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You did what you could, hopefully you helped build enough rapport between the two women to stop them from killing each other while on the expedition.
The next day you met with General Varkas and Tyrol to discuss how to handle Kireon’s meddling.
“So far we know Kireon is hiring mercenaries to try and destabilise our realm. The so called bandits we’ve captured; their weapons are too sharp, their actions too co-ordinated and many of them look distinctly foreign to this region,” said Tyrol.
“They’re a slippery bunch, it’s only through blind luck we managed to capture the ones we did alive,” said Varkas with a nod. “They are likely operating from a base somewhere in Kireon territory. I’d wager Rivenholm, only real place for them to hide a base of operations.”
You frown at the offending town on the map. “Rivenholm is firmly within Kireon territory. We can’t openly move on it without provoking an all-out war…”
[Edge]:”So let’s wage a war. Even if we’re too much of a pussy to unleash the Dragon the grand cull freed up enough of our troops for a full invasion.”
[Stonks]: “You have a very generous definition of invasion Edge. We might have enough power to annex Rivenholm, but nowhere near enough fight our way to Kirenburg and take it.”
[Hackerman]: “Annexing Rivenholm might work, it would allow us better control of the border, and would definitely send a message to Kireon.”
[Diplomancer]: “But we can’t just up and do that. We need a cassus belli.”
[Edge]: “A what?”
[(Muh)Autism]: “A reason to go to war, it’s latin.”
[Diplomancer]: “We could tell Kireon that we are suffering from bandit raids originating from his lands and petition him to do something about it. When he predictably does nothing, we take matters into our own hands.”
[Hackerman]: “Maybe we can turn the tables on him, disguise our own troops as bandits then sack Rivenholm. We root our the mercs and also get a few spoils to sweeten the deal.”
[Stonks]: “That could provoke a strong response from Kireon, his troops would be at a disadvantage invading our lands but the attrition of a full scale war would leave us worse off in the long run. A safer option would be to use our freed up troops to make the border impenetrable.”
[Hackerman]: “Is such a thing even possible?”
[(Muh) Autism]: “In the most technical sense; no. We can’t truly <span class="mu-i">stop</span> people from crossing the border but deploy enough patrols in the region then for all practical purposes an enemy would be hard pressed to do any real damage before encountering serious resistance.”
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