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[King Zultan]

Keep going. Hiding in an alley or something will make us look more suspicious. And if night falls and traffic becomes reduced we will be more suspicious or at least more likely to be stopped. Stick to crowded streets as much as possible and keep going.

+1 Being suspicious is probably something we don't want right now.

[Superdorf]

Keep going. Hiding in an alley or something will make us look more suspicious. And if night falls and traffic becomes reduced we will be more suspicious or at least more likely to be stopped. Stick to crowded streets as much as possible and keep going.

+1 Being suspicious is probably something we don't want right now.

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[Naturegirl1999]

Keep going. Hiding in an alley or something will make us look more suspicious. And if night falls and traffic becomes reduced we will be more suspicious or at least more likely to be stopped. Stick to crowded streets as much as possible and keep going.

+1 Being suspicious is probably something we don't want right now.

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[piecewise]

Keep going. Hiding in an alley or something will make us look more suspicious. And if night falls and traffic becomes reduced we will be more suspicious or at least more likely to be stopped. Stick to crowded streets as much as possible and keep going.

+1 Being suspicious is probably something we don't want right now.

+1

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You decide to risk it and head towards the library, doing you absolute best to look as banal and utterly ordinary as possible. They still stop you. 

The soldier asks for your papers and you present them calmly, trying to project a kind of mildly inconvenienced boredom. The soldier looks the papers over quickly, glancing back and forth between them and you a few times.  He asks you about the packages and has you open them for him to see. The camping gear goes by without issue, but the hawk takes a bit more explaining. You tell him its a specimen for the Mortibund Private Library, you tell him the dealer you got it from, you even recite the species name as though it were as simple and self evident as anything. He eventually shrugs and  is just about to hand you your papers back when he stops. He stares at you for a moment, apparently confused. You can see the gears working in his head, his eyes locked on your face.  You keep your hand out, waiting for the papers and trying to remain cool.  The man doesn't give them to you, instead he steps back and looks at them again before folding them up.

"Stay here. I just need to confirm something." He says, and he walks away from you, back towards a small outpost of sorts they've set up on the sidewalk. You hear a voice within, a familiar female voice.  The guard disappears into the outpost and you can hear him talking to the unseen woman, but you can't tell about what. At this point you can tell that a normal person would probably be very afraid but you feel oddly calm. You consider the situation in a detached manner.  This man seems to have recognized you somehow. There are really only two possibilities: Either your resemblance to a younger Kelley is making him think he's seen you before, or somehow there's an image of you out among the soldiers. Maybe your heists or murders didn't go as well as you thought? Maybe some postcog or remote viewer caught your face somewhere along the line? Is there a wanted poster for you in that outpost?

You consider your options. There are...three other soldiers on the street right now, probably 5 or 6 in total if you include the one that just left and the one or multiple in the outpost. You might be able to slip away without them noticing if you move quick. You're not armed so fighting would be a big risk and quite difficult. Or you could wait and see what happens. It might be nothing at all. Of course, if you are wanted, things might escalate very fast. You already confirmed a connection to the Library, it could bring trouble for them. Then again...running might also do that.

[Naturegirl1999]

Well crap, do we wait or run? If we aren’t wanted and we run, we will then be suspicious, however if we are wanted and stay, we will very likely either die or get captured, maybe made into a host for a phantom or simply turned into a puppet...thoughts?

[Egan_BW]

If they know who we are, the only option which contains this from the library is if we kill everyone present. This is something we're capable of, assuming there's nobody here with magic BS. We are quite durable.
On the other hand, if it's nothing, then attacking immediately will create unnecessary heat.

Wait. If they ask about us resembling Alexander, say it's a coincidence.
If they try to arrest us, order our body to slit the throat of the nearest enemy, then move on to kill everyone else in the outpost. Afterwards, catch a large phantom, place it in a body, and order it to consume all memories present in order to deny them to the enemy.

[Naturegirl1999]

If they know who we are, the only option which contains this from the library is if we kill everyone present. This is something we're capable of, assuming there's nobody here with magic BS. We are quite durable.
On the other hand, if it's nothing, then attacking immediately will create unnecessary heat.

Wait. If they ask about us resembling Alexander, say it's a coincidence.
If they try to arrest us, order our body to slit the throat of the nearest enemy, then move on to kill everyone else in the outpost. Afterwards, catch a large phantom, place it in a body, and order it to consume all memories present in order to deny them to the enemy.

Ok, the ordering to deny them from the enemy bit isn’t necessary, phantoms will eat the memories regardless, +1

[Eschar]

How about "do everything Egan said but eat the memories ourselves, and make sure to use precionmancer mode when fighting"?

[Naturegirl1999]

How about "do everything Egan said but eat the memories ourselves, and make sure to use precionmancer mode when fighting"?

we don’t need to eat memories to live, I don’t think we are a phantom. Phantoms require memories to survive. It makes more sense to give them the memories, I would think.

[Egan_BW]

It takes time for us to consume memories ourselves, time we would be spending completely defenseless squatting in a butchered outpost. We eat one person out of 15, reinforcements arrive, we die.
If we catch a phantom, it can destroy the memories for us while we run. Depending on how fast the enemy react to the dead outpost, they might be able to send a necromancer or other Talent to absorb the memories before they're naturally eaten by ambient phantoms, which would lead them right back to us. It is imperitive that we ensure the dead soldiers' memories are destroyed quickly, before the enemy can retrieve them. The only way to do that without putting our own self in danger is to order a phantom to do so.

[Egan_BW]

Unrelated conjecture. Our face resembles a younger Alexander. But it may not be identical, as when Esme first met us, she said that we resemble someone she knew a long time ago. In addition, we have no evidence that we have the ability to freely morph our flesh like a shapeshifter. So our face is not that of old Alexander, and we don't think it's possible that Alexander changed his own face to appear younger.
So what I believe happened is that Alexander created us using the body of something with a face closely resembling his own. Thus, it's possible that this soldier recognises us from a missing person notice or similar. This could be bad for us, because the name on our papers would not be the same as the missing person's name, and we would have to explain where we've been and why we have a different identity.

[Eschar]

If he used a different but similar-looking person, couldn't we, well, just say we happen to look like Kelley? Of course, I don't think that'd convince them.

If they know who we are, the only option which contains this from the library is if we kill everyone present. This is something we're capable of, assuming there's nobody here with magic BS. We are quite durable.
On the other hand, if it's nothing, then attacking immediately will create unnecessary heat.

Wait. If they ask about us resembling Alexander, say it's a coincidence.
If they try to arrest us, order our body to slit the throat of the nearest enemy, then move on to kill everyone else in the outpost. Afterwards, catch a large phantom, place it in a body, and order it to consume all memories present in order to deny them to the enemy.

Ok, the ordering to deny them from the enemy bit isn’t necessary, phantoms will eat the memories regardless, +1

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[Egan_BW]

If he used a different but similar-looking person, couldn't we, well, just say we happen to look like Kelley? Of course, I don't think that'd convince them.

The issue then wouldn't be our connection to Kelly, but the fact that we're supposed to be missing presumed dead by now. And the name we picked for ourself, which we put on the papers, would not match the face of the person that Kelly used.

[Naturegirl1999]

I’m wondering, would we have do do anything to summon phantoms or will they flock to the abundant food of memories and mana?

[Dunamisdeos]

I say wait to see what he says when he comes back.

If they try to arrest us, flip the fuck out. I agree, the only way to completely isolate any trouble from the library is to kill everyone here. Hopefully it's something silly. Stay cool.