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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]

With haste, you send Leath to begin negotiations.

Five days later you learn that in the north, Cydwyl capital has fallen to the rebels, although Cidric, with help of Dahnians, has begun a counteroffensive to reclaim the throne and the southern parts of his Kingdom. Meanwhile, Zonalath dwarves have laid waste to several small cities and towns, killing and enslaving many thousands in a span of last half a month.

Right in the very middle of the month, the word arrives from Leath, along with a scroll filled with monetary calculations. Apparently, they wish for lavish amount of money, in yearly payments, and dwarves from Zonalath were ordered by High Chief Anathazol to stop their pillagery.

Besides money, Leath writes, the dwarves demand that you return Wolf-Fang, made by their runemasters' ancestors, and which by no means you can claim as your own.

The Treasurer cries a little when he finishes the dwarven calculations.

"Sire, this is a robbery! Even if we send them our yearly income of pure silver, it will take eight years to pay this 'tribute' of theirs!"

You decide to send a reply to Leath, in which you write that...

A) He should negotiate for a lesser amount of money.
B) He should negotiate so that Wolf-Fang remains with the Imperial family.
C) He should agree to these, arguably scammy, demands.
D) He should inform Iwald that the fighting will continue on.

[Kashyyk]

A It's not like we've used Wolf-Fang for anything.

[mightymushroom]

That's like four times what the grave robbing yielded.

Money we can replace. The artifact, not so much.
On the other hand, we never did learn any of the artifact's powers or see a bonus to roll from holding it. Money is always useful.
(Anyone else notice that Wolf-Fang was prominently mentioned in foiling two assassinations? But again, no bonus to the roll. Might be a coincidence.)

A

[crazyabe]

C. We'd rather get this over with *Now* rather then screw ourselves up by breaking one of their laws later.

[VoidSlayer]

Okay so just for future reference, the dwarves are an empire level strength (or even fallen ancient empire strength) on their own, we do not piss them off unless we have high military okay?

They also always cooperate with each other.

A

They could probably just destroy Wolf-Fang by themselves if they wanted to.  Might as well give it back.

[Puppyguard]

A
We've never used Wolf-Fang anyway.

[Haspen]

You send a letter to Leath, asking him to negotiate a lower amount of moneys.

3*

A reply arrives from Leath; not only the dwarves brought some representative of their western royalty, the little man is very stubborn and has managed to 'fight' Leath into a standstill.

In a hurried post scriptum note, Leath mentions that the dwarves are getting increasily irritated day by day.

A) That means they're losing their cool! Perfect opportunity to negotiate a better treaty again!
B) That means they're losing their cool, let's just accept their terms before they break the talks or something.

[Harry Baldman]

B, not really into the idea of a 50-50 chance of getting completely screwed here.

I wonder if we could get some aid from the elves though. This seems like the kind of thing they could be handy for.

[crazyabe]

B

[Puppyguard]

B

[fireground42]

B

[Kashyyk]

B Let's take the hit. Then we march for Cydwyl!

[mightymushroom]

B

[birdy51]

B

We'll take the hit, and then perhaps some way to make nice later if we must.

[Weirdsound]

B

This is gonna suck, but we should survive this.

Out of curiosity, is the return of the slaves they took included in this peace? If not, we have grounds to attack once our army recovers. That said, I have half a mind to swallow my pride and persue further peace with the dwarves once we make our eight years of payment; we don't need them teaming up with our murderous brother-in-law, who has more land to take and is such still our preferred target to the West.