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[Maximum Spin]

C) WE SHOULD DO MORE SIDE QUESTS TO BUILD GROUP COHESION BEFORE GOING AFTER MORE GREENSCARVES. 

MAYBE ASK LOCAL MERCHANTS IF THEY NEED CARAVAN PROTECTORS OR THE LIKE DUE TO RAMPANT GANGS OF CHICKENS THAT GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HARASS CHEESE SELLERS OR SOMETHING.  THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT EXTORTION AND IS A REAL SIDE QUEST JOB.

Sit everyone down at some point, and have a thoughtful discussion on the proper exercise of KNIGHTLY PIETY and HONOR. Consider what constitutes an HONORABLE QUEST, and what constitutes... wanton banditry.

I also support these things, especially the chivalry training part. Obviously we should try to get the relic thingy for the holy people, but IN THE MEANTIME we should work on sidequests like any good RPG player.

[King Zultan]

C) Nail papers to the doors denouncing the greed of the churches that have the audacity to charge to make the voices quite. Given the proclaimed holyness of some of these voices it is probably just some elaborate holy extortion racket where the gods annoy some innocent bloke until he pays their own priests to make them quite again.

Yes it is DEFINITELY not okay to CHARGE for such nonsense. Cast down the unholy usurers and simoniacs and conquer the church in the name of the Order!

C) WE SHOULD DO MORE SIDE QUESTS TO BUILD GROUP COHESION BEFORE GOING AFTER MORE GREENSCARVES. 

MAYBE ASK LOCAL MERCHANTS IF THEY NEED CARAVAN PROTECTORS OR THE LIKE DUE TO RAMPANT GANGS OF CHICKENS THAT GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HARASS CHEESE SELLERS OR SOMETHING.  THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT EXTORTION AND IS A REAL SIDE QUEST JOB.

Sit everyone down at some point, and have a thoughtful discussion on the proper exercise of KNIGHTLY PIETY and HONOR. Consider what constitutes an HONORABLE QUEST, and what constitutes... wanton banditry.

I also support these things, especially the chivalry training part. Obviously we should try to get the relic thingy for the holy people, but IN THE MEANTIME we should work on sidequests like any good RPG player.

I ALSO +1 THESE THINGS.

[Yellow Pixel]

C) WE SHOULD DO MORE SIDE QUESTS TO BUILD GROUP COHESION BEFORE GOING AFTER MORE GREENSCARVES. 

MAYBE ASK LOCAL MERCHANTS IF THEY NEED CARAVAN PROTECTORS OR THE LIKE DUE TO RAMPANT GANGS OF CHICKENS THAT GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HARASS CHEESE SELLERS OR SOMETHING.  THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT EXTORTION AND IS A REAL SIDE QUEST JOB.

Sit everyone down at some point, and have a thoughtful discussion on the proper exercise of KNIGHTLY PIETY and HONOR. Consider what constitutes an HONORABLE QUEST, and what constitutes... wanton banditry.

I also support these things, especially the chivalry training part. Obviously we should try to get the relic thingy for the holy people, but IN THE MEANTIME we should work on sidequests like any good RPG player.

+1

I'm against the idea of nailing papers to the doors denouncing the greed of the churches, because writing them will take a lot of time and I think that Doodle-Crow will not be happy if we spend all the day doing it. But I'm not against the principle behind the idea.

[Kilojoule Proton]

Start a reformation (4): Stirk, Maximum Spin, King Zultan, Yellow Pixel
Do more side quests before "recruiting" more Greenscarves (3): VoidSlayer, Maximum Spin, King Zultan
Remedial course on KNIGHTLY ETHICS (3): Superdorf, Maximum Spin, King Zultan
Do the active side-quest (1): Naturegirl1999

