[b][h2]Duskwood[/h2][/b]

A solution had been discovered to the problem of combining the Plague of Undeath and the Worgen Curse together!

...Well, part of a solution anyway. There were still a lot of unknowns for the wider plan, but at least there was a solid, theoretical foundation to make it work and instead of blundering blindly forwards it was now going to be a case of figuring out how to craft the path they needed. 

As much as his pride might have stung to admit it, Bautic had not been able to come to the conclusion by himself. After trying a number of times by himself, he had at last decided to bring in his most advance class of necromancers into the fold of his plans to destroy the city of Stormwind, how they were going to do it and the tools they were going to do it with. He had only needed to kill one of them who suffered an unfortunate case of traditional light morality; Less then he was expecting but still more then he hoped. The loss was unfortunate, but it served to be educational in that it would help him better tailor future classes to try and weed such things out sooner.   

Once he had a team to assist him, ideas that he hadn't considered were raised. Some needed to be turned down due to his understanding of why they wouldn't work, but he had made a point of giving those students who suggested them some credit for using their brains. It was actually Luther, the son of a doctor who had worked with the Stonemasons and joined them both in protest and exile, who had offered a seemingly novel idea that quickly gained ground. 

"If the Worgen Curse fights the Plague of Undeath while the two are active in the body at the same time, what if we developed a strain of the Plague that remained dormant until the host body died?"

This... would require some work. A new strain of the Plague of Undeath would need to be developed, but even without the idea of combining it with the Worgen Curse the idea had merit. Long term infection who's only visible symptom was the occasional infected person dying and raising from the dead, seemingly at random with no clear cause. It had taken time to develop, with a couple of strains along the way that failed to live up to what it needed to be. But in the end, they had something that met their requirements. 

They had tested it out on a Night Watch recruit they had caught on their own and one of the latest worgen test subjects. Both had gone two days without any sign of symptoms and when they were killed their corpses raise without issue or outside interference beyond establishing control. A more long term trial was currently underway, to see if the strain held up over a period of time. That was alright through; Because it gave them time to work on the next step of making this whole situation workable for the grander plan. 

Namely, they needed to find a way of consistently killing the plague infected Worgen in a timely manner.

While the current stage of their creation would likely be enough to majorly damage, if not destroy Stormwind... and possibly other cities as well, but the issue was that while some Worgen would almost certainly die during the outbreak, there was a very serious chance that they would win the day and suddenly Stormwind would be swarming with feral death creatures that couldn't be controlled by necromancy or the Lich King... and they would scurry out of the city in search of food soon after. 

The solution to this problem was currently a work in progress, but fundamentally it was this: Alongside the Plague and the Curse, they needed to infuse something into their delivery method that was completely harmless when it entered the human body, but turned decidedly deadly once they transformed into a worgen. Didn't have to kill them instantly, but it did [i]need[/i] to end their lives [i]before[/i] the critical mass was reached and the future of the Eastern Kingdoms belonged to those with fur and teeth instead of the Lich King. 

A challenge, to be sure. But there were always more worgen to test theories on.