type of wildfire; and that this sickness is artificially induced and that therre exists an alchemical substance that is probably a cure."
"Now I ask you, Lord, what havoc you could wreak if, thus armed, you were lurking in the maze of sewers with thousands of rats available for instant soldiers. Guardsmen, adventurers, mercenaries could chase you all day every day and you have but to run and hide and create more rat soldiers. You could open a sewer entrance to let them run wild in the city above."
"I don't want to go down there, not like all the other attempts up to now. That's just playing there game, puts us in great danger and is likely to achieve nothing. We need to be smarter, Lord. What do we need to do? We need to find the alchemical supplies or manufacturing and destroy it. We need to take out the leadership, these alchemicalists. We need to find their base, their headquarters. You're completely right, "Who is masterminding this?" One hundred percent. But how do we find this person, by walking into a maze filled with instant enemies?"
[Private to Kai Wasser: I believe the previous player for Kai visited Ezekial and gained a lot of information on the Infernals.]
"One option might be to send a magically controlled rat or invisible entity to explore the sewers, and tell us where to go. If we dind a base down there or alchemical store, we attack it. Another option is to attack the leadership if it is based above ground. This infernal that the guards brought in, where does he say he is from? Where is he based in this city? Could a mage mark him and release him and see where he goes?"
"Also, my Lord, you haven't officially recruited us yet. You could send us against anywhere or anyone that you suspect is the headquarters, and if you're right then take the credit, if you're wrong you have no idea who we are or what we were doing and you certainly didn't authorize it."
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