>>5949303>>5949309>>5949353>>5949373>>5949448>>5949865You remarked that even if you had a crest on your tabard you did not look like a lord, more like a traveler. Well, if you excluded your guards you could pass for an errant knight. So you decided to address a local merchant, telling him.
-Hey, you there villein, tell me why is there so much armed Guelphs in this city ? I do not remember them from the last time that I saw them...
The merchant, a small bearded man with a golden tooth answered by pointing at them.
-Hah, these lads, they are from the garrison of Tricked. Queen's soldiers, they have got a good pay and pay well at my stand. They are here for the treason of a baron...
You played the role of the clueless errant knight.
-The treason of a baron ?
-Aye, the treason of the baron of Someplace, I think. They nominated a new baron I think, or they wait a lord from some shithole to do it.
-They have already nominated a new baron ?
-Yeah, from what I heard there is still some formalities to do but apparently yes. The queen insisted on some candidate, an elf probably.
You were still shocked, and you asked then.
-And are these soldiers escorting the queen's new baron ?
He shrugged.
-Probably, yes, no, wait, one of them told that they were here if the troops of the ancient baron tried to resist or would not give them the castle.
You thanked the man but told to your guardsmen to hit him five times with batons since he called your lordship a "shithole". You then began to understand the picture, if a nomination was forced by the queen, against all feudal customs, it meant that the new baron would be probably here to check the power of Count Careless, it meant that the count had lost the political struggle, or at least his "pro human party" (a name as meaningless as the League of the Public Good) and since you already heard that the new chancellor was a Guelph you could see his policy. Apparently they waited for you to formally declare him a vassal of the count. Concretely this meant is that the brave Neutral Lord with whom you honestly tried to have a good relationship and who promised you to give back all her lands to Lady Takable was not the new baron. Maybe you could try to show loyalty to this new Guelph ? Or try to do something to avoid his nomination ? Or try to gain some time.
>Enter the castle and announce yourself, let it be done with everything.>Try to enter discreetely in the castle, no need to announce yourself, and try to find someone with whom to speak about the situation (choose who)>Do not enter the castle, stay at an inn, try to send one of your knights to secretely contact someone (choose whom)>Other (write in) 