19:09 bookworm is now known as Victor
19:10 Arkan is now known as Greystone
19:11 Skid is now known as Gromit
19:11 Moontide is now known as Ookook
19:12 Jeremiah is now known as Alan
19:12 <Tikvah_GMing>: Alright, it is the morning of the third day since you set off on this mission.
19:13 <Gromit>: Are we going back to the rest of us? Or finishing up with Greystone?
19:14 <Tikvah_GMing>: Greystone, are there any quick actions you would like to do before the team sets out?
19:14 <Gromit>: Or if he wants to sneak out during the night?
19:14 <Tikvah_GMing>: Or that.
19:15 <Greystone>: ...
19:15 <Greystone>: Uh.
19:16 <Greystone>: I would be open to suggestions
19:16 <Alan>: Sneak into the Count's office =D
19:16 <Greystone>: Greystone would not think of that.
19:19 <Greystone>: I'm also eating dinner.
19:19 <Greystone>: And cooking a second dinner.
19:19 <Tikvah_GMing>: Is there anything you guys at the village want to do while Greystone is thinking?
19:20 Victor is probably drinking a lot
19:20 <Victor>: Rephrase: drinking frequently
19:20 <Victor>: Not to get drunk, just sullenly in disheartened disgust at the situation he's in
19:20 <Tikvah_GMing>: Don't drink too much, or I'll have to give you a "drunk" debuff.
19:21 <Ookook>: We should prepare to be attacked.
19:21 <Ookook>: But in a plausibly deniable way.
19:21 <Gromit>: I'm pondering how to ambush anyone who's sent after us.
19:22 <Ookook>: We could lay land mines around the village.
19:22 <Gromit>: Let's not do that.
19:22 <Ookook>: Or we could poison the forest around. Then if we don't need it, the unicorn will unpoison it for us.
19:23 <Victor>: At some point I gather the others.
19:23 <Victor>: "Did we ever actually discuss our response to the third possibility?"
19:23 <Victor>: "That Greystone doesn't return alone."
19:24 <Gromit>: "Not all that different from him arriving with bad news and bad guys arriving afterwards."
19:25 <Victor>: "It could be."
19:25 <Victor>: "If they're here to grab the kid because we didn't, then yes."
19:26 <Victor>: "But if they come to relay some other message, it gets complicated."
19:26 <Victor>: "We can't know their true motives for certain."
19:27 <Gromit>: "Main thing is to keep them split up as much as possible, while keeping us together."
19:27 <Victor>: "You mean to fight?"
19:28 <Gromit>: "If it suddenly comes to that, yes."
19:28 <Victor>: "But what if it appears we shouldn't fight?"
19:28 <Gromit>: "Then we pump them for all the information we can get."
19:29 <Victor>: "If they claim to come to clear the misunderstanding or something."
19:29 <Ookook>: We could just grab the kid and flee if the attacking army is too large.
19:33 <Ookook>: (Does this cover all the discussion we need to do? Can we get back to Greystone now?)
19:33 <Gromit>: Yup.
19:33 <Tikvah_GMing>: Greystone, are you ready?
19:34 <Greystone>: I am thinking through senerios, and it seems like it will almost certainly come down to if we choose to trust Drindall.
19:34 <Tikvah_GMing>: Well, you don't have much time. It's up to you.
19:35 <Greystone>: I suppose I'm stuck with the ten guys.
19:36 <Tikvah_GMing>: Alright, are you ready to leave?
19:36 <Greystone>: There, second dinner finished.
19:36 <Gromit>: I think since he ordered an attack on the capital that appears to have resulted in the loss of the nation, we probably should treat him as a traitor.
19:37 <Greystone>: No chance of popping in on Drindall real quick I assume.
19:37 <Tikvah_GMing>: No.
19:37 <Greystone>: I still have no idea what happened there.
19:37 <Alan>: I think we need to go talk to the former king
19:38 <Greystone>: So am I *in charge* of the detachment?
19:38 <Gromit>: Now there's a chance to go wildly off the rails.
19:38 <Tikvah_GMing>: The squad that gathers in the morning is headed by Captain Oddmund.
19:39 <Tikvah_GMing>: So no, you are not in charge.
19:39 <Greystone>: !
19:40 <Greystone>: Oddmund's coming. :O
19:40 <Greystone>: Oh, there is one thing.
19:40 <Greystone>: Who has that piece of paper?
19:40 <Tikvah_GMing>: Which one?
