In Progress [LP] Lord Captain, you've served your time in Hell! Codex plays Lords of Infinity, a text RPG of Politics and Warfare

[Lithium Flower]

With quite a few votes and a tie between ERYFKRAD and Optimist's plans, I will likely call the vote 6-8 hours from now. I'm just glad my horror scenario of the LP being completely depopulated now that the "adult life simulator" segment had started did not come to pass.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Kalarion roads y/n?

 

[Lithium Flower]

more like Lana Rhoades y or n aha ain't that right my feloow red blooded heterosexual males aha

 

[Endemic]

I'm open to changing my vote if there's still a tie when you want to write the next update.

 

[Kalarion]

Kalarion roads y/n?

Let's engage in a little horse trading, shall we? A distinguished barbarian such as yourself should appreciate the chance to drive a hard bargain and spit hands for a shake.

I'll flip to improving roads, provided you give your word your next improvement vote will be the cottages, followed by a vote on a manor improvement (any improvement, although I think the fence or house repairs are the two best options personally). Contingent on road improvement winning (so, if something else wins after my flip, no obligation incurred on your part).

...

Lithium Flower it's just occurred to me that I might have written/read the first section's choice incorrectly. My intention was to vote for paying a total of 227 crown to the bank (so, the 217 owed, plus 10 crown extra). Do I read correctly that you took me as wanting to pay an additional 227 crown (so, 217 + 227 = 444 total)? How would I write my choice correctly if so? As I-10)?

 

[Lithium Flower]

I approve of this whole deal-making and politicking business. You guys should escalate to forgery, blackmail, and arson to resolve future voting disputes (in GTA V, of course.)

Kalarion roads y/n?

Lithium Flower it's just occurred to me that I might have written/read the first section's choice incorrectly. My intention was to vote for paying a total of 227 crown to the bank (so, the 217 owed, plus 10 crown extra). Do I read correctly that you took me as wanting to pay an additional 227 crown (so, 217 + 227 = 444 total)? How would I write my choice correctly if so? As I-10)?

Interest payments are automagically deducted from our biannual income (which to be fair I did not realize until Optimist pointed it out,) so yes I-10 would match your intent. I will go ahead and edit the phrasing of the choice so that it is more clear. Thank you for standing up for yourself and holding my feet to the fire and providing oversight and fair checks & balances to this here bicameral institution okay.

 

[Endemic]

I'm sticking with roads for III), I was going to change I) to paying some debt to align with ERYFKRAD. Unless someone else posts to agree with Optimist's plan?

 

[Kalarion]

New standard rating for bargaining posts:

 

[Lithium Flower]

OK I edited the phrasings to indicate you are voting for paying off debt beyond the interest rate. I even changed the phrasing in all of the boxes. Your intent has been acknowledged & reflected. Perhaps even refracted. Definitely refactored.

My personal cocktail of neuropathology and psychiatric medications somehow adds up to me being very anal-retentive about the smallest details while also being completely scatterbrained to the point of being unable to replicate said details correctly half the time.

Okay, so, time for some cat facts for new and returning playaz:

-We exited the Prologue of Sabres and Chapter I of Guns (latter lacked a prologue, so that would be its equivalent section) on the second pages of their respective let's play threads, approx. 3-4 days after their threads started.
-Meanwhile, we exited Prologue of Lords on page 4 of this thread, around 7-8 days after the thread started, and bear in mind that I have consolidated way more choices into my updates for Lords than I did for the previous installments.

-We are approaching the end of Chapter I of Lords, but it would have been like 2 times longer if you had surviving family members, or remained in contact with certain friends and/or romantic partners after Antar.

-Sabres took us 2.5 months to finish while Guns took us closer to 3 months, but I was less consistent about updating the latter daily.
-Given the current pace, I would estimate Lords will take us ~6 months after start of LP to finish. Which is good because I do not have much else going on in my life right now and this thread is - as I realize with quiet horror - slowly becoming my sole social circle.

-Meow.

-Also, did you notice that the font color I try to use for my updates is actually not the standard Codexian hwite but this shade of off-white gray? Yes there is an actual difference its #EFEFEF (stocked by your nearest retailer under the brand "I can't believe its not #FFFFFF!") I did this because upon re-reading the LPs I found the massive walls of text in stark white to be painful for the ol' eyeballs, and out of consideration for all of you I have implemented this little tweak. These are the kind of subtle yet thoughtful details that you can expect from a certified Lithium Flower Experience (TM) (R). Hopefully this revelation fills you with feelings of warmth and awe and Fear and Trembling by Johannes de silentio (Soren Kierkegaard.)

