"You have done well, but with the target in place, your role has come to an end. Your gift will flower and activate the party favors. That girl will be removed from the board, ending the farce in the south, and the wretches of the Emerald Sea destabilized. Hail to the Twilight King, live in death, disciple."
Huh. So that's the excuse Renshu's been using, huh. Makes sense. The Lith tried to work with the WS first.
"No."
Her voice was a cold wind, sending the little candles lighting the room guttering out. It interrupted the frantic man's ranting, made his red face grow white as the temperature in the room plunged. Made frost spread across the slowly pulsing gray crystal.
"…What." said the voice in the crystal.
Renshu: *visible confusion*
"I said, no." Ling Qi said coolly, and her hand plunged into Yan Shenyi's back. She had felt it there, as it pulsed, the little knot of corruption throwing off its veil, so like she had experienced down in those tunnels. A ribcage wasn't exactly a vault, but what good was she if she couldn't improvise.
Ling "Anything Is A Vault If You Heist Enough" Qi
"What?!" the voice from the crystal, Yan Renshu's voice snarled.
Also Renshu: *traumatic flashbacks*
She cocked her head to the side, her eyes narrowing into viscous slits. "Have you ever considered that you're just not very good at security."
Xiulan would be so proud.
[ ] Descend down into the sewers yourself and seek to put an end to any continuing operations while the city awakens.
I think this works best. First of all, we're already in communication with them through Sixiang, so it's not like we're leaving the MoL out. We're clearly involving them. Also, this is a potential cult attack in potentia, as Six said. Stopping it before it can happen, and saving the lives of both civilians and cultivators will be good. We're already acting as a scout like we did at the Caldera, but this time instead of securing the starstone our secondary mission after relaying info is to stop the seeds and attack while the MoL work on a wider, more effective response. Plus People keep saying that we would walk in blindfolded, but I would like to remind them that we're still in contact with the MoL for info and that we can dreamwalk and search for the seeds by searching for rot in the dream. And we're going after stuff that can reach High Green/Cyan+ quickly. It's best to act now
Secondly, this will be a huge loss of face to the Sect. It'll help them recover it if we, a Sect member, stop any attacks that a traitor caused, it'll be really good for them. Plus, this is mostly their war in the first place. We already lost rep with them by going to Shenhua about the White Sky. I want to pick something that'll hopefully bring it back up. Either way, we're cooperating and working with the MoL here. We met with them. We used their plan. We're still in contact and sharing info with them. And I don't think the ruling clan will be angry. We're stopping something that could negatively impact them, so either way, we'd be helping them and they'll be indebted to us and Renxiang. Plus this is in Foundations and we have pretty good rep with the lower nobles (the stuff below Count) here already.
Edit: Plus, we don't know any failsafes they have. Reshu can set the party favours off early, either to complete his plan or to still fuck with LQ. And I highly doubt that the people who heavily believe in community (the Lith)) would trust Renshu, a traitor, fully, especially since this is all revenge. Thye might have more plans in motion than what they told Renshu, and Renshu would obviously not tell his cousin the full deal, so we can hopefully stop them before they begin. Remember, it's not just seeds , that can wait but the Ith themselves are down there (the rat-men)
