Delita kneels before Duke Goltana, a white-robed advisor and blue-cassocked cleric to his left, a brown-hooded warrior and a black-haired mage to his right.
The Duke: “My advisors tell me you are the one who rescued Princess Ovelia. I would have you tell me more.”
Delita: “I am Delita Heiral, a Blackram lieutenant in the service of His Excellency the Baron Grimms.”
So, yes, a total lie (but not like he’s gonna say “I’m best buds with a Beoulve kid”).
Delita continues: “His Excellency dispatched me to rescue the princess. And so I did, disguised as one of your own—a sheep in Lion’s clothing. Now I have returned.”
So, yeah, he said ‘rescue the princess’ and I did. By myself. What, like it’s hard? I AM the reinforcements. Oh, I did dress as one of your totally awesome soldiers to do it. That’s why I’m in their clothes, no other reason.
The white-robed man and Goltana question Delita in turn:
White Robes (Chancellor Glevanne): “Heiral, you say? That is not a name I’ve heard before.”
Goltanna: “I had thought Baron Grimms and his Blackrams felled in battle against the Eye a fortnight past.”
Oh shit! Is our boy about to get caught out? Has he told one lie to many?
NO! Delita plays his Uno Reverse card!
“Indeed. That dark news spurred me to return with all the greater haste.” And since the unit was wiped out, his claim to have been a member is conveniently unfalsifiable! Genius.
Watch in awe as he spins himself a cover story that makes him look like both a loyal subject of Goltanna’s and a casual badass, with pretty much zero chance of exposure (though that nosy Chancellor seems like he could be a problem…). That done, now he can blow the lid off Larg’s plot and…
#FFTactics