 

[Grimgravy]

I-0
II-1
III-3a

 

[Orbit]

I-0) No additional debt repayment.

II-1) No changes.

III-3a) The roads should be my top priority.

Voting this.

If we can't solve the problems in our fiefdom at least the roads will allow us to quickly run away from the mob.

 

[Lithium Flower]

ORBIT COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR to completely fuck my head up.

Ok so lemme know if I'm getting this wrong but


LEADING (>2 votes) ACTION PLANS:


Optimist's Proposal

I-500) I will pay off 500 crowns of debt, beyond my interest payment

II-5) I must try to renegotiate the interest on my loans; Even half a percent now is going to make a large difference long-term...

III-3a) The roads should be my top priority.


ERYFKRAD's proposal
I-100) I will pay off 100 additional of debt, beyond my interest payment

II-1) No changes

III-3a) The roads should be my top priority.


Endemic's (pre-flop) proposal

I-0) No additional debt repayment.

II-1) No changes.

III-3a) The roads should be my top priority.



VOTERS AND VOTES:


Kalarion - voted for own plan
ERYFKRAD - voted for own plan
Optimist - voted for own plan
Normie - voted for own plan
Non-Edgy Gamer - voted for Optimist's plan
Storyfag - voted for ERYFKRAD's plan
Endemic - ranked choice vote: own plan > ERYFKRAD's plan (or so it seems to me)
Grimgravy - voted for Endemic's plan
Orbit - voted for Endemic's plan


TALLY


Endemic's plan: 3 votes

ERYFKRAD's plan: 2 votes (+1 if tied with Endemic's, but right now it just ain't, buster)

Optimist's plan: 2 votes

Kalarion's plan: 1 vote

Normie's plan: 1 vote


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I will give you guys 2 more hours for additional votes, complaints, clarifications, corrections, questions, and threats.

 

[Storyfag]

I flop to Endemic's plan.

 

[Lithium Flower]

The roads should be my top priority.

You make a note to set aside the appropriate funds, then draft a call for workmen to be posted in the village square.

The winter snows will make it impossible to begin work until the beginning of spring, but by then, you should have everything in readiness to start construction in earnest. Until then, all you can do is wait.

Finish managing the estate and continue.

It is not long after that autumn gives way to the first frosts of winter. The muddy roads freeze solid into uneven, pitted tracks before being buried entirely under the first fall of snow. The tenants of your fief shutter their windows and stay within their cottages, leaving only the rising pillars of smoke from their chimneys as a sign of their existence.

You, too, are shut up indoors. With all your immediately pressing business dealt with, you suddenly find yourself with nothing to do, being isolated entirely from news of the outside world by the snowed-in roads. True, Antar had much harsher winters, but in Antar, you had the society of your fellow soldiers. Even in that first winter, in that wretched little outpost by the River Kharan, there had been your Dragoons and a half company of Grenadiers, along with Lord Wolfswood, who was merry enough for ten men.

Here, there are only your servants and the occasional blizzard to liven your short, bleak days and your long, equally bleak nights.

Week after week, it is the same endless monotony, in a house that's beginning to feel more and more like a dilapidated, draughty prison. You must do something, anything, or else you fear that you may go mad.

1) Now would be an excellent time to work on my memoirs.

2) I could call upon Lady Alisanne, get to know her better—weather permitting.

3. There must be some other way to keep myself occupied.
a) I must endeavour to keep myself healthy through physickal exercise.
b) Some quiet reading will cure my ennui and keep my mind sharp, too.
c) I ought to practise speaking and carrying myself, lest I become slovenly in my isolation.


[Vote for one of the above. Some notes:
-You've started writing your memoirs in Guns, but you will have to dedicate more time to them before they are in a state fit for publishing.
-You guys are about to have quite a bad surprise. Surprisingly, your choice here will change the nature of the surprise in a surprising fashion. It is all very surprising - I'd say "color me surprised," but, given that I was already aware of what comes next, I am rather unsurprised.
-The drop in rents took effect which means we are now hemorrhaging 132 crowns biannually.]

