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>>5553209>>5552931>>5552929>>5552928>>5552896>>5552724>>5552712>>5552701>>5552689>>5552683>>5552677>Summons!>Choose for one company to serve as your personal guard.There are different suggestions from Emelie and the assisting staff, as well as the occasional mercenary commander who comes to check on you, as to what the nature of these envoys should be. However your decision is to issue a summons to any and all who will receive these letters and gifts. Your impulse is to just make demands but looking further ahead, you feel that you'd rather know the intentions of all these people before making any decisions. To see who responds to your letters and how, invite them all to show their colors and separate the worthy and the unworthy.
Besides, it could also lend strength to your court since the various informed parties can try and compete with one another for positions around you. Limited in number, the more opportunistic among them may invest more heavily in your cause in order to secure a high position and thus better rewards and returns for themselves. Potentially foreigners too but that's just a price you'll have to consider if the cost is for victory.
<span class="mu-r">"...Monsieur Franz? May I speak with you?"</span>
<span class="mu-i">"My Konigin? If you would let me resolve this, then you may have whatever you wish of me. Stay if you like, see how this is done."</span>
With the matter of envoys taken care of then, for the remainder of the afternoon and evening you turn your attention to the pressing military matter of making sure your men are housed and provisioned for... in no small part because they're eating you out of house and home! You can host them another day or two at the most but beyond that, they've depleted the stores of goods for the estate.
So you seek out Franz, commander of the Black Bears, hoping to make a request of him that you think will settle the issue. Finding him mediating a dispute between men of different mercenary companies... seems your force often have problems with Marcel's Marauders due to their irregular organization. For you though most of the men would either give you their undivided attention or instead brush you off, but when it comes to his own men Franz wants to make sure the problem is dealt with completely, without distractions. To his word it doesn't take that long and you get a chance to observe how these matters are handled among the mercenaries.