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@cunningrat1

Stultus shakes his head emphatically. He's a complete dolt when it comes to fighting, but when it comes to being sneaky and underhanded that's not the case. Not by a long shot. "Scouting is a good idea... but not a single false shipment. Multiple small shipments, real ones, with real goods. Not valuable goods, so we don't lose too much money, but we'll vastly overstate their value when talking about them, so as to make them a tempting target." He looks from Jacques to Alexei and back. "We make a big production of sending them out 'in secret', and keep very careful track of which covenfolk know about which route. If one of the shipments gets hit, we know which group of covenfolk might be passing information to Montverte... and Montverte doesn't know we're on to them, which is equally important."

Tranquillina has told the Mons Electi council about this, but some of them might not remember: she regularly speaks to important covenfolk and uses Mentem magic to check for hidden motives (see here for details). It's not a surefire way of detecting malice, but it should be both partially effective and relevant to efforts of this nature. Play it how you like....