I suppose that I've added enough points to the map tonight, so here is the next part of Warthog's day.
Warthog looked up from his notes on RAWR. Thinking about Dwarven Vodka, Warthog decided to take a break. After all, if he wanted to do a good job recording important people, he needed information, right? His spies seemed to be doing a poor job. Maybe (hopefully) they were just being thorough or careful, but it was irrelevant. Until he knew lots about his subjects, there was no reason to keep writing. Warthog wondered if that cute herbalist, Deler Echolance would be around. As Warthog moved to leave the conference room that he had taken for an office, the sniper Zak stood to attention., right outside the door.
The spy began his report, “As per orders, I attempted to covertly gather information on the other snipers, Snoopicus, Mirza, and Foxtrot.”
Warthog interrupted, “Do they know if you are here now? And come into my office before someone sees you! We ARE right underneath the barracks you know. Where is your squad now?”
“Snoopicus is off taking a nap and Mirza is sampling crumpets. Something about new traveling rations I think. I’m not sure where Foxtrot is though.”
A set of footfalls is heard coming down the stairs, the conspirators looked up, Warthog motions for Zak to hide behind the -green glass statute-. Foxtrot goes into the office, quietly closes the door behind him, locks it, sits down, and says, “Okay Warthog, I completed my mission. I spied on Commander Atis to ascertain his abilities. I also looked in on the new champion, Razor. I successfully checked out the sniper Zak as well.”
Zak burst out from his cover. A startled Foxtrot raised his weapon slightly and heard, “Warthog, I thought that you were ordering me to spy on Foxtrot? What treachery is this?!”
“Of course I did. As I told you both, Zulban ordered me to rewrite all of our personnel records. However, I could not trust any of you while I was doing it. You are all so flip-begotten modest sometimes. We need ACURATE portrayals of your skill to be useful. The only way to gather this information is without the . . . gatheree? Errrrr . . . You, to know it. Therefore, I asked you guys to spy. This way, I could ascertain both everyone’s abilities and your own covertness. Both of you, have a seat. Foxtrot will make his report first, so that I can write notes on the Champions in their proper order.”
The debriefing session would have began, but at that moment, a loud knock was heard at the door. “Warthog, this is Mirza on urgent business. Permission to come in sir?”
“Oh, come in Mirza. We would have probably been talking about in a couple of minutes, you know.”
“What are you two doing in here? I know that, due to the lack of practice bolts, we haven’t been doing much, but you two should be finding useful things to do! Zak, I can see you being lazy but Foxtrot too? I need some root beer . . .”
“The urgent business?”
“Oh yeah, Rawr received this from Steelcrystal. The defender had apparently gotten it from Kirkost, who was busy attending a party when she was given it by the jeweler, Sodel Chanelednarrow. He had apparently received it from a peasant on his way to bed. The random zefie seemed to have been given it from one of the newly arrived nobles and told ‘give this to someone.’ Rawr opened it and deemed it highest priority to you. I haven’t read it yet; here you are, sir.”
Warthog read the dispatch for a couple of seconds and exclaimed, “What the hell?! More mandates? Electrum shit we can do, but THREE pig iron items?! We have to see Zulban about this. You three, come with me. Wait, Mirza, come with me. Foxtrot, get RAWR and meet us in Zulban’s office. Zak, get Atis. After that, wake Snoopicus up. We’ll have to do for now. MOVE OUT!”
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