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((And I thought this thread had gone the way of Elvis Presley and Tupac! It's a miracle, a...hmm not quite christmas yet...
It's an All-Saints Day Miracle!))

Sursqueek looks up from his tome and after sipping some of his morning tea and then turning back to his book realizes that the tent's population has doubled!
"Hm? Oh, more Generals it seems, well, as it is said, 'The Greater the number of living entities in one area the more likely laughter' or as I once heard a scholar, perhaps to drunk on his research to realizes the shortness and horrible conciseness of his statement,'The more the merrier'. So I assume you are aware of our present circumstances and mission, and given the seeming lack of overt leadership we have, and influx of Black Ops and Research leaders, by which I mean myself, Sursqueek, and our fellow commander whom I will let introduce himself as he wishes, I was hoping that perhaps one of you would be willing to fill this black abyss of leadership that plagues us like, well, a full moon when engaging in less-than-legal activities.
At this time we have been discussing the merits and demerits of dividing the army into specialized groups, and, at least I have, wondered what is your opinion on such an idea?"

((for if we are cutting out Eira, I'd like to recover the alchemic items I produced for her...if that's ok with the DM))

Thanatos smiles as he listens to the words exchanged to between the other two generals. "They think me to be a fool, ahhh what a wonderful turn of events..." Thanatos thinks to himself as he continues the revisions on his planned group of assassins.

Sursqueek notes the use of the notebook in his own notebook.
"Then we are in agreement, or at least as I've heard it said 'reading from the same letters, most likely by the same same author in all likely hood in the same book', or in a much lesser form 'on the same page'. The plans we were going over were to test our soldiers and based on the results of the tests, send them into a division best set to their skills, not to separate the elite from the whey, after all there is always room for improvement, at least so I have always believed, but our main need is not some "brainless oaf" as it were, but a more traditional leader, someone that can command troops well for open battles should the need arise, but ,while on the subject, strapping various alchemic devices to units and throwing them into battle is very effective, especially if warpstone can be used...or so I've been told. Divisions we were planning on as I previously mentioned include R&D, Black-Ops, and Infantry with many possible subdivisions thereof. Of course adding a magicks devision would be wonderous, but at the moment impractical."

Somewhere, somehow, a shadow smiles.

"Well, looks like we will need to start preperating the exams without you which means, of course, without your input, we might not be able to properly challenge the soldiers in your areas of specialty such as poisons, backstabbing, cutting throats, stabbing in the dark, collecting taxes, politics, and, of course, "beating" the house at their own games, that is what you were going to test them for right? As for the creation of a magicks division, it's true we have not actually tested anyone, but I believe that we should not dwell on the idea too much as it is not likely we will find many magick users (at least not many that will admit it) though I would be quite joyous to find some, because, as you stated previously, a spell small in stature can have a large effect on the battle, especially given our opponents likely skill in both swordplay and sorcery. Also,I must say the idea of..ahem..'modifying' existing organic weaponry is much more comforting to me than re-activating activities in the nervous-system post-mortem...though there does seem to be some potential in combinations therof as well... We might benefit to compare research sometime."

((Is a brief description of the course and a combined intelligence check enough to plan this thing out? Also, are we allowed to take 20 on said check?))

"I think i will be testing them on my own for the most part, I have gained a keen eye for these kinds of people. And ussually its possible to overhear some information that is useful in making the judgements on whos who and whether they are nefarious. All this coming from owning a bar once...before it was burnt down by the kings men in there capture of me...I shall have to see about compenstation for my bar...I am quite angry it is a large pile of ashes now." says Thanatos as he continues to walk out of the tent.

Thanatos pulls his cowl over his head masking his face in shadows. He starts towards the tents, and the clusters of men, eyes keenly looking for anyone who looks like they have spent time on the streets, stealing and begging. Those are the best types of thieves, they do it because they need to, so they work to constantly perfect their skill, even if they aren't the most skillful, you can always count on them to be loyal to a constant source of coin or booze. As he nears the men he lets a purse of gold drop from his hands. He takes his time picking it up, ears trying to take in anything they can about the soldiers. With the purse retied he gets up and walks away, slowly, consious of the purse, waiting to see if anyone tries to make it their own. "Curious" he thinks to himself "I would have thought my men got the message and would have already arrived here." (the men being the ones he had the messanger send a note to. Furthermore I believe spot and listen checks are in order. +1 on each)

ninja "I see no problem with that." ninja

exclaim "That's wonderful!! Um, Senka dear, before we progress any further with any sort of plans, where is your dear little Hunapo? I don't remember seeing since we left the building." exclaim

ninja "Don't worry too much about him, if I need him, I'll call for him. Otherwise he'll turn up when he wants to." ninja