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You decide to Issue the Codex of Training Regimen, upping up both training and recruitment standards. The officials and officers alike are ordered to prune the useless mooks from the Army.
1152 AD, Autumn
You receive report on the pruning - indeed, many thousand recruits and lowly soldiers have been expelled, and even few officers shared their fate as well.
Numerical value of the Army has been readjusted to
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Good news fill the palace; Bjeda gave birth to another child! It's a girl this time, and the proud mother named her 'Eiri'.
1152 AD, Late Autumn
You hear that the Damdamian system has further collapsed this year; numerous states in the north are biting each other faces off, the underage Empress is unable to rein nearby states in, two republics in the far south declared themselves independent, and more margraves consider declaring themselves Kings of their own domains, like Kingdom of Rucus did.
1152 AD, Winter
Silver and gemstones arrive in your Treasury. The shipment of gold, the last one ever, arrives with a letter from King Shapur of Parsia, in which he praises your skilled leadership.
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Finally, quality glassware sold for much profit this year! Peoples were also made happier for having access to such quality goods.
1152 AD, Midwinter
A giant has appeared during a blizzard in northern Donuth and begun to lay waste to nearby hamlets!
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As your courtiers are shouting at each other about what to do, the anxiety causes you to order them to 'find a solution' while you retreat to your lovely chamber of study. Yes, this is where you-
*KZZZZTTTTT*You're Houlandin, son of Cyl, heir to the Imperial Throne of Methiant!
Your father did it again. In middle of extremely important meeting to discuss a calamity, he fled the chamber, presumably to hide in his study.
But it is prime opportunity for you to assert your authority to the nobles before you even ascend! Therefore, you decide to...
A) Hire some lvl30+ adventurers to slay the uninvited guest.
B) Ask them to ignore the giant, because it will surely wander off on its own
C) Send the Army to pulverize the giant with Thundercats.
D) Proclaim that you will personally challenge and kill the giant in a duel!
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