Challenge #04722-L338: Not the Best Laid Plan

When the conspirators are trapped, their plans come to ruin, someone has to be responsible and that one will have to pay the ultimate price for stupidity… -- Deathshead419

It had been a simple enough plan of sorts. Assassinate the new Earl, gain the favour of the old Earl, and perhaps that of the favoured son. It may even gain them the favour of their liege lord for removing an obvious problem. Others who knew of their plot insisted that no good would come of attempting to assassinate the newest Demon Lord of Whitekeep.

Ill things happened, they said. Leave him rule, they said. They should have listened.

Fynneb had taken the shot anyway, and paid the ultimate price when their new Hellkin Lord snatched the arrow out of the air and sent it right back into Fynneb's eye. It killed her instantly. The rest of them tried to flee, but the Castle Guard and the City Watch had both been ruthlessly overhauled by a paranoid maniac.

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