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[Firelordsky]

Um that was strange                                                                                                                       Crud
Train to get over my handicap by training.

[Dwarmin]

I assume we went one quarter by now. Paying the ten and seven for buying new ranch+shoring against floods...

Oriana was pleased with the progress. She had a new ranch anyway...le agua Hermana had a nice ring to it. She wondered how long it would be till the prince came-a-calling?

Spoiler: Me! (click to show/hide)

1. De Lia Pafilia (horse ranches)
+4f/quarter from de lia Pafilia after interest
+3f/quarter from le agua Hermana


40 florin debt, interest serviced by income from de lia Pafilia
15 florin owed in discounted Horses to Province Lencil

6f cash

Action: Scrimp and save!

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Um that was strange                                                                                                                       Crud
Train to get over my handicap by training.

Dice roll 1d6=1

Your attempts at overcoming your handicap are....spirited. A true triumph of the Human soul over adversity.

But they don't really help at all-in fact, you take a nasty fall and bang your head-you'll have to be hospitalized for at least half a year if you don't want to cripple yourself...and those bills won't be cheap! You may just want to let Grigori handle it...assuming you trust him not to poison you.

Even worse, your going to have let someone else run your businesses while your out of it, no matter what you do.

-2 Florins for healthcare, unless you want to treat yourself at home

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

16f - +3 payment, +15 insurance. -7 cost of tavern
Alexander Bard - Right-hand Man, brother - Gone in Morwood
Grigori Chenkya - Surgeron
William Gord - Carpenter

Weak as an infant kitten (-2 to most physical activity, -1 to even the least strenuous activities)
Hospitalized for 2 two more quarters.
Need to desginate someone to run your businesses

[Firelordsky]

Treat myself and assign William to run my businesses. meanie dice

[areyoua]

Tough luck, firelordsky. I think that means that weakness will go until Winter 655. (But only if a year goes Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. If we're going DF style (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) then it'll still be winter, but it'll be Winter 654.

In other news, I already used up 4f from the loan in a failed attempt to repel the lawless Carrerans, and we've gone through two quarters.

[areyoua]

What do you mean I shouldn't be double posting?!

I... can't be bothered to double check Oriana's math, or can I? I can. The spoiler with your stats from my last update for you was actually supposed to go on the bottom as that shows your stats at the end of that quarter, so the real stats (assuming that you bought the land and the flood-proofing is as follows)

Spoiler: Oriana de Lia in Autumn 653 (click to show/hide)

1. De Lia Pafilia (horse ranches)
+2f/quarter from de lia Pafilia after interest
+3f/quarter from le agua Hermana (I had put the +2 onto de lia Pafila, but as it has it's own name it get's separated.)

40 florin debt, interest serviced by income from de lia Pafilia
11 florin owed in discounted Horses to Province Lencil

11f cash - 14f after you scrimp and save.

A considerable amount less, by 2f/quarter, however, then you account for the +5, so you'll have 11 rather than 6f. God, bookkeeping is hard.

Scrimp and Save!

[4] You scrimp and you save, and then you save some more, then you scrimp some more. Doing it seperately may have taken away from the effectiveness, but you do manage to save a one time boost of 3f for a total of 14f.

She wondered how long it would be till the prince come-a-calling?

[1] The prince has recently gotten engaged, and the news went across the land. [4] However, there's still hope (if I'm interpreting that quote correctly) as the marriage would have been one of convenience, but the bride's family has recently fallen out of power after the revolts of 653.

((as a side note, when you rolled a one, I considered making George a homosexual, but figured that would be too harsh.))

I'll have firelordsky after I eat lunch.

Spoiler: Did you see the joke? (click to show/hide)

Yes, I do mean as dessert.

[areyoua]

You can't fault me for posting again. Unless you can...

Treat myself and assign William to run my businesses. meanie dice

Meanie dice indeed. [1] You're not a doctor, so you can't treat yourself, but you try anyway, and only end up getting scammed for 2f on snake oil. ((cough, Gergori, cough)) [4] William takes over without incident, but doesn't have much to run except a plot of empty land, [1] and he doesn't think of rebuilding the tavern even though he's a carpenter. Alexander looks a bit jealous...

