You decide to put your charisma to a test and compose your wife a ballad to warm her heart (and open her bedroom).
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You make it both elegant and bawdy, and Abene listens with interest and smirk on her face. After you're done, she undoes the rope belt of her robe. "Such an old fool." She muses. "Took you this long to get romantic?" She shakes her head at your silliness, and then invites you to her bedroom.
Few days after that, the orcish bodyguards finish their journey preparations, and take up the money set aside by the Treasurer, making the Treasury really empty.
"We shall march with haste to the land of our fathers." Their leader salutes you. "We believe our successors should arrive by the end of the year. Glory to you!" Then they leave.
411 AEC, Midsummer
Peasants don't like the burden of heavy taxation when they're themselves burdened with the miserable living conditions in your kingdom - and they've decided to show it by throwing a revolt!
Led by some village elders, who in turn are led by a retired General, Sacho Pilon (a man of brawl rather than brains), the four-thousand strong mob has gathered in the coastal territory of Paladena province. Day by day, the reports say, General Pilon and his rebel companions are calling up 'men of conscience' to join them and put a stop to your excesses and oppression.
You decide to...
A) Send a letter and resolve the matter diplomatically.
B) Send your soldiers to fix the problem with some bloodletting.
C) Send your scouts again to gather information for now.