I don't think Kaine hates anyone enough to make widowmaker anything other than it is. Widowmaker is a trap. Kaine won't hate anyone who draws it because when you draw it Kaine now owns your ass. Regardless of who draws the sword it leads to murder and Khaine so very much loves murder.
It's considered very likely that servants or guards will enter the Tzar's bedroom every hour?
Stronger even than that, given the 4 other faces of "you succeed at stealth in towns/prepared lies/bragging about protecting people/ingratiating yourself with followers of Haletha and ???".
Yes. He is not just a noble, but the Tzar. There is a very real chance that someone enters his room a couple of times a night to make sure everything is as it should be. If the Tzar gets up in the middle of the night to use his chamber pot he expect to wake to a clean one.
I mean, we can cast mockery of death twice. If he has enough concubines in there for us to be at risk of miscasting from chaincasting, I'll be honestly impressed
Kings and Tzars are all too frequently about the prestige of things rather than the substance.I mean, we can cast mockery of death twice. If he has enough concubines in there for us to be at risk of miscasting from chaincasting, I'll be honestly impressed
Throw a sheet over the mirror. We are not trying to hide that an assassination is taking place. We are trying to not be fingered as the one doing the assassinating.
The problem is that a Lhamian isn't going to look like a vampire. They look like everyone else.
And fingering the vampires is a secondary goal. If we do this and get away clean then we have won. We should not sacrifice any effort to not get caught in an attempt to make the vampires easier to blame. K.I.S.S. The new Tzar can loudly blame the Lhamians even if no evidence is left to finger them.
Things like that seem beyond the vote's level of abstraction but, yes, I assume Mathilde will be sensible enough to disguise herself somehow.
I mean, where would we get a giant dragon sized monster bat costume at THIS hour discretely?
Unless he wants it, I doubt it. Stoking fires at night isn't done because it's a fire hazard. Other than that, why bother? It's a room with a sleeping guy in it that's well guarded (but not vs us, which he is incapable of doing because he doesn't want to deal with magic).
Literally we are going to do recon before hand as needed, per Boney. So we will determine how they behave, and Mathilde is quite capable of getting an hour alone with the Tzar who hasn't planned vs magic.
Why tho? It would be planting a bit of really obscure evidence that we are one of the rare people know is actually a thing. We can just stab the man while he's under our paralysis and be done with it.
Ice magic is very much a hammer. They assassinate people, but it tends to be "vanished into a sudden winter storm while hunting" rather than "knife in the dark that leaves no trace."
