open | meanwhile, in alenroux...

[sterngaze]

Who: Liem, various, and YOU
What: Meridian-wide communion, community service, scouting and camping, and building a house!
Where: Alenroux
When: All throughout April, in between All That Other Nonsense
Warnings: None (yet…?)

It’s here: the open log for Meridian-PR Alenroux activities! Liem will be spending time in Alenroux to work on various jobs, and if YOU, TOO would like to participate in such activities, he would welcome the help! Feel free to top-level here as well. The more, the Meri-er!

Comments

COMMUNION.

[redsoil]

[ One great, great big yawn. Leonine and indulgent, as he fondly(?) reviews Liem's missive. ]

Such a dutiful man, Liem Talbott. I, too, would like to ensure we hold Alenroux.

What of other information, for your report? Such as - a Zenite Shard-bearer slaughtered a number of Springstar's guards, and for no reason. I bore witness, and defeated him. We could use this. And so much more, that I know. That I observe.

[sterngaze]

[Liem’s air of quiet industry remains unshaken in the face of the irreverent tone of Set’s contact. From him, he’d hardly expect otherwise.]

That could also be pertinent, yes.

[Even if most of Liem’s own experience with swaying public opinion toward a specific political group is weighted largely towards assisting the locals in his employer’s name — particularly locals who are willing to be friendly towards them, of course — there is also the matter of bringing any misdeeds their opponents make fully to light. The unprovoked slaughter of Springstar soldiers, soldiers who had risked their lives to keep the monsters of both Alenroux and the Beyond in check, should not be allowed to slip by unnoticed.]

If Zenith’s shard-bearers are bold enough to initiate such hostile action, those who live and work there should at least be made aware.

[It wouldn’t do for those Zenites to not be awarded due credit for their actions, after all.]

[redsoil]

Zenith has begun to prove that their only interests lie with their own. They are clever-tongued and readily belligerent, and will hand-craft stories of us based on our louder, bolder actions. They did this at the debates, and will continue to wage information wars and levy propaganda at us.

Ensuring Highstorm citizens become and remain sympathetic to us is key. I believe spreading mention of the indiscriminate slaughter as counter-intelligence ought to be useful. Put it in Highstorm's head that any action that seems sympathetic to Springstar and Meridian will result in their alienation.

For example.

Amos Burton speaks in black-and-white terms, only. Either you are his people, or not. He affirmed directly to me that he 'cannot look out for everyone equally', and being that Manon was a traitor to Zenith ideals and thus Yima, it is very likely that he can be used as a weapon against his own people. If they doubt, if they question, he may become the very thing that judges and executes them. Even if he does nothing more than look the other way from those who are not 'his'.

Need you more?

[sterngaze]

[How good it is, and how useful, that Set is not simply a god of battle, but one of war. How convenient to have such a man as an ally during a conflict such as this.]

I agree; Highstorm lacks a standing military, so it is important that its citizens are not motivated to take up arms against us. Any doubt we can cast on Yima’s shard-bearers will be to our benefit.

Counter-intelligence aimed at Highstorm’s citizens does not strictly fall within the purview of the report I am writing, which is truthfully more focused on the potential for further development of the island as a full-time place of work and residence, but it is nonetheless something worthy of our efforts and our attention.

But words are slippery things, without anything to support them. Casting doubt upon a man’s character is much easier when there are actual deeds you can attribute to him.

[Making people wary of the guy who slaughtered those members of the Helios’ Legionary? That should be straightforward. Casting doubt on Amos based only on statements made in conversation held in a private space may be seen only as rumour-mongering.]

[redsoil]

Zenith does not care, whether the accusations they aim in Meridian's direction are true or false, with or without support. One only needs to sow a seed among like-minded individuals and allow it to propagate under their own desire to belong and bolster. My aunt, Sekhmet, was a master of deceit — though her domain was destruction, she always preferred a precise whisper that would lead someone to destroy themselves, to brute force.

I did learn well from her example.

Meridian will have no reputation to speak of if we do not ensure their efforts are thwarted and their credibility in ruins. Intelligence will be met with counter-intelligence. However, I will keep my efforts from you, so as to not effect the integrity of your own work.

[sterngaze]

That is probably for the best. The spreading of such whispers falls well beyond my own area of expertise.

[He has much more experience with hunting down the source of undesirable rumours than with crafting more. Technically that also describes his efforts in Alenroux; seeking out those who would spread doubt about Meridian, and ensuring that their priorities are shifted for the better.]

Nonetheless, if you have need of my assistance in other ways, it is yours to call upon.