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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]

The Cydwyllian messenger comes in with several guards, and they deposit three chests before your throne. Inside, there are various coins, although you don't think there's more than your Empire earns yearly by taxation.

"A gift from King Cidric to the noble Emperor Cyl of Methiant!" The messenger proudly announces before withdrawing a bit.

You decide to be...

A) Proper and accept the gifts, praising King Cidric's generosity.
B) Generous and return the gifts, asking instead that Cidric spend the money for his subjects' prosperity.

[Criptfeind]

Wow. What a shitty thing to have done. To have put us in this position. We're literally trying to give this guy money, and now he's given it back.

Can we accept the gifts, and then immediately turn around and send him wealth of equal value?

[mightymushroom]

A

You know what, if he sends it I'll take it. Proper is proper, and I don't want our first imperial act to be refusing money. It sets a bad precedent.

[Criptfeind]

Yeah. But I mean, what an idiot.

A

[mightymushroom]

Unless our tax rolls have changed since becoming an empire, it's still less then we promised him, so it kinda worked. Agreed he's not the brightest candle in the chandelier.

[Maximum Spin]

A because this is obviously just a formality; while he is something of an idiot, he may also simply want to present himself as on a level as to be capable of offering generosity to an Emperor, and declining the gift would be rude and also make him look bad.

[birdy51]

I would prefer an option C, sending back gifts of equal value. We're friends, so it would be rude to not accept, but at the same time...

[Haspen]

Despite the awkwardness of the situation, you accept the gifts. The envoy leaves without further ado.

Who's next?

A) The Parsian!
B) The Eldrican!
C) The Evalian!
D) The Lametanian!

[Criptfeind]

B

[Harry Baldman]

B

[Kashyyk]

B

[Maximum Spin]

B, okay, sure.

[Imic]

B

[omada]

B

Then parsian (and we will complete the cycle of  friends before foes) and lametania (hey business partner, how are you going?) and evalian (WHO ARE YOU? I FORGOT THAT YOU EXISTED SORRY)

[mightymushroom]

B

So far as I know none of these are "foes" in the usual sense. The most threatening in this lot has been fundamentalist, expansionist Parsia.

It's awfully quiet around here. *shudders*