furry_wolf2001b wrote:Perhaps as a diversion, but they are already backstabbing i think, so thats nothing new.
Security would be stepped up regardless.
I’m not sure that security would be increased by more personnel though. Either the different towers exchange information freely or they spy on each other all the time. If the latter is the case then a sudden increase in espionage activity, where the perpetrator appears to be internal and leaves no other clues to their identity, could lead to the opposite. An investigator would conclude that one of their rivals has a new way/device to circumvent security, or more likely that persons within the compromised tower are passing on the intelligence.
To combat that they would tighten their circle of trust, restrict movement and access, collect sensitive materials into defensible vaults and reduce the numbers of people allowed near those areas. Making everyone a suspect. Casting doubt, fear and mistrust everywhere.
Assuming Kyven can overcome the security measures with illusions, sneaking, observing and hiding, stealing access keys/amulets/devices and general cunning, collecting all the information together would reduce the number of places he’d have to search.
And an external threat may stop the internal fighting, nothing solidify a group as an external threat.
Most of the time that is..
This would be the second phase of Kyven’s infiltration. Planting evidence that the Arcan movement is legitimate or even that one of the other towers is behind it either to secure crystals or build an army for coup. Anything to cast doubt on
who to trust and delay action. They only need four months to complete the purchases.
It might even help later. Who would believe that “dumb” Arcans could build their own cities and armies? They
must be getting help. If the Loremasters suspect that they are being led into a trap set by one or more of the other towers they’re not going to want to commit all their forces and they’re going to bolt at the first sign of treachery, real or imagined.
What kyven needs is inventing a shaman spell for that sending paper messages machine, that way he dose not have to take the stuff with him.
Or his shaman illusions if good enough may take care of that perhaps, when they are more "real"..
Yes I agree. He’s already doing this at a simple level with his own planning documents and lists. He would need time to study the documents to recreate the illusion of them though. Alternatively, he could take and copy them then put them back somewhere else later. He might still need to take alchemical devices away to be studied or destroy some work on the Breach technology. It would also be difficult to hide more than a couple of Loremaster deaths.
As to illusions being more “real”, once Kyv can get to point where he can fool touch, taste and smell, as with his fur, then maybe his spells will become very
real. At least able to maintain themselves for a while.
Shaman, like Clover, can “concentrate” Spirit Energy into a solid representation i.e. mana crystals. Perhaps one of the two spells the Shadow Fox Spirit has yet to teach Kyven is a lesser version of this that allows an illusion to hold for a few minutes or hours after he has gone.