>>5692670Eventually, the Kobold Regent and his forces claim victory—they seize the flag and return it to their base, where they hold it for a full minute against retaliatory assault. You call the match to an end, and offer congratulations to the victor.
“If you let me use the basilisk and fire lizards, or if the snakes and spiders were allowed to BITE…”
The Bastard sneers at the Throat-singer, and hisses: “Exxxcusesss, exxxcusesss.”
“You both performed admirably,” you say magnanimously. “And I ssee you’ve both learned from my lessons, and from your time at war. I know that Bloodrise isss in god handsss while I am gone.”
And so you leave these two—under your Serpent Queen’s imperious command—in charge of the mountains they worked so hard to claim. You place your trust in them, and prepare to depart once more for the world of humanity. With you travel your greatest martial champions: Olu the Archer, Azonia the Duelist.
(In truth, it’s no real contest if it came to conflict between them—Azonia could deflect your Archer’s arrows and gut him before he knew what happened, you suspect. Still Olu is a good friend and trustworthy steward. There is nobody you’d rather have at your side.)
In addition, you bring The Thief, who has infiltrated these lands as he has so many others, and knows them well, and the North-Merchant—the trader who ahs the most experience with the surface-mammals of the Northlands, as his title indicates.
There remains one more question, though…
What face will you wear?
>You and your retinue will all travel in disguise, wearing Amulets to mask your identities and to appear comfortingly ‘humanoid’>You will wear the guise of Long Wang, and Ekaterine shall wear her true face, and the rest may appear as they wish>You will all travel under banner of Bloodrise and in your true forms—let the humans see you s you really are, without the burden of deception!Is there anyone else you wish to bring?
>One or more wyrmlings [specify who]
>The Pit-guard’s Apprentice
>The Lightning Elemental
>The Occultist
>The Hunter
>The Translator
>your current party is fine as-is
[Other options are also viable, with the exceptions of your Regents, the Bugbear Boss, Hamaraska the Lancer (babysitting any sons you don’t bring), The Fleshweaver/Serpent Queen, and Glowie] 