Corco's Villa (IC)

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Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

Vassarious will ring the bell!

The glowing angel rings the Bell. A single deep clear note rings through the temple for several seconds.



Almost immediately, the mechanism in the door begins to crank, after about 10 seconds of turning gears, the turning stops with a click, and the doors are pushed open.



A small bald man in a toga with purple tassels is standing there.



"Greetings, Visitor. I am Gadialtus, chamberlain of the otherworld in the tomb of the Great Maximus. On behalf of my Emperor and his high Priest, I welcome you. Please excuse the Grand High Commandant: he is away from the temple complex on business. We have sent for the acting High Commandant."


"While we wait for him, can I serve you anything? would you like a chair?"



The commandant arrives, looks at the Glowing Angel, and says:


"Greeting, exalted one. I apologize, but we cannot lend the armies we have been accustomed to send. Your request comes at a very poor time for us. I do not wish to delay your errand any more."

Originally Posted by TGLS

OK, here's a rough sketch of a plan:
1) Read over the documentation for each of the new staff officers, however minimal.
2) Go undercover as a new staff officer, possibly having more false credentials created and maybe using Disguise.
3) Subtly ingratiate myself with any officers who I determined may be suspicious, thus putting myself in a position to passively surveil them.
4) Once I gather enough evidence, I turn them over for interrogation. Ideally, I'll get an opportunity to interrogate them myself.

The colonel readily agrees to the request, saying its the ideal moment for an insertion. He doesn't have more than two days for this, and he'd prefer it was only one.


Halcyone looks over the documents: this requires a Memetics roll, and tries to figure out who is a potential threat, and who is probably Ernest.



Halcyone is given a short set of false documents that are really close to her cover, and is inserted as a potential staff officer. They are all kept waiting in a room to be called to a short introductory interview.



As they sit there, they chat about their homes, about their units, and about the war. One young man regrets that he won't be able to shoot at the patricians anymore. Another reassures him that they're doing more good here, keeping all of the men well fed. Or at least better fed than otherwise. Which leads to complaints about army food.



At least two of the group of 21 make romantic passes at Halyone. One of them is in the "certainly not a traitor" category, and she quickly verifies that the other isn't as well. After the interviews are done, a colonel (not the first one) comes out and congratulates each of the staff officers on being chosen as capable young planners, says he will be their commanding officer for their training period. A short and restrictive list of rules about security is read off: essentially, staff officers are not to talk about their work at all, and are to be back in the barracks an hour after sundown. The Colonel assures them that with all of the work they have to do, they won't have much time to wander off anyways.



Halcyone tries to make good graces with the canidates who may be suspicious. Four of them she suspects aren't loyal to the cause, and could be flipped... but probably aren't current threats. One of them, one of the few other women... could be a current spy, or could just be the perfect staff officer. Halcyone can't tell yet. The potential spy doesn't warm up to Halcyone's attempts to be freindly, maintaining distance. The four potential sympathizers are a little easier to strike up a repoire with.



Will Halcyone focus on the potential sympathizers or the potential spy?