A Call to Arms: To Snoop the Moot

 The mood in the Dual-Cities is mixed. There is excitement for the Feasts of Investiture of the newly elected Souffets, who will soon see Cothon-Gadeed into the new solar year (post upcoming). And yet, there is also trepidation, as it is unfortunately at this time of year that the nomadic tribes of Kzinti typically have their Moot outside the Necropolis of the Tel, where the clans gather, the warriors give boast, and their strange priests and greatest warriors descend into the crypts themselves for strange rites. And so they have come, a horde of dagger-fanged, wtsai-wielding warriors and their harems and coffles of slaves and herds of hma and other beasts, trampling the ground outside the holy temenos of the dead, and filling the night with campfires, the hissing chants of Kzin epics, and yowling boasts and flytings.

At this hour—under the shadow of the Red Cloud and his threat of war—the idea of a Moot of Kzinti within half a day’s march of the Dual-Cities’ walls fills everyone with trepidation, and the watch has been tripled on the ramparts, and the fighting-societies have been called to lend aid to the soldiers of the cities, the Poor Brothers of the Dead, and the Knights Pylaea.

So it is that a new mission has been proposed: that certain barbarian volunteers enter secretly into the camp of the Kzinti, and see if they can discover anything about the plans of the Red Cloud, or perhaps even kidnap or assassinate leaders of import.

It is known that the founding members of the Survivors of the Tel were once victims of the strange rites that took place within the Necropolis during the last Great Moot, now two years past. As a citizen and iqtadar, Sesel himself was asked by the outgoing Souffets to see if he could gather a force to do this thing (even if he could not go, he could lend his persuasive voice in gathering a band of the barbarians so often going-and-coming to the Tel al Safina)

There will of course be hefty remunerations for any who dare undertake this risky mission. The Souffets are close-lipped as to the exact nature of such rewards—details are to be provided for those (if any) who answer the call.

For purposes of the game and scheduling, the Moot will end around the weekend of the 17th. If a company cannot be assembled by then, it will be assumed that no consensus was reached and no attempt made to infiltrate the Moot before it breaks up.