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[Score a G]

Once again you are at the forest's edge, overlooking the Danube and Vienna. The nearby village of Ramallolies under a pall of smoke. The mongols have finished their grisly work and a pile of corpses which lack ears lies near the edge of the village. You can see your own footsteps, muddled with hoofprints on the ground outside.

As you reach for your Holo-detector, a black disc-like shape crosses your path of vision, streaking skyward with a sound like a thunderclap. CAIN chimes,'A small Ion Drive craft, probably a flyer, has taken off nearby.' You ask for an estimate of its destination and CAIN responds, 'I estimate China. The mongol capital, Karakorum, is in China, Falcon. Let me remind you that Ogedai Khan should be dying there even now. If he lives all Europe will be ravaged by the Golden Horde and civilisation will be set back a thousand years.' Do you: