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I'm a High Fantasy Tax Collector, So What? A CKII Tax Collector Quest

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You know, I think we should look back at the compact's verdict on the potato. Depending on the wording, our colony might be able to not only use, but spread its use to the rest of Oskaria. Which will be important in the coming war with the rest of the coalition, as we will need more food produced by less farmers as we lose farmland during the war
 
If Oskaria is going to fall, it may be wise to invest in a bolthole for those loyal to it. Personally, I think such a direction would be quite a nice change of pace; the king and his followers wage their war while we try to rally support and undercut the opposition in the ways only a justice spider can.

Basically, were still doing our old job of making surprise visits to cities but instead of collecting taxes, were collecting war assets in whatever form they may come.
 
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Loyalty to the King, who protects our people. Honesty for the King, who we serve.

Also... I imagine that the King found that whole "grand entrance of Oskaria" thing to be pretty satisfying. I also imagine that it did some good things for Oskaria-worship in the country. Still, yeah, I hope this didn't hurt Ophelia too badly.
BoredStudent1414 said:
The Countness is happy to take in Agueda's spider-people but will the locals be happy?
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No... but that's what that year is for, you see (in part, anyway). We were going to have issues anywhere we went. Here, the issues are at least somewhat known, and we have some structure in place, and an existing relationship with the local lord, who we know to be usefully progressive. It's not everything, but it's not nothing.
 
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It's that the coughing sickness is everywhere.

Almost like a gunshot, the crowd of nobles vanishes, heading out into the village to find their coach and get as far away from the plague.

Truly, the power of rumor is something to be feared.
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And this is now you fail to maintain the QUARANTINE and spread coughing sickness really everywhere
 
Wait. Hold on. Something doesn't smell right.

The Minister of the Interior had us digging into Foreign Operations... while deliberately making herself as actively unpleasant as possible... when she knows for a fact both that we're known to be deeply loyal to the kingdom and that our only deeper loyalty would be to the Colonists, who are directly threatened by such things. Then we get a story where she's in the pocket of her family who are helping set this stuff up? What? No. When you're involved in treachery against the throne, the one thing you do not do is find the unimpeachably loyal hypercompetent investigator who doesn't even work for you directly and rub his nonexistent-because-he's-an-arachnid nose in it.

I think? I think she's personally loyal to the kingdom... or at least personally loyal enough. She still doesn't like us much in a personal level (that thing with the chamomile tea was dirty), but somewhere along the way she decided that she was not okay with some of the things that she was figuring out about what her family was into, and this is her way of getting the word out through a voice more believable than her own while maintaining plausible deniability.

I mean, I'd have to go back and check names and think about timelines to be sure, but that's the thing that's making sense to me right now.

Alternately, it's a power-grab inside her own family because her opponents are tainted by it and she's not, but, honestly, that's close enough to "loyal to the throne" for Oskaria nobles that you don't want to complain too much. You work with what you got.

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And this is now you fail to maintain the QUARANTINE and spread coughing sickness really everywhere
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Yep... but these nobles really do care about their own skins more than they do about the lives of, say, every single peasant in their respective provinces.
 
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Sirrocco said:
Wait. Hold on. Something doesn't smell right.

The Minister of the Interior had us digging into Foreign Operations... while deliberately making herself as actively unpleasant as possible... when she knows for a fact both that we're known to be deeply loyal to the kingdom and that our only deeper loyalty would be to the Colonists, who are directly threatened by such things. Then we get a story where she's in the pocket of her family who are helping set this stuff up? What? No. When you're involved in treachery against the throne, the one thing you do not do is find the unimpeachably loyal hypercompetent investigator who doesn't even work for you directly and rub his nonexistent-because-he's-an-arachnid nose in it.

I think? I think she's personally loyal to the kingdom... or at least personally loyal enough. She still doesn't like us much in a personal level (that thing with the chamomile tea was dirty), but somewhere along the way she decided that she was not okay with some of the things that she was figuring out about what her family was into, and this is her way of getting the word out through a voice more believable than her own while maintaining plausible deniability.

I mean, I'd have to go back and check names and think about timelines to be sure, but that's the thing that's making sense to me right now.

