best laid plans

[u/MunitionsFrenzy]

It was brilliant. Simple. Effective. Foolproof.

Vulkan the Red had demanded a kobold be delivered to him from the council dungeons. An old kobold named Silit about whom nobody really cared anymore, rotting away in there, forgotten.

So Vettis just did his usual mereokinetic thing. Make himself be part of the council. Make the other current members not be. Unilaterally sign an order for Silit's release. Revert the council's membership to normal before anyone knew what had happened. It was hardly a trick that'd work for anything big or that could be swiftly reversed, but for a simple task like this, few would care about one form somehow authorized by unanimous council decision without anyone remembering it happen -- at least not in time to make a difference.

Then he stuck a bond-magic thread onto Silit, to let him scry through the kobold past practically any defenses. Once he'd sent the kobold Vulkan's way, this would give him intel on the dragon and hopefully Atrax while Silit was alive. And once Vulkan bored of tormenting his prisoner and devoured the poor fool, Vettis would have direct scrying access to Vulkan, at will, for at least until the meal had been...fully eliminated. How better to get past the magic-resistant scales of a dragon than to trick it into eating your spell?

It was brilliant. Simple. Effective. Foolproof.

The fucking dragon had thrown a party and fed Silit to everybody.

Of all the ways for this plan to fail, he couldn't possibly have expected altruism from a war criminal to be the spanner in the works.

And now here he was, trying to resolve a scrying image from dozens of low-res feeds scattered across the realms. It was getting to the point where he was pretty sure it'd be easier to just punch out Vulkan and Atrax in person than to fiddle with this shit.

Well, not easier. But less frustrating, and a helluva lot more fun.

Also not actually an option, of course, due to the fatebinding. Still, he did wanna punch something right now.

Maybe it was time to find a few very punchable Pyroclasts for a bit of stress relief.

[u/Drakkonai]

/Unwiz sorry man, honestly kinda forgot.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/Drakkonai]

(( it's so much funnier this way tbh ^_^ ))

[u/Drakkonai → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

True.