Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-19164168-20161229041106/@comment-25073873-20170101160143

Emilia shook her head and followed in with her relative, noting that nothing really changed about the mission. She had a faint inkling of what Iori would do, and she knew that required Iori to have an exact fix on the real target. If there was a decoy, she would be in a lot of problems.

"Now that you mention it, Elisa, they have a shapeshifter. We should let Iori rest first, until she can regain her ability. Once we have that, we can circumvent a lot of problems" noted Emilia, as if she read her relative's mind. In fact, her thoughts just paralleled Elisa's

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Iori decided to unpack and rent a few rooms. She called her original group in, careful to not ask Freya, Cecil or Laura to follow them. Pasting her runed papers to completely silence the room, destroy all magical listening devices and prevent any form of eavesdropping wasn't difficult, and would prevent anyone outside from even listening in, or seeing what happened inside.

Aeorin picked up the map that Iori drew on, examining it. His eyes widened, and he shook his head after a while. He knew what his sister would probably try, but he had a very bad feeling. Iori decided to break the ice first by pointing to her sketching on the map, saying "I'm going in alone, and I need all of you to help me. You see, at these ten points around the palace, you need to set down the three coins I will give you. Try to conceal them. I need them to set up an array. You all do not need to know what is done.

"Emilia is not here, but when she comes back, she and Aeorin will set up a portable wayshrine with my specially prepared papers I have allowed Aeorin to keep. They need to protect that wayshrine, and we need to find a safehouse for us to retreat to inside the array. All of you need to make sure the array is not found out by anyone. Try to covertly set it up."

"I have a seperate briefing for Cecil. Laura and Freya ... I don't trust them, but they can help you protect the wayshrine. Do not let them set up the array, I wouldn't trust them not to cross me" noted Iori as she left to look for Cecil seperately. He was only important for the first part of the plan, but he made the things a lot easier.

Aeorin sighed and said "That's really not good ... Iori intends to teleport in. She's definitely going to set up an array that cancels all magic within it, which will also revert all alteration and crush all illusions. Of course, this will mean she can find the real Victoria, since even face sculpting magic will be destroyed, and also that the palace cannot stop her with magical defences since all their runes will blow, all their traps disarm and all their power users lose power. However, it also means Iori is going to be trapped with Cecil without their powers after they move in. So question is, how the heck is Iori going to get out?"

(Iori's planning is all spot on. Don't get surprised when you see what she does, and why she needs 30 coins for ten points XD)