Thomas frowned as he considered for a little while, and then spoke, musing a bit in his optimistic manner. "Well, there's a couple of groups as I see it.  The question is, do we want to support<em>anyone</em>right now?  I mean, there's the loyalists up north, and I bet if we could contact them they'd give a lot of support, but I don't know that it'd be feasible.  We<em>could</em>contact The Coins, but I heard that the head of the Thieves Guild is in charge there, and since we weren't paying dues to them...it could be bad.  But we could also buy weapons there.  Of course, any side but Cheliax would probably fund us against them.  Or we could try to find a couple of supply depots for any of them, and...help ourselves?  Whaddya think, boss?"