Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Plane of Water Ambassadorial Mission #1
-[X] Go out to try to address the crowd
--[X] After using what social buffs she has access to (via her own spells or spell scrolls), Hermetia will ask the crowd for patience, and to allow her to speak to them for a moment. She will assure them that the Imperium is making no special effort to convince young Tritons to immigrate to the Plane of Balance. She will also remind those present that many of their children, if they are anything like Humans, will be all the more likely to rebel against their parents if they are seen to be too strongly against their actions.
-[X] Investigate who might be behind the protests
--[X] As part of the investigation, send a priority request to the House of Mirrors and the Inquisition for assistance.
--[X] Hermetia will also contact Breath Taker for advice on dealing with the Tritons. If someone is manipulating them, he may be able to provide valuable insight into their culture on the Plane of Water.
---[X] Hermetia's bodyguards and the embassy staff will be on high alert for any potential assassins who might use the opportunity to take a direct shot at our representative.
---[X] Reminder: Hermetia is at this point now authorized to lean on the Crown's resources in the pursuit of her objectives in Vialesk and its environs, besides the Inquisition and House of Mirrors. What the Commissariat in Sorcerer's Deep suggests is what comes standard to many provinces when their presence is requested to deal with a problem of a nature which cannot be solved by purging it with fire, spell and blade: Information.
----[X] Hermetia will spend as much as required to get a chain of informants set up, taking special pains to ensure she is not violating any local laws with regards to the nature of their employment. It should be relatively safe however to hire the local water mephits or other denizens to report gossip and linger in places where they could track movements of people, and likely as not everyone who is interested in brokerage of information likely has done the same to those beings who aren't suited to earning a living more effectively for amount of energy and skill invested versus the profit.
-----[X] She will maneuver socially for as much as her involvement as possible rather than in a clandestine fashion. If we need to take less than legal action to respond to such in kind, we will employ Companion-grade agents to take care of it at some point. Ideally she would try to deal with this problem if at all possible through negotiation with the parties interested in tarnishing our good name, or if it is clear they are provateurs set in their path by a darker power, to expose it to the city's authorities.
------[X] If Hermetia is able to take overt action in Vialesk with what and who she has on hand right now, she will do so as it falls within her remit, essentially. Priority is of course compliance with the city's authorities.
-------[X] Speaking of the City's Authorities, seeing as how we are now facing diplomatic issues, one of the largest vectors for solving this issue and allowing Vialesk to keep its new trading partner and prospective military ally would be to politely ask them to use some of their own resources to assist us. We don't technically have to do everything ourselves if it isn't just us who benefits from it, it's just a bit of give and take.
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