>>5677337Photo: Kin Enriquez
Alt-Text: Overhead picture of the Xochimilco chinampas.
“6 Knife it is! Leave it to the supersoldier to have a real name more badass than 'Stoneface.'”
6 Knife: Not a soldier. Servant of freedom.
“Yeah, I’m sure those knives are real liberating.”
As the pirates sail off, 6 Knife points at them.
6 Knife: Poverty. Starvation. Greed. Suffering.
They slide their dagger through the air in front of their neck.
6 Knife: Freedom.
“Riiiight. Well, I’ll stay nice and unfree over here if you don’t mind. Just make sure we’re on the right path.”
As the sun drops low in the sky you can’t help but be amazed by the river network.
Yes, it's slow as shit, full of mud, and has insects thirstier than a triad on a wedding night, but taking an entire force of nature and forcing it through a country, is something you only thought possible in stories.
6 Knife: Here.
You stop at the edge of a mud patty filled with neat rows of some plant. In the distance modestly dressed people come carries sacks.
“What are they holding?”
6 Knife: Payment for water.
It seems when people show up in a fancy boat with weapons and three-muku-tall murder fetishists they assume you’re in charge.
Now how should you play this?
You can pass yourself off as the authorities and collect what you want, it also would let you start building a power base if they think you’re already in charge of something.
Though something is to be said for honesty, opening up to these people and their hardships may endear them to you, especially if they're as hard-strapped as they seem.
> Collect the Taxes>Refuse to collect the Taxes.>Write-in 