You do want to complete the current job by tracking down the missing relic and returning it to the monks, but there are many other things that urgently need to be done like reforming the church, leveling up, and teaching a remeedial course on KNIGHTLY PIETY and HONOR. You're not a bad theologian, or so you think given that you did actually pass KNIGHTLY THEOLOGY as previously mentioned, and monks (excepting the tooth-and-claw monks of the high wilderness) aren't the most impatient people, so you shift your focus to these more pressing matters. You set out to hatch two eggs with one bird by codifying a set of guiding principles for a planned reformation of the Chicken Church compatible with KNIGHTLY virtues and most of the existing doctrine. Guided by your collected wisdom and experiences, five of the first ten principles condemn charging for thaumaturgic services. You run out of ideas by the time you reach 35 points of contention with the existing doctrine and practices of sects closely related to that of the church in which you overpaid for your blessing and turn to planning out the ethics course.

You begin with a crash course on the basics of accruing KNIGHTLY PIETY and KNIGHTLY HONOR emphasizing the key differences between HONORABLE QUESTING and WANTON BANDITRY. This will be a rather hard sell for the more mercenary members of the Order, but you figure it's best to deal with it now rather than later. What you have seems long enough as it is, but just in case it isn't, you also jot down sparse notes on conflicts of interest, interest in conflicts, informed consent, plague tourism, and runaway cart redirection problems  as filler. With your material finished, you gather the Holy Exalted Order together and begin your lecture on KNIGHTLY HONOR and PIETY. You sense a bit of weariness when you get to the exhortations against taking on profitable missions to the detriment of others. You wonder if you should mention that KNIGHTLY ATTRIBUTES in general are difficult to increase without a steed of some sort. Maybe after there's enough KNIGHTLY CASH to get everyone a steed.

The rest of the day is spent in search of additional side-quests. You are very pleased to hear that some of the smaller ones were finished by the end of the day with the following rewards:

Help the fire brigade put out a fire: 1x copper bucket, ++KNIGHTLY RENOWN
Transport a dozen bags of misdelivered flour: +KNIGHTLY CASH
Get a cat down from a tree: +KNIGHTLY CASH, -KNIGHTLY PIETY
Scrub some pews: +KNIGHTLY PIETY

Here are the escort side-quests you and your loyal Order members found:

Jewelry to Port Baywick (~2wk, stops at Asheath, Heawold, Odshill): +++KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN, requests collateral: Title to Abandoned Smithy
Woodcrafts and sourcebooks to Ephor's Rest (~1wk): ++KNIGHTLY CASH, -KNIGHTLY RENOWN
Entertainer troupe to Weowold (~3d): ++KNIGHTLY RENOWN, +KNIGHTLY CASH
Medicine to Teford (~1wk, stops at Asheath, Shaybury): ++KNIGHTLY PIETY, +KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN
Ink and paper to nearby monasteries (~2wk, many stops): +KNIGHTLY PIETY, +KNIGHTLY CASH
Noble family to Castle Siltmage (~1wk): +KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN
Arms and armor to Nevermore (~5-6wk, off-road): +++KNIGHTLY CASH, ++GRIM WOODS REPUTATION, --LOCAL REPUTATION, --KNIGHTLY PIETY

Would you like to...
(A) ...sway your comrades toward a particular mission?
(B) ...keep looking for jobs?
(C) ...do more training?
(D) ...further develop the Abandoned Smithy or the Tunnels?
(E) ...continue working on your reformation, likely enlisting help from the more theologically inclined recruits?
(F) ...do something else entirely?

[Superdorf]

Does Weowold have a Green Scarves presence? We could take the escort job there, and poke around for that relic once we arrive.

[King Zultan]

Taking medicine to people sounds like a good QUEST for a KNIGHT.

[Naturegirl1999]

Indeed
A: Sway comrades towards the following job: Medicine to Teford (~1wk, stops at Asheath, Shaybury): ++KNIGHTLY PIETY, +KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN

[Maximum Spin]

Indeed
A: Sway comrades towards the following job: Medicine to Teford (~1wk, stops at Asheath, Shaybury): ++KNIGHTLY PIETY, +KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN

+1, but also remember to find out if the stops have Greenscarves we can molest for their relics.

