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[Detoxicated]

How long will this meeting be? If it goes over the course of some days we could try to find out who is who, and then slay the most righteous. Afterwards in the chaos of the situation we can usurp some of the priests minds to our cause. Also we should find out who is the pre-broken priest so we can gain insight why he is pre-broken and possibly recruit him or find his demon overlord.

[NUKE9.13]

Also we should find out who is the pre-broken priest so we can gain insight why he is pre-broken and possibly recruit him or find his demon overlord.

It's the one you yourself broke earlier in this update. You sent him back to report that all is well in Fellshore.

[Egan_BW]

Enter in the form of Smoke while our companions converse and distract. Start secretly invading their minds, one at a time. The goal is to subvert all of them, but partial success is better than wasting all our power and getting banished by a bunch of priests.

Also, give our Wordbearer a name, so we can stop calling her Female Wordbearer.

[Dustan Hache]

Also, give our Wordbearer a name, so we can stop calling her Female Wordbearer.

Why not just ask them what their name is/was?

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Also, give our Wordbearer a name, so we can stop calling her Female Wordbearer.

Why not just ask them what their name is/was?

We may need to evil it up a little.

[Xantalos]

On the topic of a name for the wordbearer: she'll have earned a new one if we succeed in this mission, perhaps?

[Dustan Hache]

Also, give our Wordbearer a name, so we can stop calling her Female Wordbearer.

Why not just ask them what their name is/was?

We may need to evil it up a little.

at least ASK before you start re-naming people! it's rude otherwise!

[VoidSlayer]

Why not go around to the townspeople instead.  Convince them that the priests are gathering to do something terrible so they need to be attacked.

Lets say that the priests think the town is unclean and they are waiting for an inquisitorial army to wipe out the town.  When they are confronted have our own priest break down and confess that it is true.

Town kills some priests, starts a conflict and such.  All from the shadows.

[S34N1C]

Why not go around to the townspeople instead.  Convince them that the priests are gathering to do something terrible so they need to be attacked.

Lets say that the priests think the town is unclean and they are waiting for an inquisitorial army to wipe out the town.  When they are confronted have our own priest break down and confess that it is true.

Town kills some priests, starts a conflict and such.  All from the shadows.

Ooooh I like this plan

[Comatose]

I don't think that we should name the Wordbearer. We should care about our minions who have significant power, connections, or ambition. This Wordbearer has displayed none of these attributes. With a mental and physical power of 2, and belonging to a very rural village, she is neither powerful nor connected. She has also shown very little initiative to spread our influence. For OOC reasons, I don't want us to get bogged down in naming insignificant followers, especially when there is more pressing concerns. (The priests!)

To deal with the priests, there seems to be 3 plans. (In approx. order of popularity) Vote now, or forever hold your peace!

Spoiler: Infiltration Plan (click to show/hide)

The gathering of priests awaits within. You have your own broken priest, your female Wordbearer, and one pre-broken priest inside. Clearly this requires a careful approach. It is time to
-Sneak into the temple whilst your minions distract the occupants, and secretly sabotage the meeting.
-Enter the temple in your priestly disguise, and break the minds of the priests one by one.

I propose a combination of these two options. We have our mind-broken priest enter the conclave first, and attract lots of attention by saying things like "I have discovered enlightenment" or "Visions from Jilganheim!" Then we unassumedly join the other preists, carefully masking our evil aura. Our mind-slave will then begin telling them of the New Way, and our pre-broken plant will be receptive to his message. We, as befitting our totally priestly office, will be a vocal opponent of his preaching. While everyone is distracted by the heretical message of our mind-slave and is debating about it, we will be systematically mind breaking each priest one by one.

If all goes according to plan, we will have corrupted the spiritual establishment of the region, and the priests can return to their congregations, slowly subverting their communities to the New Way. If we are discovered before we can enslave most of the priests, we can "go loud" and violently murder them all. Either result will significantly weaken the morality of the region. It is very unlikely that the priests were prepared for the immediate appearence of a demon, so we'll be largely safe from any sealing magics.

+1 If it doesn't work out, do the luring them out into the woods thing. If it's partially successful, have on of the broken priests find the "site"

+1, good plan. Let's have the Female Sacred Wordbearer on standby outside of the temple, incase things go south.

Spoiler: Rabble-Rousing Plan (click to show/hide)

Why not go around to the townspeople instead.  Convince them that the priests are gathering to do something terrible so they need to be attacked.

Lets say that the priests think the town is unclean and they are waiting for an inquisitorial army to wipe out the town.  When they are confronted have our own priest break down and confess that it is true.

Town kills some priests, starts a conflict and such.  All from the shadows.

Ooooh I like this plan

Spoiler: Lure Plan (click to show/hide)

How about we draw them out of the city, into the woods - and slaughter them there with impunity?
Give our priest the instruction, that he (or rather, some hunters which brought it to his attention) has found something suspicious in the woods, a site where a dark ritual took place. Though he doubts if it was demonic in nature, it doesn't look like the work of only a few individuals to him. He isn't able to interpet all of the runes - carved into surrounding trees, painted on the circle-arranged stones, and even laid out in animal bones, nor the function of this ritual. He'd very much like to have others take a look at it. Second opinions and all that.
This, gives them an opinion they all would like to have - the problem, is most likely from witches, and they are plotting something. Which means they can thwart evil, and finally get rid of those black-magic pests. As for the site itself? It's deep in the woods, and non-existant.

[Detoxicated]

I vote Rabble Rousing!

[NRDL]

+1 to rabble rousing, seems like least amount of power expenditure for greatest possible gain.

[killerhellhound]

+1 to rabble rousing

as long as we are careful in not being personally exposed, if everything goes tits up we can try one of the other plans.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

+1 to rabble rousing

[Xantalos]

Hmm. If we do that, though, where do we want to go from there? I was thinking of essentially subverting the priesthood of the whole kingdom or whatever we're in and using our minions to subvert the masses en mass, but if any of you have any alternative long-term plans I'm game to hear them.