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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.

[mightymushroom]

Heads up: Haspen hates quote pyramids and has previously threatened edict votes without using words will not be counted.

[birdy51]

I'll throw out a Passage Tax as well then, to bolster the others. I'm not keen on it, but a Bill of Rights strikes me as a more Leath sort of thing anyways.

[Haspen]

You decide to cut Army's budget for a year, and issue Passage Tax, forcing travelers and merchants to pay tolls at valley passes, bridges, town gates and such, from now on.

1143 AD, Summer

Travelers coming from the southeast, crossing into Ceodwell, brought terrible news!

Apparently, there's an outbreak of plague in Gubta Empire. The Emperor wronged his gods, they say, and whole of his Empire has been punished for it with fever, pains and pus-filled bubbles on skin. While most of the Gubtan peoples are fleeing eastwards, some are fleeing westwards. A hearsay seems to indicate that Parsians aren't keen on refugees and has been turning away Gubtans from their borders and roads; killing those who dare resist dismissal. Few thus taken through Ironbone Mountains, to avoid Shapur's men and arrive in Ceodwell region safely.

According to Ceodwellian governor, there has already been several hundred Gubtan refugees in past month, and some people grow anxious that these escapees might bring plague to Methiant also.

A) Bring them all in, we will heal them and invite them to be our subjects!
B) We will simply monitor the situation for now.
C) Patrols on the roads and borders, anyone coming from Gubta is to be turned back, and killed if they try something funny.
D) Tighten the security on the border, and check for ill persons; the rest can come.

[10ebbor10]

D

[milo christiansen]

D

[Weirdsound]

D

I'd imagine the Passage Tax will actually help here. Some of the sick may be too poor or wretched to pay the toll.

[Kashyyk]

D

We might be able to drag a population unit out of this, but we risk getting plague ourselves.

[Fluffe9911]

D

[Haspen]

You decide to have the security on borders tightened and check for ill persons, but otherwise the refugees are welcome in Methiant.

1143 AD, Midsummer

Peoples of Donuth report having problems with some birdmen, apparently; there were sightings of the birdmen in previous year, but this summer few of them have had the audacity to swoop down to steal a sheep or rob a traveling adventurer or two.

The locals have already scouted a bit and determined that there are now several settlements of the birdmen in the Rainbow Lizard Mountains, where there were none such hamlets in previous decade! Very curious, and for Donuth peoples, a problem that needs cleansing.

A) Time to establish some proper contact with the bird peoples, who might be simply unaccustomed to local practices and law.
B) And that's not my problem, the Donuthians seem to already have this in their hands.
C) Actual target practice for the Army? Yes?

[Fluffe9911]

A Bird people sound pretty cool

[crazyabe]

A.

[milo christiansen]

Army Air Corps, coming soon to an empire near you!

[Weirdsound]

A. This sounds like a job for super-Leath!

[Chevaleresse]

A

[Haspen]

You decide to try and talk with the bird-peoples.

Leath approaches you very soon.

"Father, can I go? Mayhaps I can bring us new, feathery allies into Methiant!"

A) "No, you're too important to me and the Empire; I will send one of my diplomats instead."
B) "Agreed! May your skills and charisma bring peace to the Empire once more!"