[Yellow Pixel]

Indeed
A: Sway comrades towards the following job: Medicine to Teford (~1wk, stops at Asheath, Shaybury): ++KNIGHTLY PIETY, +KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN

+1, but also remember to find out if the stops have Greenscarves we can molest for their relics.

+1 It might be an inspiring job for all the Order and maybe there will be some rewarding action. Let's just hope there won't be ensuing infections!

[Naturegirl1999]

Indeed
A: Sway comrades towards the following job: Medicine to Teford (~1wk, stops at Asheath, Shaybury): ++KNIGHTLY PIETY, +KNIGHTLY CASH, +KNIGHTLY RENOWN

+1, but also remember to find out if the stops have Greenscarves we can molest for their relics.

+1 It might be an inspiring job for all the Order and maybe there will be some rewarding action. Let's just hope there won't be ensuing infections!

Yes, we can look in each town we come across for more Greenscarf hideouts

[Kilojoule Proton]

Entertainer troupe to Weowold: Superdorf?
Medicine to Teford: King Zultan, Naturegirl1999, Maximum Spin

You ask around about whether Weowold has a significant Greenscarves presence, and Goldtoof says he knows a few members who moved there and founded a small Greenscarves lodge, but they're mostly grifters and con artists unlikely to come across saintly relics. Noticing the favorable balance of rewards for the medicine escort job, you also ask about Asheath and Shaybury. A somewhat run-down town, Asheath's poorly maintained/patrolled roads and its reputation as a bottleneck for many routes to and from the coastal earldoms make it attractive to all sorts of bandits. There is a small Greenscarves foothold in Asheath proper, but they generally try to remain inconspicuous to avoid attracting the attention of the Red Riding Hoods, a vicious gang of bandits that doesn't take kindly to there being other organizations of questionable legality.

Shaybury is a rather different story. Located near the end of the route, Shaybury is the seat of the celebrated Duke of Shaybury, who seized the Green Coast from the Cyanites. It is considerably larger than Inksworth and contains five active Greenscarf lodges to Inksworth's one safehouse. You are pleased to hear that tournaments are held with some regularity in the Duke's castle; joining one would surely be a fine test of the Holy Exalted Order's martial prowess. You end up arguing in favor of the Teford job for its favorable balance of KNIGHTLY REWARDS, and everyone tends to agree the stop in Shaybury will be a lot of fun. As for Teford, no one present knows much about Teford other than that it's situated on the River Tef and apparently needs four wagonloads of medicine and medical supplies. You, Doodle-Crow, and Goldteef leave to accept the job.

You enter a damp, musty sickhouse quietly hoping you'll never have to visit as a patient. An elderly physician who introduces herself as Phyllis thanks you profusely for agreeing to escort her and her employees and supplies to Teford in spite of the recent uptick in robberies following the death of the peace-loving Corvid XVIII and accession of the more hawkish Corvid XIX. Her clerk, a canary with a suitably guessable name, hands you the humble down payment, and you worry that the full reward may not come soon enough to cover everyone's wages. You whisper to Doodle-Crow about not promoting anyone until the rest of the payment is received. You're still a bit worried about whether the full reward will come soon enough to cover everyone's wages.

Would you like to do anything else in particular today? Maybe hunt down a bargain, continue working on your reformation, or train some more?

[King Zultan]

We should train some more, as if we aren't doing jobs we should be training so we can get all the MUSCLES so we can defeat all challenges we come across with our massive STRENGTH!

[Naturegirl1999]

If we do training, it would be a good idea to practice dodging and other agility related things like speed, parkour etc. for the ground troops, of course, the flyers can fly, though the dodging courses will still help

[Yellow Pixel]

If we do training, it would be a good idea to practice dodging and other agility related things like speed, parkour etc. for the ground troops, of course, the flyers can fly, though the dodging courses will still help

+1 Dodging sounds good to me and it's a skill the chickens from Breadlamb should develop, instead of always charging blindly at their ennemies.

[Maximum Spin]

I think we should probably look for more KNIGHTLY CASH to supplement our down payment. We gotta aim for full horsing, guys.