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How to Draw Neck Muscles - Anatomy and Motion 首の描き方 - 解剖学と動き https //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvN71bOfC1Q http //www.proko.com/how-to-draw-neck-muscles-anatomy-and-motion/ 時間表記は有料版のものです。 Hi, I m Stan Prokopenko, and this is Proko. こんにちは。Stan Prokopenkoです。 Prokoチャンネルです。 Last time we learned that the trapezius makes the back wall of the neck. 前回、我々は、僧帽筋が首の後ろの壁を作っていることを学びました。 But, what the neck is all this stuff here?! しかし、首はそれだけで構成されているのでしょうか？ Let s swing over to the front and explore the rest of the neck. 前の方に立ち戻り、首の残りの部分を探索しましょう。 !--ここから有料-- !--ここまで-- There are a lot of small muscles in the neck that pop out when the neck tenses and moves around. We ll go over 10 muscles in the premium lesson. 首にはたくさんの小さな筋肉が存在し、 それは首が緊張したり動き回ったときに飛び出ます。 有料版では10以上の筋肉について学びます。 In this video, I ll focus on the 2 muscles that affect the surface the most along with some bones and cartilage. このビデオでは、私は二つの筋肉に集中します。 それはいくつかの骨と軟骨に沿って 最も表面に影響を及ぼします。 01 09 Bones and Cartilage 骨と軟骨 As always, anatomy starts with the bones. 例によって、解剖学は骨から始まります。 Note that the spine inserts on the back of the skull, completely behind the jaw. 脊椎は、頭蓋骨の後ろ、顎の完全に背後に停止していることに 注目してください。 The throat sits in front of the spine, making up for half the width of the neck. 喉は脊椎の前に存在し、首の半分の幅を占めています。 The mandible, or jawbone, will be an important attachment point today. 下顎、またはあごの骨は、 今日の授業では大変重要な付着点となるでしょう。 So will the "hook" of the mastoid process behind it. その後ろの乳様突起もまた重要な「鉤」となるでしょう。 You can easily feel the mastoid process on your own head. 皆さんは、頭にある乳様突起を簡単に確認することができます。 It s the hard, bony area on the back of the skull, just behind the bottom of your ear. 乳様突起は固く、頭蓋骨後ろの骨ばった範囲で、 耳の最下部のちょうど後ろです。 Some neck muscles attach to the clavicles. 首の筋肉のいくつかは鎖骨に付着しています。 Remember that there s a small gap between the clavicles where the manubrium sits, about one eyeball wide, before they flow out into that Cupid s bow shape and where is that music coming from? 覚えているでしょうか、 鎖骨がキューピットの弓の形になる前に、 鎖骨の間には隙間があり、そこには胸骨柄が存在し、 その隙間は眼球一個の幅であり、 そしてこの音楽はどこから流れてきているのか？ Here we see the Adam s apple aka the thyroid cartilage that surrounds and protects the voicebox. ここで、我々はアダムのリンゴ、またの名を甲状軟骨を見て取れます。 それは喉頭を包み保護しています。 !--訳注-- laryngeal prominence(喉頭隆起) = Adam s apple(アダムのリンゴ) = のどぼとけ laryngeal prominence(喉頭隆起) ↓ thyroid carilage(甲状軟骨)の前にある突起 !--訳中終わり-- !--アーティストのための解剖学より引用-- 喉頭の最も目立つかたちは 大きな甲状軟骨(thyroid carilage)である。 前面のその解剖学的形は、 船のへさきまたは三角帽に似ている。 その上縁に、喉頭隆起(laryngeal prominent) !--訳注 laryngeal prominenceか?-- と呼ばれるが、 一般にはアダムのリンゴ(Adam s apple)として知られる、 隆起様突出部の頸の最も目立つ目印がある。 その表面の形状は女性より男性の方が突出している。 !--引用終わり-- It sits just below the hyoid bone, in front of the spine and esophagus and all that but behind the muscular wall of the neck. 甲状軟骨は、舌骨のすぐ下に存在します。 食道と脊椎その他すべての前方で、 しかし、首の筋肉の壁の背後です。 The Adam s apple is larger and has a 90 degree angle on men, but women actually have one too. 喉ぼとけは、男性では、大きく90度の角度を持っていますが 女性にも同様のものはあります。 "Eve s apple" is just at a more open 120 degree angle so it s less noticeable. 「イブのリンゴ」はより広い120度の角度であり、 よって目立たなくなっています。 There s another cartilage called the cricoid cartilage right under the thyroid cartilage, which looks a lot like a class ring. 別な軟骨も存在します。 輪状軟骨と呼ばれ、ちょうど甲状軟骨の下に存在します。 それは卒業記念指輪のように見えます。 Gryffindor! There s a thyroid gland that cover the cricoid cartilage and soften it depending on how big the gland is. 輪状軟骨を覆う甲状腺が存在し、 腺がどれだけ大きいかによって輪状軟骨を柔らかな輪郭にします。 The hyoid is a small, horseshoe shaped bone above the Adam s apple. 舌骨は、小さく、蹄鉄の形をした骨で、 のどぼとけの上にあります。 It s the corner between the bottom plane of the jaw and front of the neck. それはあごの底の面と首の前面の角です。 It s an unusual little bone because it has no joints or direct attachments to other bones. 舌骨は普通ではない小さな骨です。 なぜならそれは関節も他の骨への直接の接続も持っていないからです。 !--ここから有料-- !--ここまで-- Time for muscles! There s no competition these three muscles are the largest and most important neck muscles for artists to know. 筋肉の時間です！ どれが優れているというわけではありません、 これらの三つの筋肉は、芸術家が知るべき 最も重要で大きな首の筋肉です。 The levator scapulae, sternocleidomastoideus, and trapezius are essential for expressing the forms and movements of the neck. 肩甲挙筋、胸鎖乳突筋、僧帽筋は、 首の動きと形を表現するのに本質的です。 We already covered the trapezius, so let s get on with the other two! 我々はすでに僧帽筋をやりましたので、 他の二つに取り掛かりましょう！ 05 02 Levator Scapulae 肩甲挙筋 !--ここから有料-- !--ここまで-- The levator scapulae is a diagonal muscle visible on the sides of the neck. 肩甲挙筋は、 斜めの筋肉で、首の側面で視認できます。 It originates from the top 4 cervical vertebrae, and inserts on the top-most point of the scapula, at that medial-superior corner. 肩甲挙筋は、上部四つの頚椎から起始し、 肩甲骨の最上部、上角に停止します。 The muscle twists on itself, so the fibers coming off of the highest point of the scapula attach the lowest on the neck. 筋肉それ自体がねじれています。 ですので、肩甲骨上で最も高い位置から生えた筋繊維は、 首に於いては肩甲挙筋の筋繊維の最も低い位置に付着します。 As for what it does... それが何をするかは... Levator Scapulay! Levator Scapulay... It s levator scapu-LAE, not levator scapu-LAY... Levator Scapulae! Yup, the levator scapulae levitates the scapula, or rather, lifts up the medial edge. はい、 肩甲挙筋は肩甲骨を魔法で浮き上がらせます。 厳密に言えば、内側縁を持ち上げます。 Sometimes it activates just to stabilize the scapula, so you ll see the levator scapulae popping out in a lot of different poses. 時々、肩甲挙筋は単に肩甲骨を安定させるために活動します。 ですので、皆さんは肩甲挙筋が様々な異なったポーズで 飛び出ているのを見るかもしれません。 If you re having trouble identifying neck muscles, the levator scapulae is the one that points to the ear. 皆さんが首の筋肉を特定するのに困っているのなら、 肩甲挙筋は、耳を指している物です。 It s buried under the sternomastoid anteriorly and by the trapezius posteriorly. 肩甲挙筋は、前方で胸鎖乳突筋、後方で僧帽筋の下に埋まっています。 But its middle third on the side of the neck is superficial. しかし中部三分の一、首の側面では皮下にあります。 !--ここから有料-- !--ここまで-- 07 17 Sternocleidomastoideus (The one that must not be named) 胸鎖乳突筋(名前を言ってはいけないもの) The sternocleidomastoideus Skelly NO! The sternocleidomastoideus... Skelly EEH! It sounds intimidating, but the sternocleidomastoideus is probably a muscle you re at least a little familiar with. その響きは恐ろしいですが、 胸鎖乳突筋は、おそらく皆さんが首の筋肉においては 多少は知っているのではないでしょうか。 It s the one that makes the neck s "V" shape as it goes from behind the ear to the pit of the neck. 胸鎖乳突筋は、首のV字型を作り、 耳の後ろから首のくぼみまで走っています。 Its three-part name describes its three attachment... その三つの部分の名前が、その三つの付着を物語っています。 It originates from the top of sternum, "sterno", as well as the medial third of the clavicles, "cleido", and inserts on the mastoid process of the skull, "mastoideus". 胸鎖乳突筋は、 胸骨(sternum)のてっぺんから起始しており(sterno)、 鎖骨(clavicle)の内側三分の一からも起始しており(cleido)、 そして、頭蓋骨の乳様突起(mastoid process)に停止します(mastoideus)。 Sternocleidomastoideus! 胸鎖乳突筋！ You can also call it sternomastoid for short. 短く言うとsternomastoidです。 It has two distinct origins, and that means two distinct muscular heads, with a small gap above the clavicle. 胸鎖乳突筋は、二つの異なる起始を持っており、 そのことは、鎖骨の上方に小さな隙間を持った 二つの区別できる筋頭があることを意味します。 It s superficial throughout its entire length, so the sternomastoid is a must-know muscle. それは全体を通して皮下に存在し、 ですので胸鎖乳突筋は知っておくべき筋肉です。 When it activates it rotates the head to the opposite side. それが活動するとき、 それは頭を反対の側へ旋回させます。 If both sides activate together, they flex the head forward. 両側が同時に働くとき、 頭を前方へ屈曲させます。 That s the sternocleidomastoideus. それが胸鎖乳突筋です。 !--ここから有料-- !--ここまで--
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The story below is originally published on Mainichi Daily News by Mainichi Shinbun (http //mdn.mainichi.jp). They admitted inventing its kinky features, or rather deliberately mistranslating them from the original gossip magazine. In fact, this is far from the general Japanese behavior or sense of worth. このページは、毎日新聞事件の検証のための配信記事対訳ページです。直接ジャンプして来られた方は、必ずFAQをお読みください。 ※ この和訳はあくまでもボランティアの方々による一例であり、翻訳の正確さについては各自判断してください。もし誤訳（の疑い）を発見した場合には、直接ページを編集して訂正するか翻訳者連絡掲示板に報告してください。 "Teachers come not-so-clean on their sexy moonlighting jobs"「風俗で働き、汚れていく教師たち」 拡散状況 関連ページ "Teachers come not-so-clean on their sexy moonlighting jobs" 「風俗で働き、汚れていく教師たち」 20060916p2g00m0dm005000c.html 転載：http //www.asiansexgazette.com/asg/japan/japan05news90.htm 魚拓 (2006年9月16日配信、9月18日転載) Akiko, Sayoko and Hisako (no family names given) are aged 45, 43 and 43, respectively. The first two are teachers at high schools, and the latter is employed at a nursery school. アキコ、サヨコ、ヒサコ(名字は伏せよう）、それぞれ45歳と43歳と43歳。 最初のふたりは高校教師、３人目は保母をしている。 So what, asks Asahi Geino (9/14), do these three gals have in common, aside from being in their 40s and looking after other people s children? The answer is that they all moonlight for "delivery health" businesses, which in Japan is a euphemism for outcall sex services performed in hotels or at the customer s home. 40代で、子供相手の仕事をしている、ということ以外に、何が3人の共通点だろうか？アサヒ芸能(2006年9月14日号)は問いかける。 答えは、夜の仕事"デリバリーヘルス"だ。デリバリーヘルスとは、ホテルや顧客の家で行われる性的出張サービスを遠回しに指す。 Asahi Geino brought the three women together to conduct a panel discussion, in which they shared their thoughts and experiences concerning these lucrative moonlighting activities. 本誌アサヒ芸能は、この3人を招き、高収入風俗バイトについての考えや経験を共有できるような座談会を開いた。 All three women told the magazine they found their jobs via the internet. 3人とも、インターネットでバイトを見つけたと話した。 "I entered the keywords kou shuunyuu baito (high-paying part-type work, a euphemism for sex-related services) into a search engine," says Akiko. 「私は検索エンジンで『高収入バイト』ってキーワードで探したの」アキコは言う。 高収入バイトという単語は、風俗業を示唆する。 "Since I didn t have any prior experience in this kind of work, I didn t know what the interviewer was talking about when he said sumata, " Sayoko recalls with a smile. "Even now there are still plenty of specialized terms I don t understand." 「この手の仕事の経験は全くなかったから、面接した人が『スマタ』ていったときも何のことかさっぱりわからなかったわ」サヨコが笑いながら思い出話をする。 「今でも、意味不明な業界用語がたくさんあるわ」 For readers unfamiliar with this term, "sumata," literally real crotch, is a popular service in which the woman straddles her customer and brings him to orgasm by sliding her lubricated labia majora along the shaft of his penis, without actual penetration. スマタという単語が耳慣れない読者諸君。