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[Maldevious]

Year 4, December

With December comes a cruel snowstorm, sending you inside your new manor. You spend the days in consultation with the Council, working on a few basic tenets for the planning of the city. You agree that you need to have some flexibility, but that houses should be built along roads, and that roads should intersect at 90 degrees. You also reserve space every few streets for public buildings in the future, should you desire to build them. You also set aside a parcel for trash hauling, with a pit to be dug there in the spring, and a separate graveyard. The Council is amenable to these suggestions.

You dash a note off to The Rat, as well, and he tells you that he has gotten a few sworn statements that the Count was connected to your initial assassination attempt, as well as the "accident" at the joust. He is collecting evidence for your use at a later date. He also tells you that there is some rumblings of some shady business regarding the Count forging a claim on your mines, but nothing seems to have come of it at the moment.

You send letters out asking for a trainer of horses, and to your surprise, a man and his family shows up despite the storm. He is an expert horse trainer, and he tells you that in exchange for a good house and land, he'll train and run your horse breeding program. You take him up on the offer.

There are some thoughts of holding a winter festival, but the weather is simply too wicked. No one would want to leave their houses, so you tuck the idea away for a later date. Similarly, your search for an apothecary and a sculptor are postponed by the weather.

You spend the majority of your time out hunting and training with your Rangers. You move to appoint a Captain, but find that one man is already the de facto leader, so you simply formalize his title. Your ranging grows your skill as a woodsman.

While out one day in your forest, you stumble across what seems to be the remnants of a camp. You find several of the camps over the next few days, and conclude that there are either bandits or poachers operating on your lands again.

Any plans for January?

Spoiler: "Sir Samuel Stone" (click to show/hide)

Age: 22 (February birthday)
Good Health
Elite Fitness
Literate
Natural Archer
Fine Man of the People
Above Average Swordswman
Above Average Rider
Above Average Woodsman
Average Etiquette
Average Lancer
Novice Legal Mind
Novice Shield User
Poor Rhetoric

Spoiler: "Equipment and Possessions" (click to show/hide)

Weapons
Militia-grade Short Sword
Fine Longsword
Iron Lance

Armor
Mail Shirt
Brigandine Armor
Fur cloak and leggings
Iron Shield

Transport
Felucca
Mottled Grey Hunter

Housing and Misc.
Brick and Lumber Manor
Falconry Mews
Average Clothing
Silver Sun Necklace with Gold Pendant
Bound New Testament
Book of Laws
Cask of Beer
Stone Weights

Spoiler: "Feroshire (Capital Thown)" (click to show/hide)

Treasury - Low
171 Citizens

Services and Housing
Nice Communal Housing
Mix of Wood and Brick Housing
Nice Inn
Small Courthouse

Defense
Wooden Palisade

Trade and Travel
Brick Roads
Medium Brick Paved Market
Modest dockyard
Two-way Ferry

Industry
Large Clayworks
Smokehouse
Watermill (Lumber Mill and Grindstone)
Growing Shipyard
Brewery
Stables - Large herd of horses
Small Furniture Workshop

Spoiler: "Your Land" (click to show/hide)

Medium (5x city size) population (Loyal)
River Parlon (fertile banks on both sides, light forest to the north)

Farming
Nice parcel farms south of the river (two plantings per season)
Fine Communal Farm
Small Vineyard

Defense
Average Barracks, Armory, and Obstacle Course with Furnaces and Forges
Jousting practice field

Trade and Travel
Gravel Roads
Medium Warehouse

Industry
Small Fishing Fleet
Mines north of river (silver, copper, gold, iron, gems)
   * Small community of miners in communal houses

Misc.
Trash Pit
Graveyard

Spoiler: "Your Forces" (click to show/hide)

Ranged - Longbows, iron short swords, fur armor, mounts
Five veteran Archers
Five regular Rangers
Ten regular Archers
Five green Rangers

Melee - Iron halberds, iron brigandine armor, iron short swords, mounts
Twenty green Halberdiers

Reserve - Iron short swords, fur armor, wooden shields
Ten green Watchmen
Mandatory Bow or Halberd Training for Able-bodied Men

Spoiler: "Your people" (click to show/hide)

Skilled Potters
Above Average Jewelers
Above Average Trappers
Journeymen Miners
Journeymen Metalworkers
Journeymen Masons
Journeymen Furniture Builders
Novice Horse Breeders
Novice Weaponsmiths
Novice Armorers

Spoiler: "Nearby" (click to show/hide)

