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This is peak unlikely allies--agents of havoc, about as true a villain as the setting has without getting in to Your Dudes territory, being trusted because there really isn't any other option. Definitely a jam topper.

I dig the unlikely allies angle coming from the protagonist having to fast talk her way into the cultist's good graces.  Also, for those questioning the alliance, the first paragraph states that robot legions interrupted the fighting, not that the protag would be killing more DAO soldiers. As for the pronoun verification, on the one hand I appreciate the inclusion but on the other I feel like it could have been included a bit more smoothly.

That's a fantastic point, I got wrapped up in the avatar core bit and just dropping something about "odd energy signatures" while the elves were "extended too far to turn back" or something like that would have done a world of good. Thanks a ton!
Also that's two people saying it has an Artemis Fowl feel and I never read the books XD

In retrospect I totally see what you mean about the factions themselves being logical allies when you look at the fluff, even if there probably are robot legions and DER kabals who don't trust each other. Scales of grey, right? I'd hoped the idea of the Elven noble superiority might play up the idea of the upper class thinking it would be unlikely that the lower classes would actually band together--playing in to class power coming partially from pitting those lower than your own against each other.

Hell yeah fellow rat fan, definitely one of the favorites of the jam
(Jerma references are also a +2)