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I think it's rock paper scissors for a small bonus right now.

B targets the support structure of A which rolls over C which has no gains for B.

I'll vote for B then.

This has gone better than expected. We can ignore the wife thing, bison head is either questioning her persence or is commenting on her holding a shaman like position. We can get that cleared up later, but it's a low priority I'm thinking.

Feather Head might be a military leader, though we can't be 100% sure.

The people we've brought with us are all from Iceland, so none of us are likely to speak their language. They probably don't speak our language either. However much I'd love to play pictionary or charades, there will probably be some cultural hang ups there. Primarily that neither one of us has probably heard of either of those games.

So how does one communicate then? Through actions. Unfortunately we're aiming to settle things without killing them all, so we can't just attack them.

From a meta sense, the best we can do is stall for time until someone thinks of a better option.

Ask in as clear Icelandic as we can speak "Why did you ambush us?" Then consult with our relevant advisors about potential options.

If memory serves, the particular commentary on that was "won't make a distinguishable difference" rather than outside our scope. So the concrete probably won't have any noticeable in war effects, though it has potential as an export.

I recently read a thread that ended up going into the concept of fixed defenses in relation to the French in WW2. It sums up as, if they had instead used those resources for the development and production of their airforce (or really anything else) things probably would have gone differently, though there's a world of what ifs there so grain of salt.

I'm personally a huge fan of fixed defenses. They simply are not an efficient option at the moment unless we're able to develop a system to rapidly create new fortifications in a matter of hours rather than days due to our current needs in combat.

Sandbags might suit those purposes, but as they were around in the late 18th century (1790ish), we probably already have them in the field.

A. Fuck off Lametania

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I'm for declaring war on them just to get them to fuck off. Have peace include a pick two, some of their lands, monetary restitution, our familial Dwarven necklace.

C

My story sense is tingling. The scepter may end up being related to the tomb in a useful way.

Also more soldiers is always nice.

Math I'm thinking: 6 base - 1 for mercs + 1 for trade - 1 for mercs - 2 for scepter = 3 Treasury left. We can handle that, and the increased army might just let us conquer new trade routes as well.

Things are calm enough, let's trust in The Lady to C us through!

The Lady of Death is the leader of the clan of spies and assassins. If she truly wanted us dead, now that she knows that we're alive and has sent someone with a message to us, we wouldn't reach the palace alive. We probably wouldn't have reached Otsu alive.

Any ambushes are going to come from sources other than our Lady. As such, if we make it to the palace alive, then we should be safe enough.

We should at least attempt to guide our companions down a stealthy path to the palace, in case we've picked up any tails.