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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[Lucus Casius]

C

[mightymushroom]

The problem I have with C is that even though we have an abiding hatred toward dwarves, Elran III had several deals and good relations with at least Ankurvat. I don't know how his son feels, but if we must introduce it let's not lead with "dwarfmurder brings humanity together." It may even be that he would be trying to "repair" our split with the dwarves.

D

If there is something else available (I don't know) this is the most natural point in the conversation to ask.
I expect that, like the religious council, the collective we will probably vote for most or all of these at some point. Trade is the simplest to do.

[Haspen]

aa
ccccc
d


You decide to talk with King Daric about the dwarves.

Very quickly you learn some very important things. The dwarves and Kingdom of Eldrican has had strong mercantile ties since the fall of the various nomadic Khanates in the previous centuries. Much or Eldricanese wealth comes from selling various quality crafts and foodstuffs to the dwarven fortresses dotting the Eldrican border.

King Daric even mentions that his noble father sometimes let out his frustration at your treatment of dwarves, and destruction of one of their citadels, and only because of family ties and good relationship with Methiant, King Elran refused to take sides.

You decide to...

A) Promise to lay off any violence against the Dwarves if that will improve relationship between Methiant and Eldrican.
B) Try to persuade King Daric to see just how violent, unstable and asshole-y the dwarves are.
C) Ask King Daric to help you repair the relationship with dwarves, hopefully by putting you in touch with their mountain leaders.
D) Quietly move on to other topics without saying much.

[milo christiansen]

D Quietly move on to other topics without saying much.

EDIT: Anything But C.

To be clear, I really want D, but C is too close to winning so B gets my vote.

[Harry Baldman]

B

Listen to the sordid tale of our broken weather scepter and learn, young king!

[Haspen]

D Quietly move on to other topics without saying much.

:Vc

Added.

[crazyabe]

C.

[Imic]

C
I know the Dwarves backstabbed us, but we kinda deserved it after all we ended up doing. Also, going to war with them is not something that I want to risk, since we all know how that went last time.

[Arlos]

C
I know the Dwarves backstabbed us, but we kinda deserved it after all we ended up doing. Also, going to war with them is not something that I want to risk, since we all know how that went last time.

B

We didn't really do anything to them, most of the cause of conflict came from them.

[Kashyyk]

B - Because they are. I don't expect him to volunteer to join us on a crusade against them, but so ling as he understands that we were completely justified in our actions then that's enough for me.

[Taricus]

C, May as well try mending that, no sense in letting them stay pissed off at us.

[Criptfeind]

Yeah. We really didn't do anything to them. They had human looters in their land. Their land, that, by the way, is full of human slaves subjects. So they demanded the nearest human kingdom, us, pay them. When we didn't because that's obviously bullshit, they went back on their deal with us, breaking an artifact of ours that we paid for and offering no compensation. I think we were totally justified in declaring war on them. Now, the destruction of their fortress and all the death sucked, but that's because they fought to the last against us. Which, yeah, kinda our fault. Kinda their fault. War sucks, but this was a justified war.

B

I don't think B will come to the best outcome, but seriously fuck the dwarves.

[Puppyguard]

C

[milo christiansen]

but seriously fuck the dwarves.

+1

[mightymushroom]

Between B and D, it's D for me. I think Daric is subtly hinting that he doesn't share his father's neutrality, and we can hardly speak of the lying cheats without frothing at the mouth. The best diplomacy is to let it lie.