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Dragon Harem Quest - Or: Saying You Were Gay Wasn't The Conversation-Ender You Hoped For

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Grimnir said:
Hmmm. Standard merchant practice of this era is just... You go buy foreign exotic goods in some distant place where they're cheap, and then come back and sell them where they're expensive, right?

So, what we need to corner the market- after we deal with these Rosso fuckboys- is to either upset that paradigm (INDUSTRIALIZATION HO!) or work in that paradigm, but better than everyone else.

... It strikes me that we have a very foreign dragon living in our house who would be helpful in understanding his native culture and conducting business over there. And also that we have an Enby wizard boyfriend who could probably, like, help us make magic ships that go faster, if not just set up permanent gates between countries that we control and use to remove shipping time entirely.

I mean, assuming that nobody else has done that before, anyway. Do wizards go into business often?
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Doesn't the wizard have a portal to the Beyond or something like that? Go through, explore for knick knacks and then sell them.
 
I'm not sure what we could find in the Beyond that we would be able to sell for enough money to rejuvenate a merchant house in a major trading centre? I mean, there's probably stuff, but it's not going to be less dangerous to get comparatively to heisting another merchant house.
 
[X] Reject the woman's offer. You'll come up with your own plan to save the House and your dwindling coffers with a lower chance of backfiring - hopefully.

This seems pretty much doomed to go bad in a hurry. I think she already knows Eldingar is a dragon, Eldingar is not a subtle man so I don't see a heist going well in any circumstances, and desperation doesn't seem like a positive touch, either.
 
[X] Take the woman's offer. Get your own back and rob those Rosso bastards blind.

Her: DO THE THING ELDINGAR
Eld: DOING THE THING
Belial: Hey! That's really a hurtful way to refer to somebody, y'know?

Also this promises to be a hilarious screwup.

...plus we might get to see Eldingar's 7 in action.
 
LupineVolt said:
Counterpoint, making money in any organized and efficient fashion takes time if you're not pulling off something like this. And this not only helps us, but it knocks a rival down a peg.
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That is a good reason. Merchant Republics like Venice and maybe Ragusa had all sorts of sabotage between the rich houses, I think. It is par for the course.
 
Zavvnao said:
That is a good reason. Merchant Republics like Venice and maybe Ragusa had all sorts of sabotage between the rich houses, I think. It is par for the course.
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Not to mention the fact that they did that to us, via Marco the traitorous secretary. Or at least somebody did to us. We've got to fight fire with fire, so to speak, and this mysterious thief may be our ticket.

Also, they just seem fun.
 
[X] Take the woman's offer. Get your own back and rob those Rosso bastards blind.


This is going to be a mess.
So, just a normal day in Eldingar's life.
 
[X] Reject the woman's offer. You'll come up with your own plan to save the House and your dwindling coffers with a lower chance of backfiring - hopefully.

Instead, why don't we make this an activity we can involve one of our prospects in? Dragons love money and treasure, so getting rich (and possibly attempting to flatter them with jewelry) with them might make them feel appriciated.
 
[X] Reject the woman's offer. You'll come up with your own plan to save the House and your dwindling coffers with a lower chance of backfiring - hopefully.

This could not possibly be a more obvious trap if it came with a giant flashing neon sign.

Besides, we have a genie, a magic map, and a rich wizard friend. We can deal.
 
[X] Reject the woman's offer. You'll come up with your own plan to save the House and your dwindling coffers with a lower chance of backfiring - hopefully.

Yeah! We'll do it our way!

... which means we'll flail around helplessly for a bit, feel sorry for ourself, then give up and spend a wish to just fix everything.
 
TheLurker said:
Besides, we have a genie, a magic map, and a rich wizard friend. We can deal.
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The magic maps has only pointed to boyfriends. And our Wizard friend isn't the owner of that gold, they're just the apprentice. They already said they weren't going to give away the wizard's money or possessions.

Also, do y'all really think that its attractive to go crawling to your collection of, let's face it, fairly fresh acquaintances and beg them to help you crawl out of debt? It isn't. And any time we'd devote to whatever venture that is, we'd miss out on more fruitful social link activities. Not to mention we might have to put the other husbandos on our map on hold in order to do busywork. Which is boring.

Whereas we can instead take this opportunity for a fun sidequest with a new character that Zerban obviously has plans for, and not sandbag them without mercy.
 
[X] Take the woman's offer. Get your own back and rob those Rosso bastards blind.

Time to be a thief.
 
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