>>5198481Lithobathius, the fat mage you infected with Irinnile’s essence, remains in-place among the Tower Guardians, defensive wing of the Hawksong Mages’ Tower. However, perhaps most valuable Tower asset, Inquisitor Felman, is… Unreachable, or unresponsive.
‘Is Incelman… Dead?’ Irinnile asks.
‘I don’t know,’ you snap, ‘is he?! This is your magic!’
‘Babe, I ain’t never done this before, either! It’s, like, as new to me as you, okay?!’
You try to force your way through this curious blockage, or to work out the cause… But you cannot. Whether he is dead, or unconscious, or protected from you, you cannot reach him. The worst case scenario rears its ugly head: could he have been found out, and freed of your influence? He knows so much about your operations, your identities, your methods, your associates…
No. NonononoNO!
You scan across this network, seeking out the last Tower agent in your ectoplasmic ‘employ’: the highly-placed Magus Auctor Federigo. When you find him, it raises further alarms… And questions.
“We’re just asking these questions of everyone, sir,” says a man in a pointed hat whom you do no recognize.
“Really?” your man-on-the-inside replies with some hostility, “you are asking every man and woman of The Tower why they ordered an evacuation? This seems like a very SPECIFIC and SPURIOUS question applicable only to me, young man!”
“Well… Similar questions,” the younger mage across from Puppet Federigo admits. “But you DID order an evacuation left key points undefended…”
“To save lives!” Federigo protests, under your influence most utterly. “We were under attack, as you may recall.”
“Yes, well, we’re just asking questions,” the man across from him assures him. “Now, do you have any idea where the Head Chimericist may be? Or the Inquisitor, Felman?”
‘They don’t know where Incelman’s gone, either?’ Irinnile murmurs. ‘Or what we done with Henzler?’
Felman’s fate may remain unknown, but something ahs clearly raised alarm bells in The Tower’s leadership. With the Magus Auctor under suspicion, Felman vanished… How much might they know, or suspect? How long will it be until they think to check your puppet here more deeply for demonic taint? What happens when or if they FIND it?
What do you do?
>Instruct Federigo to bluff the questioning mage with misinformation [such as?]>Have Federigo ask his own questions of the other mage [such as?]>Order Federigo to attack this questioner with magic, flee this place, and go to ground until you can reclaim him>Command Federigo to self-terminate before he is found out>Federigo can handle himself for now, and you fear tipping them off any sooner than necessary—change focus to another thrall>Open your eyes, abandon your thralls, and make with haste for the rendezvous point, even by daylight—there is no more time to waste!>Write-in 