19:42 <Greystone>: You remember, the one we took off that guy during that confusing mission that we couldn't read.
19:42 <Victor>: I do
19:42 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oh. That one.
19:42 <Ookook>: Maybe Oddmund is coming to get it because it is a high value message or something.
19:43 <Victor>: No one else knows about it
19:43 <Ookook>: true
19:44 <Greystone>: If it is in Greystone's pocket rather than anyone else's, then the alchemist or SOMEBODY might be able to read it.
19:44 <Ookook>: It is in Victor's though
19:45 <Greystone>: It could provide some very clarifying information. Or not.
19:46 <Victor>: I know, I've been trying to find a way to read it
19:46 <Victor>: OH
19:46 <Victor>: That's what I was trying to remember to do here
19:46 <Victor>: Does this city have a library?
19:46 <Tikvah_GMing>: This village does not.
19:47 <Victor>: Of course not
19:47 <Greystone>: It's a town, so probably not. A scholar maybe, with luck.
19:47 <Greystone>: Or a sage, or well-traveled merchant.
19:48 <Greystone>: Wait, the unicorn could read it.
19:48 <Greystone>: Operative word, "could."
19:48 <Ookook>: Why could the unicorn read it?
19:48 <Greystone>: Then again, it depends.
19:48 <Greystone>: Written things are usually transparent to talking magic creatures, but not necessarily.
19:49 <Alan>: Have we warned Robin sufficiently?
19:49 <Victor>: The best we could anyway
19:49 <Victor>: She knows we're informing the Count about Justin
19:49 <Victor>: No one knows what the reaction will be
19:50 <Ookook>: Are we ready to jump to when the troop arrives at the village?
19:52 <Greystone>: Well, if Greystone lacks the note, then he will head back to Vaughan to converse with his partners. With the troop in tow. :/
19:52 <Greystone>: :/
19:53 <Greystone>: Is it ten in or ex cluding Oddmund?
19:54 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oddmund and a troop of nine head out, dressed in their full Drindall livery. They will arrive in Vaughan around noon.
19:54 <Greystone>: Yup, so ten total. That's two to one should things come to that.
19:55 <Greystone>: I am not fighting a unicorn! But what if Drindall has a good reason to want to see this boy so badly? Then do I trust the unicorn, who knows little of Drindall but just seems to feel overprotective, or do I follow orders as honor dictates, trusting Drindall's intentions by default?
19:55 <Greystone>: Could the boy be Dindall's son? Why did I think of that? Who set off the explosion, the elites, or did it kinda just happen?
19:55 <Greystone>: Did Drindall have us attack a secret Mitan military base, or was he working with the Mitan Empire?
19:55 <Greystone>: I am just thinking so much right now.
19:57 <Gromit>: "You got your teleport beacons spread out, right?"
19:57 <Victor>: No, I don't
19:57 <Victor>: I don't know what party we'll be receiving, and where or how
19:57 <Victor>: Though I do toss one onto the inn roof
19:57 <Tikvah_GMing>: Alright, 1 marker on the roof.
19:57 <Gromit>: Just having one or two you can jump to within town would be an asset in any case.
19:58 <Victor>: What exactly is the layout? Are they going to come through town?
19:58 <Victor>: The road they take?
19:59 <Tikvah_GMing>: To get to Robin's orphanage they will go through town.
19:59 <Tikvah_GMing>: The village consists of one main street with all the businesses along it, and a few smaller streets with houses.
19:59 <Victor>: Then I put a marked bolt on the roof of the first building the road passes coming into town also
20:00 <Gromit>: Just in case we need to shoot somebody and spread things out with a manhunt.
20:00 <Victor>: Right
20:00 <Victor>: And I guess one on the roof of the last one on the way out to Robin's
20:00 <Tikvah_GMing>: Ok.
20:00 <Tikvah_GMing>: The Inn is about halfway down the street.
20:00 <Victor>: Her place is a ways out from here though isn't it?
20:01 <Gromit>: Yeah, but you can do some running like a peasant if you're out of range.
20:02 <Victor>: Well that's three here and one on Greystone
20:02 <Victor>: I guess I look around closer to the orphanage for a good place to put one more
20:03 <Victor>: It's out in the open right?
20:03 <Tikvah_GMing>: There are some scattered trees around it, and a forest not too far away.
20:03 <Tikvah_GMing>: No houses.
