>>42521110So I've started plotting behind the backs of the rest of the party, abusing all the rights and resources our characters earned so far (it was almost 1,5 year after the campaign started and at this point our characters were in the top clique behind the imperial court) for own means. GM managed to keep most of it secret, just like intended. The biggest thrill came from the fact that rest of the party, both in and out of character didn't realise I was double-crossing them, so I keep running all Xiaohong's personal matters to the point when she was basically pulling all the strings in almost entire province. Then it was a matter of convincing the rest of the party to abandon the cause. At a sword-and-magic-fire point, to make it more dramatic. Not all of PCs were happy about the turn of events and later were trying to work as triple-agents, which only made the whole thing more fun
And then we started plotting our way to the top. We first infiltrated the rebellion as ordered, then wiped out the inner circle and since the whole thing was secret circle of secrets, nobody figured out someone took over the command. Then with funds from our personal gains AND resources provided by the empire for the cause of rooting out the rebellion we armed and trained said rebels and started a civil war within the empire and used our connections to turn as many people to our side early on as possible. Meanwhile, due to our effort nomads attacked from the other side, bounding most of imperial forces into border defense. No matter which side would won that border struggle, it would end up bleed out and unable to stop us.
>TBC 