スマタとは文字通り『ナマの股間』だ。女性が男性の上にまたがり、ヌルヌルしたアソコをアレにそって擦りつけて、挿入なしで男をイカせるというデリヘルで人気のサービスのことだ。 The petite Hisako, who stands only 148cm tall but boasts a whopping 100cm bustline, tells Asahi Geino that before starting her moonlighting job, she perused Internet sites that utilize animated cartoons to demonstrate the various services and techniques that hookers were expected to provide to their johns. 身長は148cmと小柄だがバストは自称100cmというヒサコが本誌に語った。風俗の仕事をはじめる前に、インターネットを見て、売春婦がどんなことをし、どんなテクニックを使うかアニメで実演しているサイトをじっくり調べたと。 In the course of their part-time work, the women regularly come across customers with what could be described as "unusual" needs. 彼女たちは風俗バイトをしていて「普通じゃない」リクエストに出くわすことも多いそうだ。 "Even though my daughter is grown up, if my mammaries are stimulated, I still lactate," says 45-year-old Akiko. "Some customers notice see the milk coming out and ask permission to nurse, making infant-like requests. You d be surprised how many men go for this sort of thing." 「私の娘はもう大人だけど、胸が刺激されると、いまだに母乳が出るの」と45歳のアキコは話す。 「お客の中には、母乳に気づいて飲んでもいいかって赤ちゃんプレイをしたがる人もいるわ。 そういうプレイをする男の人がたくさんいるってことに驚くでしょ」 Sayoko reacts to Akiko s remarks by saying, "Wow! You should be in the Guinness Book of Records." アキコの発言にサヨコが「うわ。その歳で母乳ってギネスもの」と突っ込みを入れる。(*1) To which Akiko responds, "What surprised me the most was being asked to pee in front of them. I guess it s because I had no experience doing this -- not that I feel any resistance. One of my customers who was a physician wanted to poke his finger in my anus to examine me, and "make sure I didn t have colon cancer. " アキコは続ける。「何が驚きかって、お客の目の前でオシッコしてくれって言われることよ。 私がそんなことをしたことがないから驚くんだろうなって思うけど……だけど抵抗は感じないわ。 お客の一人は医者なんだけど、私の肛門に”検査だ”って指を押し入れたがるの、それで『直腸がんはないようだね』って……」 Sayoko admits that one of her motives for moonlighting is the sheer physical pleasure of a good romp in the sack. "I really get off on sex," she says. "By the time a customer and I are finished, the bed sheets are usually soaked all the way through. Even with a first-time customer, we might go at it for two hours straight, and to be honest, I was a little scared by the excretion of so much fluid -- I worried at that rate I d complete dry up and wither." サヨコは、風俗業を続ける動機のひとつが、お客とエッチするのが気持ちイイから、という純粋な肉体的理由だと認める。 「セックスに夢中なの」と彼女は言う。 「お客さんとした後は、いつもシーツがびしょぬれ。一見さんとだって2時間くらいするし、正直言って自分でもこんなに濡れるのが少し怖いくらい・・・このままだと干上がって枯れてしまうんじゃないか、心配」 [Here, they all explode with laughter.] ここで全員大爆笑 "Things related to eroticism and sex are never raised at a nursery school," says Hisako. "But customers who know that I work in one take an interest in what I do. Do you ever have sex with the headmaster? they ask me. They seem to fantasize over this." 「保育園では、エッチなことやセックスに関係あることなんてゼロ」ヒサコは言う。 「でも私が保母だって知ってるお客の中には『園長とした事ある？』って聞く人もいる。 保母だから、っていうだけでいろいろ妄想しちゃうみたい。」 So, Asahi Geino s interviewer asks the three ladies, what has changed since you started working in the sex business? 本誌記者は、風俗業界で働き始めてから何が変わったのか尋ねてみた。 "For me," replies Akiko with a completely serious expression, "I ve realized more than ever we can t allow public order and morals to decline." 「私は・・・公共の秩序やモラルがなくなっていくのが許せないと前よりはっきり思うようになった」とアキコが真剣な口調で答えた。 Hisako agrees. "When I m doing my regular job, I say to myself, Nobody knows I work in the sex industry. So I get a strong sense of the importance of being a completely honest person who always keeps her promise." ヒサコも同意する。「昼の仕事をしている時は『誰も私が夜の仕事をしてる事を知らない』って 自分に言い聞かせるの。 そうすると、約束を絶対に破らない正直な人間でいることの大切さをより実感するわ」 Sayoko says her moonlighting work has changed her view of men. サヨコは、男性観が変わった、と言った。 "Before, I d always been more attracted to younger men," she confesses. "But young guys these days have longer limbs, and their private parts tend to be bigger. There was a time when I preferred that, but since I started doing this work, I lost interest in younger guys. It s become much more enjoyable to be in the company of older men. 「風俗で働く前は、若い男の子が好みだったの。 でも、最近の若い子って手足が長くてアソコも大きいでしょ。 そういうが好みだった時期もあるの。だけど、この仕事をはじめてからは、若い子に興味をなくしちゃった。 ちょっと年がいってる人のほうがいいわ。」サヨコはこう告白した。 "It s like I ve finally come into bloom," she says with a shy giggle. 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この英文は南京資料集積所からの転載です、ありがとうございました。 WAR DAMAGE IN THE NANKING AREA December 1937 to March 1938 URBAN AND RURAL SURVEYS By Dr. Lewis S.C.Smythe (Professor of Sociology University of Nanking) AND ASSISTANTS On Behalf of THE NANKING INTERNATIONAL RELIEF COMMITTEE COMPLETED JUNE, 1938 Foreword IN the course of its efforts to aid the impoverished and troubled people of Nanking and adjacent districts, the Nanking International Relief Committee early felt the necessity of discovering with reasonable accuracy their true economic position. What were both the extent and the nature of their losses? How far impaired are their opportunities and abilities for making a living? What supplies of food may be expected from the farms of this area? What are the fundamental deficiencies or obstacles that stand in the way of normal economic effort on the farms and in the city? Such questions were basic to any sound consideration of policy and methods in relief. The only good way to answer them was to go out to seek the facts. The Nanking International Relief Committee here makes known the results of its inquiries primarily for the information of those con- cerned with the practice and the support of relief work in this and other areas; secondarily, for the wider public which is or should be concerned with the ravages of warfare among civilians, in whatever country. Our own position is humanitarian, without regard to the nationality of war victims. In this report we seldom use the terms "Chinese" and "Japanese", and consider persons simply as farmers, housewives or children. The International Committee is aware, however, that statements have been published by Chinese, putting upon the Japanese an exclusive and exaggerated blame for the injuries to the people of the Nanking area; likewise that statements have been published by Japanese, charging the Chinese with burning and looting which they themselves benevolently checked. In order to guard against controversial misuse of the present report, we feel it necessary to make a brief factual statement as to the causation of the injuries listed. The burning in the municipal areas immediately adjoining the walled city of Nanking, and in some of the towns and villages along the southeasterly approaches to Nanking, was done by the Chinese armies as a military measure - whether proper or improper, is not for us to determine. A very small amount of damage to civilian life and pro- perty was done by military operations along the roads from the south- east, and in the four days of moderately severe attack upon the city. Practically all of the burning within the city walls, and a good deal of that in rural areas, was done gradually by the Japanese forces (in Nanking, from December 19, one week after entry, to the beginning I of February). For the period covered in the surveys, most of the looting in the entire area, and practically all of the violence against civilians, was also done by the Japanese forces - whether justifiably or unjustifiably in terms of policy, is not for us to decide. Beginning early in January, there gradually developed looting and robbery by Chinese civilians; and later, particularly after March, the struggle for fuel brought serious structural damage to unoccupied buildings. Also, there has latterly grown up in the rural areas a serious banditry which currently rivals and sometimes surpasses the robbery and violence by Japanese soldiers. In some portions of our report, these elements of causation can be distinguished. From a humanitarian point of view, we venture merely to point out that losses to life and property from actual warfare are shown by these surveys to be one or two per cent of the total. The rest could have been prevented if both sides had wished to give sufficient con- sideration to the welfare of civilians, including reasonable protection by military and civilian police. The International Committee which authorized these surveys had within its membership a trained sociologist, Dr. Lewis S. C. Smythe Professor of Sociology at the University of Nanking, who not only had general experience in survey methods, but also had taken a responsible part in two earlier surveys of calamities in this region. These inquiries were the Economic Survey made on behalf of the National Flood Relief Commission by the Department of Agricultural Economics of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Nanking (report published by Professor J. Lossing Buck, Director, under the title "The 1931 Flood in China"); and the Survey of the Rural Areas Affected by the Shanghai Hostilities (1932), made at the request of the Minister of Finance by the same Department of Agricultural Economics (unpublished). Both these surveys were for the purpose of ascertaining actual needs as against vague or tendentious reports from local officials. The accomplishment of the present surveys is largely dependent upon the unusual abilities and energies of Dr. Smythe, even though he has not been able to give full time to them while acting both as Treasurer and as Secretary of the International Committee. Full acknowledgment is due to the surveys mentioned above, which were drawn upon both for points of method and for check or com- parison of results. Likewise to the vast survey recently completed under Professor Buck s direction, and reported in his book, Land Utilization in China, with supplementary Atlas and volume of Statistics. M. S. BATES II Contents Page FOREWORD .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. i INTRODUCTION ORGANIZATION AND METHOD .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 I. CITY SURVEY .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 1. Population .