<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=283008.msg14609666#msg14609666">Quote from: Zaer Darkwail on 05-01-2019, 08:54:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Waiting still check on things but if need refill I will post in players wanted and take around 2-4 people in (depending on absence).<br/><br/>Can still sip tea until shit hits fan and then ambush Malcanthet (both to get whip from her and kill her get the throne).<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Honestly? I think I can have it both ways. Instead of going to cavort with Grazzt, let Echidna and brood go ahead of scedual a bit to negotiate with Malcanthet. Occupy their Queen with ours. It will decrease the odds of the greatest threat, a direct Apperance from Malcanthet. You'll get more time, I'll get to play in the castle.<br/><br/>It, of course, goes without saying that while Echidna hopes you all achieve victory as she does consider you her primary allies she wants insurance against your potential failure. If you were to all meet an untimely end then it seems her overtures of vassalage were sincere from the begining. I believe it's her trying what tv tropes calls a xanatos gambit. Creating a situation where success or failure still results in victory.<br/><br/>Were all players though so oocly that outcome is both unlikely and less acceptable.