Oopps I misread, the ship he is trying to run on is ours. Still that is all the more reason to stop him, he might otherwise steal it.
Gold and Treachery - A Trade Magnate Quest
- Thread starter Azel
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- Germany
The problem is more that if it becomes common knowledge that your own employees have been stealing from the family for 30 years, you will look pretty bad. This would be rather hard evidence that you do not have your own business under control.
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Welp... sad to see it was indeed theft from old Sarrut.
He shall be missed from his position... I doubt the Magistrates will be as kind to miss him with their guns.
Or hanging. I'll take a good old fashioned hanging.
Now... let's see what we've got:
1. Catch with the city guard, and (highly probably) lose rep.
2. Catch with the Magistrate, and (maybe) lose rep.
3. Let him go, for good and ill. Probably ill. Oh, and we'll lose a ship, which would decrease our earnings.
4. Call upon the Viper (our wife's words, not mine
). Don't wanna get in debt with her yet.
Well, that's a simple choice:
[X] Alert the city watch to have him apprehended. (Very likely to apprehend him and the ship. Will very likely cause a scandal.)
We just paid the officials a nice sum, let them actually put it to work!
... wait. Something... it don't add up.
I'll still stand by my vote, but I'm now asking folks to check over the chapter again alongside me, because something seems missing. And it ain't just our money and thief.
He shall be missed from his position... I doubt the Magistrates will be as kind to miss him with their guns.
Or hanging. I'll take a good old fashioned hanging.
Now... let's see what we've got:
1. Catch with the city guard, and (highly probably) lose rep.
2. Catch with the Magistrate, and (maybe) lose rep.
3. Let him go, for good and ill. Probably ill. Oh, and we'll lose a ship, which would decrease our earnings.
4. Call upon the Viper (our wife's words, not mine
). Don't wanna get in debt with her yet.Well, that's a simple choice:
[X] Alert the city watch to have him apprehended. (Very likely to apprehend him and the ship. Will very likely cause a scandal.)
We just paid the officials a nice sum, let them actually put it to work!
... wait. Something... it don't add up.
I'll still stand by my vote, but I'm now asking folks to check over the chapter again alongside me, because something seems missing. And it ain't just our money and thief.
Well yeah, but I get the sense that our PC is pretty young so it was not him who screwed the pooch personally. We might be able to parley this into a Tywin to Tytos reputation. The last head of house was a fool and now we are cleaning up after him. I don't expect it to be easy but maybe with some good planning and a pinch of luck we can pull it off.
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It's more that it will lose us some (or all) of the +2 rep from being "House Lipern".
After all, if our men had been screwing US over, what are the chances it's been screwing others, too?
They won't care much that we're a fresh face. They'll care that they lost their money by dealing with us. And that's gonna be a bit harder to recover from.
Eh I don't think we will actually lose the bonus so much as it will be offset by a -X (recent scandal). The reputations of noble houses are long in the making.
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- Germany
That's certainly a way of dealing with the repercussions, but it is something that will cost you effort and probably money.
Also, you are 23 as of this turn. Menodora is 24 for those curious.
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And they can fall just as quickly by the works of the insidious and the incompetent.
*looks at recent events*
It is possible that it'll be as you say, and it's just gonna be a demerit. But that's a game of chance.
One that's better than the alternative, which is Sarrut fleeing with our ship, and any information as to why he was doing this.
My bet's on Panike, or somebody influential from there. Nothing is best for them than to see our House hobbled like this.
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[X] Alert the city watch to have him apprehended. (Very likely to apprehend him and the ship. Will very likely cause a scandal.)
While a scandal is bad, letting him just get away is going to be worse.
While a scandal is bad, letting him just get away is going to be worse.
It does not necessarily have to run that deep. Greed is always a solid human motivation.
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Fuck. I really hoped I was wrong and he wasn't outright stealing from us.
What will the immediate financial consequences of listing that ship be?
[X] Alert the city watch to have him apprehended. (Very likely to apprehend him and the ship. Will very likely cause a scandal.)
What will the immediate financial consequences of listing that ship be?
[X] Alert the city watch to have him apprehended. (Very likely to apprehend him and the ship. Will very likely cause a scandal.)
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Well, you lose the ship, all funds bound to it and it will obviously no longer generate income. You wont lose any of the cash you don't have though.
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[X] Alert the city watch to have him apprehended. (Very likely to apprehend him and the ship. Will very likely cause a scandal.)
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That's be true... if it wasn't for the scale.
The primary problem comes from the fact that not only did Sarrut steal from us (and our partners) for 30 years, he did so under at least 3 different heads of the house.
Us, our cousin, and whoever came before our cousin.
By this point, I'd reckon he has accumulated a lot more wealth than one would feel able to retire anywhere they wished.
Could he have wanted even more? Possibly. But after a certain point, wealth is a goal made of numbers. And it could be said that, if it were just for the sake of increasing his wealth, properly handling his gains would have netted far more than stealing from a collapsing house.
... ah.
Ah, shit. Umm... guys?
Here's my question: considering that Sarrut is running for one of our trade galleys in order to make his escape, what are the odds that, well... the others are rotten as well?
After all, if I'm reading the faked reports right, all of the captains had been in on the whole thing. Or if not all of them, then at least half.
Actually, this should be checked: @Azel, were the faked reports just from the ship Sarrut is running to, or were others included?
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The faked reports were coming from all ships, though you can't say if Sarrut has been writing them on his own to cover his tracks or how complicit any one captain is to everything. What you are certain off is that every captain has been embezzling money with faked supply purchases. It's hard to say if that is them stealing from you on their own or if that was done in conjunction with Sarruts efforts.
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Well... shit.
*looks at newest deals with Hasna*
*Awkwardly laughs*
... we might be in trouble.
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- France
The deal with Hasna is probably fine, actually. We didn't just get cargo, we got a whole new ship and crew to carry it. So it's our only ship that Sarrut hasn't been deeply involved with for ages: hopefully he didn't get its captain onboard with his schemes just yet. Unless we replaced the old captain when we got the ship...
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Huh. That hadn't been how I read it,
For me, it was "we get a ship full of goodies (Wealth) which we can use, AND deals."
Now, I do hope you're right, and it was that (untainted) ship in charge of the route, but I'm not sure wether that single small galley was enough to handle the whole spice trade deal on its own.
So, yeah. Attendre et esperer.