Spoiler: Howard Bard in Autumn 653 (click to show/hide)

14f
Alexander Bard - Right-hand Man, brother - Gone in Morwood
Grigori Chenkya - Surgeron
William Gord - Carpenter

Weak as an infant kitten (-2 to most physical activity, -1 to even the least strenuous activities)
Hospitalized for 2 two more quarters.
Need to desginate someone to run your businesses

[Dwarmin]

((Why did my my first ranch go from 4f to 2f profit? 
Is that accounting against the discounted horse debt?))

[Firelordsky]

Send William off to kill Prince GeorgeInstead give the business to Alexander the Great _{of Macedon}and have Grigori traet me

[areyoua]

Well, if your looking to attract players...mission accomplished!

Spoiler: Char Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Oriana De Lia
Occupation: Horse Rancher and Entrepreneur
Age: 27

Description: Oriana De Lia is a moderately wealthy owner of a string of renowned Horse Ranches-"De Lia Pafilia".

She inherited from her husband five years ago-he had an accident...nowadays she spends most of the year tending to her herds personally, not trusting in hired help overmuch, but recently she's become more and more fond of visiting court, hoping to snag the favor of the nobles and raise her standing. Oriana is a frisk entrepreneur-bold when spending her money on new and interesting ideas, hoping she'll luck out eventually.

Looks: An imposing woman, tall and well built, she bears the marks of an physcially fit lifestyle. Her brown hair is usually long and allowed to flow freely, and it complements her dark brown eyes quite nicely. When in court, she tends to wear the style of the "nouveau riche"-the rapidly rising middle class of new, wealthy landowners-with non-formal, comfortable and brightly colored clothing, with few accoutrements such as necklaces and bangles. She usually wears a long, finely honed rapier on her belt-not ostentatious or ceremonial, but functional and well honed-as many luckless rivals have learned, far too late.

Misc:

•Supports the rest of her family financially-father, mother and younger sister
•Her Father was a famous military officer and fencer in his prime, but is now penniless otherwise.
•Her Mother and Sister manage a smaller business of clothiers. It's not very profitable right now, and without Orianas help, it would have tanked long ago.
•Her husband died of unusual circumstances. Which everyones wants to say is,that evil witch murdered him in cold blood for his money. Not to her face, though. Her former Husbands family has of course, swallowed the line whole and vowed to destroy her.
•Deathly afraid of fire, from an childhood accident.
•Still technically a widow, Oriana has decided that particular issue has gone on long enough...she's currenty shopping for a husband.
•Self Trained in the arts of Fencing by her father. She enjoys duels-and not the kind to first blood or for match points. She was trained in the art of "practical" swordfighting-go for the throat. She's killed 2 men and 3 women in duels over the last 10 years, all declared just and right in accordance with the laws of the land.

[4] Oriana did start in Lencil.
[6]
De Lia Pafilia is a ranch in 1d7=[6] 7th parcel of Lencil. It provides you with an income of 2f/quarter. though this does not count as a "fine horse" resource. Your innovation, while propelling you into becoming one of the royal horse suppliers, also saddles you with a debt of 40f from your investment. It is still serviceable at the moment, paid by income from de lia Pafilia.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

de lia Pafilia (horse ranches)
+2f/quarter from de lia Pafilia after interest
40 florin debt, interest serviced by income from de lia Pafilia
5f cash

From the beginning, Dwarmin. It was 4f in my last update because I just added le agua to it. I don't seem to recall it being buffed up to +4.They're in separate sections this time. Also, shouldn't it be l'agua?

Send William off to kill Prince GeorgeInstead give the business to Alexander the Great _{of Macedon}and have Grigori traet me

The first part seems logical, but you probably can't treat yourself twice in the same quarter. Although, I could just take away more money for rush treatment...