20:03 <Victor>: Ah okay
20:03 <Tikvah_GMing>: It is surrounded by a tall stone wall.
20:04 <Victor>: Define not too far please
20:04 <Tikvah_GMing>: 400 feet
20:06 <Ookook>: Is there a place for me to be where I will be within range of the troop but also be hidden from view?
20:07 <Ookook>: (Also, out of range of my allies would be preferable in case my music goes poorly.)
20:07 <Tikvah_GMing>: You could hide in any of the buildings along main street an get them when they go by.
20:08 <Victor>: What is 1 turn's run range?
20:09 <Tikvah_GMing>: 30 feet.
20:09 <Victor>: What's the closest tree?
20:10 <Tikvah_GMing>: 60 ft.
20:11 <Victor>: Does it have sight on the gate?
20:11 <Tikvah_GMing>: It's near the gate, yes.
20:11 <Victor>: Okay I shoot one in that
20:11 <Tikvah_GMing>: Alright.
20:11 <Victor>: And return to watch the road with Gromit
20:12 <Victor>: Ookook is your buffing free?
20:12 <Gromit>: Easy on the metagaming, we don't know for sure who's coming back.
20:12 <Victor>: I realized that as soon as I sent it
20:12 <Victor>: Nevermind
20:12 <Ookook>: But it is a debuff.
20:12 <Ookook>: I can't help you, only make the enemy less powerful.
20:13 <Victor>: You've buffed us before...
20:13 <Victor>: I thought
20:13 <Tikvah_GMing>: Nope.
20:13 <Victor>: I'm pretty sure
20:13 <Victor>: But good to know
20:17 <Tikvah_GMing>: Have you finished your preparations?
20:17 <Ookook>: Yes
20:19 <Greystone>: So this is the point where they sit around and Ookook says, "So... how long do we wait to see if he comes back? Or sends a messenger. Or someone else comes back."
20:19 <Tikvah_GMing>: Around noon you see Drindall's squad in the distance, nearing the village.
20:21 <Greystone>: So, I am of course going to lead the elites to the inn where I will suggest or assume that they will have some water or whatnot and rest for a minute after marching down that dusty road till noon, while I go and fetch the other retainers, let them know of our arrival.
20:21 <Greystone>: Assuming the others don't just us for some reason.
20:21 <Greystone>: Are you all in the inn or what.
20:22 <Victor>: I'm watching the road just outside town
20:22 <Victor>: But upon seeing you aren't approaching alone I go back inside town
20:22 <Ookook>: I thought we were outside the village and doing an ambush.
20:23 <Victor>: We're definitely not ambushing!
20:23 <Victor>: Unless we had completely different understandings on the idea here
20:23 <Tikvah_GMing>: The elites follow Greystone into the village.
20:23 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oddmund is looking around, curiously. "Where is the rest of your team, Greystone?"
20:24 <Victor>: He doesn't see me?
20:24 <Tikvah_GMing>: He sees you.
20:25 <Tikvah_GMing>: There are a few more people in your party though.
20:25 <Victor>: I raise a hand in greeting
20:25 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oddmund nods curtly, and beckons you over.
20:25 <Greystone>: So are we in the street right now?
20:25 <Tikvah_GMing>: Yes.
20:26 <Victor>: Is Gromit not here too?
20:26 <Victor>: Was he hiding to ambush?
20:26 <Victor>: I thought we were talking first
20:28 <Gromit>: I wasn't plannning to immediately.
20:28 <Victor>: Talk? Or ambush
20:29 <Gromit>: Talk first, then "betray" each other.
20:29 <Victor>: Yeah I need to know if I see you
20:29 <Greystone>: "Well, there's the archer, but in retrospect we neglected to arrange a meeting place, and they didn't know when precisely I would be back. It shouldn't be too hard to find the others."
20:29 <Tikvah_GMing>: Where are you right now, Gromit?
20:29 <Tikvah_GMing>: "I see. Go gather as many of your team as you can. Is there an Inn here?"
20:31 <Greystone>: "Indeed, straight that way. The rest may be there, as that's where we had lodgings."
20:31 <Gromit>: I'll be there.
20:31 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oddmund nods and heads towards the inn.
20:31 Ookook follows Victor back into the town
20:33 <Greystone>: Is Alan at the inn?
20:31 <Victor>: When they're away, "What's all this?"
20:33 Greystone looks at Victor.
20:34 <Greystone>: "Well, this, is reinforcements, 'In case the unicorn becomes hostile.'"
