Baltika9 said:
And possibly warning the Persians should it turn out they're being framed just like we are.
Very likely.
Then establishing contact with them will be very prudent. Short of Leonidas popping out of nowhere, no one here has an effective counter, or enough experience with their fighting styles, to combat them. If they are being used as pawns, that gives us a common enemy to work against. And maybe we can butter them up to teach us something later.
Baltika9 said:
In which case, investigating them is still to our advantage because it gets closer to us uncovering the troothz.
I still maintain that cooperation with the Sects, even a temporary one, would bring us even close. Three masked fighters just do not have the same resourses that several hundred men do.
That's jsut it, though, they already are aware of what's going on, thanks to Yifang, and are working to counteract it, their "hundreds of men" are already at work. If there's anything they need us for, it's wetwork that they can't be seen doing. Which can put us in a horrible position down the road, because they don't owe us shit and value their schools' reputations more than our's and Zee-Jay's. We also can't neglect the fact that these guys and their schools are our targets in the future, so I'd rather not be in their field of vision longer than we absolutely must.
The Grand Taoist is master on all things qi and neiggong, give him enough reason to suspect something and pique his curiosity and our Yuanshan Hundun is known. I would also be much more comfortable if it were just the Abbess, you say that the other Three Masters will afford us some security from scrutiny. Why? If anything, they will be just as interested in learning about us and our talents as the Grand Tao will.
For all we know, they could be here as a test of their abilities and would prefer to hide their identities from the locals for some reason.
"For some reason" doesn't quite absolve them in these circumstances. Look, the sects are already on high alert, thanks to Yifang, they are already curbing this shit and investigating it. let's look into the things
they are overlooking. That way, we're covering much more ground (plus, y'know, investigating foreign allies for our Khandom). With Yifang's gullibility and open personality, we can taunt some clues about what they find out at a later time, say this evening or tomorrow.
QUOTE="Tigranes"] [...] but people don't seem to trust her for things where she HAS proven herself, i.e. an uncanny ability to identify people and to take advantage of it without blowing covers.
If you trust Qilin with the covert ops, why the hell are you trying to help her? Why not leave it to the professional?
I like the direction Qilin's character development is going. Maybe for the first time in her life she agreed to help without asking for anything in return. And she had brought Guo Fu and Puo'er to you for
some reason, though Jing being Jing still denies that she can be anything but trouble.
[/quote]Because two heads and four hands are better than just her working alone, because we're also one creative fucker. This will be a trolling duo, I'm sure they'll synergize well.