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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]

You send for the woman to be brought before you.

1164 AD, Late Winter

The old witch of southern Donuth arrives before you, dressed in browns and greens. She thanks you profusely for your magnaminous invitation and kisses your hand thrice with those wrinkly old lips of hers.

The courtiers gasp and begin to murmur when she mentions that she is over seventy; but her wrinkles are soft and her hair basically still black, as if she was barely in her mid-forties. When asked, she chalks it up to herbs and roots she was using since she was living with her aunt, who also was a herbalist in her village.

You decide to...

A) Offer her a position of royal healer, so her remedies can save the lives of your family.
B) Thank her for her work during plague, and send her back home.
C) Ask her to entertain you with descriptions and uses of herbs and roots she uses in her daily work.
D) Offer to build for her a pharmacy in the capital, so, potentially, hundreds and thousands of your subjects can benefit from her herbs.

[ZBridges]

C

[Rockeater]

D

[omada]

C This is the way our wise trait help us

[Harry Baldman]

C!

[Kashyyk]

C

[Chevaleresse]

C

[Hiddenleafguy]

D AND C, these two aren't mutually exclusive people!

[Kashyyk]

In these situations, we can ask this question to make a wisdom check on the topic before picking another option.

[VoidSlayer]

Well we could so offend her she leaves while cursing us.

But lets go C anyway.

House of learning soon?  We can remove the army recruitment thing for it please?

[Imic]

Damnit, I went to Dublin for one day, and Cyl died in his sleep.
sniff...

[Haspen]

You ask her to tell you about her roots and herbs and stuff.

6*

She tells you of her herbs and roots, but you easily see that her tales don't match with what you know of herbs. Some are indeed used as folk remedies, but the combinations are straight wrong, and some even poisonous if mixed wrongly. You decide to call her out on this, and from that point onwards, the old woman fumbles in her talk, until the courtiers decide they had enough of this charlatan. The old herbalist, screeching, is dragged into the dungeon.

Later on you learn that she had a deal with the magistrate who 'recommended' her, to get extra cash from payment she would earn. He is quickly dungeoned and replaced with someone much more honest.

1164 AD, End of the Year

For the first time in your life, you will peruse the Scrolls of Kingdom Status. This is quite exciting, sending shivers down your spine - or perhaps it's this freezing draft in the palace.

After hours of waiting since early morning, the Advisor finally comes to your chambers. Your wife, busy in the corner sewing a new tunic for Bjern, can't help but peek at the Scrolls herself.

1to2

Happiness: 6
Population: 5
Economy: 5
Army: (9)
Imp.Authority: -1

"I'm pleased to announce that your father's policy of budget cuts, plus the profits from trade this year, have allowed our treasury to recuperate quite well. The statesmen and strong army strengthened your authority in the eyes of your subjects."

"The Army believes that it is a good moment to strike and conquer someone or gain fat loot. Is there anywhere Methiant should expand?"

A) Kingdom of Cydwyl!
B) New Parsian Kingdom!
C) Kingdom of Lametania!
D) Eldrican Kingdom!
E) Kingdom of Rucus!
F) Dwarven territories!
G) But we don't have to?

"Also, do you wish to issue your first Imperial Edict ever, my liege?"

A) What else have I waited all those years for??
B) No.

[Iituem]

?, A

Who still owes us money or we have unavenged honour on, guys?

[ZBridges]

D, B

[Harry Baldman]

GA

Fuck off with that war shit, we have no Martial leaders and no casus belli. Like, literally half of the options are allies or trade partners. Wait for someone to mess up first (like a civil war or succession crisis or trade dispute), you absolute goddamn nitwits.