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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.

[ZBridges]

C

[Prophet]

C

[milo christiansen]

C More info never hurt...

[Haspen]

You ask him to tell in detail what he knows about the ledgers and the mountains.

5

He obliges eagerly, weaving a tale about how he procured the ledgers from a band of adventurers who profited during the conquest of Donuth (they looted it from abandoned governor's house), and how he made research of the ledgers' contents, and then he tells you about Tven mountains and the ores and stones that were found there, and how it means that silver is there.

Unfortunately for him, you recently read a book about geology, and some details you remember simply don't work with what he said. After being confronted with this, the prospector gets nervous and tries to 'straighten' his tale but only digs him deeper. Soon, the charlatan is hauled away to the royal dungeons!

The Advisor strokes his beard for a while and then leans toward you.

"My liege, while he was a lair, in every tale there is a seed of truth. Mayhaps we should send our own agents to check the area in the mountains he described?"

A) "Sure, a cursory search won't hurt."
B) "Nah, they will only discover the obvious."

[milo christiansen]

A, as long as it doesn't cost too much.

[Criptfeind]

A

[Kashyyk]

 If setting up a mining operation costs a point of two of wealth I doubt sending some prospectors will cost more than a negligable amount.

A

[helmacon]

A

[Prophet]

A I doubt sending a couple of people to check will actually give a visible dent to our wealth if it cost anything at all in the first place and if there is stuff there then awesome! We really need more resources to return to our former level of prosperity. I'd like for us to eventual become a major economic power like we were on the road to being before we hired that sorceress and our silver mines dried up.

[ZBridges]

A

[Haspen]

You agree to have some prospectors camp in the mountains for a while and see if there's any ore to be mined.

1108 AD, Autumn

Money arrives from Queen Dogethe! Per agreement, it equals three years of taxation.

1108 AD, Winter

As every year, gemstones mined out in the south are sent east to Eldrican.

Few days later, during a rather peaceful winter evening, you entertain yourself by reading some sultry books penned by some bards. As the night falls and your yawning reminds you it is time to sleep, suddenly you hear a roar louder than any thunder and flash of light outside.

You run up to the window and grimace at the sight.

The keep outside the capital, where the alchemists and engineers were working on Fireblood, is now half its original height, and giant blaze is bursting upwards from it. Why does bad luck hound you and your kingdom recently? Does the divine dice roll nothing but 1s as of late?

Few days later.

You thank the city guard for his report on extinguishing the fire, and the Royal Alchemist walks up to your throne to deliver his report.

"My liege, we have lost three years worth of supply of Fireblood components. At least five Thundercats have been destroyed, with several older Blackhearts also lost. We laso lost a whole cadre of young engineers who were training to operate our Fireblood engines. I beseech you to donate to our alchemist caste, otherwise our designs, nay, whole FIreblood endeavour will be delayed by several years."

You decide to...

A) Give them only some money, so at least they can get started with rebuilding.
B) Donate heavily to alchemists; Fireblood and Thundercats are of utmost importance of Methiant military.
C) Refuse to give them money, as the Treasury is rather empty nowadays.

[Draignean]

B

Gotta spend money to make explosions.

[ZBridges]

B

[Criptfeind]

A considering how potentially dire our money situation still is, I think it's best if we don't go too heavily on it.

[Prophet]

Gah! Why the money? Why is it always our Money? Why can't people just have good new about our Money for once? Gosh darn it.

*Prophet sighs*

A As much as I wish to give enough to keep our war machines rolling the treasury isn't looking so good and we all know what happened to the old Kingdom of Luathbas once their treasury started looking to empty for to long.

Though I still don't regret sending relief funds to the city of Luathbas. War Machines are a lot easier to rebuild than an ancient city filled with centuries of history, culture, and wealth.