Thread:Astutulus/@comment-5753538-20121203221446

Mold Castle under siege! But we could not allow ourselves to be distracted by that red herring! We had bigger fish to fry...

Last day of preparations spent searching the plane for transponders (suspicious of how emnemy had seemed to predict our movements?!)

At last darkness fell, and we left Belvoir Castle. We flew west, looking for a Welsh Valley to begin recon. Passing Mold Castley we did observe (and ignore) a heated war zone.

Setting down in a quiet dell we spied nothing so walked to a hilltop. Thence we spotted a squadron of 12 bombers heading for Mold!! Every 30 minutes another 12!! Another!! And another!! A terrifying sight to behold...

And then a collossal ship (150 times the size of ours) began spraying liquid! We thought it was chemical weapons, panicked, and called for help with a UV flare. But Invictus Illuminati saw the flare too, and 12 ships came to investigate! They fried our ship with an EMP! 8 peeled away but 4 landed. 20 people got out, led by one taller and more slender. The big ship even sprayed over them, and Seth who was outdoors, with no bad consequences...

They knocked on our door! The 12 were led by Selena Angel.

They referred to the biggest ship as the “Flying Farmer” -- it was terraforming Wales and southern England by spraying plant seeds supported in a life-giving goo. It transpired that our very own Ella Newton’s mother is their inspiration! She operates from Bryn Bras Castle! We’re thus captured and taken to meet her!

Invictus Illuminati didn’t seem that bad after all, and we couldn’t remember why we ever thought otherwise!

Seth got given a free holiday to Dublin Cathedral. He went as a spy, yet came back bewitched by their life of leisure! He also brought me a nice book of puns as a gift.

In fact, it turned out that the most senior among the Invictus Illuminati and Brotherhood of the Old Keep are in cahoots! Colluding to bring about world change! They were freely trading every precious morsel of technical knowledge, every technique imaginable, to advance the common cause! This worried me because Invictus Illuminati could launch their laser-lifted platforms into space, but only with a special heat-resistant alloy that I was ordered to explain to them.

But we needn’t have worried... Brotherhood of the Old Keep have been building a space ship too... it landed before our very eyes... and it’s 700m long! 