Alternately, it's a power-grab inside her own family because her opponents are tainted by it and she's not, but, honestly, that's close enough to "loyal to the throne" for Oskaria nobles that you don't want to complain too much. You work with what you got.
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Or Agueda was supposed to get caught and drag the Minister of Finance down with him. A conspiracy needs money to run, after all, and where better to get it than from the national treasury? Much easier to do it when the finance chair is empty.

Alternately, Oskaria was supposed to spend so much time on guard against external enemies like, uh, invading foreign armies that it neglected to protect itself against an internal coup from the nobility.
 
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silentorphan said:
Or Agueda was supposed to get caught and drag the Minister of Finance down with him. A conspiracy needs money to run, after all, and where better to get it than from the national treasury? Much easier to do it when the finance chair is empty.

Alternately, Oskaria was supposed to spend so much time on guard against external enemies like, uh, invading foreign armies that it neglected to protect itself against an internal coup from the nobility.
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Get caught doing what? Spying on foreign nobles in service to his king, while in the center of power of his kingdom? At worst they could call personal offense, and the absolute worst case on that one is that the Finance Minister has to throw Agueda to the wolves... which she's still absolutely in a solid position to do, if you look at the banter between them. That's way too tenuous a thread to have that be the actual plan, especially since they weren't warned about it in any way, and we didn't have any suspicious coincidences making life more difficult for us on the matter.

I'll have to think about the other, because there's stuff under there that I haven't finished unpacking, but at first glance it sounds a bit contrived - like it's looking for an excuse to not have to change its mind, even in the face of new evidence.
 
[ :ninja: ] Submit your report, with excruciating detail of your entire investigative process, and annotations of your thoughts, extrapolations, and guesses, to the king in place of your presence, while you abscond to the coast for a spot of surfing and beach volleyball.
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Sirrocco said:
at first glance it sounds a bit contrived
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There is also the matter of our just being introduced to the existence of Geas. If they managed to slap one onto the Minister... well, contrivances are one way to work around a geas...
 
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Sirrocco said:
I'll have to think about the other, because there's stuff under there that I haven't finished unpacking, but at first glance it sounds a bit contrived - like it's looking for an excuse to not have to change its mind, even in the face of new evidence.
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To elaborate on that second point, I was speculating that maybe Agueda was only supposed to discover the foreign plot and no more. Except Agueda being Agueda--more accurately, SV questers being themselves--he went a little further and discovered the geas, which wasn't supposed to happen.
 
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We need time to set up a case, we need the nobles unprepared for an internal investigation, we need time without constant assassination attempts. We shouldn't give away the game too early.
 
Actually... @huhYeahGoodPoint - do we know the King's preferences on this sort of thing? Would he prefer to be told reasonably-backed suspicions, or does he prefer to only hear legally-defensible truths?

I also feel like someone should be looking back at the king's recent interlude to see his attitude on stuff like this, but I personally don't have the brain for it right now.
 
Sirrocco said:
Actually... @huhYeahGoodPoint - do we know the King's preferences on this sort of thing? Would he prefer to be told reasonably-backed suspicions, or does he prefer to only hear legally-defensible truths?

I also feel like someone should be looking back at the king's recent interlude to see his attitude on stuff like this, but I personally don't have the brain for it right now.
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You want to know King Julius the Bold's opinion on traitors to the crown who are holding back the nation of Oskaria, of which you're sure that they're guilty?

In other news, I have my list of quotes and am assembling the map as I speak, so the opportunity to win that Major Boon has closed.
 
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Don't accuse without evidence. We wouldn't want to take the innocent down.
Though I would like it if we could start a investigation on the minister of interior, purely for fiscal reasons of course:whistle:
 
Switching to know, just a bit too weirded out by the situation, and the geas, and perhaps a very obvious geas is a bit too convenient, when the obvious one might be covering for a subtle one, and is evidence that they had the means to place one at all. And I am still concerned that the minister of the interior might be under a geas, and bringing us in to try to do something without violating it. Of course I am getting into conspiracy theorising here.
 
I dunno, I don't think our king is the kind of guy who'd react to suspicions of treasons from his nobles with.... well, a smart and well-thought out course of action that will stop that.

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