Personal Information

As of the Winter of the 613 of the Old Imperial Era:

Sir Alaric d'al Ortiga, Baron Ezinbrooke
Captain, Royal Dragoons (half-pay)
Age: 25

Current Funds: 1877 Crown
Debts: 10860 Crown

Bi-Annual Income (Personal): 135 Crown
Bi-Annual Estate Revenues: 300 Crown

Bi-Annual Estate Expenses: 350 Crown
Bi-Annual Interest Payments: 217 Crown

Total Net Income (Next Six Months): -132 Crown

Soldiering: 75%

Charisma: 43%

Intellect: 5%


Reputation: 31%

Health: 62%


Idealism: 61% ; Cynicism: 39%

Ruthlessness: 32% ; Mercy: 68%

You are a Knight of the Red, having the right to wear Bane-hardened armour and wield a Bane-runed sword.

Friends and Enemies

Friends and Associates

Javier Campos: Colour Sergeant, the Royal Dragoons.
(Born 583 OIE)

Victor d'al Reyes: Eldest son of Baron Reyes. Major, the 8th Regiment of Foot. Formerly Commander, the Experimental Corps of Riflemen. ~Lost arm at Blogia~
(Born: 583 OIE)

James d'al Sandoral: Captain (half-pay), the Royal Dragoons.
(Born 592 OIE)

Efraim Saundersley: Solicitor-on-Retainer to the House of Ortiga.
(Born 570 OIE)

Octave d'al Touravon: Baron Touravon, Father of Alisanne d'al Touravon.
(Born 556 OIE)

Enemies

Hiir Cassius vam Holt: Takaran Ambassador to Tierra. Eldest son to Richsgraav vam Holt.
(Born 527 OIE)

Eleanora d'al Welles: Countess Welles. Proponent of Military Reform. Friend to Isobel, the Princess-Royal. ~Died at Blogia~
(Born 587 OIE)

Barony Overview

Ezinbrooke, a barony within the Duchy of Cunaris, possessed of 150 rent-paying households.

Respectability: 25%

Prosperity: 25%

Contentment: 52%

Manor...

…Being a country house of middling size in very poor condition. encompassed by a low stone fence in a state of much disrepair. Outbuildings include stables, coach house, and guard house, all in exceptionally poor condition.

Interior consists of eighteen rooms, including six bedrooms, a kitchen, a library, a small ballroom, a dovecote and a gun room.

Estate and Grounds...

…Being a barony of middling size, composed of a manor house, market village, and surrounding fields and hinterlands. It is located a week's ride west from the city of Fernandescourt, though the poor state of local roads may cause great delays in travel.

The village of Ezinbrooke is a small hamlet, possessed of a traveller's inn, a publick house, a somewhat worn shrine to the major Saints, and an open market square. The surrounding cottages are few in number and in very poor condition, having been in a state of disrepair for some time. A number of fields lie adjacent to the village, but much arable land is wasted for want of proper clearance.

Bi-Annual Estate Revenues
Rents: 300 Crown

Bi-Annual Expenditures
Estate Wages: 150 Crown
Food and Necessities: 75 Crown
Luxuries and Allowances: 75 Crown
Groundskeeping and Maintenance: 50 Crown
Other Expenses: 0 Crown

Total Balance: -50 Crown

 

[Kalarion]

3c. I ought to practise speaking and carrying myself, lest I become slovenly in my isolation.

Let's at least get ourselves over the 45% charisma threshold, it'd be nice to be able to pass mediocre charm checks.

 

[Lithium Flower]

Let's at least get ourselves over the 45% charisma threshold, it'd be nice to be able to pass mediocre charm checks.

You won't. Surprise.

 

[Lithium Flower]

You know what, I am just going to spill the beans since your character is already compromised as fuck.

Basically, you are regularly going to lose stats in this book. Winters of isolation are going to sap your strength. Instead of choosing which stats to train, the choices you make here will prevent the decay of certain stats.

AFAIK, every single option presented will prevent decay of one or more stats. However, I am not going to tell you which ones, do your best to guess. Variants of 3. are the most obvious.

Of course, there are also additional benefits of these options, for example raising your reputation with your fiancee (who is currently at 50, the baseline, ie she might as well be a stranger,) or working on your memoirs (which might give you money and rep down the line.)

Now there will be opportunities for the ol' +5% to x or y later on, but they will be few and very far between, or dependant on house upgrades.

 

[Storyfag]

2.

 

[Optimist]

2, please.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

3a

 

[Endemic]

2.

Hopefully we don't mess it up this time

 

[Kalarion]

Flop to 2.

 

[Orbit]

2) I could call upon Lady Alisanne, get to know her better—weather permitting.

 

[Lithium Flower]

'sup Paul.