[92!] whoops, not 1d100... [3] Alexander takes over with incident. What incident you ask? His ego gets a bit inflated and starts calling himself by an even longer name, Alexander the Great _{of Macedon} but he for some reason mumbles "of macedon." [5] William doesn't seem to put out at getting fired for some reason.

[Firelordsky]

Dang you. But any ways I will Hire some carpenter to rebuild the tavern.

[vagel7]

[5] You hire some carpenters for a price of 2 florins to fix your tavern by the start of the next quarter.

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Make my businesses gain a profit.

[Marklar]

He even killed the caravan master, that boy is ruthless, but if he wants to get rid of me why won't he just kill me? Rubert was puzzled by these thoughts for a while, his old way of thinking was slowly coming back to him.

Ofcourse, if he would kill me, it would shake his posiotion as the leader, others would get suspicious and might even betray him. He doesn't need to keep me alive, but can't get rid of me personally, so he will just torment me and make my life a hell. Rubert had never been in a sitution this bad, sure he had had some troublesome times, but not one quite like this.

Eventually he will marry my daughter either by force or some petty trick, so I will just give my blessing to that marriage. He would then turn most of his attention to other would-be-leaders. I would look like a vulnerable man who had given up. After giving some thought to this scenario Rubert realized it had one fatal flaw.

That won't do, he would just murder me after his position is legitimate. But I need to take this gamble, it's the only way. Think Rubert, think... Cristobal was good, very good, maybe even better than Rubert at this game, but Rubert would find a way to overcome this hardship.

He takes care of my family, oh the saint, definitely doing this solely for the purpose of blackmailing me. Why didn't I notice he was such a dangerous man, he didn't show me this side of his on purpose when I was training him? Here I am overthinking things again and admiring the very man who's killing me.

Rubert was getting rusty when there was no enemies around, and that is the reason why he was in such a position now, but it also brought him back to his senses. This is how the world is, no mercy, no room for the weak, and this was the price he had to pay for his ignorance of these facts. Life was going so fine for so many years, maybe Rubert grew overconfident and thought that his position was secure. In time, that would happen to Cristobal too, perhaps, but Rubert didn't have that kind of time. He was getting old, too old for these kind of power struggles. He wanted a peaceful life, but he was too proud to live with this kind of a shame for the rest of his, maybe now, short life.

Giving a quick prayer to Fortuna, Rubert did what had to be done.

Give my blessing for the marriage of Cristobal and my daughter, then wait for the bad news prepared for a quick escape

[Kogan Loloklam]

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Spoiler: Elisedd Fedelmid (click to show/hide)

Elisedd Fedelmid's father was involved in a bitter struggle against a Ursurper king in a northern land. Lord Fedelmid's forces were the most significant in defending the realm, so the Ursurper sent his troops in to attack Fedelmid's estates. Elisedd Fedelmid was captured with his mother and three sisters. He was taken to the Ursurper's stronghold and ransomed. If Lord Fedelmid gave himself up, then his family would be set free. Lord Fedelmid gave himself up. Without the Fedelmid armies, the legitimate heir quickly lost the war and his head. Lord Fedelmid was also executed but the new king, true to his word, released his family. The Fedelmid estate was forfeit however. The family took what they could from their former estate and left the country with many of their vassels. Along the way some of his father's axemen joined up with him. As time dragged on they took to a nomadic lifestyle, rarely staying in one place too long. When money to support everyone became scarce, they started offering to guard travelers along the road and deal with bandit problems of villagers.
(A Gypsy sort of caravan with an Axeman Former Noble Regiment.  )

Family & Retainers:
Mother Boadicea Fedelmid
Older Sister Luigsech Fedelmid
Younger Sister Ceridwen Fedelmid
Youngest Sister Neas Fedelmid
Steward Brian Suibhne
Captain Cadeyrn Oengus

[Kogan Loloklam]

Unbreak the game
I must have gotten a 1 on my join roll.

[evilcherry]

Sorry. Got a lot of photoshopping to do.

Will try to resume the game by 2nd Sept the latest.