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Post by zumi on Jun 11, 2006 23:28:44 GMT -5
Izzy grinned despite herself. She was looking forward to going home with them someday. But, of course, she had to help kill the Laymeirids first.
Sobering slightly, she sipped her coffee and then said, "Let's say that there's a man (or woman) controlling the Laymeirids at strategic points. If we could figure out these points, we could go in and do what we did in the last battle."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 12, 2006 0:05:31 GMT -5
"Thats a very good probability. I have a good feeling Wyn knows about most of it too. If vannie were here, we would know exactly where she is. But thats outta the question."
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Post by zumi on Jun 12, 2006 0:08:13 GMT -5
Izzy's eyes grew blurred but she kept her composure. Playing with the ring on her finger, she nodded. "It doesn't matter. I think that Wyn is acting seperately form the Laymeirids, or if she si working with them, we'll run across her eventually.
"What we need," she stopped playing with the ring, "is a map. We need to think about how this position could relate to others around the world so that all the Laymeirids would be spread out equally." She took a sip of her coffee. "I think that's the first place to start to seek them out."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 12, 2006 11:59:27 GMT -5
*Sage and Che finished what was on their plates, then Sage brought them to her Cabin, where a large perfectly to scale world map lay bu itself on a table.*
"We are right here." She said pointing.
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Post by zumi on Jun 12, 2006 19:29:23 GMT -5
Concentrating as best she could, Izzy tried to recall a spell that made smoke hang in the air. Drawing a circle around the point Sage pointed out, she watched it fade quickly. Zumi had the control to make such things stay until she waved a hand in the air.
Deciding to forego it, she motioned with her hands. "Say that the wizard who was here, controled about this much of the world." Sh emade a sweeping motion, it was a modest estimate. "Then the next one would have to be stationed in one of these four points, providing that where we are is the center of the area he controled.
"Of course we can't know that until we get intelligence reports of Laymeirid corpses washing up on shore, or people who have witness them die for no apparent reason at the moment Sage beheaded the man."
Frowning thoughtfully, Izzy brought her fingers to her lips as she thought. "I would say that these three points are most likely where the next one is. Of course, that is providing they have the radius I think they do.
"What do you guys think?"
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 12, 2006 23:06:28 GMT -5
*Sage shook her head slightly*
"It all makes sence, but I don't think we should be thingyed as the center of his control. Put his island as the center of his territory...people like them love to be in the center for some reason, so saying that island we were at was litterally teh center of his operations..."
::She touched the island and simply said red. A red smoky circle formed around the island, and took up a quater of the map. She touched three other locations, saying the words, blue, green, and purple, with each touch, a perfect circle form around each location on the map, with the location in the center. The colored circles were all teh exact same size, and each covered 1/4 of the map.::
"This makes more sence...assuming...of course, that there are only four..we'll call them "head people"...if there are four and thier territory is split evenly I think it would be more like this."
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Post by zumi on Jun 12, 2006 23:11:42 GMT -5
"My gut reaction was seven, but even splitting it into fourths will get us somewhere."
"Orange," she said and squealed with joy inwardly when her smoke hung in the air without dispersing. "This is where I was attacked by them before we met, "and - yellow - this is where I heard reports of them but never confirmed them - yellow, yellow," she decided to make them all the same color. Her smoke was quite thin, but she was happy that she had gotten them to stay this long at all.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 12, 2006 23:22:32 GMT -5
"Hmmm."
*Sage stared thoughtfully at the map and Izzy's additions for three full minuets. Then she held her finger on the origional island again.*
"Here is the center, make all even."
*Instantly all of the smoke rings, including Izzy's began resizing, in accordance to that one island being the center of the red circle. The map was filled by this time with eight smoke rings. Three small yellow ones and the orange were Izzy's*
"So from where you added your rings, if that island was the center of that guys territory, this should be to scale what the others are. Now these two are really close...so lets combin them."
*Sage pointed to two of Izzy's yellows next to eachother. Passing a hand thoguht what seperated the two rings, they became one, and the rest of the map rings resized agian to make just seven rings.*
"I think that works."
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Post by zumi on Jun 12, 2006 23:28:29 GMT -5
"Yes, yes," Izzy murmured, putting her fingers to her lips in thought as she leaned forward, cocking her head slightly.
"So, let's say we go to this one who is closest," she indicatd the ring without touching it. "Once we get there, how do we find them? Do we go for information or do we just appear and let them attack? They might not be in carge of the acquatic Laymeirids since they are somewhat close to that chain of islands."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 12, 2006 23:36:30 GMT -5
*Sage and che were both staring at the map,a nd listening intently to Izzy at the same time.*
"I don't think I'll be going home alone soon, will I?"
"Nope."
"Can we pull it off with jsut the two of us?"
"I know we can. Van and I have before."
"Alright, lets do it."
*Sage looked at Izzy while Che studied the map, her lips moving with her thoughts.*
"You see," Sage said. "We have a way of useing a combinationg of our blood and our bond with our ships to sail undetected even by fish not two feet below us. But there has to be more than one in order for it to work. It is the ultimate stealth attack, but we need both Insomnia and Intelligence."
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Post by zumi on Jun 12, 2006 23:40:45 GMT -5
Izzy said nothing at the "two of us" comment but kept staring at the map. There was somethng here.
"Do you think that the center person could possibly have mroe control than the others? You'd have to be quite full of yourself to put yourself there and be the one in charge ofplacing people I'm sure.
"Though it is farther away...." Izzy was really speaking more to herself than the others. She drew lines in the air without smoke as she thought, moving her mouth instead of speaking, but occasionally thoughts spilled out. She ws clearly in high concentration.
"No, it would be best to start here and arc out like that...It also takes us around...No...yes....okay that works..." She stepped back and stuck her thumb in her mouth as she thought, biting on it, but not drawing blood.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 12, 2006 23:49:17 GMT -5
*It was Che who spoke next.*
"I say that we plow directly thought the the main center person. They might notice their little people being bumped off. If Sagie and I do our thing, we can snak up right behind that main head person butmunch and stick it to him. If we take out he central pillar of the structure, the rest is bound to collapse."
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Post by zumi on Jun 12, 2006 23:52:10 GMT -5
"This is of course basing on the idea that they are like storybook characters and easily just as stupid."
Izzy pointed to two different points. "One of these could be him too. They rest on the ends of the area. The leader could put himself at what he consideres the head. "My guess would be the South since that is where this originated, but the north is also viable.
"Besides, we're going to have to go through these territories here to get to the center."
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Jun 13, 2006 0:04:37 GMT -5
"It is prolly the southern central one, that IS where the head of it takes place. But like Che said, we'd be un detected anywyas. Che is right we've a better chance of surprise on most if not all the underlings if we just snuck through and whiped out the head first." Sage replied
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Post by zumi on Jun 13, 2006 0:07:13 GMT -5
"I have a bad feeling..." Izzy said, drawing blood from her thumb without even noticing.
Surveying the map again, she started whispering to herself, drawing undiscernable paterns without magic.
"I guess you guys would knkow more than I would. I will follow you through anything." She wiped her thumb off on her pants without really registering the motion.
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