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 2. Deaths and Injuries due to Hostilities .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7 3. Employment and Earnings .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 4. Losses of Families Remaining in Nanking .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 11 5. Total Losses of Buildings and Contents .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 12 II. AGRICULTURAL SURVEY .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17 1. Farm Losses .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17 2. Winter Crops and Spring Seed .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..19 3. The War and Persons .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 22 4. Effects of War Farm and City Compared .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 23 III. RESULTS IN BEARING UPON RELIEF NEEDS AND RELIEF PROGRAM .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 IV. APPENDICES A. Further Notes on Organization and Method .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..28 B. Migration of Whole Families .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 30 C. Schedules Used .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 32 V. TABLES .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..37 VI. MAPS 1.Nanking 2.Ningshu Area III List of Tables Table 1. Families Studied and Estimated Population by Section of City 2. Age and Sex Distribution of Population Studied Shown in Percentages 3.Family Composition by Section of the City, Shown in Percentages 4. Number and Cause of Deaths and Injuries, by Date 5. Sex and Age of Deaths, Injuries by Military Violence, and of Persons Taken Away, Shown in Percentages 6. Former Employment and Earnings, by Occupation 7. Present Employment and Earnings 8. Sources of Cereals During Preceding Week, by Section of the City,Shown in Percentages 9. Losses of Buildings and Movable Property for Families Remaining in Nanking, by Cause 10.Losses of Buildings and Movable Property for Families Remaining in Nanking (by Original Address) According to Type of Building, Cause and Section of the City, Shown in Percentages 11.Number of Buildings Damaged or Looted, According to Type of Build- ing Cause and Section of the City, Shown in Percentages 12.Losses of Buildings and Contents, According to Section of the City 13.Losses of Buildings and Contents, by Item and Cause 14.Losses by Damage and Looting of Buildings and Contents Accord- ing to Type of Building, Cause and Section of the City, Shown in Percentages 15. Number of Buildings Damaged or Looted on Main Business Streets, According to Type of Building, and Cause, Shown in Percentages 16.Losses by Damage and Looting of Buildings and Contents on Main Business Streets, According to Cause, Shown in Percentages 17. Population and Cultivated Area of Five Hsien of Ningshu 18. Value of Farm Losses 19. Average Losses per Family 20. Losses of Farm Families with Detail of Items 21. Estimate of Volume of Winter Crops 22. Total Seed Requirements for Spring Planting 23. Migration and Labor Supply 24. Sex and Age of Deaths 25. Number and Causes of Deaths (During 100 Days Covered by Study) 26. Damage to Buildings 27. Losses of Labor Animals 28. Losses of Implements 29. Losses of Stored Grain 30. Area Planted to Winter Crops 31. Percent of Area Planted to Winter Crops Totally Destroyed 32. Expected Per Cent of Normal Winter Crops in Planted Area not Totally Destroyed V INTRODUCTION ORGANIZATION AND METHOD* The International Committee s Surveys were really two, though each of them was compound. The City Survey was essentially an inquiry among families resident in Nanking, supplemented by an investigation of all buildings unoccupied as well as occupied, and also separating for special attention as food-producers the market gardeners who are scattered through three or four sections of the city. The Agricultural Survey was essentially an inquiry among resident farm families, supplemented by a village survey described in Appendix B, and by the listing of significant prices in market towns. 1. Field Procedure. The family investigators in the City Survey in Nanking were instructed to fill out a family schedule for every family in every 50th inhabited house. A "House" was defined as a "house number" even though in some instances there were several apartments or buildings at one number. In March many entrances were barred, and there was some little difficulty in determining which houses were inhabited. Consequently, some may have been passed over. A control map served to check areas skipped. Each man was assigned a specified section on the map to cover and to record the count of house numbers in selecting his 50th inhabited house. The investigators were well received because of the favorable reputation of the Committee but were careful to explain that they came only to inquire about facts and not as the family relief investigators working in the regular service of the Committee. Men who participated in both activities thought very definitely that the Family Survey was much less subject to exaggeration of losses than the relief investigations. The building investigators in the City Survey had two tasks (1) to count every building in the city and indicate whether it had been damaged by military operations, fire or looting; and (2) to make an estimate of the loss on every 10th building. For the purpose a house number was considered a "building", though in some cases it included more than one structure. A well-trained construction engineer worked out unit-cost figures for each of the common types of construction, which greatly facilitated the accuracy of these estimates. Furthermore, of each pair of investigators, one was a contractor. Estimates on loss of contents in uninhabited buildings had to be based on the nature of the building and inquiries from neighbors. A control map located areas overlooked and these were carefully re-done. ____________________________________________________________________ This "Introduction" is written to inform general readers as to how the surveys were conducted. Those interested in technical considerations are referred to Appendix A, "Further Notes on Organization and Method." ― 1 ― Both the family and building investigations covered the whole of the city inside the walls and the areas just outside some of the gates as well. But they did not take in all that formerly comprised the Nanking Municipality, which included Pukow and a number of surrounding small towns. Only certain small areas and scattered individual houses inhabited by the Japanese military or civilians could not be studied. In the Agricultural Survey two investigators were sent out across each of the six hsien armed with passes from three organizations. They were instructed to follow a main road one way and then to return zigzagging across the main road in the form of a figure eight in order to cover the areas back from the main roads. On this circuit they were to secure a village schedule from every third village on their route and in that village fill out one farm schedule for every tenth farm family that had returned to the village. A market town price schedule was to be answered for every market town passed through. 2. Time of Data. The field work for the Agricultural Survey extended from March 8th to 23rd. For the City Survey the family investigation extended from March 9th to April 2nd with supplementary work April 19th to 23rd; the building investigation, from March 15th to June 15th. During the longer period for the building investigation there was little change in contents already lost, but there were some cases in which partial taking away of building materials occurred. Re-building during the period was practically nil. 3. Statistical Procedure. Both in training the investigators and in supervising the tabulation work it was fortunate that an experienced man trained in Agricultural Economics was available as supervisor; and some men who formerly worked in Professor Buck s tabulation department were here to help in that work. In the writing of the report and the interpretation of the results of the survey the Director has had the invaluable cooperation of Dr. M. S. Bates of the University of Nanking whose extensive knowledge of economic history and of conditions in China has thrown additional light on the statistical findings. Both the Agricultural and Family Surveys were based on a sample instead of attempting complete enumeration. Consequently, totals and grand averages are estimates based on results learned in the cases studied. But with the exception of rice seed for Luho, explained in the proper place, the data on which the estimates in the tables are based remain as reported by the investigators. In the Agricultural Survey the average per farm family studied was worked out by hsien and then that average was multiplied by the total number of farm families in each hsien, as given by Professor Buck in his Land Utilization in China. The grand total was secured by adding up the hsien totals and any grand averages were then computed from these totals, thereby giving grand averages weighted according to the number of farm families in each hsien. Although a village schedule was used to get a broader picture of general conditions, all calculations were based on the farm schedule. (See Appendix B.) The totals in the family investigation of the City Survey were calculated by multiplying by 50 the average per family secured from a study of every 50th ― 2 ― inhabited house. Likewise the estimates of loss in the building investigation were computed by multiplying by 10 the total loss secured from a study of every 10th building. In the printed tables, the convenience of the reader has been considered by dropping as many decimal places as possible. All totals are given in round hundreds. 