>>5381505You send the assassin squad ahead, eld by the Thief in his Mask of Many faces—a gift from you, which affords him the truly-convincing ability to mimic an individual without the usual uncanny feeling of subtle wrongness that such specific mimicry can induce. Ideally, he would have assumed the identity of the ‘Regional Manager’ of this place… But that corporate leader found himself consumed by a fire elemental which you unleashed in a moment of desperation, and you have no reference for his features. The Thief instead adopts the form of an old dwarf who you keep prisoner—the so-called ‘Stonesniffer’, Kaizo. He is accompanied by the South-Merchant, and a Silkscale Infiltrator who you recruited on your lats visit to the northern forward base.
You frown. With the North-Merchant occupied, it is a small squad—much smaller than such squads in the past. But then, who else among your forces has the right frame to be disguised—even by magical amulets—as the small-and-stout dwarven-folk? Certainly no Serpent Priest or Steeltalon, not even a Dragonblooded One! Only the Potion of Diminution worked into your Amulet of Dragonshape made you entertain the idea that YOU could do this thing.
Then again… Perhaps kobolds, or Drow, or Suergar (albeit not the Trhoat-singer) could bolster their numbers?
>Let this small squad of three infiltrate alone>Assign some trusted kobold warriors Amulets of Disguise>Allow the Drow use of the (deliberately flawed) amulets which the Novice experimented in crafting them>Trust some of your Duergar dwarf-overseers to help infiltrate and usurp their former corporate coworkers[Write-ins are always allowed, unless explicitly stated otherwise, for those who don’t recall!]
