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Either listen to Visual Kei and text or sit with my other half and talk.

The truth here can only help our case, if they know the elves fear us, then they know better not to mess with us, and our reputation grows.

Now that we have more than simple farmers on our land, how are we going to tax those whose trade is not farming? Are we going to use flat taxes for them or are we simply sampling an unspecified amount of their labor?

We had already planned on seeding allies among the humans, this is a good time to begin to earn a reputation of some benevolence (It may open up the oppurtunity for the trade of slaves for a food/fear source in the future as well.). In the very least we should explain to them that they won't find elves here, and give them a little advice on how to better track their prey. I would also be in support of using them to help us hit the elven settlement.

Perhaps we don't want to make yet another enemy just yet. Fling their weapons into the future if possible, but either way explain that we don't want to earn the ire of their people, and that their people don't want to earn our ire either.

Not really a compelling argument. By the logic of "because i think he's cooler." Batman would beat superman almost 100% of the time.

I was thinking that we could institute some competitions around harvest time or some such. Perhaps some that could be used to help toughen up the populace and talent scout decent fighters. It could be a "common mans tourney". There could be a a fistfighting competition, an archery competition and a stave-fighting competition, perhaps each with a modest reward of grain and a place at our table during the feasting. We might also arrange a dance, though that would require in the least some crude instruments, if not a bard or three. Though come to think of it a bard could definitely help bring in business for the tavern.