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Gore Walker looked at the rough hand-drawn map, walking the land in his mind.
The largest Tower symbol, marked <span class="mu-s">11</span>, was the near-center of the map. This was the outpost of the stout soldiery, "Dwarves".
There were other , roughly following the trade road, facing the forests North; these were containment positions.
Triangles on squares represented villages; two together represented towns; crossed out meant destroyed.
Behind the line formed by the Towers, close by Towns, were enclosed (½)s, followed by (𐤲) or (ꕤ), often both, with numbers.
In the empty land between the forests and the Towers, and in some of the crossed out villages and towns, were a few ( }|{ ), sometimes accompanied by dates and numbers, or (‽).
The forests had many more ( }|{ ), drawn larger, undated; bigger numbers.
Some small 𐤲 and ꕤ in the forests, with dates, no numbers.
A Rhean shadow war was being fought under the whiskers of the Dwarves; they knew of it, yet kept abreast, committed to a superficial peace.
The point of the Rhean Underground was to make occupation untenable for the }|{, to force them into open counter-action, thereby forcing the Dwarves to commit themselves and act.
The question for Gore Walker was, where to place his ( )
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>Among the Dwarves; continue along the traderoad through the line of . Safest in terms of having the fewest active belligerents; most troublesome in having to contend with... bureaucrats.>Among the Rheas; reach out to the Underground of ½𐤲ꕤ, possibly obtain smuggle routes in exchange for... services>Among the }|{ ; their public image is poor at present, even if they have made successful occupation on most fronts. They should be happy to take in... public sympathisersnote: there will be opportunities later for anons who want to drive up the conflict
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>2D1000>1 vs Gui Li; DC 660>2 gen>>6109692>>6108595>>6108577>>6108563if I get 3 replies within 20hrs, I can get back to writan quickly.
Sorry for shortpost; need anons to chart course.