20:34 <Victor>: "..."
20:35 <Greystone>: "We are still to bring the boy to Drindall, but I was unable to determine why."
20:35 Victor studies Greystone's face
20:36 <Victor>: "What's the password?"
20:38 <Greystone>: OH LORD WHAT WAS THE PASSWORD WE HAVE NO LOGS POSTED FROM THE LAST TWO SESSIONS
20:39 <Victor>: It wasn't in the last two sessions
20:39 <Greystone>: Oh, wait, easy way out.
20:39 Greystone responds with the agreed password.
20:39 <Victor>: Ah, nice save
20:39 <Victor>: But it should be in your notes, so shame anyway
20:40 <Greystone>: Notes? Like taking notes on an RPG like a college class? What.
20:40 <Gromit>: Yes, this RPG is more serious than school.
20:40 <Victor>: Player notes
20:40 <Victor>: Surely that's not a foreign concept?
20:40 <Victor>: You seen quite experienced with these games
20:41 <Greystone>: Oh. Yeah. Drakonius. I should have remembered that, it's My Little Pony reference.
20:41 <Greystone>: I have been using the logs as notes.
20:42 <Ookook>: Which skill will they be using that would be most useful for me to debuff?
20:42 <Ookook>: Because I can do it silently.
20:42 <Ookook>: To a limited level.
20:42 <Gromit>: Detect deception, probably.
20:42 <Ookook>: "I am not going to side against a unicorn. I think the count is fully evil or is actually a poison-elemental or some other anti-unicorn alined issue."
20:42 <Victor>: "You explained he's just a kid, and the Count still wants him?"
20:43 <Greystone>: "Yes. I do not know why. It could be for a very good reason. Perhaps a very personal one, given that he's even willing to risk going against a unicorn."
20:44 <Greystone>: "And I say risk, not because be considers it risky for us, but rather because he is willing to risk it being a real unicorn."
20:44 <Ookook>: Perhaps he is a utilitarian and this action will lead to greater global happiness in the long run.
20:44 <Ookook>: After all unicorn likely are not consequentialist.
20:45 <Gromit>: "I..."
20:45 <Greystone>: "I realized that we only feel sure that the unicorn is not a human in disguise, and even that is based on our own beliefs on what the telescope does. And it could very well be another creature."
20:45 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oddmund and the elites enter the inn. Oddmund takes off his helmet and orders a drink. The others claim a table for themselves and keep to themselves.
20:46 <Gromit>: "Okay, when are we going to go renegotiate?"
20:46 <Tikvah_GMing>: Oddmund sends a tray of drinks to the elites.
20:47 <Victor>: "Was the news surprising to him?"
20:47 <Greystone>: Tikvah, was it surprising?
20:48 <Tikvah_GMing>: The count did look concerned.
20:50 <Greystone>: "He seemed surprised, concerned in fact."
20:51 <Greystone>: "Though I was tired at the time. I was focused on reporting, and didn't even take a good look at the new paraphernalia surrounding him."
20:51 <Victor>: "That's good. But he still wants him anyway?..."
20:51 Victor looks for some clarifying detail
20:52 <Greystone>: "Yes. And we have no idea if it is for good or for ill."
20:52 Greystone frowns. "And there was something very odd."
20:53 <Greystone>: "When I mentioned Wikiolia's name, Drindall reacted very strongly. Shocked, even."
20:53 <Greystone>: "He let the words, ah, 'Wikolia is dead, and has nothing to do with unicorns,' slip from his mouth, if my memory serves me rightly."
20:53 <Greystone>: "I have encountered many strange creatures, and a shapeshifter would not surprise me. I wonder about this unicorn."
20:54 <Victor>: "So he just wants to see it's a kid for himself you mean? Proof his intel was bad?"
20:54 <Victor>: "Or did he say Justin is still our target, even now?"
20:55 <Greystone>: "I would say that he wishes to see Justin even now. I neglected to inquire if the same levels of force were still authorized."
20:56 <Victor>: "That actually makes sense. If he is being played as I suspected, it would be shocking and troubling for him to realize he's being betrayed. He would want to be certain. Need to be, to accept the realization."
20:56 <Tikvah_GMing>: He told you to ensure that Justin is unharmed, if at all possible.
20:56 <Victor>: That's a significant detail you should share.
21:00 <Victor>: I need to go soon
21:00 <Greystone>: Well, me too.
