Try and track down a more skilled spymaster for personal training.
[4] You gather rumors and information, and in the end there is no doubt left in your mind. [6] The best spymasters of the known world are here, in Windheath; they go by the name of the Spiders, and are the greatest crime lords of their time.
Hunt the drakes with Renart.
[3] Your men go down into the valley, but you fail to find prints - there is no snow at this time of the year, sadly - and your dogs cannot find any scent. [1] The alternative strategy of sending riders into the woods to try and force the drakes out of their hiding is just as successful; riders start disappearing. [6] Your men explore the woods in larger parties, determined to find their prey. One of the bands [4] lead by a clan lord falls behind.
No member of that party returns to the camp once the night falls. Frost drakes are hunters, like men, and some in your band start wondering who is hunting who.
Attempt to explain to the peasents that I own these villages now and ask the king for some documented proof
Use Ban Yi Soong's ship as bargaining tool. Tell them it is a Merchant ship, and remind them what it has.
[1] The bandit moves faster than you have ever seen anyone move; he takes out a club from his belt and hits you square on the head. You hear a vague buzzing noise and fall to the ground, blood falling before your eyes. As you lose conscience, you hear the man's words...
"Trying to negotiate with a highwayman in that situation... I'm nearly feeling sorry for..."[1] You wake up in a clearing in the forest. The bandits have left you your breaches, and nothing else. You have no idea what time it is, or where you are. [5] Someone left you a note in the clearing, however. It reads
"Road that way" and there is an arrow scratched on the bark of a tree. The bandit must have been honest when he said he didn't want to kill anyone obviously retarded.
Action: The King offers to dance with Eliza first.
[2] Eliza accepts to dance with you with a delighted smile. However, just as you start moving towards the dance floor, someone rushes towards you and whispers a few words.
"Your Highness - His Majesty Charles IX and His Majesty William III have arrived. The steward slowed them down so you could welcome them at the entrance. Pardon me, my lady..."With that, the herald half leads and half pulls you toward the door, forcing you to abandon the young lady. As soon as you are there, he quickly says a few words of apology and opens the door of the hall.
[5] The first man to enter is Charles, King of Arendalis. A tall, slender man in his forties, with brown hair and simple garments (for a king - he would still make any Duc look like a peasant), he is obviously a natural leader of men. He bows before you - a custom technically required by guests, but that no king would normally have been humble enough to respect - and speaks in a warm and flowing tone.
"Albert Conricht of Windheath, I am pleased to meet you. I wished to come here to congratulate you for your crowning, and to present [1] my daughter to you and your nobility. She is the youngest of my children, and time has come for her, I believe, to marry a man worthy of her birth."[3] The second man is William, King of Normark. He is smaller and apparently much stronger than Charles, and he is also in his forties. He bows, but you feel that he only did so because the other royal did, and he smiles politely, if not warmly, at you before speaking.
"Albert, I am most honored to finally meet you. Like my [4] peer, I have decided to visit you to congratulate you for the beginning of your reign, and to present the ladies of my family to your kingdom. [4] With me are two of my daughters and my two younger sisters, all without a husband."