We don't have a gun anymore, nor shadow knives. We might want to spend some gold on a gun while in Altdorf.
It aint a dwarven one, but we are unlikely to get one till we meet them again.
Zhufbar does border Stirland, and with Shadowsteed + our mastery of said that's really all we need. Runic items require DF, but dwarven craftsmanship is generally available to those as can pay. Picking up a revolver or two would absolutely be worthwhile IMO, if we can get the money. So that's a good catch.
1) There's only Algard and us in the room. Plenty of plausible deniability left. We are both professionals and know when to keep quiet.
2) The future is not set in stone. Who knows what the empress will whisper in the emperor's ear in this timeline.
3) Regimand does not have his list to the same degree as he had it back in DL, because he had more time to assemble it. IIRC we were never told it, we only know Abel's list and whatever we got from that one Dame we killed in her bed.
4) We did try to trust Regimand here as well, it's not our fault he didn't listen. Or rather didn't even allow us to speak quite literally.
I wanted to respond to this since I realized I didn't ever get to it before.
1. While the definition of "plausible deniability" can vary, AFAIK the version most often used in the intelligence community is withholding information from superiors so that if necessary they can honestly testify that they never knew about the [whatever] in question, and that's the definition I was using. Especially since this is a setting where magical means to tell if someone's lying are IIRC not unheard of.
2. ...Huh? Literally huh? I genuinely don't even know what you're trying to say here. Because it
feels like you're trying to suggest we might want to keep someone who's been conspiring with vampires as the Empress, but that can't be right, can it?
3. ...So? We don't currently have a reason to think this has somehow become more urgent than it was before. And giving Regimand Abel's list wouldn't just give him more info, it would give him a
lot of leads to follow up on. This would absolutely be enough to kick things into overdrive already, and honestly I'm not sure what you expect Algard to do that's better than "I'll assign a trusted Magister who's already fully briefed and actually already working on this to work on it, along with all his allies and professional contacts."
4. I'm not sure it's really his fault, either. From his perspective he thought, not without reason, that we were very likely an impostor who had taken his apprentice's place. Meaning that we were either the captor or the
murderer of the "real Mathilde." Remember how he was looking at us with a mix of hate and concern? That wasn't because he has some secret problem with his apprentice. It's the expression of someone out of their mind with worry over their surrogate daughter and hoping against all their professional instincts that she's still alive somewhere. Repaying him with what I honestly can't see as anything other than a betrayal truly sticks in my throat.
since we probably won't be seeing much College Favor from the top secret Skaven papers that even our way of discovering has to be top secret.
