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Alright.

You are a Robot.

Why do you like mechanical things so much?
[2] Nope.

you can time travel.

[4] Yes, you can.

"Over there."

Let the traders stay.

Jay I: Have the Redshirt goblin go and pet the ridgeback.

Think: What do we gain by burning the city? Should we be discovered, the burning hate of the townspeople, the conquerers, the people of the town's nation, and everyone abiding by the First Maxim of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 22, 2013, 07:11:37 pm

Which would make everyone ask, "Why does this minor, inland noble have a full-fledged navy?" The only answers I can think they would think of aren't good for us...paranoia is about the best.

They probably don't care. The King of France didn't ask the Duke of Normandy why he raised a navy, then the Duke conquered England without asking the King for permission. Nobles generally did what they thought best, with little actual written law except "give me some taxes" and "give me some troops" and a vow not to rebel. Feudalism is decentralised, by definition--otherwise you've got a modern nation-state instead.

Normandy...isn't that the one place that has places it can reach by ship which aren't in the kingdom?
Feudalistic systems of government might have given nobles a very long leash, but they'd likely draw the line at vessels whose only apparent purpose is to either fend off an unlikely river invasion (and it would make more sense to give them to someone closer to the sea for that--more efficient, less suspicious, less management, and makes the coast guy owe us) or (more likely in their eyes) to invade elsewhere in the kingdom.
And don't forget--just downstream is a paranoid noble who already hates us. We shouldn't be giving him more excuses for paranoia.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on March 22, 2013, 07:11:37 pm

Quote from: Gervassen on March 22, 2013, 02:22:38 pm

No to mingling with the people,

While I agree with your general point, I have to nix this. Being an involved, caring lord is a lot of what got us where we are.

I was probably a little too forceful in making that point, but we didn't train last month, and we won't be training next month either during the fair, so now's the time, if we don't want to go three solid months without training at all. One month breaks are healthy occasionally, but three month breaks?

Well, yeah, we shouldn't just stop training, but didn't the one recent update mention we were in fact still training?

Interestingly enough, however, I don't see our rule as particularly involved, even when looking as objectively as possible. Not really. We have an easy relaxed manner with the peasants, true, but we aren't constantly wringing our hands about their welfare. Most of our success was won by leading them in back-breaking (and apparently very low-paid) building projects and in war, not following their desires and making them feel comfortable. We're a hard taskmaster when you look back at the volume of work done the past six years, often with no obvious recompense other than "these are your feudal duties!" 

We also personally mediated a number of disputes and spend time amongst the commoners. And, remember, being better than average isn't a high bar...

Quote from: Origami_Psycho on March 22, 2013, 07:03:07 pm

Quote from: Elfeater on March 22, 2013, 06:51:13 pm

Also, we may want to get some more halberdiers.

Do this, and, while we're at it, let's start recruiting alchemists.  I want to move this into the age of gunpowder.  Just cause the change would cause untold amounts of hilarity.

While this could be neat...don't hold your breath.

+1 to halberdiers, but if you look at the building rate for our town walls... Mal generally makes us earn what we achieve.
I added some scholarly debates to the festival plans specifically as a way to tap into the "higher education" area that certain other plans like kahn's armor factory and ballista-building appear to require. I don't anticipate rapid success there, however. Maybe we get a very late game breakthough in saltpeter? Perhaps.
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Maybe.

But don't rule out major developments if we work at it. We've got decades ahead of us--one Da Vinci or Tesla under a supportive lord could do wonders.

"People? Oh. Um..."

Point at the other guy.

"He here."

If we really are on a spaceship, that must mean that the Kingdom of Haria is around here somewhere. It never did say how far he traveled.

Indeed. It's probably on a planet somewhere. Or maybe it's another spaceship.

...Which gets my creative juices flowing.

If you are destroyed, you will explode in a giant magical nuclear explosion.

[2] No, you don't.

Your right eye has a crack in it from when you accidentally tripped and hit a tree. Its rather embarrassing, you make up a new story each time someone asks about it.

[2] Your eyes are nice and uncracked.

Your sister's name is Egroeg. She, unlike you, is quite feminine in her looks.

[5] Indeed. While Egroeg isn't as magical as you, she has the ability to turn more feminine, shifting parts until she looks like a human woman made of iron.

You are well travel, it hard to think of a country you have not be to.

[1] It's a shame, you've never actually been farther than ten or twelve miles from your lair.

Quote from: Harry Baldman on March 22, 2013, 01:58:22 am

Your sister's name is Egroeg. She, unlike you, is quite feminine in her looks.

As well as her ways

[4] Yes, Eroeg is quite the girly-mechadragon. Yet another way you're different.

You are a great fan of all sorts of music, although your favorite genre is Hard Rock. Sometimes you take contracts as a stage prop just so that you can get closer to the musicians, and enjoy the concerts.

[2-1] No. No rockers have ever come within a hundred miles of you, and you don't really "feel" music.

Quote from: Errol on March 22, 2013, 11:15:21 am

You are a great fan of all sorts of music, although your favorite genre is Hard Rock. Sometimes you take contracts as a stage prop just so that you can get closer to the musicians, and enjoy the concerts.

You have a beautiful, haunting singing voice that would go well with metal music. It's a great shame that you never get to sing to humans.

[2-1] You suspect it's just as well that humans never hear you "sing." It's a bit like hearing metal scrape together...for obvious enough reasons.

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With that line of failures, I daresay Mot is done. Who wants to make another character?