4. Units of Weight, Measurement and Currency The measure of grains and vegetables was a shih tan by weight which is 100 shih chin, or one-half the metric quintal. This is 50 kilograms or 110.23 pounds, which is very close to the English hundredweight (112 lbs.), and is 0.83 of a picul. The mow used for measure of area is the local mow as reported by the farmers; but in calculations the Kiangning mow has been used, as it represents two-fifths of the cultivated area studied. It is equal to 0.06067 hectares. The shih mow (standard mow) referred to on occasion is slightly larger, 0.06667 hectares or one-sixth of an acre. All monetary values in these reports are in Chinese currency. For the period covered in the surveys, the Chinese dollar was practically steady at about $3.40 per United States dollar or $17.00 per British pound. Lewis S. C. Smythe. ― 3 ― I. CITU SURVEY 1.POPOLATION The city of Nanking had before the war a population of just 1,000,000, which was considerably reduced by repeated bombings and latterly by approaching attack and the removal of all Chinese governmental organs. At the time the city fell (December 12-13), its population was between 200,000 and 250,000. The persons reported in our sampling survey in March, multiplied by 50, give 221,150 as the population directly represented by the City Survey. This number was probably 80 to 90 per cent of the total residents at that time, some of whom lived in places not accessible to investigators. (See Note to Table 1 for fuller discussion of population). 27,500 persons were living in refugee camps maintained by the International Committee, 12 per cent of the surveyed population.1 Outside the camps, but within the Safety Zone Area were an additional 68,000 persons, 31 per cent of the total. Some idea of the crowding, the price willingly paid for partial security, is indicated by the fact that 43 per cent of the population, 14 weeks after the fall of the city, was living in an area which had only 4 per cent of the total number of buildings noted in the Survey, and which comprised roughly one-eighth of the total area within the walls. The fact that practically no burning occurred within the Zone was a further advantage, and suggests the generally preferential treatment given to the Zone area as compared with the destruction and violence outside, even though the Zone was not officially recognized by the Japanese authorities.2 ________________________________________________________________________________ 1.At its maximum in the second half of December and in January, this number was 70,000. The reduction was irregularly due to the following causes crowding and discomforts of the camps, though they were generally preferred to the greater dangers and difficulties outside; the need to care for homes and remains of property, whenever there was sufficient security to make the effort worth while; encouragement by the International Committee for return to other parts of the city in every possible case; threats of forcible eviction from the camps as of February 4, fortunately not realized in action, but bringing about much unnecessary suffering and many regrettable incidents. 2. We must here trace the divisions of the city as used for the purpose of the Survey. The Safety Zone Area was bounded by Han Chung Road on the South; by North Chungshan Road from Hsin Chieh K ou past the Drum Tower to Shansi Road, on the east and northeast; by Shansi Road on the north, continued to Sikang Road, which formed the westerly boundary. Within the Safety Zone Area were the Refugee Camps, reported separately. South of the Safety Zone Area lay Cheng Hsi, reaching to Shengchow Road, and bounded on the east by Chungcheng and Chungliwa Roads. The remaining southwest corner of the city was called Men Hsi. The southeastern corner, north to Pai-hsia Road and east to Tungchimen, was considered as Men Tung. The region from Chungcheng Road eastward to the wall was named Cheng Tung. All the remaining northwestern, northern, and northeastern (as far south as East Chungshan Road) sections were considered Cheng Pei. For purposes of the building investigation, Cheng Pei Tung was split off from Cheng Pei; this eastern section of the north City ran from North Chungshan Road to the wall bounded on the north by the Drum Tower and Peichiko. The four sections outside the wall are easily recognized by their names; the Shuihsimen Area extended northward past Hanehungmen. (Sec City Survey map of Nanking.) The family investigators found the area outside Tungchimen deserted. Con- ― 4 ― The average size of family for all sections was 4.7. Outside the wall, the average was 4.0, suggesting the presence of more men without families, or of more broken families. Compare the 1932 figures for 2,027 families in the same portions of Nanking from which many of the present population are derived. They show an average family of 4.34.1 It is probable that in normal times there are more persons detached from their families for reasons of employment. The data on population are given in Table 1. DISTRIBUTION BY SEX AND AGE The March population of Nanking showed clearly the characteristics of a war time population. The present survey reports for all ages, in all sections of the city, a sex ratio of 103.4 (males, to 100 females);2 while the 1932 study showed for all ages 114.5; and in the entire population before the war, there was a very high ratio of males to females, at one time 150. The drop of 9 points in the sex ratio since 1932 is accounted for in part by the withdrawal of males not native to Nanking but formerly working here, and in part by the killings of males in the critical period. Most serious is the acute fall in the ratio for the age-group 15 to 49 years, which roughly represents the productive life of the population; here the decline was from 124 to 111, or 11 per cent. This change presents the fact that a large number of women and children are deprived of men who were the support of the family. If the comparison is carried into narrower age-groups, fluctuations are found because of the fewer cases forming the base for each figure; but the results for the 25 years of young maturity are sufficiently consistent to be startling 15-19 years, 108 now as against 123 in 1932; 20-24 years, 106/124; 25-29 years, 100/128; 30-34 years, 89/123; 35-39 years, 105/123. The decline in the males of productive age is shown in another manner. Of all males in 1932, those 15 to 49 years old were 57 per cent; in the present survey, they were only 49 per cent, a decrease at the rate of 14 per cent, which constitutes a serious economic and social problem. Correspondingly, of all males those over 50 years of age gained from 13 per cent in 1932 to 18 per cent now, an advance of some 30 per- cent. The variations in sex ratios by sections of the city are of some importance. Although the ratio for all sections was 103, for the refugee camps it was only 80, since they were overcrowded with women seeking security; on ________________________________________________________________________________ sequently, it does not occur in the family investigation but is included in the building investigation. The normally crowded sections in the southerly portions of the city (Cheng Hsi, Men Hai, Men Tung), were the first to show a fair degree of recovery from the practically complete depopulation of the critical period. Together they had 81,000 residents, 37 per cent of the total. (By June this number of residents had doubled, according to the City Government records of registration.) The sections thus far named had practically 80 per cent of the total for the city. There were only 8,550 persons in the districts studied outside the wall, which suffered so terribly from the burning by the Chinese army and from violence, and in March were still more dangerous on the whole than the inner city. 1. Smythe, "The Composition of the Chinese Family," Nanking Journal, University of Nanking, November, 1935, v. 5, No. 2, p. 371-393. 2, The May 31 registration figures of the Municipal Government, patently incomplete for females, show 109.4. ― 5 ― the other hand, in the less secure areas the men were relatively much more numerous, as is shown by the ratios for Cheng Pei, 121, the garden group, 150, outside the wall, 144. If we consider the ages for which security was a most acute problem, 15 to 39 years, we find in the refugee camps sex ratios running very low, from 40 to 67 in different five-year units; for the Safety Zone Area, roughly 90; for Cheng Hsi over 150, for outside the wall, well over 200. Thus men were returning first to the more dangerous localities, with old women and children following along more or less closely; but many of the young women remained in places of relative safety. The data on sex and age are given in Table 2. FAMILY COMPOSITION The families remaining in Nanking were classified as "Normal," that is, either husband and wife or husband and wife with children living together; "Broken," man or women with children; and "Non-family," man alone or woman alone. Then each of these three types was repeated "with relatives." The "normal" families were much fewer in proportion to all families than in an earlier study made among Nanking people in more settled times, 1932 now only 4.4 per cent with husband and wife as compared with 9.5; now only 26.2 per cent with husband, wife and children instead of 33.1 per cent. This represents a reduction of these types by one-fourth. A slight increase in "Normal with Relatives" occurred 32.3 per cent as compared with 29.8 per cent in 1932. In other words there is a net loss of normal families amounting to 9.5 per cent of the total families, or one-seventh reduction of normal families. This decline in normal families is largely due to an increase in the broken families, 21.4 per cent as compared with only 12.9 in 1932, or an increase of 8.5 per cent for the four types of broken families. Of that increase 6.9 per cent was in families without a man for support, that is, families consisting of only women with children. This means that the number of broken families was almost doubled. This increase in broken families is more clearly understood when we realize that 14.3 per cent of the members of the families remaining in Nanking had migrated, but only 2.2 per cent of the wives lost husbands by this migration. In addition to these there were 4,400 wives, or 8.9 per cent of the wives, whose husbands had either been killed, injured or taken away. Two-thirds of these were killed or taken away, 6.5 per cent. Or more poignantly, 3,250 children (5 per cent of all children) had their fathers killed, injured or taken away. These broken families could only to a small extent be due to families being divided within the city because only 3 per cent were so reported. The three factors combined of migration, persons killed or taken away, and divided families, broke 11.7 per cent of the families remaining in Nanking, or 5,500 families. Within the city the refugee camps showed a very high figure for broken families, especially in the case of women with children, 13.2 per cent as compared with 6.6 per cent for all sections and with 3.4 per cent in the more normal times of 1932. Fourteen per cent of the families in the refugee camps were women, children and relatives (the latter usually dependent). Altogether, 27.2 per cent of the families in the refugee camps were women with children and in some cases with dependent relatives. In the camps 35 per cent of the ― 6 ― families had a woman as head, while in the remainder of the population only 17 per cent of the families had a woman head. A man or woman alone constituted the family in 14 per cent of the families living outside of the wall, as compared with general figure of 7.4 in 1932. In another 16.3 per cent of the families outside the wall, the family was a man with relatives. For family composition analysis see Table 3. 2. DEATHS AND INJURIES DUE TO HOSTILITIES Number and Cause The figures here reported are for civilians, with the very slight possibility of the inclusion of a few scattered soldiers. The reports made in the Survey indicate that 3,250 were killed by military action under known circumstances. Of those killed 2,400 (74 per cent) were killed by soldiers violence apart from military operations.1 There is reason to expect under-reporting of deaths and violence at the hands of the Japanese soldiers, because of the fear of retaliation from the army of occupation. Indeed, under-reporting is clearly emphasized by the failure to record any violent deaths of young children, although not a few are known to have occurred. Of the 3,100 receiving injuries under known circumstances, 3,050 (98 per cent) were definitely by soldiers violence aside from warfare. There was a noticeable tendency to ignore injuries from which some sort of recovery had been made.2 89 per cent of the deaths and 90 per cent of the injuries by soldiers violence occurred after December 13, when occupation of the city was entirely completed. In addition to those reported killed and injured, 4,200 were taken away under military arrest. Persons seized for temporary carrying or other military labor were seldom so reported. Very few of those here mentioned were heard from in any way up to June. The fate of others gives reason to think that most of them were killed early in the period.3 The figures for persons taken away are undoubtedly incomplete. Indeed, upon the original survey schedules, they were written in under the heading "Circumstances," within the topic of deaths and injuries; and were not called for or expected in the planning of the Survey. Thus they have an unusual ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. "Military operations" is here used for shells, bombs, or bullets fired in battle. 2. Among the injuries reported to our Rehabilitation Commission by the 13,530 families applicants for relief, whom they investigated during March, was rape to the extent of 8 per cent of all females of 16-50 years. This figure is a serious under-statement, since most women who suffered such treatment would not volunteer the information, nor would their male relatives. While raping was such a common matter in December and January, people were much freer in admitting rape than under ordinary circumstances. But by March families were trying to hush up the fact that women in their families had been raped. The matter is mentioned here as illustrating the acute insecurity from which the social and economic life of the city has suffered. 3.The seriousness of "taking away" is underlined by the fact that all so listed are males. Actually many women were taken for shorter or longer service as waitresses, for laundry work, and as prostitutes. But not one of them is listed. ― 7 ― significance, and are more important than the simple figures indicate. Thus, those 4,200 must contribute an important addition to the number killed by soldiers.1 Ignoring many minor cases, the casualties of military operations and the sum of those killed and injured by soldiers violence, and of those taken away, represents 1 person in 23, or 1 in every 5 families. The critical social and economic results of these killings are in part indicated by the following direct calculations from our listings. The number of women whose husbands were killed, injured, or taken away, was 4,400.2 The number of children whose fathers were killed, injured, or taken away, was 3,250. Of the 6,750 persons violently killed and injured, only 900 (or 13 per cent) came to grief through military operations. The data on numbers of deaths and injuries are given in Table 4. DISTRIBUTION BY SEX AND AGE If we analyze by sex and age those who suffered violence or abduction, we find that the per cent of males in the killed and injured was for all ages 64, and reached for ages 30-44 the high percentage of 76. Able-bodied men were under suspicion of being ex-soldiers; many were killed for having callouses on their hands, supposed evidence of carrying rifles. Among the injured females, 65 per cent were between the ages of 15 and 29, although the terms and method of inquiry excluded rape per se. A revealing picture of the tragedy is shown in the relatively large number of persons over 60 years old who were killed by soldiers 28 per cent of all men so killed, and 39 per cent of the women. Elderly people were often the most reluctant to leave their homes in exposed areas, and they were considered in advance to be safe from wanton attack. The men taken away were often accused, at least in form, of being ex-soldiers; or were used as carriers and laborers. Hence it is not surprising to find that 55 per cent of them were between the ages of 15 and 29 years; with another 36 per cent between 30 and 44 years. The data on sex and age of deaths and injuries are given in Table 5. 3. EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS Former Condition of the Residents Surveyed Among the represented population of 221,000, no less than 58,000 were formerly employed (53,000 men and 5,000 women), equalling 26 per cent of the total population, 33 per cent of persons 10 years and over, 38 per cent of persons 15 years and over. The women (9 per cent of the total formerly ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. A careful estimate from the burials in the city and in areas adjacent to the wall, indicates 12,000 civilians killed by violence. The tens of thousands of unarmed or disarmed soldiers are not considered in these lists. Among1 the 13,530 applicant families investigated during March by the Committee s Rehabilitation Commission, there were reported men taken away equivalent to almost 20 per cent of all males of 16-50 years of age. That would mean for the whole city population 10,860 men. There may well be an element of exaggeration in the statements of applicants for relief; but the majority of the difference between this figure and the 4,200 of the survey report is probably due to the inclusion of cases of detention or forced labor which the men are known to have survived. 