 

[Lithium Flower]

I could call upon Lady Alisanne, get to know her better—weather permitting.

There are days when the snow doesn't fall so heavily and the roads are clear enough to allow a coach to make the journey to the Touravon estate. It is on those days that you wrap yourself in an overcoat and call upon Lady Alisanne at her father's house.

You've never considered yourself a particularly brilliant conversationalist, and while you have certainly been the recipient of a comprehensive Baneblooded education, that doesn't mean you have any serious pretensions to intellectualism. At first, it's almost intimidating to converse with Lady Alisanne next to the roaring fire in her father's parlour. True, there are subjects in which you are her superior, and you possess a certain level of worldly experience which she lacks, but such things quickly prove incapable of sustaining a conversation on their own.

Indeed, your first few visits are often interrupted by long, somewhat awkward pauses where you don't know what to say, and she, bound by her natural diffidence, waits in vain for you to make the first move. It is only after she begins to come out from behind her reticence that your conversations begin to take on a more familiar, animated air.

As your visits continue, the two of you slowly grow closer and closer, and you leave each time feeling more and more invigorated.

[Developing our fledgling relationship with Alisanne with our stats has prevent both Intellect and Charisma from decaying over the course of the winter.]

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Unfortunately, it is a feeling which does not last.

For every day that the weather allows you to call upon Lady Alisanne, there are long, grey weeks in which the roads are choked with snow and ice, and you have no recourse but to remain confined indoors, sustaining yourself only on the memory of your last visit and the anticipation of your next.

Starved of stimulating conversation and the open spaces of the outdoors, you quickly begin to feel less like lord of your manor and more like a prisoner within it, your body growing languid and slack for lack of activity, your thoughts whirring with nothing to concentrate them on. At times, you find yourself pacing nervously up and down the halls or simply staring out the window, watching the snow fall and listening to the windowpanes rattle from the cold wind.

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Spring comes as a long sigh of relief, warm southern winds wearing away the snow to reveal a vast stretch of bare branches, dead grass, and grey slush. Streams swell into raging torrents, fed by snow melt and the interminable spring rain, and the roads thaw into impassable tracks of mud.

Yet even so, signs of life issue from outside your window. The village of Ezinbrooke comes alive as the last of the snow melts, the first hardy tenants stepping into the torrential downpour to prepare their plots for spring planting, their tiny forms swaddled in heavy coats to ward off the retreating chill.

Then, even the rains begin to relent, and for the first time in what seems like half an eternity, the uniform grey certainty above gives way to the first rays of the sun.

Week after week, the days grow longer and warmer. The creeks recede behind their banks, and the roads become firm once again. The village below slowly shrugs off the last of its winter torpor, until one day, a vast profusion of men, women, waggons, and draught animals erupt from the hitherto closed barns and cottages, headed outwards to the fields to welcome the first day of planting.

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That afternoon, a courier arrives, wearing the blue coat of the Intendancy, riding hard at the gallop. He stays only long enough to drop off a parcel containing six months' half-pay, your annuity from the King, back issues of the Aetoria Gazette, and a letter from a sender you haven't had word of in years.

The Dowager Viscountess Wolfswood.

My Lord Ezinbrooke,

One is obliged to offer the expression of utmost relief to hear that the Saints have preserved you from the perils of the war now most happily concluded, and to receive word that you have safely returned to your own seat. Likewise, one must also send her condolences for the loss of his lordship's father, and offer congratulations as to his own assumption of the seat.

Unfortunately, matters have not progressed greatly over the past few years regarding the matter which you have so graciously offered his lordship's support to. Despite the friendly replies of so many of the Army's officers, there has been little support for such a cause at home.

At least, until recently.

It is much to one's satisfaction to relate that a number of very powerful figures have lately expressed interest in the cause of my son's elevation. We are organising now in the capital, to secure the necessary support to bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion. If it is at all convenient to his lordship, one would implore him to join us. One hopes that one might place her trust in his lordship, as one's son once did.

In hope and friendship,
Frederika d'al Hunter, Dowager Viscountess Wolfswood

So, it seems that the effort to raise your old commanding officer to Sainthood is progressing apace after all. Indeed, it seems to be going quite smoothly. If the Dowager's new allies are as powerful as she seems to imply, it may only be a matter of a few years more before the man you once knew as Colonel Hunter could be raised to that most exalted of memories—that of a Sainted Martyr of a Pantheon of the Red, with all the attendant honours and an order of knighthood sworn to uphold the example of his martyrdom.

Of course, if you intend to play any part in that going forward, then it appears you will have to go to the capital to do it.

And given the sort of news which the Gazette brings from Aetoria, the capital is hardly a tranquil place.

---

The other letter you receive makes you sure of that. You need only see the ducal seal on the wax to know who has sent it:

My good Lord Ezinbrooke,

First, allow me to express my hope that you have grown accustomed to your obligations as master of your family's estates. Having been once in your own position, I first found the task of administering my lands to be a most frustrating endeavour, and it was for this reason that I sought to release you from active service so that you may devote yourself more fully to such matters. I suspect your time in the regiment will serve you well in this new endeavour. The command of a squadron is at times not very different than the administration of a fief, and I have every confidence that your proficiency in the former will lead to success in the latter.

However, there is also another matter which your elevation brings you, of which I am sure you are very well aware, for your title gives you a place in the Cortes. You have no doubt considered the possibility of taking up residence in Aetoria. You may receive—or have already received—letters and news which seem to exhort you towards such a course of action. You may indeed begin to harbour the conviction that you are needed in the capital to take part in the Commission to reform the army which the King has empowered. You may feel obliged to lend your support to the Duke of Wulfram and his unprecedented attempt to end the war taxes and reduce the army by presenting his own budget when the Cortes opens. Likewise, you may feel obliged to sit your seat so that you may defend the King's policy.

I would strongly advise you to ignore these sentiments.

I am told that you have already dined with the Duke of Wulfram once, so I suspect you already know that he is a man of great convictions and moral clarity. However, the same cannot be said of all of his friends or his enemies. To involve oneself with either party is to render oneself vulnerable to the attacks and slanders of the other, and the temptation to return their trespasses with the same coinage. Men like Wulfram may have sufficient fortune and friends of high office to weather such dealings, but you do not.

Whatever good you think you can do in the capital will be easily outmatched by the good you can do on your own estates, working for the betterment of those who owe their livelihoods and security directly to you. It is they whom you bear first responsibility to.

I pray you keep my words in mind. Do not allow the glimmering hope of some distant glory to blind you to one's true responsibilities.

I remain, in friendship,
Johannes, Duke of Cunaris

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~"In friendship", he wrote, perhaps hoping that you have forgotten just how much disappointment he expressed the last time you saw him (alas, no such luck there.) The old man's words may seem supportive or considerate, but let's face it - he simply wants to make sure that your inadequacies do not worsen the already-precarious political situation in the Cortes and the realm at large. As is perfectly sensible of him, given your track record.~

Perhaps your old commanding officer has a point.

As dire as the situation in the Cortes might seem, and the news of this Army Reform Commission may have your interest, nevertheless your responsibilities—your immediate responsibilities—are here at your estate, with your household and your tenants. True, you could hire a manager to handle your fief for you, but no manager could ever be quite as effective and efficient as you might be, if you were to take everything directly into your own hands.

And there's the matter of cost to consider, as well: a permanent presence in the capital would mean paying for a townhouse and an entire separate set of servants, a considerable expense which could perhaps be better spent refurbishing your estate. Even if things in Aetoria are as bad as they might seem, that doesn't mean you must be obliged to drop everything at once and immediately place yourself within great affairs of state that you may not fully understand and which you may not even be able to meaningfully affect.

Right?

I consider the matter more thoroughly, thinking it all through.

There would be definite advantages to establishing yourself in Aetoria. You would not only be at the heart of the Unified Kingdom's politickal sphere, but at the very centre of its high society, as well. Were you to remain on your estate, you would have a great deal of difficulty maintaining the friendship of many of those figures whom you won the acquaintance of over the past few years. If you were to maintain a residence in Aetoria, you have little doubt that it would be much easier to keep in contact.

Of course, there would be disadvantages as well. A townhouse befitting your status would cost a great deal of money to lease, and you would need to pay for domestics to staff it. Taken all together, the material burden of maintaining a presence in the capital may be enough to place significant pressure on your already precarious financial situation. You would almost certainly be required to take out additional loans, which may well prove most unsustainable.

Likewise, just as being resident in the capital might make things easier, it would also make others considerably more difficult. You would certainly not be able to make any major changes to the way your estate is run from the capital. Were there any sudden crises at home, you would have little control over matters, either.

There are, no doubt, other reasons as well, other considerations and consequences which you won't realise until long after your decision has been made.

But you shall have to deal with those matters as you approach them. Right now, you shall have to make a decision either way.


1) The realm needs me; I must go to Aetoria and make my voice heard.

2) There's opportunity to be had in the capital, and I mean to seize it.

3) If I must go to the capital to help Hunter of Wolfswood become a Saint, then go I shall.

4) I can do more good at home than in the city.

5) Cortes politics seems a dangerous game, one I'd rather not play.


[THIS IS A REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT CHOICE. It determines where our character will spend the next several chapters of the game. There will only be one other opportunity to decide whether to stay at the present location or move to the other.

Options 1-3 send us to Aetoria. There will be additional expenses - yet also opportunities for profit. We will be able to partake in Cortes politics, help or hinder the Wulframite faction, reconnect to veterans of the Antari war, join one of the many clubs of the city, and so on. Saundersley will manage things (which means we will be relying on his personal build order and judgement when it comes to estate upgrades/dilemmas.)

Options 4-5 will have us stay in Ezinbrooke to oversee the barony. It should be an overall more economical if less daring choice. We will continue to have direct input over the resolution of the estate's dilemmas, as well as over its development (and at less expense.) We will also be able to further develop our relationship with our fiancee to best prepare for the marriage and subsequent breeding, and have a few more opportunities to leverage our Soldiering in this rustic setting.]

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Personal Information

As of the Spring of the 614 of the Old Imperial Era:

Sir Alaric d'al Ortiga, Baron Ezinbrooke
Captain, Royal Dragoons (half-pay)
Age: 26

Current Funds: 1877 Crown
Debts: 10860 Crown

Bi-Annual Income (Personal): 135 Crown
Bi-Annual Estate Revenues: 300 Crown

Bi-Annual Estate Expenses: 350 Crown
Bi-Annual Interest Payments: 217 Crown

Total Net Income (Next Six Months): -132 Crown

Soldiering: 72%

Charisma: 43%

Intellect: 5%


Reputation: 41%

Health: 62%


Idealism: 61% ; Cynicism: 39%

Ruthlessness: 32% ; Mercy: 68%

You are a Knight of the Red, having the right to wear Bane-hardened armour and wield a Bane-runed sword.

Friends and Enemies

Friends and Associates

Javier Campos: Colour Sergeant, the Royal Dragoons.
(Born 583 OIE)

Victor d'al Reyes: Eldest son of Baron Reyes. Major, the 8th Regiment of Foot. Formerly Commander, the Experimental Corps of Riflemen. ~Lost arm at Blogia~
(Born: 583 OIE)

James d'al Sandoral: Captain (half-pay), the Royal Dragoons.
(Born 592 OIE)

Efraim Saundersley: Solicitor-on-Retainer to the House of Ortiga.
(Born 570 OIE)

Octave d'al Touravon: Baron Touravon, Father of Alisanne d'al Touravon.
(Born 556 OIE)

Enemies

Hiir Cassius vam Holt: Takaran Ambassador to Tierra. Eldest son to Richsgraav vam Holt.
(Born 527 OIE)

Eleanora d'al Welles: Countess Welles. Proponent of Military Reform. Friend to Isobel, the Princess-Royal. ~Died at Blogia~
(Born 587 OIE)

Barony Overview

Ezinbrooke, a barony within the Duchy of Cunaris, possessed of 150 rent-paying households.

Respectability: 25%

Prosperity: 25%

Contentment: 52%

Manor...

…Being a country house of middling size in very poor condition. encompassed by a low stone fence in a state of much disrepair. Outbuildings include stables, coach house, and guard house, all in exceptionally poor condition.

Interior consists of eighteen rooms, including six bedrooms, a kitchen, a library, a small ballroom, a dovecote and a gun room.

Estate and Grounds...

…Being a barony of middling size, composed of a manor house, market village, and surrounding fields and hinterlands. It is located a week's ride west from the city of Fernandescourt, though the poor state of local roads may cause great delays in travel.

The village of Ezinbrooke is a small hamlet, possessed of a traveller's inn, a publick house, a somewhat worn shrine to the major Saints, and an open market square. The surrounding cottages are few in number and in very poor condition, having been in a state of disrepair for some time. A number of fields lie adjacent to the village, but much arable land is wasted for want of proper clearance.

Bi-Annual Estate Revenues
Rents: 300 Crown

Bi-Annual Expenditures
Estate Wages: 150 Crown
Food and Necessities: 75 Crown
Luxuries and Allowances: 75 Crown
Groundskeeping and Maintenance: 50 Crown
Other Expenses: 0 Crown

Total Balance: -50 Crown