TVA

W 2: Good evening gent's, I hope today's meeting was not terribly disruptive to any of you? I realize it was on quite short notice. B II: No shit it was short, Doc. I was just about to land in on Faerun for shore leave when I got the urgent summons. I've been flying and skirmishing for 12 hours to close out the Arcturus mystery wars and I would really like to get some sleep in, so I hope you don't got anything stupid that needs to be handled right this second or I might feel the urge to punch your lights out.
XII: Uh oh, bird boys cranky again. Do you need to blow off some steam? I've found a few nice places while I was ground side filling in for gloomy and I would love to take some of the rest of the boys and girls out on the town in Cormyr. Especially with you, sweetie~~~
(XI gives a not so subtle and flirtatious wink to the human man in chair B V.)
XII: They just had a big wedding and the royal party was to die for, even if it did get stood up by those assassins and the dragon. Should be plenty of stuff to do before the unrest in the region gets too crazy.
V: that sounds delightful Vanny. We haven't had much of a chance for a date night in awhile... You'll have to show me all the little hideaways you've found in the city.
XII: Absolutely darling! and afterwards, well, it's been awhile since I've explored your----
W 2: AhHEM! If the two of you are done flirting, I did summon the three of you on urgent business. Possibly life or death. We have lost contact with the keybearer.
V: That is serious. Are you sure Ricky hasn't just gone to ground? Wouldn't be the first time he has attracted unnecessary attention and needed to cut communication.
W 2: We are quite sure. He has not checked in with us or his Luminary handlers in a month, and he hasn't released any of his findings since the last one in Ahm.
XII: If that is the case, why is gloomy not here? I would think that since they are working on the same project we would at least give him the courtesy of letting him know his counterpart has disappeared.
W 2: Black knight VI is currently deeply embedded in his current investigations in Cormyr. Calling him now would risk blowing his cover and depriving us of a valuable source of information regarding the brewing conflict on the plane. With how major of a historical event the coming war is proving to be, we would be remiss in not having one of our top agents providing primary sourcing for our own records.
B II: Damn the recordkeeping right now! one of our own just went MIA! We should be down there forming a search party! Unless you want to lose track of Ricky and his Key?
W 2: Perish the thought, Sir Hollowcrest. White knight 7 is currently in talks with the local divinities to extend the granted scope of our interference on the plane and this conflict as we speak. With the help of Black knight IV's last report and the recent disappearance, we should have a clear case to directly meddle in the affairs of the war.
B II: How did we reach that conclusion?
W 2: It would seem that Ahm, the country Black knight XIII was sent to investigate and report for, has been receiving copious amounts of extradimensional assistance from a neighboring material plane outside the per missed divine boundaries that separate the worlds. They have been importing some sort of memory infused substance to create clones of prominent people in either dimension to be used as soldiers in the coming efforts.
V: If that is the case... then this version of Faerun is likely past the scope of the diffracting dictum...
W 2: Precisely, my good man.
XII: Woah, woah, wait. I would like to go charging in to find Ricky just as much as everyone else, but how involved do we plan to get here? Do we plan to side with Cormyr for this conflict?
B II: What's so wrong with that? From what I'm understanding after quickly skimming through VI's reports, Ahm is looking to be a tyrannical super state that plans to subjugate the rest of the world through fascistic military conquest. They're the exact kind of guys we like to clown on!
XII: Mayhaps so, but Cormyr from my brief look and Gloomy's reports, does not seem to be Steller either. They have formed a spy organization that is being used to suppress the press for the benefit of the state, and it looks like they are also using it to keep other countries in check and aligned with their own goals. This also directly opposes our mission statement, does it not?
V: And even if they are not so bad now... who's to say that organization won't grow into a greater problem in Cormyr's next generation of kings?
W 2: Black Knight VI is planning to do something about that once his current engagement is complete. It will likely be a turning point for the country and the official start of the war, and will probably put both countries in a weaker political position in regards to the other surrounding smaller kingdoms. However, I suspect the neighboring countries will still align with Cormyr due to Ahms aggressive strategy of conquest, and it will give the council of kings the necessary bargaining power to come out ahead on the world stage. Indeed, with one of their number soon to be a start up for democracy, it looks like we can put some faith on them once the war is over to promote truth and liberty in the realm.
B II: So then the plan is to make our move after VI finishes with his work.
W 2: correct again.
B II: Fine. But are the three of us going to be all we're throwing at this? I would think this would be a significant enough endeavor to call more of the black knights on this since they have proven they can already get one of us.
V: My guess is that they are too busy dealing with the situation in Rokugan... Last I checked with BK I, things had gone sideways with the rise of the Temporal shogun. Cause and effect were getting screwed enough that the pantheon there was considering allowing our resident nuke to leave his dimensional pocket to come down to help fix things. They have like 55 sequenced parallel universes running concurrently now, right...?
W 2: Don't remind me, I still have a tremendous backlog analyzing and recording all his timeline edits. But yes, the other half of the black knights are dealing with those parallel dimensions as we speak, and are too wrapped up to deal with what is happening here. As such it is up to us to assist Black Knight VI and retrieve Black Knight XIII. The master of masters is also mobilizing several squads of Shadow Proclamation agents to assist you in this matter, and surreptitiously add themselves to the ranks of the resistance against Ahm. The local born agents should be embedding themselves shortley, and some of the senior reserve staff here at the bastion should be able to join alongside you once White 7 gets the go ahead from the pantheon. Deus, I assume that the rest of your team are ready to mobilize?
V: Absolutely. We've been itching to take a punch at a tyrannical government for awhile now. It's been a hot minute since our last one.
B II: Well it's a good thing I already got the coordinates for the plane then. I will be resting here and warping out to do some light scouting while we wait for things to pop off.
XII: And I will begin using my last cover to start driving up additional reinforcements on the plane. Bit of a non-sequitur, though it may be relevant, what about that chaos god that has been running around? Greg I think was his name? Is he going to be a factor we need to deal with?
W 2: Strictly speaking, we are not to engage. This is an internal matter for the divine panetheon of the plane to handle, alongside it's mortals. However with any luck, there is a band of adventurers getting ready to deal with the situation. They also have close ties to the war, so you may see them as time progresses. With any luck they will be the ones to decide what to do with Greg, and hopefully bring their plane back into balance. The god may engage with you however, and you have full rights to defend yourself if that occurs.
B II: yea you know how those crazy bastards get, my throat still tenses up whenever I see linguini after the last one I ran into.
XII: Your one to talk about insanity, "starslayer."
B II: Ha ha, It was one time Vee, just let it go!
W 2: Regardless, this meeting is adjourned. Prepare yourselves to make landfall and prepare for the coming war.
In unison: pro amore nostro sapientiae et animae