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Near immediately after, a meeting was requested of you, in Lapizlazulli, your home base. No formal event or secret rendezvous either, but a simple café date with a familiar figure, the representative of the Augustans in this province, General Di Aceroro. It was assuredly to do with your movement north, and that was immediately addressed when you were both seated in a booth, dressed plainly, though with equally casual guards eyeing everything about.
“So Larrocompato is next on your list, <span class="mu-i">Colonello</span> Bonaventura?” Di Aceroro said with a raise of his eyebrow over your waters, “I’ve heard much good about how your men resolved the matter of the provincial capital, but there is no such chaos north. What is your plan?”
“That would be a secret.” Though it was still in progress. “What are yours, with this meeting?”
“I believe we can come to an agreement regarding the rest of Larencci, <span class="mu-i">Colonello</span>.” General Di Aceroro said with a stiff smile, “The Augustans would prefer to have control of the northern provincial capital. Its county territory makes up the remainder of the southern border with Halmeggia, and you don’t need to have to worry about that, do you? So we take Larrocompato, and in exchange, you will be free to take over Sudoscuro. With the Duke behind you and us in the Royal Army pressuring him, the old count won’t have any choice but to submit to you. With that, the entire province should be tied up, won’t it?”
“It would be.”
“We’ve worked well together so far, <span class="mu-i">Colonello</span> Bonaventura, and the Augustans have been extremely impressed with how you dealt with the self-destructive disruption of the Utopian Front and their pack of unruly mutts and foreign interlopers. Larrocompato might be a painfully sweet fruit to have to give up, but, do you really want to expend the effort? Considering the ease you could go elsewhere, and have our gratitude and support for it? Our future holds much promise.”
>Agree to split the remainder of Larencci. Sudoscuro for you, Larrocompato for the Augustans. Your shared dominance of the province would provide a good base to jump off early to the next province…
>You’ll have to decline the deal. You’d like to take Larrocompato yourself- or at least try and get more of it. You might be as good as allies, but that wasn’t an excuse not to try and drive a hard bargain.
>As a show of good faith, you’d actually let them have both of the remaining counties. Sudoscuro would be of little use to you, so they could have it…in return for a favor. (Name it, or save it for down the line)
>Other?