21:00 <Victor>: Let's finish this conversation
21:01 <Victor>: Do you say he said we shouldn't hurt him?
21:01 <Greystone>: We have a character with a poison resistance kismet, we should test if the "unicorn blessed" water actually does anything.
21:01 <Victor>: Says the one who put nothing into the purchase
21:01 <Gromit>: "We should have done that before, really."
21:01 <Victor>: How are you in the discussion Gromit?
21:01 Gromit randomly butts into the conversation.
21:01 <Victor>: From inside the inn?

21:01 <Ookook>: "Surely drinking poison and difficult negotiations should be done at the same time"
21:02 <Greystone>: If you guys bought snake oil you should find out. I wasn't buying into that, but since we have it, we should use it as an information source.
21:02 <Victor>: Why would it keep selling if it didn't work?
21:02 <Victor>: Word would have gone around by now
21:02 <Victor>: Sales are in fact increasing she said
21:02 <Victor>: Now that you're questioning the legitimacy of the unicorn we should test it, I agree, but I stand by not seeing a need to before is what I'm saying.
21:04 <Victor>: Do you say we shouldn't hurt Justin now?
21:04 <Greystone>: Uh, yeah, Oddmund should be up to date on that, (did I brief them or Dindall) but I mention that he told me to ensure that Justin is unharmed, if at all possible.
21:05 <Victor>: "That's very good. It's seeming to me this was indeed just a mistake."
21:06 <Victor>: "But even so, I don't like bringing Justin to him still."
21:06 <Victor>: "And the unicorn won't go for it anyway."
21:06 <Victor>: "So..."
21:06 <Greystone>: "Right now I am hoping to convince Wikolia to let Justin come see the count. She is welcome to join us, and she would probably insist on it, but she might say no because that would leave the other children unguarded."
21:07 <Greystone>: Here's hoping.
21:07 <Greystone>: Otherwise we will have to decide between Wikolia and our jobs.
21:07 <Victor>: "Ha, no."
21:07 <Victor>: "I'm not getting involved in this."
21:08 <Victor>: "I'm not going to help take Justin to the Count, but I'm not going to physically prevent it. If this is indeed an innocent misunderstanding and he truly just wants to see the boy we can't attack these guys."
21:08 <Victor>: "I say let them take on the unicorn if they insist. If they can't win, good, Justin doesn't go but we didn't have to be involved in their failure."
21:09 <Greystone>: "..."
21:09 <Gromit>: "So you're just not going to get involved, and let whoever gets hurt get hurt."
21:09 <Victor>: "Of course? If they go to fight a unicorn they know what they're getting into and deserve it."
21:09 <Ookook>: "We let the unicorn fight the guard and then join whoever side looks like they are losing so that we are more likely to be left as the most powerful beings in this town??"
21:09 <Greystone>: "We are kind of responsible. They are here as, and I quote, 'backup.'"
21:10 <Gromit>: "And if they're being hoodwinked like we might be?"
21:10 <Greystone>: "I think Drindall knew what he was doing sending these guys, and I think they know what they're getting into."
21:10 <Victor>: "Exactly. And I'll let them get into it."
21:10 <Greystone>: "Of course we could ask them."
21:11 <Victor>: "To your point Gromit, that's a different situation."
21:12 <Victor>: "If some sign comes up that we can finally see one or the other side is in the wrong, maliciously or unwittingly, then I will act accordingly."
21:12 <Victor>: "But until we have such a sign I have to assume both sides are genuine in their intentions. It's more prudent here to give a possibly nefarious side the initial benefit of the doubt until certain they mean harm than to falsely judge an innocent side as nefarious and attack them aiding the real villain."
21:12 <Gromit>: "So if it turns out they successfully kill a real unicorn who's defending an actual orphanage of innocent kids..."
21:12 <Greystone>: "I want to ask Oddmund what he know about the situation."
21:13 <Greystone>: "And we would be most definitely held responsible for their failure."
21:14 <Greystone>: "If it comes to a fight we have to decide technically between jobs and mutiny."
21:14 <Gromit>: "So we wait until battle is committed, and backstab as appropriate."
21:14 <Greystone>: Good lord.
21:14 <Victor>: "As you say, the ideal conclusion is we all travel back peacefully to clear things up with the count."
21:14 <Greystone>: "Aye."
21:15 <Victor>: "I'm just not optimistic of that outcome based on previous interaction with the creature."
