Spyro's Kingdom

Turn 1 Results​

Confronting Nobles (Spyro): Cyril thinks now would be an excellent time to talk with the nobles and get everything straightened out. The nobles used to run all aspects of dragon life except which was run by the Guardians. Talking with them may help the surviving nobles accept the new government. With the nobles still rebuilding and figuring out what claims they have and which they can take for themselves, now would be an excellent time to strike. Nipping any attempt to turn Spyro into a puppet will need to be a priority.
Chance of Success: 60% (Goes down by 5 every month). Cost: N/A (Every 200 gold will increase success chance by 5%).
61+13(Spyro)+20(Bribes)=94

Continued in 'Nobility Games' Interlude

Hunting Roster (Cynder): Sending out hunting parties every month is well and good, but Cyril has made it clear that a system needs to be established to free up the manpower otherwise going toward setting them up every month.
Cost: 100 gold. Time: 1 month.

- Cynder has taken it upon herself to address the dwindling food situation and has spent the entire month familiarizing herself with able-bodied dragons. Not everyone is happy with having to hunt for the rest, but through a mixture of the general state of things and her uncanny ability to be intimidating without actually trying, she has managed to get enough dragons to partake that it has greatly increased the food situation in Warfang and has generally stabilized things for the moment. The fact that the hunters are allowed to eat their fill as long as they bring back their quota, has gone a long way in making this more palatable.
Reward: Permanent +1 food level. +200 Gold per month.

Clean Drinking Water (Cyril): Cyril has made it clear that the most important priority at the moment is to secure a source of clean drinking water. With the aqueducts destroyed, disease and thirst are sure to ravage the populace. Until the aqueducts can be fixed, it will be expensive and time consuming to collect.
Cost: 300 Gold per month. Time: 1 month. Reward: Clean drinking water located, morale drop from lack of water halted.

- Cyril has taken on what might just be the most important duty of all in the current emergency; locating a source of clean drinking water. The old watering holes were of course checked first, though even the one that had originally fed the aqueducts is no longer there. In the end, Cyril ended up having to do a sweep of the area around Warfang to locate enough water sources to keep the population healthy. Two mountain springs in the mountains around Warfang were located after Cyril followed their streams back to their sources. Help from some water dragons that he recruited for this also led him to locating an underground aquifer on the other side of the mountains. This was unfortunately all he could find, though he admits that until a proper survey is done, it is quite likely that he missed something.
Reward: Clean drinking water located, morale drop from lack of water halted. -300 gold per turn from needing to transport water to the city.

A Temporary Shelter (Terrador): With the majority of Warfang rubble at the moment, everyone agrees that one of the top priorities is to get some temporary shelters erected. Already dragons and moles have cleared some land and earth dragons have shaped stone into crude shelters, but clear leadership and oversight will go a long way in both morale and effectiveness.
Cost: 1000750 Gold. Time: 1 month.

- The damage done to Warfang is far worse than Terrador had feared and he spent the entire month tearing down nearly every existing house and many other buildings. With his leadership, he enlisted nearly every earth dragon in the city and they quickly went to work. In what is quickly becoming known as the 'Residential' District, Terrador and his crew used the massive amount of stone rubble to establish hundreds of basic shelters. Thanks to his sheer power and skill, this ended up being much easier than had been expected and Terrador ended up saving quite a bit of gold as well as teaching the dragons with him a few tips regarding stone manipulation.
Reward: Temporary shelters erected, morale drop from lack of shelter halted. Reduced price and slight increase in skill level for earth dragons.

Save the Books! Part One (Volteer): With the Dragon Temple destroyed and with it priceless irreplaceable knowledge, Volteer has declared an emergency. He needs all claws on deck to find as many unique books as possible and get people on copying them immediately. Once you have the books, work can start on a place to store them and someone to manage them. Volteer admits that more gold to serve as bribes would make the process easier. Can be taken as a free action at double the price and time.
Chance of Success: 70% (goes down by 5 every 3 months). Cost: 500 gold (every 500 gold afterward, increase success by 10%; can go past 100). Time: 1 month.
24+22(Volteer)+10(Bribes)=56

Volteer took the lead on trying to rescue as much knowledge as possible. Unfortunately, he had grim news: He estimates as many as one in every five books or scrolls was actually salvageable. With the bribe money he had been given, Volteer was able to convince many to part with what they had, though the nobility demanded a far higher price than he was willing to pay. With no truly secure place to put the books at the moment, he had Terrador stabilize a single room of the former library and sealed the books and scrolls inside. Until a true library can be built, that will have to do. Volteer also suggests hiring some scribes to copy what remains so that nothing else is lost.
Reward: One in every five books and scrolls survived or were salvageable with some effort. They are secured in a single locked room of what remains of the city library.

Cyril had warned him that trying to negotiate with the nobility would not be an easy feat. Going himself was risky, but it would help with his reputation early on which the Ice Guardian had said was going to be incredibly important, since he was still very much untested. Cynder had cautioned him that the benefits of such an approach did not outweigh the downsides, but he had gone ahead with the plan anyways. Now standing in front of the doors to the chamber that had been agreed upon for the meeting… he was starting to doubt his resolve. "Come on Spyro… you beat Malefor and saved the planet! What are a few nobles compared to that?" He whispered to himself, before drawing himself up and pushing the doors open.

"Well, well, look who it is." A fire dragon of House Novis sneered. "King Spyro himself. How wonderful it is that you bothered to grace us with your presence."

"Scaldor Novis." Spyro acknowledged the speaker. "Houses Novis, Aquara, Sonis, Hayle, Granit, Farad, Lavis, Avis, Bayle, Avala, and Fulgur." Spyro continued as he walked up to his spot at the table as regally as he could. Cyril had grilled him as much as he could on who the representatives were going to be and how to be respectful without verging into outright submission before them. "I see the lesser Houses have been left out of these negotiations." He remarked as nonchalantly as he could.

"The lesser Houses will of course be updated on what is decided here, but we felt it best to keep the meeting small so as to not overwhelm you, young king." Aeranas Sonis stated patronizingly. She was amongst one of the most well decorated nobles there, contrasting some of the others who verged on outright ridiculousness under all the jewelry and opulence.

Spyro met her eyes as he replied carefully. "Nonetheless, I do not want them to feel left out of these important negotiations."

Galvan Farad laughed. "Important? I think you are overestimating what you can accomplish here." Some of the others laughed alongside him.

Spyro took a deep breath and was about to retort when Flurris Hayle spoke up. "Peace, peace. Let us see what the young King has to say to us before we decry him."

"Easy for you to say, you got out of the war easy compared to the rest of us and are still riding high from the prestige of Guardian Cyril." Circos Avis scoffed at her.

"Regardless, House Hayle is correct in this matter. We have yet to hear any demands or propositions of the young king." Hydran Aquara stated. The bickering came to a close as eleven of the most important dragons in the city turned their attention to him.

Negotiations​

The Nobility