Interesting how all the attacks happen simultaneously, isn't it?

I've always liked Robson (or is it the actor that plays him?) Always so properly British.

Let's see what the next step is in this deadly game of Go.

Plenty of attacks still to come too. Not just to the
Council too, their allies too.

Thanks for the review.

A well written build-up to the attack.

Poor Giles, he hates the management gig.

Thanks for the review.

So has all Hell broken loose, or have all the Hells broken loose?

Either way, the Senior Partners have set up the board rather well, and now the pieces are in motion. Giles and the rest will have to play a most dangerous gambit if they wish to come out of this intact by any definition of the word.

I'll have to reread this to get an exact sense of what is going on and what's on the table here, but from the closing lines of this chapter it looks bad. Might be time before all is said and done to go to the mattresses ...

Going to the mattresses is exactly what the next stage will be!

Thanks for the review.

a most interesting start. Sounds like you got one crazy and wild ride for us to read.

I certainly hope so.

Thanks for the review.

So, a three-sided game of chess, hm?

Sounds very nice.

I'm looking forward to whatever events will unfold.

Who knows if the end of the world will involve just three sides????

Thanks for the review.

The fecal matter is about to hit the rotary impeller.

I foresee that the Council will be decimated, like in another one of your stories. With the amount of firepower arranged against them, I don't think that without some major weapon or power in their hands, the Council will not survive. And even if it does, it will have lost the majority of its personnel and holdings. It's quite likely they will never be able to defeat W&H, especially with their farflung, inter-dimensional holdings.

Whoa, that's pessimestic.

Of course, I have written dark before, so who knows????

Thanks for the review!

And the crossovers keep on growing. Great writing, thanks.

And there's loads more to come, the Prez, the National Security Advisor, etc, etc.

Thanks for the review!

Holee crap...this is starting to look like the prelude to a Code Ragnarök ...would that actually happen?

Short chapters but a good setup, looking forward to more so I'll start tracking this-- keep it up!

I'm not aware what a Code Ragnarök is?

Oh right, had a brief scan. It's similar in breadth and width,
although not involving either Marvel or DC, but doesn't involve the opening of Hellmouths. Actually taken a longer look, no
my story is no-where near as ambitious. Lol.

Thanks for the review, as always appreciated.

A cracking good set-up.

Hope I don't disappoint.

Thanks for the review.

Lots of crossovers in this one, lot to keep track of. A good start though. One nitpick, it's Tasker, not Trasker. As for going up against W&H, it's a very big task. After all, it's a multi-dimensional firm while the Council is firmly rooted in a single dimension. I don't know how smart it was going after them. They can pull assets from other dimensions easily. Still, I'm looking forward to see where this goes.

Yeah, someone else pointed out that mistake.

And yes, that's EXACTLY what W&H are going to do.

Thanks for the review.

Good. Thirty billion sounds like a lot, but I wonder how long it would last given the size of the organization you describe.

Yeah. If you consider each Council House employs about sixty people (with the HQ employing maybe a hundred), that's a lot of wages, and then there's equipment, medical insurance etc.

Thanks for the review.