The party decided to go meet with Blind General Didelus, both to confront her about her public disparagement of the party, and to gauge what role she might possibly play in their unification project.
Didelus met with the party in her Auditorium–formerly a high school gym, but now with a podium installed. She was forthcoming about why she doesn’t like the party: they were big and visible players with a huge fortress who went around causing political chaos all over the place, yet they never seemed to have an employer that Didelus could point to. They were wild cannons, working apparently to their own ends, and enndangering the carefully cultivated neutrality of the entire Fighting Mongoose territory.
The party argued that the neutrality was kinda stupid and destructive, and that as time marched on the Fighting Mongoose would either need to find a way to survive without parasitically feeding off the Dome’s conflicts, or they’d wind up destroying themselves. Didelus wouldn’t hear any of it, proudly saying that SHE was not ashamed of their people’s proud heritage of mercenary work, even if the party was.
Nothing productive resulted form the interview. Everyone walked away from it certain that the other side was foolish and that no peace could ever exist between them. It seemed that things would inevitably come to blows, but not today. Didelus did suggest that she’d be happy to leave the party alone if they moved out of Fighting Mongoose territory. Jeb was open to this idea, but the party was reluctant to abandon all that they’d built in Trumpquatia, and knew Umquat would never agree to it.
The party ended with an extended discussion of what the party might do to access one of the Four Pillars in the hopes that they might house some of the Dome’s automated management systems. The party didn’t take any actions to pursue this goal, just discussed potential angles of attack.