He gave a hand waggle as he kept eating quickly, like a soldier in a possible hot zone would, trying to finish the first small plate before it cooled off. "The major in charge of security, mostly internal, insinuated that there was a single person, but that might only be what he<em>knew</em>of.<br/><br/>Oh, right, sorry. Internal security is based about finding spies and traitors, external security is against actual attacks. I assume you already got a report from Sapphire? Which reminds me, where is she hiding? No, don't find her yet, I have a couple questions that I need to ask you and your boss through you, and her not being here will help somewhat.<br/><br/>The source is, according to what the major said and let drop, though he didn't intend to let me get out alive, and only my armor under an illusion of normal clothes caught his bullet. Though that he fired it through wood helped with that. If I hadn't been wearing that, the splinters as well as the shot would have ripped my stomach apart. He survived, mostly because I don't begrudge him the shot, he was only doing his job, though all he knows is an illusionary face and the name of Murphy. Long term goals are what I assume are the standard goals for the militarily inclined. Make themselves the head of an empire to last a thousand generations or whatever that usually fall apart into infighting once the leader dies. But their immediate goal is likely to get more people, however they can, so they can start boosting their army. I honestly doubt they are going to start spreading their production methods about after my stunt there, which was a secondary reason for why I did it how I did, but they will have to bring in outsiders to train in their valley."<br/><br/>He abruptly thought of something, and winced. "Also, they have to have a fairly serious coal mine in the mountains somewhere. Possibly more than one. The fastest way to handicap them is to ... well, its to start a fire in the coal mines. This will seriously piss off any druids that find out, since the fire will literally burn the earth, killing any plants above it, as well as likely going on until every last bit of the coal is consumed, and depending on where it is placed, the fumes coming from it might even force them to evacuate portions of the valley, as people start choking to death on carbon... on the various mol... Dammit, I knew there was a reason a bioenvironmental engineer tried to explain their job to the uninitiated, no offense meant. Basically, the coal fire is going to put out hazardous, toxic, and outright lethal vapors into the air, much like a magma vent might. In addition to the lethal vapors coming out, the burning of the ground under the various forests will also deprive them of their secondary fuel source, trees. Not something a champion of Bahamut would normally do, but I think we have gotten to the Godzilla threshold, where anything we do couldn't possibly make things any worse than they already are."