>>5366941Then again, it would mesh well with the false-flag stratagem you had been toying with. The draw of Davora and a few select females pleading for aid would draw important members of this corporate outpost to one place… Where you could then surround them, cut them off, and use their blood to forge disguises and their clout among their kin to embroil the Blackmantle Corporation in an attack on their neighbours. Your own forces could attack another clan while they are thus busy, and you would have everything and everyone you need to make it look as if the order came from the very top of the local corporate hierarchy! However, if you were to execute such a gambit, and this WAS an earnest effort at cooperation by the Herbalist… Well, you would surely lose her trust and respect forever.
“Please,” Davora petitions you, lowering to her knees—a posture which brings back pleasant memories—and bowing her head so her braid ‘beard’ brushes against the floor. “Please, sir? Trust me?”
What do you do?
>Place your trust in Davora’s plan, to sedate and lure out the dwarves for easy capture>Pretend to accept Davora’s plan, but kill the Blackmantle leaders and send a disguised assassin squad to stage a false-flag attack anyway>Reject this plan—keep the Herbalist and the others here, and handle this with the same broad strategy which worked so well at conquering the first fort>Mock this dwarf and punish her for trying to play upon your feelings and plotting against you—she can’t seriously think you’d buy this? [-affection]>Write-in 