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I haven't seen any signs of microtransactions so far, but I'm pretty new myself. And it looks like you can rise all the way to king or queen, but I'm guessing that would take a very long time.

I think I projected much too much onto this game

I am suddenly a lot less enthusiastic.

Wait, why? I'm getting more excited with each new video :/

Granted. You die from the insane amount of toxic substances present in the cake.

I wish my throat would stop hurting.

One odd thing that has come out of it though is that watching her play the game badly has actually allowed me to learn things I never knew about the game! She just does things I'd never have thought of doing in all my experience playing it, so even though I thought I knew everything about it, turns out I was wrong!

Supposedly that's the secret behind "beginner's luck": a newbie doesn't know how something is supposed to be "properly" done, and will do things that a more experienced person simply won't expect or think of.

My nerd credentials (the following items may or may not count as "nerdy"):

I own around 300 books, many of them sci-fi of varying hardness, but also some programming and theoretical physics
I'm currently listening to pirate-themed hard rock music
I was a founding member of a writing club, and served two terms as President
--was also President of a french club
I knew about the Pokemon game before the anime
I have introduced several friends to Dwarf Fortress, Warhammer 40k, and Nethack
I discovered TV-Tropes and the SCP Foundation without being linked to either by someone I knew
I went to a national competition for the programming division

Honestly, I'm all for taking it slow. I'll go ahead and start in Storm Keep.

ETA: Joined as Cyrus Amberstaff. Completely confused, but I'm reading the wiki to figure out what to do. Also, are we at war with Libero? The peasants at Mt. Black Nastrond are apparently devoted to them 

One more question:
Which duchy should I start in? I like the sound of Storm's Keep, but if I should go somewhere else to swear fealty I would rather start there.

I'll be playing out the next turn tomorrow. If you haven't already, get your votes in!