>>5526749“For now,” you say, “plan how we would stage a preemptive assault, if I seem it necessary to protect and preserve our place here.”
“The humans are soft-weak on surface,” one of the elder kobolds states, “but they hide a sharp blade. Sharp-DEADLY.”
“The Paladins,” the Thief agrees. “The humans I infiltrated mentioned they were sending at least one of them to investigate reports related to our activities… Now, with the ‘Green Knight ahs exposed us, they may even come with specific suspicions.”
“Then we will need to invent countermeasures for them,” you state.
“We have one,” the Novice says. “You.”
You’re a little surprised at her confidence in you… But she’s not wrong. It’s what you were born for.
“Forgive, Dragon King,” the elder kobold says again, “But one-single-one warrior cannot fight all the humans. Is why kobolds run-hit-hide. They have numbers, are many-strong, and have all kinds of magic and weapons.”
Your council debates back and forth what to do about the humans. A few promising ideas are pitched, but of these, one catches your attention above all others:
>Infiltration and subversion of Undershadow, the poorest and least-integrated barony, as an ally against the others>Experimenting further with Amulets of Disguise to hide the true nature of your forces—disguising them perhaps as Drow, or dwarves—so you can attack the humans without exposing your true nature just yet>Recruiting aid from your home base—and the Serpent Priesthood—to assemble an actual army>Simply avoiding direct attack, and focusing instead on defence; then, when the time is right, you can reveal yourself as the new Dragon king and let the fools march on YOU>Force the Engineer, newly cowed, to produce proper siege weapons to aid an all-out assault>Write-in[C]
