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[Lord_lemonpie]

A

[Harry Baldman]

A, gotta support the troops!

[Criptfeind]

A

[Haspen]

You agree to get supplies to the besieging forces.

The envoy of King Tinwulf II is let in next.

"Greetings! I bring orders from King Tinwulf! He wishes for the Tven army to move northwards and engage Eist in its mainlands, as negotiations broke down once again and King Tinwulf decided to put some pressure on the zealot King and his stubborn court." You decide to...

A) Explain that you're laying siege to an Eist city and have spent too much to give up on it now.
B) Ask if instead of soldiers, King Tinwulf would be satisfied with war supplies.
C) Accept the orders and have the guards catch up with Marshal's messenger, telling him about this change of plans.

[Harry Baldman]

B - we should support the king to the best of our ability, but being on the move in the winter isn't the best idea, and the siege does appear to be going well thus far.

[Swordstar]

B

[NUKE9.13]

Spend spend spend! What could possibly go wrong?
...
We could lose the game? Pff, that would never happen.

But seriously, we can probably afford to spend a little here to keep the king happy without ending our siege.

B

[crazyabe]

B.

[Haspen]

You inquiry whether supplies, not troops, could be welcomed by King Tinwulf.

5to6

"I have spoken with King Tinwulf about such an alternative before I left for the Duchy," the envoy explains, "And King Tinwulf said it would be adequate if supplies will be sent instead."

Next day, loads upon loads of food, cloth, arrows nad bolts, along with a large supply of coin, leaves your palace with the envoy and many guards.

962 AD, Late Winter

A messenger from the Marshal arrives; thanks to the supplies, they were able to continue the siege and the agents speak that citizens of Eachos are suffering while your soldiers have full bellies and warm clothes to wear.

'Just a little more,' the Marshal was heard saying.

Few days later you are spooked out by the Spymaster while walking through a dimly-lit corridor.

"Our agents have managed to compile a report on the quicksilver." You nod at the Spymaster. "The Kiwi use quicksilver, and so do the Damdamians. Furthermore, the Kiwi have no cinnabar mines, but the dwarves they trade with, and Calvendocians as well, have access to cinnabar ore from which quicksilver is produced."

A) "Clearly, the Kiwi are behind this. Let's repay the favor with our own murderous plots!"
B) "Clearly, the dwarves are behind this. Let's repay the favor with our own murderous plots!"
C) "Clearly, the distant Calvendocians are behind this. Let's make them cry by forfeiting the trade agreement with them!"
D) "Thank you, I will keep that in mind."

[Criptfeind]

D

[NUKE9.13]

I mean. Yes, clearly the Kiwis did it. But revenge won't actually get us anything useful, except revenge-revenge in the form of more assassination attempts.
I say we leave it for now. Hopefully heightened security (and a food taster) will prevent this from happening again.

D

[Draignean]

D


Did our spymaster just grab a random idiot off the street and ask him what he knew? This doesn't seem like spymaster level stuff so much as it does basic logic based off common facts.

[Harry Baldman]

The Kiwis don't exactly have a motive against us (since it was the previous guy whose wife possibly poisoned their royal heir), the dwarves don't need poison to absolutely destroy us when a curse will do. The Calvendocians are a more unknown quantity, but I don't really see what reason they would have to poison us either.

So with that in mind, D as we wait for further developments.

And yeah, that's some shitty information you got there, dear Spymaster.

[Haspen]

You thank him for the report.

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Few days later you get news from around the land; the exotic foodstuffs, fine cloth and luxurious items from Calvendocia found many buyers amongst nobility and merchant class. Even some peasantry managed to get hold on the foreign items. People feel happier and your coffers swell with income from being in the trade!

962 AD, End of the Year

After a brief council with the local governors about recent wave of turnip thievery, the Advisor bumps into you and you get to glance at the Scrolls of Kingdom Status.

Happiness: 3
Population: 4
Economy: 2
Army: 3

"Our spending on war supplies this year have drained the Treasury, sire. Shall we do something about this?"

A) "Nah."
B) "Disband part of the Army so we can cash in supplies, armor and so on."
C) "Raise the taxes for a year, of course!"

[Draignean]

A