"It's incredibly beneficial to all potential Reclamation operatives that we have a deep cover agent right here in The Imperial City. The Queen graciously sipped her tea.<br/><br/>"I had thought The Empress dead because if she was being held against her will there is nearly no one who benefits from keeping her alive but not announcing that she is their captive. If keeping her off the throne is the goal they would just kill her. If the Imperial manse is still owned than she must be alive as you say.  That means whatever is happening with her in much more complex than I could guess.<br/><br/>The Omen and Brother and the Brother and Omen raised their voices in damnation of the dynasts and praise for The Queen.<br/>"Upon the final feast on Meru some, they came to see an atrocity! Some they came to display of power. Afterward they all wore veil to disguise what they had done.<br/><br/>(As servants. The unwashed. The unworthy. They become one with a greater mind and thus they are cleansed.)<br/><br/>Come on the heels of who serve no purpose to climb a ladder of dragons destitution! Behold the Swarm"<br/><br/>The Queen gave a slow nod in her sons direction and rubbed Andras's shoulder. The former Icewalker always preferred sitting on the floor. The red twins did the same as their size made sitting on chairs made for humans into a ridiculous thing.<br/><br/>"Disguising some of us as pilgrims would seem like a fine idea but the moment an Immaculate monk, or even a devoid soldier got to close to me it would be over. The petty trinkets of their false faith cannot bear my presence. Appropriate but not the least bit subtle. Sidereals and Immaculates are dangerous but so to are we. I believe it would be best for us to use the paranoia of the houses and the soldiers drive for glory to bring a large number of Dragonblood guardians away from mount Meru for a while. With security diminished we can split into two teams. One will head straight for the objective, the other will use guerilla tactics to distract and break them further."<br/><br/>The Queen enjoyed her conversation with Cyan. It had a cathartic element, being away from engineering spawn in Malfeas. The Subject of how or, even more importantly, where to concentrate her troop divestment and bureaucratic imbroglio was the real order of business. Though, she couldn't resist bragging about her Lunar's cock.<br/><br/>"His live and mine has survived imprisonment in time and space. The cult is devoted to his dick, so to speak, but his dick belongs to me. My wolf knows how important it is that I have the best material for birthing my hive as possible.  He devoted himself to me and his existence to making his cock and balls everything I could want and more. The cult assists in that, and it serves as a fun means of erotic entertainment for us. Right now my Wolf Spider's cock can't give me spawn with the echos of Lawgiver or Vizir power. It can't even give me Dragonblooded hivelings. I want those things so he had best get to work. Perhaps he can explain about the sacred cock that belongs to me, the one he has the honor of keeping between his strong thighs?" The Queen said, prompting Andras to talk about his role as a dick to a Queen.<br/><br/>"The various houses of dynastic families are distrustful of each other. I want to make them feel pressured to all send some of their troops from mount Meru north. On the surface it should be presented patriotic thing. Everyone showing the realm is united and full of faith that the chosen of the dragons will end The Anathema. That is merely my step one. At the same time I shall have several houses with many dynastic soldiers on Mount Meru recall some to defend their homes. The distrust between houses can play to our advantage here in a way we would never have been able to take advantage of if The Realm was united. One house sees another house consolidating manpower. Well that would be sen as vaguely threatening and thus the other houses would be be to do the same leser they be vulnerable to their rivals action. It's a simple circle of logic, house A is positioning defensively because they see house B doing it. House B is doing because house A is doing it. House C now thinks A and B may be planning against them so house C does it. Now House A and B wonder if house C is working with the other.  This could keep them occupied for so long they will still be doing it for weeks after we leave. The God of my Lovers phallus has been preparing the stage already with paperwork to antagonize and slow down their systems. That should have the beureacrats on edge already. For this part of the plan we need writing samples from upper management in the city that is key to the various factions. I assume you have examples on hand? I would very much like to begin."<br/><br/><br/><br/>OOC: Looks like a lot of bureaucratic skill comming up. You could even make this the "real" battle as opposed to much happening on Mt Meru. Mass social combat is one of the more arcane systems. If you want to go that route though you might create 2-3 organizations and their leaders for us to manipulate and "defeat" . Or you could simplify it with us just making a few rolls and going through the motions. Six grains has been chipping at the targets for a while, especially to make it hard for them to pinpoint a source<br/><br/>Combat of any sort takes a lot of time in PBP. It would be great if during combat we could play 30 mins or so in live chat which will share real world weeks off the length. There is also the question of how much you want on screen. Beureacracy works well off screen.<br/>