>>5391488As you wrap and bind the moon-sword, to hide it from covetous eyes, you make your final deliberations as to who shall accompany you. You hardly need a war party for such a mission, nor do you wish to take TOO many experts and thus leave your settlement’s leadership… INexpert.
But then, the good thing about having skilled and experienced mapmakers and merchants is that you don’t NEED to bring them, to bring their expertise! You have the Cartographer make a duplicate of his earlier map of the Underdark passages between your territory and Jazkarmel’s encampment, while the South-Merchant and Oluwadamilare work together to produce an elven-language version of the Geologist’s resource report (redacted, edited, and compiled in such a way as to frame the situation exactly as you desire). You may bring neither the merchant himself, nor the maker of the map, but you trust in their craft.
Olu the Archer is, as you’d previously noted, and obvious choice. In particular, if you are not bringing the Hunter (skilled archer and melee warrior that he is), some muscle is advisable, and your Archer has little in the way of administrative duties regardless.
You also bring Ivno, the kobold. You finally trust Agno enough to leave him ‘unsupervised’, satisfied that he will not incite a riot in your absence, and Ivno is the more level-headed and subservient of the pair and thus the better-suited to serve as an envoy of your ‘kobold council’ in these affairs.
And then there are the last two…
