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>2 SUCCESS: Local Assets. In addition to fully briefing you, Sir de Ferros also offers his own opinion on the veracity of the intel on each point. The Reginate has at least a few assets that can be relied on whilst in the foreign city, but it will be an uphill battle calling upon them for anything not strongly linked to Reginate interests. Gain +10DC, +1 Re-Roll to following Counter-Intrigue.
> 3 SUCCESS: Failsafe. In addition to a relatively secure and low-risk intermediary system, you have a plan in place even if the worst should happen and you are exposed whilst in hostile territory. It is messy, it is dangerous and it will evolve over the course of your time there. But it’s that or the inside of a Crescent Palace dungeon. I’m going to leave the exact nature of this failsafe up to anons to ponder once in Cathagi proper. Or, perhaps it really will be ‘Angel will take care of it’ chad no-plan energy.
Sir Cato de Ferros, in tandem and entrusted by Sir Robert Gilbern, is no rank amateur. They have done the legwork of putting this system of intermediaries and protocols into place, it is difficult to fault their work given your own lack of experience. While by no means extensive, and somewhat telling that the Reginate has few important connections in that foreign realm, it does appear in your assessment to be relatively innocuous and secure.
Sir de Ferros confesses that much of the intel he is about to disclose is gleaned in debriefs from other Cantônians returning from the country on their own business, being anyone from sailors to pilgrims to even a few ex-members of the Dragon Guard. Such ‘debriefings’ were typically done innocuously, with very little in the way of active information gathering. The importance of your position so close to the seat of power in Cathagi cannot be understand, and Sir de Ferros makes it clear that they will expend other contacts and assets to maintain your cover if absolutely required. Emergency code-words are exchanged, points of contact and certain persons disclosed. No means of clandestine communication is foolproof, but for it to be compromised would require several links in the chain of contact being separately identified and taken for questioning at the same time. One identified contact might betray the link prior and subsequent to them in the chain under torture or bribe, but the network would in all likelihood be shut down relatively quickly once certain check-ins were not adhered to before that chain could be followed back to the main parties.
Sir de Ferros advises that there are, if sorely needed, certain assets in place and long-standing contingencies that can be exercised. He stresses that these should only be called upon if the realm is at some direct threat, and will have to be expressly authorised by himself or Sir Gilbern with the appropriate code-phrase. Otherwise, you are there primarily as a passive observer and not an active agent.
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