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You therefore change the laws; instead of just having workshops and tradeposts, now the dwarves will also be allowed to settle down on the Crown's permission and by paying special immigration tax - starting with the craftsmaster, whose permit you sign personally.


The Spymaster appears at your side as you're reading a book on the history of Parsia one evening and without a word, presents you a scroll. You look at the Spymaster and you think you can detect a hint of him being rather alarmed.

Nonetheless, you open up the scroll. It's a letter.

"To King Feodh

I will gladly become your vassal if you send me troops and money no later than next spring by the northwestern border of Luathbas. This I pledge with my, well, word, as I knew you for a while and I know that you would rather have more allies than enemies in the inevitable war against the Damdamians.

Sincerely
Beren, once a bard of yours"

A) What!
B) What.
C) What?

You send an offer to help the rebel leader with your army and wealth if he pledges loyalty to you after his victory.


The guildmasters bring good news; refurbishment of both the Library and House of Lech have been finished in recent weeks.


The mayor of Luathbas Capital city asked for audience and was given one.

"My liege, I know that we have agreed to let the dwarves build tradeposts and workshops, but I do not remember anything about bringing their extended families to settle down here! And it happens that one of the older dwarves, a craftsmaster, have brought twenty of his family members and has been making a fuzz for whole week about demanding to be given or sold an estate where his family could live. After the stubborn old dwarf didn't want to listen to my arguments I decided to come and ask you for opinion on this matter." You think about it for a moment.

A) Allow this dwarf and any other to settle down only with your explicit permission - and a special tax, perhaps, to throttle the immigration a bit?
B) Allow only the craftsmaster's family to come and settle down in the capital, on the account of craftsmaster's age and fame.
C) Agree with the Governor and do not allow the dwarves to bring families with them to Luathbas.
D) Allow this dwarf and any other to settle down in Luathbas if they want to.

You tell the Treasurer to spend even more money on food plus some on the medicine. He weeps a little bit but sets out to work.

7*

The people of Luathbas get enough medicinal herbs and delicious foods from abroad, their stomaches filled by their benevolent King once again this year!

Your subjects cry in awe and gratitude, calling you 'The Savior', and soon this becomes your title and nickname amongst the people!


Apparently, as if it didn't have enough problems with its tiny size and tiny army, the Duchy of Koi have fallen victim to rebellion! Apparently, some young, long thought dead, heir of the Kiwi royal family have gathered enough support amongst some governors and knights that he could launch an offensive against the Koi royal family.

Currently, the rebels are in control of the northern, more forested and less developed half of the Koi. The court debates about this recent development. In the end, you decide to...

A) Do nothing - it's not your debacle.
B) Send an offer of help to the Duke of Koi: soldiers for money.
C) Send an offer of help to the rebel leader: soldiers for money.
D) Send an offer of help to the rebel leader, promising much help if he becomes your vassal in the future.
E) Send an offer of help to the Duke of Koi, promising much help if he becomes your vassal in the future.

A

+1 PTW to steal ideas from this game

You order the scribes to catch up on history lessons about Brenan, so they spend few days in the library.

Unfortunately they find some facts and none are too good:

Brenan's dynasty fell thirty years later and their successors got rid of their possessions and administrative scrolls, Brenan's palace was the size of a mead hall, and that Brenan had a penchant - if this particular apocrypha is to be believed - to pay with copper and silver money to those he rewarded.

"But we use gold now, your majesty." Your trade advisor chimes in.

The scribes also re-read both Cho'vac's and Luathbas contracts, and they're sure that the contract says 'monetary payment equal to the size of the Palace of Luathbas King', without specifying whose Palace it must be.

Hmmm.

A) Ask the Treasurer to appraise the worth of Luathbas palace and present it in the wealth of copper and silver coins in three days.
B) Compose a speech in which you explain Cho'vac that silver and copper are so first half of the millenium and therefore you will pay him a (smaller) bundle of gold.
C) Send orders to Army to assemble at the Capital in three days and prepare for, well, demon-slaying, but you're sure they can succeed.

You set aside some wealth to procure foodstuffs from abroad.

5

Many foods are procured, mostly from Damdamians and the Kashite. Foodstuffs are stored for the winter and there will be no famine this year.


You're listening to a performance of a wandering troupe of minstrels, Beren having taken a vacation to visit his ailing uncle in Duchy of Koi, when suddenly the sky turns black and thick green cloud of smoke appears in the throne room! Courtiers and minsterls alike scream and choke on the vile sulphuric fog.

Then, the fog coalesces into some otherwordly, eldritch being! It has an exposed ribcage of black bones, torn leathery wings and three green eyes that stare at you and, you feel, into your insides.

"I am Doach'shavul Xestha'zael Cho'vac. I sense the blood of the Luathbas people amongst me, so I am in the right place. I have come to take what is mine, for the services I have paid to King Brenan in the year 377 of your reckoning. Lest I be paid, I shall turn your pitiful little kingdom into a putrid swamp that exhales fumes killing all life about the land!" The demon hisses and exhales some fumes that only make the air in the throne room even more vile. You quickly decide to...

A) Tell him to take whatever he wants from the Treasury, and to spare your life!
B) Explain to him that you have no idea about any debts to demons and therefore are not going to cave in to Do'azn'shavul's demands!
C) Demand that he provides you with the contract so that you, as a learned man of law, can check its validity, because no matter if human, dwarf or demon - for the love of all the Pantheon, nobody's gonna swindle a Houlandine from his wealth!

Woops :v

EDIT: There, the 'do nothing' option added v: