>>5352132>>5352245>>5352330>>5352587You decided to ask the first, and most obvious question, but you were shocked by the possibility of being attacked by royal troops.
-Queen's men ? Heresy and madness, maybe they have been sent by the baron's uncle who is her chancellor ? What to do to deal with it Oldfossil ?
The old man nodded.
-I think so too, the queen probably does not even know where Local is, but her chancellor, yes, he sometimes helps his nephew. But I doubt that he would have sent these men, he cannot send troops alone, he has probably sent them for... I know ! Of course ! It is obvious ! Adventurers have been sent there because the Mage's Guild has seen a magical disturbance, and then the mage's guild has probably told it to the Royal authorities of our kingdom who has sent people too. And the Chancellor has has probably told them to trust the Baron who decided to use them to kill you ! He probably lied to them saying that you were responsible for this !
Always more theories, but it was plausible... But why... Why should half of the world be concerned about a "magical disturbance" have they not better things to do ? You then asked.
-So what is your advice ?
-Try to tell count Careless, who has support at court, that you are innocent. They probably will say that it was an error, they cannot prove that you are responsible for the magical disturbance. And they would not want to speak about killings amongst the nobility.
-And I suppose that count Careless will not see well that his vassal sends assassins to kill another vassal ?
-Of course, he is against those methods, and is a very good man, but he cannot remove baron Crook since the baron's uncle is the chancellor and has more influence at court than him. But even with much influence the chancellor's case will be hard to justify.
You agreed, but then... Then there was the problem of the adventurers that you have arrested, if those pesky guilds support the chancellor against you... It would be like in France with the vile Marigny, the alliance of the perfidious bourgeois with the royal administration to oppress the good and old feudal nobility. Your family had chivalry in it's blood for a bit less than half a century and those dogs dare tell you that something is forbidden, truly we should go back to the good old feudal customs of Saint Louis. You told.
-Then we will do this. But then, the goat talked about Gorilla warfare, what is it ? A kind of naval tactic ?
Your steward took a pained expression, telling.
-I do not know my lord, I have heard about gorillas, huge hairy apes who live in the south, but I never knew that they could be used in warfare. Maybe it was a slip of the tongue and he meant guerilla warfare, it means ambushes and asymmetric tactics.
You were categorical even if you ignored what asymmetric meant.