2. The 13,530 applicant families investigated by our Rehabilitation Commission during March, reported data which indicate that 14 per cent of all women over 16 were widows. ― 8 ― employed) were chiefly engaged in trade and general labor, secondarily in manufacturing and in domestic service. Of all formerly employed, 34 per cent (20,000) were previously in trade; 18 per cent (10,500) in manufacturing and mechanical industries; 12 per cent (6,500) in domestic and personal service; 10 per cent (5,500) in agriculture; 7 per cent (4,000) in general labor; 6 per cent (3,500) in transportation; 5 per cent (3,000) in "combined shops" (that is, shops which both make and sell articles, and which therefore cannot be assigned exclusively to manufacturing or to trade) ; 3 per cent each (2,000) to public service not elsewhere classified and to professional service; 2 per cent (1,000) to clerical occupations. The average daily earnings of the persons employed were $1.01 for the total. For those in trade, the average reported was $1.20; in manufacturing and mechanical industries, $1.08; in domestic and personal service, $0.96; in agriculture, $0.73; in general labor, $0.34. The average family income was $1.23 per day. The data on former employment are given in Table 6. CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME Employment and earnings in March present a dismal picture by contrast with the report of former conditions for the same people. The total employed were 20,500, of whom 950 (less than 5 per cent) were women. The 20,500 constituted 9 per cent of the whole population, 12 per cent of those 10 years and over, 14 per cent of those 15 years and over. Of the total employed, 67 per cent (13,500) were in trade,1 12 per cent (2,500) in agriculture; 5 per cent each (1,000) in manufacturing and mechanical industries, and in domestic and personal service; 4 per cent (1,000) in transportation; 3 per cent each (500) in combined shops and in general labor, less than 1 per cent each in public service not elsewhere classified and in professional service. The average earnings per person per day for the total were $0.32. Those engaged in trade reported $0.31; in agriculture, $0.20; in manufacturing and mechanical industries, $0.45; in transportation, $0.42; on combined shops, $0.22; in general labor, $0.25. The rates of employment were lowest in the refugee camps and in the eastern sections of the city. They were highest among the gardeners, 17 per cent of all ages and 26 per cent of those 15 years and over. Traders were bunched in the Safety Zone, and in Cheng Hsi and Men Hsi, the first districts to open up noticeably; these three areas comprised roughly 40, 20, and 20 per cent of the relatively numerous traders. The Safety Zone still contained 33 per cent of all employed, with the other named areas 15 per cent each. The combined areas outside the wall had less than 5 per cent of all employed, and Cheng Tung less than 4. The data on current employment are given in Table 7. The number of families reporting no earnings was 37,050, or 78 per cent of all families in the city. The number of families reporting income insufficient ____________________________________________________________________ 3.Largely the petty peddling of daily necessities and the roadside selling of the remaining personal possessions of self or others. ― 9 ― to maintain life was 44,650, or 94 per cent of all families.2 Our observation agrees with this picture. Life was continued by the use of buried hoards and other surviving accumulations; which were spread through kinship, friendship, and loans; and were supplemented by organized relief plus irregular releases from military storehouses, chiefly in the form of pay to a comparatively small number of laborers. Comparison of Past and Present March employment was 35 per cent of former employment among the resident population reporting; and earnings of those employed were 32 per cent of former earnings. These two factors give a gross income for all residents equal to 11 per cent of former income. This gloomy figure corresponds to the observation of those who knew the situation closely. Family earnings in March were on the average $0.14 per day, as compared with $1.23 in former times. Prices were low, but not low enough to help the situation greatly. When we compare the groups of the employed, we find that those engaged in trade were two-thirds of the former number, but earnings were only 26 per cent of former earnings; those in agriculture, under one-half, with 27 per cent of former earnings; in domestic and personal service, under one-sixth, with 47 per cent of former income; in manufacturing and mechanical industries, under one-tenth, with 35 per cent of former income; in general labor, under one- eighth, but wages of those employed were 73 per cent of old wages. Public service employment practically disappeared, as did professional service; while clerical occupations literally were not found. Sources of Food At any time the diet of the mass of the people in China is basically cereal. Under the economic conditions of March, that was true a fortiori; for the poorer people had practically nothing in the way of vegetables or oils, much less of meat or fruits. Aside from a handful of families that secured flour, all others were dependent upon rice, normally the major, cereal of this region. Considering all sections of the city, 17 per cent of the people were getting their rice from food kitchens1 (free, or at a nominal charge) ; 64 per cent from small private dealers; 14 per cent from the stores conducted by the Self-Government Committee; 5 per cent from "others," which usually obscured the real source by interposing a friend or a relative. Outside the wall no people could get food from the kitchens, while at the other extreme were 82 per cent of the people in the refugee camps, plainly among the poorest in the city, on the average. In the Safety Zone Area, 17 ____________________________________________________________________ 1. 17 per cent of the population was nearly 38,000. This report on the use of the food kitchens checks very closely with the International Committee s records of feeding some 35,000 persons in late March, though minor corrections are to be made both ways because of other methods of food distribution and other organizations to be considered. 2. The subsistence level was conservatively calculated at $0.26 per family per day. Gamble s How Chinese Families Live in Peiping, p. 326, shows 1.30 shih- tan per month to be the family consumption of cereals from the median group down well toward the bottom of the families studied. Rice in late March sold for $10.63 per bag of 212.25 lb. From these data the figure of $0.26 per day is derived, ignoring fuel, shelter, clothing, or any food save the dominant cereal. ― 10 ― per cent were dependent on the kitchens, and in Cheng Hsi 12; both districts were adjacent to the kitchens that were in operation. The data on sources of food occur in Table 8. 4. LOSSES OF FAMILIES REMAINING IN NANKING Main Items per Family and in Totals The families remaining in Nanking during the war period were in general the poorer groups, though they included many small shop-owners and house owners. A view of their losses shows most specifically the economic condition of resident Nanking people, though it is highly inadequate to indicate the total economic blow that the city suffered, quantitatively or qualitatively. The average losses per family were $838, of which $271 was in buildings and $567 in movables, the latter divided almost equally between movables for economic uses (such as stock for sale, shop equipment, materials for manufacture, machinery and tools), and movables for domestic uses (such as clothing and bedding, household furniture and utensils, cash and jewelry, family food and supplies, and so forth).1 Stocks for sale was a large item, $187 per family; shop equipment, $65. For these elements of the population, losses of machinery and materials for manufacture were relatively small. Clothing and bedding losses were heavy at $115, household furniture and utensils at $110. Food and supplies were listed at only $8, cash and jewelry at $10, indications both of moderate reporting and of the poverty of many of the families. The total losses reported in the family investigation are big enough, though they touch only a relatively poor fraction of the city. Practically $40,000,000 was recorded chiefly in the following items; buildings, 13 millions; stock for sale, 9; shop equipment, 3; for clothing and bedding, 5 millions, as also for furniture and utensils. When the total losses of families remaining in Nanking are analyzed by causes, they show that 2 per cent were due to military operations, 52 to fire, 33 to military looting and 9 to other robbery, with 4 per cent unknown. Fire inflicted almost all the building loss, but only 31 per cent of the loss in movables. Indeed, nearly half the movables lost were taken by soldiers, and a seventh by others. The military robbery comprised over $6,000,000 of movables for economic uses, and nearly $7,000,000 of movables for domestic uses, blows each in its own way disastrous to the daily life of the Nanking population. The data for family losses by main items and cause are given in Table 9. Distribution by Section and by Cause If the total losses $40,000,000 of families resident in Nanking during March are assigned to the districts of the original addresses of those families (where most of the losses occurred), the results are as follows Cheng Tung $12 millions, Men Tung 7, Cheng Hsi 6, Men Hsi and Cheng Pei Tung, each 5; others small. The total losses were divided between business and residence properties as $19 millions against $21 millions. In the more important districts, fire losses were proportionately heaviest in Men Tung, 66 per cent of all losses; in Cheng Tung, 62; and lightest in Cheng Hsi and Men Hsi, 34 and 38 per cent of all losses. The differences in causation of loss for business- and for residential ____________________________________________________________________ 1.All money figures are in Chinese currency ― 11 ― properties were not sharply marked. As might be expected, this population did not share largely in the big fire losses of the main commercial and industrial districts; thus their fire losses in business properties were 21 per cent of all their losses and in all properties; but were greater in residential properties, 30 per cent. The data for family losses by section of city are given in Table 10. 