Market Town of Carshire - One day's ride on main road
Folesden - Land of Count Foles - Downstream
   * Curbiston - County Seat of Folesden
Land of Sir Denton - Upstream
Land of Sir Percival - Adjacent to Sir Denton's land, across the river
Hemswood Abbey - Far Upstream - Known for dark beer
Lands of Duke Erran - Across the river to the north - Used for hunting

Spoiler: "Known Lords by Rank and Relationship" (click to show/hide)

King Edward Geronos IV, Lord of the Falls, Keeper of the Flame, Seer of the Dawn - Vaguely remembered

Duke Erran - Pleasant

Count Aaron Foles - Your Liege Lord - An angry drunkard - Suspicious
Count Gorgan - A fine fighter - Introduced
Count Zanders - Introduced

Sir Blake Denton - Friendly
Sir Alan Percival - Friendly
Sir Uriel Lope - Count's Marshall - Unsure
Sir Melvin - Lady Marna's brother, Duke Erran's nephew - Polite
Sir Ivanson - A renowned jouster - Introduced

Lady Marna - Infatuated

Spoiler: "Important Citizens by Occupation" (click to show/hide)

Alan Alanson - Squire, Captain of the Watch
Fin - Captain of the Militia
William Dent - Steward, Mayor
Victor Irlof - Master of the Market, Treasurer
Curtis Stumpf - Miner, Councilman
Ian Wood - Carpenter, Councilman
Marge Kannity - Brewer

Shipwright
Architect
Armorer
Weaponsmith
Horse Breeder

[kahn1234]

Ask the Rat to keep investigating. We want a case that is as watertight as possible against the Count before we contact the Duke.

And have our rangers, between training, go out on patrol to search for these bandits/poachers and apprehend them if possible.

[Gervassen]

This is why we're Lord. We should track the bandits ourself at the head of our rangers and mete out justice.

[Talvara]

This is why we're Lord. We should track the bandits ourself at the head of our rangers and mete out justice.

first we obtain intelligence, then we decide on a course of action. for all we know they're refugees.

[Gervassen]

And we do that intelligence-gathering ourselves proactively without delay. Unknown bands roving on our land is not a small thing to be delegated away. For all we know, these people are infiltrators from the Count, staging in preparation to seize our mines.

Possession is... that's right, you guessed it... nine-tenths of the law. If the Count is working on a legal claim, he can't possibly be foolish enough to think that mere paper would enough to make us hand it over. A legal claim would be an afterthought to justify seizing it by force.

[JpRagavan]

Camps nearby might be a serious matter, So we should send regular patrols around the town. (Atleast in groups of 3 or 4 soldiers )

Winter might ease out in January, so we should send hunters to the woods to gather some meat since winter reduced our stockpiles

[Gervassen]

Patrols aren't enough. Let's hunt these guys down as a first priority this month. If there's snow, it shouldn't be too hard to track them. If they're refugees, then we've ascertained this quickly and can go back to business as normal. If they're a threat, whether independent or under hidden outside control, we deal with it swiftly enough to send a message that we're an unblinking hawk in defense of our territory. 

[jaass]

Going in blindly is a bad idea we need to find out more information before we go to make a decision. We should also consider building some defences around the mining site preferably with some choke points to make the halberds more effective.

[Gervassen]

Fortune favors the brave. Tally-ho!

[Theodolus]

I would be more inclined to send out our rangers to track down the vagrants and ascertain whether they are bandits or just homeless. Ultimately it's not our job to personally hunt down interlopers on our land. That's why we have rangers and other military men. Our job would be to dispense justice if any are brought back to the village by the rangers.

[tryrar]

Agreed. We need to have our rangers scout them out beforehand, no need to get personally involved yet. Stop being gloryhounds guys, it'll get us killed(what if this is a trap of the count's to lure us out into the open?)

[Gervassen]

We're a knight, we are the military man of which you speak. We were given this land in order to be an armed warden of it, and not some thin-blooded mere administrator, trembling with the palsy of old age and fear. These rabble that we have trained and termed rangers are fair enough, but incursions on our property of such a size to require several camps are not a trifle to delegate to underlings.

This land is our charge to keep, with the sword given us by the king, and an oath made before God and the Crown. Let's gather our forces and do a riding throughout our lands until we have hunted down these slinking skulkers.

[jaass]

^ Yes, let go hunting for bandits based on some camp sites that could be months old now and have we no idea how many bandit are there. We need more information before acting it would be dumb to move against an unknown enemy.

[Fishybang]

Ninja.

Also yes you need to calm down dude, lets let our rangers do what they have been training for.

[Gervassen]

You guys never let me have any fun. This time, I yield. Next time, you have to let me get the wind in my hair.