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All I can say is: this'll be fun.

And yet he allies with Aodun and Taeri...oh, and Sabt Golgo.

Yepp, calling them all cowards is going to end well..

I somehow doubt that rift is ever going to close...
Unless everybody somehow units...
Not likely.

Quote from: alamoes on March 06, 2013, 11:51:02 pm

If you want to solve this case, there are really 2 options.  Someone wanted to implicate the count.  The merchant would be a potential man, but no motive.  The Duke has no reason to like the count.  Someone  wanted our land to go to the count.  The count would work, but it is very unlikely.  The counts heir would also work, but it is even more unlikely.   The duke may be a master plotter.  He or any of the other lords may want us dead.  I personally think our next action would be to hear from the count.  Actually now that I think of it, the merchant may have been unfairly treated by the count, as in seizing of posesions.  That could be a motive.  But we do not know.  So let us ask.  The worst he could do is say no.  The way he says it could tip us in on whether or not he is to blame for the merchants actions.  I am leaning on him have done it, but I would not doubt the possibility of a wrench being thrown in the plot.

The fact that the assassins target was named 'sir rock'(the name the count keeps calling us because of incomptence/disinterest) instead of 'sir stone'(our actual name) Makes it painfully clear that the plot ends at the count.

(It'll most likely be the first time we meet with Marna's mother aswell =x I hope she isn't going to be annoyed with us that we haven't spoken to her at all before proposing to her daughter) (omg maybe its Marna's mom that is plotting to kill us! j/k)

Next month: If possible before the wedding, head to Carshire with Irlof, and personally talk up our expanding dockyards and low tariffs among the merchants there, use our common touch and down-to-earth manner to show them that we're not arrogant nobles looking to bleed them dry to pay for frilly lace shirts and golden walking sticks. (We leave those at home, of course.) No, we're a level-headed yeoman that they can look in the eye and shake hands with! Starting a trade route through Feroshire is a good long-term investment. Carshire is probably using Curbiston as its port up the main river. We can grab some of that traffic by advertising our docks.

This year: Dredge the river. It almost handles deep draught boats, which means a couple of oxen-pulled barges dragging a bed leveler should stir up the silt and flush it downstream. Might require a dozen passes over twenty or more miles and a few months, but then we're handling cogs and carracks like an ocean-side port.

Next few years: Bridge. It seems even the Count doesn't have a bridge, and the ford upstream is no doubt seasonal and shut during the spring floods. Dredging will narrow the river along that section, shore it up with a gravel berm, and maybe you only have to span 75 paces. This makes us a key stop in all local trade and aids exploitation of resources on our north bank.

And keep expanding the docks. Overcapacity for a growing town won't sit long.

Another thing we can do for trade with Carshire is improve the road between us and them(not necessarily pave it mind you, but that'd be ideal)

GWG: Since we agreed last turn, I will provide you a Trinket in exchange for being taught Improved Farming Techniques. Said Trinket will be completed at end of turn, and you can have it the moment we complete the lesson.

Quote from: Unholy_Pariah on March 06, 2013, 10:17:11 pm

Due to recent event, i will now be teaching advanced farming to up to 4 (exluding RAM) people.
 payment options include property rights, resources, trinkets or replacement knowledge, i only ask for 1 unit of any of these...
First four to pay me get the research

I can offer you a trinket and the right to farm my land at (1 time of your choosing), for 1 food and 'advanced farming' training (which only costs you the 1 time unit- I think it's a great deal). I'm open to counteroffers though.
Same offer to GreatWyrmGold. Though only one of you can teach me (first one or the lowest bidder).