5. TOTAL LOSSES OF BUILDINGS AND CONTENTS Introduction by Count of Buildings The total count of street-numbers is 39,200, of which 30,500 are inside the wall and 8,700 outside. The three crowded areas of Cheng Hsi, Men Hsi, and Men Tung had nearly 60 per cent of the buildings inside the wall (17,700); indeed, 45 per cent of the grand total. Report of destruction or of damage to buildings was made only when the injury was sufficiently obvious from the street to call the attention of the investigator. In a number of specific examples we know of injury that was not recorded, but prefer to leave the figures as moderate as possible. Of all buildings, 2 per cent were destroyed or damaged by military operations; 24 by fire; and additional 63 per cent by looting a total of 89 per cent by all causes, leaving 11 per cent without obvious injury. It must be noted that most of the buildings burned within the city were thoroughly, even systematically stripped of their contents before the burning; and that practically without exception the fortunate 11 per cent were entered by soldiers who robbed to some degree, later followed by civilian thieves in unoccupied buildings. Outside the wall, 62 per cent of the buildings were burned, even 78 per cent in the case of Tungchimen. Inside the wall, the percentage was 13, ranging from 29 in Men Tung down to 0.6 in the Safety Zone and 3.5 in the sparsely built Cheng Pei. Military operations had noticeable effects only in the south and east parts of the city, and in Shuihsimen; though some cases must have been obscured in the areas severely burned. Looting grossly affected 73 per cent of the buildings within the wall, but is reported for only 27 per cent outside the wall, where so much was burned, reaching 34 per cent in Hsiakwan. Inside areas ran as high as 96 per cent for Chen Pei and 85 for Cheng Pei Tung; the only one below 65 was the Safety Zone Area, in which the low report of 9 per cent appears for buildings showing damage by looting. If we turn to consider the damage by all causes according to sections, we find that inside areas averaged 88 per cent of buildings affected, outside areas 90. Cheng Pei reported the dismal figure of 99.2 per cent; and indeed all the inside areas were above 90 save the Safety Zone with 10 and Men Hai with 78. Outside areas touched 99.7 in the case of Tungchimen and 98 in that of Hsiakwan, while Shuihsimen was favored with only 70. The data on count of buildings damaged or looted are given in Table 11. Total Values Destroyed, By Items And Section Of City The building investigation shows a grand total of losses of buildings and contents for all sections of $246,000,000, of which $143 millions were in- ― 12 ― curred outside the walls, and $103 millions inside. The grand total consisted first of 58 per cent movables ($143 millions), in which movables for economic uses were $114 millions, and movables for domestic uses were $29 million; and secondly of 42 per cent buildings, amounting to $103 millions.1 The loss in economic movables was especially heavy outside the walls, amounting to $82 millions there as against $32 millions inside while on the other hand, movables for domestic uses were $23 millions within the walls and only $7 millions outside. Buildings were a little heavier outside, $55 millions against $48 millions. When we analyze specific items in percentages of the grand total, we find that stock for sale was 30 per cent ($74 millions); shop equipment 6 per cent ($16 millions), approximated by machinery and tools with $14 millions; materials for manufacturing were 4 per cent ($10 millions); ricshas were less than 0.1 per cent ($270 thousands). Clothing and bedding accounted for 5 per cent ($11 millions); household furniture and utensils for nearly 4 per cent ($9 millions); family food and supplies for 0.7 per cent ($2 millions) ; cash and jewelry for 0.3 per cent ($700 thousand); bicycles for a little less; "others" for nearly 3 per cent (over $6 millions). Almost all the machinery and tool losses occurred outside the wall, as also most of the material for manufacturing and two-thirds of the shop equipment and stock for sale. In the classification of losses of buildings and contents according to sections of the city, there are a number of points of importance. By far the heaviest total was in Hsiakwan, the largely destroyed center of transportation, storage, and manufacturing $117 millions. Cheng Tung, Men Tung, and Men His ranged from $26 millions down to $20 millions; Tungchimen reported $16 millions and Cheng Pei Tung $14 millions. The smallest total losses were the Safety Zone with $4 millions and the notoriously poor area outside Shuihsimen. Of the $117 millions lost in Hsiakwan, 69 was in economic movables, and 42 in buildings. No other area lost as much as $10 millions in economic movables, though several were above 6. After Hsiakwan, the next heaviest losers in buildings were Cheng Tung and Men Tung, with $13 and 12 millions respectively. The Safety Zone was lowest, with $551 thousands. As might be expected, there was no great concentration of losses in domestic movables, most of the areas ranged from $5 to 2 millions. The data for total values destroyed by items and section of the city are given in Table 12. Causes Of Loss Totals And Main Items Of the grand (or wretched) total of all losses, $246,000,000, one per cent ($3 millions) was due to military operations, which chiefly affected buildings. 67 per cent ($165 millions) was caused by fire, including 97 millions in buildings, 30 millions in stock for sale, 13 millions in machinery and tools, 10 millions in shop equipment. 31 per cent ($75 millions) of all losses were due to robbery, including 41 millions of stock for sale, 9 millions of clothing and bedding, 5 millions of shop equipment. The data on causes of loss are given in Table 13. ____________________________________________________________________ 1. The similarity of these two sets of figures is fortuitous but true. ― 13 ― Losses From Business Properties And Residence Properties Distinguished The total losses of buildings and contents, $246,000,000, were reported as $210 millions from business properties and $36 millions from residence properties. Of the $210 millions of losses incurred by business properties, 131 millions were outside the wall, 110 of them in Hsiakwan and 15 near Tungchimen. Of the $79 millions in business losses inside the wall, 23 occurred in Cheng Tung, 16 each in Men Hsi and Men Tung; 10 in Cheng Pei Tung; the smallest losses of this type were in the Safety Zone Area, $2 millions. The $36 millions lost in residence properties were divided into 24 millions inside and 12 millions outside the wall. Inside there were $6 millions in Men Tung, and 4 each in Men Hsi and Cheng Pei Tung; the other areas ran from 2 to 3. Of the $12 millions in residential losses outside the wall, 7 were in Hsiakwan and 3 in Chunghwamen. If cause is considered, the heavy business losses are classified as follows due to military operations, 1 per cent; to fire, 69 per cent; to looting, 29 per cent. The relatively lighter losses in residential properties were due to these factors military operations, 4 per cent; fire, 59 per cent; looting, 37 per cent. The differences are- explicable in part by the fact that many residences lay close to the gates seriously attacked in the southeast portion of the wall; and, for the more important cause of fire, to the deliberate burning of extensive commercial and industrial sections. The data comparing losses from business and residence properties are given in Table 14. Losses on Main Commercial Streets In order to understand more clearly one aspect of the economic plight of the city not adequately reached by the family or general building investigations, the condition and losses on 8 of the main commercial streets were listed separately for examination (though of course they are included in all general totals, and do not constitute an additional loss). These 8 streets comprised over 2,800 numbers, an average of 350 per street. They lie mainly in the southeast quadrant of the walled city. 2.7 per cent of the buildings were damaged by military operations, 33 per cent by fire, 54 per cent by additional looting (most of the burned stores were casually looted by soldiers, then regularly stripped- by the use of fleets of military trucks); making 89 per cent to suffer from all causes. Considering all causes, Pai Hsia, Chung Hwa, Chien Kang, and Tai Ping Roads were destroyed or damaged to the extent of 97 and 98 per cent of the buildings; the others, 70 to 80 per cent. From the positive side, 11 per cent escaped serious damage. When we consider the individual streets according to the havoc wrought by different methods, we find that military operations were most obvious in Chung Cheng Road (6 per cent of buildings) and in Chung Shan Road (5 per cent), while in some they were insignificant or not reported at all. The percentage of injury by fire was greatest in Tai Ping Road with 68, followed by Chung Hwa and Chien Kang Road with 51 and 47 respectively. Looting in ― 14 ― buildings not burned was naturally the converse of fire injury, since most of the preserved buildings have to be listed as looted. In Tai Ping Road only 27 per cent of the buildings are recorded as looted, as against 76 in Chung Cheng and Chu Chiao Road. The losses of buildings and contents on the 8 main commercial streets within the city reached a figure just short of $50,000,000, of which $47,000,000 was in commercial buildings and their contents. In the report just following, it should be remembered that percentages and differences among the streets are listed in terms of dollars worth of property lost, not in numbers of buildings as in the items of preceding paragraphs. Chung Hwa Road lost most heavily, with $12,500,000, a fourth of the total for the 8 streets; Chung Cheng Road, $11,000,000; Tai Ping Road, $9,000,000; Chung Shan Road, $6,000,000; Chien Kang and Pai Hsia Roads, $4,000,000 each; Sheng Chow Road, $2,000,000; Chu Chiao Road (the southern extension of Tai Ping Road), $1,000,000. If the money losses on the 8 streets are divided by causes, we find 0.7 per cent