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A resounding cheer of support... or hostile intent, echoes through the mob to really nail your point to the foreheads of the traitors within the walls. Quaking in their boots surely, faltering against such severe odds. Or perhaps simply, fear at the indignity they would surely suffer from an angry mob versus proper and orderly combat that your limited force two days prior had offered.
Oh how you secretly wish these fools would feebly continue to oppose you, so that you could let loose the pent up violence amassing at your back.
<span class="mu-r">"I ask that you let us in. If the duke calls, I will answer."</span>
A simple request, to lay bare the only choice they have in this undesirable situation. You can't hear anything from the defenders, the gathering mob far too noisome. But you can see the men inside nervously conversing, shouting at each other and running about in a panic. Eventually, some ten minutes passed when the crowd starts getting unruly and throwing things, chanting for action... that a white linen is waved over the gate, and those inside start to raise and open it.
By intimidation then, it seems you've regained access to your family's palace here, soon to be your own capital for the cause. As for the means to do it however, you still have an assembled angry mob looking for appeasement. As people start to surge towards the opening gate, you'd best act quick if you want to maintain control of the situation.
After all, you're fine with pillaging and burning your enemies, or even just opportunistically anyone in your way. But certainly not your own holdings!
>See the traitors, the armed garrison at least, dragged out and thrown to the mob. Some bloodshed ought to appease them! Albeit at the cost of knowledgeable armed defenders of the palace, but then they are traitors after all!
>Give up one of the treasure wagons to the people. Organized distribution of course, not just mad and bloody chaos. It will be a severe blow to your new wealth, but you'll trade a wagon of plunder for your palace any day.
>Distract the people with a "victory" celebration! Everyone can come onto the estate grounds... not into the palace itself, but on the grounds you can host a feast and then tomorrow they can return home. Just hope there's enough food and drink kept within the estate for this!
>You appreciate the help but it's a bad precedent to reward lowborn. Hastily assemble your mercenaries to take the gate and walls, and repel everyone else till they leave. There's likely to be bloodshed and lasting animosity for this, but you've weakened your cause enough so far, to be sacrificing more to commoners.
>Something else?
