If the duke does grant us Arthurs land, Sir Lope will probably slit our throat while we are sleeping. Not that we even know that Arthur died.
I wouldn't say so. Uriel has no better claim than us, and the Duke does have final say, which Uriel would have to support. I like to think that we reached a level of mutual respect during our campaign, and he would support us. At worst, we retire him as our Marshal, though.
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As always, reading your cascade of quotes sends me soaring to the very heights of ecstasy, GWG.
1. Going to Curbiston is not sarcasm. It's a bold move that I wanted to sound out on others first. It is not a move to take lightly.
2. Our rise was not benevolent in some senses, particularly those senses relating to commoners. We used our people like oxen, particularly before we found the silver and gold mines to actually pay them. We were often calling on our peasants to provide much more than their fair share of unpaid feudal obligations. Even now, what we mine on an annual basis cannot possibly be coming close to the real costs of a stone wall and a large tower of the scale that we have pushed them to construct. I can price it out for you, if you really want. We are a hard-driving taskmaster of a lord, who presumes that buildings pop effortlessly into existence as we think of them, full-blown like Minerva from the brow of Jupiter. It further damns us that we don't even realize the toil and hardship involved in expanding a town at such break-neck pace, or realize that the true worth of the expansion has been far above the means that we've had at our disposal. Our firm unrelenting leadership, oblivious to the fatigue of all those beneath us, has forced the sloth out of our peasants like impurities from well-hammered steel, and this caused far more building and growth than anyone could have imagined just six years ago, when this place had a half-dozen ramshackle huts. That's the dirty little secret behind our amazing growth, but we'll make sure to leave it out of the official histories and use your version instead.
3. The plague is not close to being over. I'm amused at the statement, "the plague is pretty much dead," when every single neighbour is currently flying a black flag. Every single. In fact, the number and the severity seemed to increase last month. That means that we're one urgent message away from learning that someone collapsed with fever at a local wedding attended by a hundred other people. Hello, mass death! Goodbye, premature self-congratulation.
Also, two last things.
Gerv: Have you noticed that a couple of people have said that they'd stop paying attention to your posts? Have you considered that they might have reasons for this that you should address? Hint: They're not trolls. They're well-meaning people who don't see eye-to-eye with you. That's not the problem; I don't see eye-to-eye with lots of people, but I've never managed to alienate two people in the same suggestion game, let alone within the same topic of discussion. You may wish to reconsider both your style of suggestions and your attitude.
First, Gamerlord clearly had the problem. A guy addresses me with vile language because of a proposal in a game. If he wanted to change me, because in the midst of playing an anonymous forum game he peered deeply into my soul and judged it wanting, then I thank him for the concern, but must inform him that his subsequent choice of words and actions were the wrong approach entirely and have brought his own role as an umblemished judge of character into question. I refuse to bend an inch to accommodate people who respond to me in such a disrespectful manner.
Second, if I were to, in a stroke of un-Gervish thinking, suddenly somehow become cynical and calculating, I might be tempted to point out that when people who usually disagree with my methods decide to ignore my posts, it gives me an excellent opportunity to continue suggesting the things that I like, without having to bicker around as much as usual. When my suggestions mysteriously appear in the story, they can blame it on a little devil sitting on Sam Stone's shoulder. For my part, I find that it is better to ignored in hell, than to be overruled in heaven. Everyone who strongly disagrees with me on a regular basis should at least consider the possibility of ignoring me. That'll teach me! Teach me real good like.
If you look the thread over, you'll see that I have already changed my
attitude to be more much more calm and patient. One thing that won't happen is that I change my
style of suggestions. I don't want what
those people want. You're wrong to even suggest that I or anyone else should conform to the petulance of others.
Finally, although I've responded, I don't desire or expect a reply to this part. There is no room to negotiate on this. They did nothing toward me worth changing my mind, and what you suggest as a solution is absolutely horrific, something that I myself would never suggest to them.
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