Cons: if the bad guys don't bite and instead wait and bid their time, Mathy will have egg on her face and people might not belive her.
While it doesn't seem to be a major consideration, this may not actually be true
IIRC we currently have the Protector face equipped whose exact wording is: "
The Protector: When you act in a way that defends an individual or group from a danger that you did not cause, they will become aware of what you have done and will believe you acted selflessly in doing so."
And from the Dwarven boat rescue the the coin's effect extended to granting the Dwarves a vague understanding of the level of personal risk we took to save them, even though they weren't aware of the specifics of miscasts
As we are indeed acting to defend a group from danger we did not cause, the Dwarves will be aware of it
Even in the hypothetical (and very unlikely) scenario that the trap never springs due to us sounding the alarm and the perpetrator backing off, they would still be backing off due to our actions, ergo we would have defended them from a danger that would otherwise have occurred
I initially read Stand Your Ground as staying and poking it, but it isn't.
So, as Exemplarius isn't exactly bursting his way out of the mountainside to murder us at the moment, I'd rather bluff until we are close to the one we brought specifically for this kind of weight class issue and talk it out.
[X] Act normal
What?
No you're mistaken, Stand Your Ground
is the poke it option
Mathilde is going to call for backup, then if the mountainside hasn't done anything visible by the time they get here she's going to have them back her up while she pokes and prods until she gets to the bottom of this
She won't focus on investigating until everyone else gets there, because trying to see what's going on through that much stone (which is, after all, an excellent insulator) would take all her attention and would mean she won't be able to react as quickly if it starts doing something.
[X] Act normal
I'm not confidant in saying this expedition is prepared to tackle whatever this problem is. We should go back, and talk this out with the rest of the leadership and send some kind of message to Belegor. Or just keep in on the back burner until we get back. A couple of months to a few years might not make that big of difference with what's going on, and I'd rather come back here with an army to deal with this if we could.
Or it could be narrative casualty and we can interfere with what's going on with what we have on hand. But if that's the case, I'd still rather be doing this after talking to the other leaders of the expedition. Because we shouldn't forget that this isn't our expedition to solve this issue with Karak Vlag, and it would be rather embarrassing if we didn't even make it to the chaos wastes before being eaten by chaos gribbles.
Putting this off doesn't seem to be on the table
The information being given is that whatever this is, it's targetting the expedition
You can vote to act normal and go back, but the expedition
is going to tackle this either way, we're just picking how we're going about this
There is no "Put this off and forget about it option", if you want one then you'll have to write it in
Of course you can try to say that BoneyM's just trying to mislead us I suppose, but that's down the rabbit hole of paranoid supposition
Mathilde believes quite strongly that this is a hostile threat to the expedition, ergo treat it as if it is until otherwise proven
I can't dig through all of the comments right now, but has it been suggested that maybe we aren't the target? If we aren't the target for whatever is going on here, would it be worth the risk to what is clearly a long term plan to mess with us? I would think we should try to minimize the value of interfering with the expedition and then quickly move on.
See above
[x] Stand your ground