21:15 <Greystone>: "Me either. Perhaps Robin could talk her into it."
21:16 <Gromit>: "You know, travelling back peacefully is also the best result for the count even if his plans are nefarious."
21:16 <Victor>: "I realize that, but we can't carry that line of reasoning on indefinitely."
21:17 <Victor>: "The only way we can act one way or the other now is by deciding definitively what the Count's intention is."
21:17 <Victor>: "I am not currently able to do that."
21:17 <Greystone>: "Robin wanting a peaceful outcome seems the most hopeful cause of a peaceful result, based on previous interaction with her."
21:18 <Victor>: It's the best hope anyway
21:18 <Greystone>: "And then, is this even a unicorn? The count's remark was so stange..." *musing face*
21:19 <Victor>: "Then things would be even more complicated."
21:19 <Victor>: "But in another way, much more simple."
21:19 <Gromit>: But let's get on with it, shall we.
21:20 <Victor>: Yeah
21:20 <Victor>: Next time
21:20 <Victor>:

21:20 <Greystone>: Aye. I've got a paper I should be working on for finals.
21:20 <Victor>: But seriously now, stuff is about to go down
21:20 <Greystone>: Yes it is.
21:21 <Greystone>: Or hopefully not.
21:21 <Greystone>: :/
21:21 <Victor>: Could be good stuff going down
21:21 <Victor>: But probably not
21:22 <Victor>: Can't wait to see what's actually going on here
21:22 <Greystone>: Yes, what in the world is really going on.
21:22 <Gromit>: Do we spend XP before our battle royale?
21:23 <Tikvah_GMing>: Yeah, if you want.
21:23 <Tikvah_GMing>: Everyone gets 1 XP.
21:23 <Greystone>: I don't like that you are assuming that this will be a battle royale.
21:23 <Greystone>: -_-
21:23 <Gromit>: I'm not reading the situation as something that's going to end well. And we clearly haven't chosen allegiances.
21:23 <Gromit>: Bringing extra dudes is exactly what our dear unicorn is expecting if we're evil.
21:23 <Victor>: Is there in story justification for that?
21:23 <Victor>: It takes downtime to get new training usually
21:24 <Tikvah_GMing>: If you don't want to spend your XP you don't have to.
21:24 <Victor>: Of course I want to, but we shouldn't cheat the system
21:24 <Victor>: "I became specialized in 3 things overnight!"
21:25 <Ookook>: It from the experience of all this planning.
21:25 <Gromit>: We've only been in this town for two months.
21:25 <Victor>: Lol
21:25 <Victor>: XP for HP isn't unreasonable to do on the fly
21:26 <Victor>: But I wouldn't be comfortable getting new skills, personally, mid-mission
21:26 <Victor>: Can't justify it in the timeline
21:27 <Greystone>: We can tell them to wait out of sight. They are only here "in case" the unicorn becomes violent, after all.
21:27 <Victor>: That's a great point
21:27 <Victor>: We need to do that
21:27 <Victor>: Undoubtedly the only way this could possibly work
21:28 <Greystone>: That darn unicorn is so suspicious and aggressive.
21:29 <Victor>: We can try talking it out with Robin and the unicorn, they say okay let's go clear this up, we say okay we have an escort back to be sure Justin stays safe until everything is cleared up
21:30 <Victor>: Wishful thinking but it's the only way it doesn't become a battle instantly on sight
21:30 <Gromit>: I'm still not comfortable with Justin making it to the castle.
21:31 <Victor>: I'm not either, but there's no way to appease both sides
21:32 <Greystone>: We will keep Justin safe if we get him to the castle.
21:32 <Victor>: Eh
21:32 <Victor>: We'd try
21:32 <Gromit>: I think whatever happened to him back at the castle would be completely out of our control.
21:33 <Gromit>: Realistically.
21:33 <Victor>: Most likely
21:33 <Gromit>: We're not huge castle-crushing heroes.
21:33 <Ookook>: yet.
21:34 <Victor>: By that point we should be able to have a solid idea which side is which though
21:34 <Victor>: I would really hope
21:35 <Victor>: The only reason for all this hesitation on both sides of the issue is not being able to say the count is definitely a bad guy or is definitely not bad
21:35 <Victor>: Settling on either one makes everything really straightforward
21:35 <Victor>: But inability to make the call makes... This
21:36 <Victor>: "Hopefully" what happens is we call the unicorn out and it reveals itself to be some kind of other creature and that's really the villain here