From alt.pub.dragons-inn Wed Oct 19 08:45:13 1994 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:7815 Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!runner!dwomack From: dwomack@runner.utsa.edu (Alais Jones) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: [CIA] - Jones - Grays & BD are right! Date: 18 Oct 1994 14:11:21 GMT Organization: A nameless clandestine site Lines: 87 Distribution: world Message-ID: <380l29$4ma@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: runner.jpl.utsa.edu Originator: dwomack@runner > > Grays looks down from the cart where he was posturing emphatically > as the brother Graysson (Hmmm, he thinks to himself, I'm going to have to > memorise what my name and title is). > "I don't know..."he frowns,"We ought to start the subversion first,I think > first of all to get a general idea of the layout of the place, second to > give us reasonable cover identities, so that we at least have our roots in > the place before we make any moves. I mean several new arrivals in the town > may cause suspicion. It is certainly going to take a while to infiltrate > such a closed society as the church. Jones grins and says to Grays "Infiltration is relatively easy under the right conditions...which include unfilled vacancies. In a static scenario, such as this, you`re right, it is...challenging...to get a decent undercover operation going. However , this has been planned for. We'll want to find out who in the church has `dirty little secrets`...the usual stuff, like gambling debts; unusual...ahh...appetites...; an illicit love affair. Then, we blackmail where we can, and expose and discredit where we can't. The Church then becomes vulnerable...both for self appointed reformers, such as us, and 'new blood' to 'help' them in the light of all the.. unfortunate...problems. And, if all else fails...well, priests sometimes walk alone at night. Accidents can happen... > "Besides which if we take out Olaf now, what is to stop his idiot brother > from simply blaming us and then tossing us out(or taking us out in return.) > I think you are making a mistake to underestimate these people, they may > be backwards but they're not stupid. Some of them have been involved in court > intrigue since before the CIA even existed...reletively speaking." Jones looks at Grays with respect and said "Your point is excellent. No point letting the Duke have a free hand too early in the game!" > "Still none of them have any real training in subversion and tactics > So I suppose we have the advantage there, Although only you have the real > qualifications Jones." > Jones smiles and says simply "You're too kind!" > > > BD, with Bodger at his side, stomps over and adds his own two groats > to the conversation: > "I feel that our original plan is no longer viable, that is, that > Rathan murder the King. I'm afraid that these goblins seem to > indicate some presence malevolent towards us, and magical in nature. > And as Rathan would probably glow like a Christmas tree if someone > has a detect magic field on in the city, he would only alert them. I > feel Brother Graysson" (BD makes a rather quizzical grin with his > alarmingly long teeth)" has the right idea . . . subterfuge and > intrigue appear to be the order of the day - not flashy > transformations or 10d100 fireballs all over the place. I'm sure > brother Jones the Unprincipled would agree?" Jones smiles at the subtle compliment and says to BD "Indeed, we must allow for the possibility that we've been compromised. And, it's always easier to knife someone in the back, than fight them from the front. Anyway , I'd never disagree with a god! > > Just then Bodger, having wandered off to relieve the goblin corpses > of their belongings, suddenly swears out loud. "oh Sh*t!" He says, > looking at the body in front of him in dismay "I think we killed some > innocent guy when we stomped the goblins!" He moves aside a few > goblin-corpses, revealing a green-trench-coated figure, his red-hair > covering his face and a long-suitcase still clutched in his left > hand. He looks remarkably clean and well-dressed for someone who was > seconds earlier covered in disembowelled goblins. > "This mortal is not dead!" BD says, turning him over with his tail. > "He is merely in a coma." > "but what's he doing here?" asks Bodger, looking characteristically > confused. > "Who knows?" says BD in a draconic mutter "Strange things are afoot, > I think." > "I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me, > than a full frontal lobotomy." > > Jones says to Bodger "Why not search him, particularly his suitcase? If he's an enemy, I can give him an emergency tracheotomy ...and if he`s an innocent bystander, maybe he needs the same treatment. Frankly, he looks like he`s in the same line of work I am...but maybe on the other side...