IWUAaDNW: Party 5.8

None of this had to do with the problem Karjn and I had noticed though. Looking at Ulfric’s face, he knew what Karjn was talking about as well.

“The portal is noisy as fuck,” he grunted.

“That,” Karjn pointed at him. “It’s fine for the vaults because the walls are like miles deep and soundproofed, but for the tower… Taylor, could you show us what the target’s prison looks like? Include the guards.”

I did so, replacing my illusion with a cross-section of the tower-top room where the headmaster was locked in. At the only door in the room, I put in two bright red spheres. Then, to represent the problem, I had a tiny teal sphere––my pixie––bring a grey square to a purple sphere––the scroll and the headmaster, respectively––and had the grey sphere start to flash. The red guards immediately barged in and dragged the headmaster away.

“Oh dear,” Kamella muttered.

“We need to take out the guards somehow,” Karjn said. “Any way we can sneak a wand to the target so he can just wreck their shit when we open the portal?”

“That’s an option, or we could distract them somehow?” Kamella suggested.

“Can we replace the guards with trustworthy people?” Mariynn said.

“Or deaf ones?” Tyr snarked.

Ulfric grunted.

I had an idea, too. I showed them the hidden attic that existed above the headmaster’s cell, the one that my pixie had broken into before. Odds were good that the window was still broken, so getting back in there would be simple work.

I had my teal pixie pop the portal scroll in that room, then had the scroll start upit turn active. While it was activating, my pixie came down. The guards then came in and saw my pixie, assumed it was the source of the noise, then left. I had a big brown dot––Ulfric, in my head––pop into the attic, unfold the stairs once the guards wereare gone, and let the headmaster get through the portal.

“Two problems with that,” Karjn raised two fingers, “First, can the portal stay open that long? Second, what if they decide that it’s not your pixie, and decide to move the target?”

“I don’t think they’ll move him, not without requesting someone higher up on the conspiracy,” Tyr said. “If that’s the case, then one of them will move out, and the other will stay in to watch.”

“Then the big guy and I can go in and put him down real quick,” Karjn grinned with a hand on one of her daggers. Ulfric’s eyebrow rose at being suddenly included in her plans. “Doesn’t solve the first issue, though.”

“We can run a test?” Kamella suggested. “Open the portal somewhere and just wait until it collapses.”