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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[Haspen]

Apparently it's a tie 4-4 for B and D choices.

Gib more votes ;v

[Culise]

I'd vote B if it were more polite diplomatic; I don't feel we can afford to dump our entire economy into another nation's war.  Even a loan isn't very beneficial: as the old joke goes, if you owe the bank a hundred thousand, you have a problem, but if you owe the bank a hundred million, the bank has a problem.  Absent that, though, I'll continue to abstain; I don't believe implying that a vastly more powerful ruler a fool is very wise, either. 

[helmacon]

@happen

I counted
 5 b
4d
3c

[ZBridges]

D

[Kashyyk]

 Because this is a big question that involves spending 0 or 7 economy, I'd like id to wait until one option has a distinct advantage before continuing.

[Baffler]

I'll change my vote to B.

[Iituem]

I'll change my vote to a diplomatic B, as well - they still haven't sent us the fireblood designs, are they taking us for a ride?

[Haspen]

You tell the envoy rather forcefully that King Elran III won't have Methiant money.

4

"I'm sure however, that such a powerful and wise monarch like you would be willing to negotiate?"

A) "Fine, I can loan him half the money requested." (4 Economy, 4 years repayment)
B) "Fine, I can spare half the money he wants as a gift." (2 Economy)
C) "I shall not repeat myself. Now shoo!"

[Kashyyk]

B See, this is a reasonable request.

[Criptfeind]

Can't we ask where our promised fireblood is?

But, other then that these are much more reasonable, this envoy could be at the head of a small (or even large) army of Ankurvat mercenaries by the time he comes back with this amount of cash. Honestly what did he even want all that money for previously? Was his plan to just buy out the enemy nations entirely?

[crazyabe]

A.

[Iituem]

A is much more reasonable; we can spend half our economy on our most favoured ally without just bankrupting ourselves.  Once, of course, we get those Fireblood designs we were promised.

C, given the argument below.  We have no reason to believe these ambassadors are even real.  Give us the documents, then we'll talk about a loan.

[melkor]

A

[Harry Baldman]

A, that's much more workable.

[mightymushroom]

Spoiler: the post I almost posted (click to show/hide)

They haven't fulfilled their earlier promise yet. We shouldn't risk half the treasury on this weasel when explicitly promised no profit at all.

B ut we can afford some outright spending so long as we don't overdo it.

(I'm a little tempted, but not seriously, at this point to secretly send the same amount to Koi or Kiwi, because Elran is proving an expensive ally and I wouldn't mind seeing his country destabilized.)

@Haspen: Speaking of which, what's our relationship with Koi like right now? Cool, outright hate, they respect our audacity? We've not actually heard from them about this conquest of their supposed ally Felonsein.

But then I had second thoughts.

Hear me out, people. This envoy appears to have an offer. But so did the last one: the false envoy was not an assassin but some sort of destabilizing agent. I'm seriously questioning whether any of these "Eldrican" envoys have told the truth. They offer a lot of "deals" where we bear the risk and they offer vague promises of little or no profit "when the war is concluded."

Now, last year we were well prepared and expansion was likely in the cards: so if they tricked us into marching, it was to our benefit anyway. This year they ask for money, and when we refuse the outrageous they come back with half of outrageous on the same questionable terms.

C I expect Fireblood technical papers. Prove that you can fulfill your original terms and then we will discuss further cooperation.