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You continue climbing still!

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Not only you climb swiftly, but you also find a partial path leading upwards. Not having to climb all the time does wonders to how your hands feel - plus of course you save quite a lot of energy and time.

You reach a ledge with a shallow cave for you to camp at. You can see the peak of the mountain above you from here.

(Supplies: 7)

In the morning, you pass the final climb - it is a very short one - and arrive at the flattened peak.

Small sunflowers, argent in petals and black in stalks, grow amongst pebble-ridden black dirt. Each and every sunflower is ripe, as far as you can tell, with hundred of silver seeds.

Is it time to harvest and go home, at last?

A) Take just one seed.
B) Grab a handful of seeds.
C) Look around for some special-looking seed.
D) These argent sunflower seeds could be useful back down! How about we fill up our sack and clothes' pockets with them??

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I thought after all these votes and waiting there would be no tie.

Alas ;v

You tell the guards it is time to welcome Lord Nekogawa into your humble castle.

You walk to the gates and the servants open it for you - and your honored guest. The carriage containing Lord Nekogawa stops in front of the gate and he walks out. He is a bearded, rotund man with height surpassing yours. His soldiers and retainers are all tough-and-scary looking, but Lord Nekogawa himself is all smiles and makes impression of a jovial man.

"My esteemed peer and neighbour, Lord Midoriyama." He says, bowing his head slightly.

"My esteemed peer and neighbour, Lord Nekogawa." You mirror his words, and welcome him in.

There's few moments before the servants prepare the tea chamber for you two to sit and enjoy the meeting in security and peace of the domed room.

A) Ask him if the journey through fief of Midoriyama was a pleasant one.
B) Compliment his bearing and choice of clothes and armor.
C) Ask about the health and prosperity of his family and fief.
D) Remain silent - there will be time for smalltalk later as well.

"How can I greet such a noble guest properly?" The Master of Ceremonies strokes his beard.

"He is of Fourth Rank as well. As an equal, you should be present when the gates are opened by your servants and then greet him as he greets you."

A) Ask the Minister of Ceremonies about Clan Nekogawa and its Lord more thoroughly.
B) Ask the guard to send the footpad away - you wish to see no guests today.
C) Ask the Minister of Ceremonies how to show your Clan's hospitality in the best way.

You are Goku Midoriyama, the Lord of Clan Midoriyama.

Thanks to your illustrious father's deeds, the fief of Midoriyama was bestowed upon you on your 15th birthday.

You have always been known as a healthy man who knows no fever and no waste of spirit - some say it is blessings of the divine spirits, some it is the will of the God itself.

The day your fief was bestowed upon you, you also decreed your Adherence - to the illustrious teachings of the Old Master. It puts you in graces of sages and common folk alike, but the fellow nobles as well as clan warriors are a bit dissappointed. The monks who follow the Path of Zen are at odds with those of Konfucian leaning.

You sit on your wooden throne and your servants and retainers, captains and soldiers, relatives and subjects, prostrate themselves before your throne.

Minister of Scrolls presents you the wooden scroll containing the curious writings:

Villages: 1
Castles: 1
Honour: Respectable
Adherence: Decent
Clan Rank: Fourth

Your Honour, as a Lord, must be an example to all; your Adherence to your own beliefs should also be honed; and the lower the Rank, the closer you are to the graces of the Imperial Family.

You know that if you fall to the Sixth, you will be akin to a wealthy commoner, and nothing stops your neighbour or rival or even a traveling swordsman from challenging you to leadership of Midoriyama. Despite all that happens in the future, you must avoid the Sixth Rank.

This is all you know.


Songbirds chirp happily in the skies while fruit trees slowly adorn themselves with leaves. Elsewhere, peasants sow the first greenstalks and plant the red beans.

You, on the other hand, walk through the halls of your square castle, listening to the sounds of the household.

They seem a little... empty. You might be a Lord, but you own very little.

Perhaps...

A) Voices of scholars could fill the halls?
B) Laughter of a wife and maybe few concubines could break the silence?
C) Some songbirds and laughing cranes would add some music to your gardens?
D) This is as it should be?

"Who are you and what is this place?"

"Issa home." The old hag speaks, her croaking voice strangely tugging at your heart. "Gott to make zem fuds to stave off ze hunrr. Issa mountain doink dis." She stirs in the pot some more, and smiles, showing her crooked, green teeth.

"Haf a seat. Haf a bite." You feel compelled to sit down. The table is full of food...

A) Take a small taste of everything.
B) Eat some bread and drink some water.
C) Fill your stomach with everything there is on the table.
D) Refuse to eat or drink anything.
E) Eat the meaty stew.
F) Eat the chunky broth.
G) Eat only the fresh fruits and veggies.

Fixed, I've counted the colonization leftovers wrong.

Sinenses:
Sinenses armies attack Province #13 and Murkervik soldiers try to stop them! 1+3 vs 1+2 = 4 > 3
Sinenses conquer Province #13! Province pillaged for 1.
Sinenses armies attack Province #14 and Murkervik soldiers try to stop them! 1+9 vs 1+1 = 10 > 2
Sinenses conquer Province #14! Province pillaged for 1.
Sinenses armies attack Province #32 and no Murkervik soldiers stop them!
Sinenses conquer Province #32! Province pillaged for 1.

Murkervik:
Murkervik magicians cast GROWTH in Province #44! It gains +2 Resources.
Murkervik armies attack Province #46! 11+3+4 vs 10+9 = 18 < 19
Murkervik armies fail to conquer the primitives in Province #46!
Murkervik armies attack Province #15 and Sinenses soldiers try to stop them! 3+10+4 vs 5+7+2 = 17 > 14
Murkervik conquer Province #15! Province pillaged for 2.
Murkervik armies attack Province #16 and Sinenses soldiers try to stop them! 3+2+4 vs 7+4 = 9 < 11
Murkervik armies fail to conquer Province #16!

Arlen:
Arlen magicians cast CORNUCOPIA, gaining 10 Resources for immediate use!
Arlen settlers colonize Province #42!
Arlen workers build a Magic Node in Province #41, spending 20 Resources!
Arlen invest 5 in Province #51.

Caffodwol Fey:
Caffodwol Fey cast ENTHRALLMENT upon Chiefdom in Province #3, causing the locals to submit!
Caffodwol Fey settlers colonize Province #5!
Caffodwol Fey invest 10 in Province #7.




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