by military operations, 65 per cent by fire, 28 by additional looting, 6 reported as unknown. When individual streets are considered, Chien Kang Road reported 98 per cent of losses due to fire, Chung Cheng Road 87, Chung Hwa 77, Pai Hsia 69. For additional looting, the streets appear in the converse order, since unburned property is now the subject Chu Chiao Road 72 per cent of losses due to looting, Chung Shan Road 61, Sheng Chow 47, Tai Ping 29. For Tai Ping, Sheng Chow, and Chu Chiao Roads in particular, sizable percentages are recorded as unknown, doubtless a combination of fire and looting, which must be to some extent interfused in all reports under these two headings. The data on losses on main commercial streets are shown in Tables 15 and 16. Losses of Buildings and Contents per Family of Original Residents The weight of total losses may be in part appreciated by an estimate of their extent per family of the original population, which can be calculated with fair approximation.1 In a sense these figures are academic, since they include the few public buildings destroyed and some important institutional properties, while excluding personal, public, and institutional property removed before the taking of the city. Yet they serve both to bring down figures of hundreds of millions to thinkable concreteness, and to correct the misleading impression given by the low reports from the relatively poor families remaining in Nanking, The total loss reports show an average per family of $1,262, of which $527 was in buildings, $582 in economic movables, $152 in domestic movables. The economic movables comprised $377 worth of stock for sale, $80 of shop equipment, $73 of machinery and tools, $51 of materials for manufacture, $1 in ricshas. The domestic movables comprised $58 worth of clothing and bedding, $44 of household furniture and utensils, $9 of family food and supplies, $4 of cash and jewelry, $3 of bicycles. ____________________________________________________________________ 1. We find a close check between direct use of the factors of total loss, population considered, and number of persons per family; and on the other hand loss per house-number divided by our figures of 4.9 families per house-number in the original population considered. ― 15 ― The data on losses per family of original residents are shown in the right hand column of Table 13. Comparison of Losses as Reported from the Family Investigation and the Building Investigation When the losses per family of the original population are compared with the losses of the families remaining in Nanking, it is seen that the buildings are nearly doubled ($527 to $271), and movables for economic uses are actually doubled ($582 to $291), while domestic movables are almost halved ($152 to $276). These reports fairly represent the two situations the total losses for the entire city were a half greater per family of its population than were the loss for the families remaining in Nanking ($1,262 to $838). The city-wide losses included the larger properties of all types commercial, industrial, institutional. On the other hand, many domestic goods were removed by those who migrated; and losses of the domestic goods which they left in Nanking could not be adequately reported. The data for comparison of losses for families remaining in Nanking and for all families in the original population may be found in Tables 9 and 13. ― 16 ― II. AGRICULTURAL SURVEY The Agricultural Survey attempted to cover the Ningshu Area, a natural and historical unit of six hsien grouped around Nanking. Two of the hsien, Kiangpu and Luho, lie north of the Yangtze River; while to the south are Kiangning (in which Nanking is located), Kuyung, Lishui, and Kaoshun. Owing to conditions explained in Appendix A on Organization and Method, Kaoahun and half of Luho could not be investigated in March. The 4.5 hsien included in the survey had at that time a maximum of 1,080,000 farm population, probably 1,200,000 to 1,350,000 before the war. They also included market towns which originally had some 275,000 inhabitants;1 and the city of Nanking, formerly with a million, shrunken to approximately 250,000 in March. Thus the whole population of the 4.5 hsien was roughly a million and a half in March (the people of the market towns, however, do not enter the scope of the Surveys). The land area of the 4.5 hsien is 2,438 sq. m.,2 about that of the State of Delaware or of two fair-sized English counties. Of this area, almost exactly one-third is cultivated, 819 sq. m.2 It is important to note the bulk of Kiangning Hsien in the Agricultural Survey. It comprises 41 per cent of the cultivated area in the 4.5 hsien, and almost the same percentage of the total farm population. 1. FARM LOSSES Extent and Significance The five types of farm losses reported (buildings, labor animals, major farm implements, stored grain, crops destroyed) totalled nearly $41,000,000 in the four and one-half hsien, or $220 per family. It is important to note that the approximate annual income of a farm family in East Central China, as indicated by Buck s figure for the value of all goods consumed per year by an average family, is $289.3 The margin of savings and possible rate of accumulating farm capital are so small that the loss of three-fourths of a year s income is a fearful blow to farm families, both in productive power and in standard of life.4 Losses of $220 per family in the present calamity may be compared with the 1931 flood losses of $457,5 and the 1932 war losses of $147.6 (Both the ____________________________________________________________________ 1. Estimated from Buck s figures in Land Utilization in China, Statistics, P. 417, 2. Buck, Statistics, p. 24, shows the correct government figures to be 6315 sq.km. and 2122 sq.km., respectively, from which the sq. m. are now calculated. 3. Buck, Chinese Farm Economy, p. 387. All money figures are in Chinese currency. 4. On data of fifteen years ago (from only three localities, and at lower valuations and prices than he has recently given) Buck reports a farm capital for Kiahgsu averaging $478. This figure includes buildings, livestock, supplies, farm equipment, not land and trees. Total capital with land he gives as $1,775, subject of course to problems of tenancy and mortgage. Chinese Farm Economy, p. 57. For Kiangning Hsien, so large an element in the Ningshu area, a current estimate of $743 is given for the average farmer s buildings, implements, livestock, and furniture. R. T. Ts ui, Land Classification of Kiangning Hsien, soon to be published in "Economic Facts." 5. The 1931 Flood in China, p. 13. 6. By another calculation, $135 per family. ― 17 ― surveys of 1931 and of 1932 included many smaller items not reported this year; and the unit prices used in 1931 are much above the low ones now employed). Lishui Hsien suffered the heaviest losses per family, $302; the large and populous Kiangning, $251; Luho only $111; Kuyung rising to $147; and Kiangpu to $239, nearest to the general average of $220. Buildings Buildings alone comprised 59 per cent of the total reported losses, $129 per family. This means that 1.7 chien1 of buildings per family, or two-fifths of all farm buildings in the area, were destroyed―most of them by burning. Building losses were particularly heavy in Lishui, 2.8 chien per family; in Kiangpu, 2; and in Kangning, 1.9. The total number of chien destroyed was 308,000 valued at $24,000,000. Labor Animals Labor animals were second in importance among the types of losses, accounting for 16 per cent of the total, and 0.66 of an animal per family. The latter figure seems high, particularly the portion of it relating to water-buffaloes. In the 1931 flood, the general average for labor animals lost was 0.44 per family, counting the three kinds of animals listed in this survey.2 Buck reports a normal figure for the Yangtze rice-wheat area of only 0.71, but 1.20 for the important Kiangning hsien,3 the only one of our hsien there recorded. War losses of animals were proportionately higher in Kiangning (0.84), and in Kiangpu and Luho. For the whole area, the loss was 123,000 head (buffaloes, oxen, donkeys), valued at $6,700,000 or $36 per family.4 Farm Implements Farm implements represented 13 per cent of all reported losses, and amounted to 3.55 items per family. It appears that most of these losses were of the wooden portions of the implements, burned with the buildings or taken for fuel; the wooden element is largest in the indispensable and costly many bladed pumps for the irrigation of rice-fields. (0.6 per family). Present losses of the principal tools appear to be a half greater than in the flood of 1931.5 Buck gives 6.5 items for the normal average (Yangtze Rice-wheat Area, medium size farms) of the types of implements listed in this survey.6 Implement losses were heaviest in Kiangning and Lishui, medium in Kiangpu. For the whole area, the loss was 661,000 implements, valued at $5,240,000 or $28 per family.7 Stored Grain Stored grain counted 10 per cent of all losses, and in quantity amounted to 1,100,000 shih tan, or 6.1 shih tan per family; of which half was rice, a sixth wheat, and a sixth soybeans. Kuyung, at 7.5 shih tan per family, Lishui at 7.2, and Kiangning at 6.1, suffered most severely; Luho very lightly at 2.7. .The ____________________________________________________________________ 4.A chien Is the space between main rafters, averaging about 11 x 16 . Farm residences often contain 4 chien, other farm buildings 2 chien. See Table 17 Note1. 2. The 1931 Flood in China, p. 17. 3. Buck, Statistics, p. 122-123. . 4. Buck many years ago indicated for Kiangsu Province a normal inventory amounting to $53. Chinese Farm Economy, p. 57. 5.. The 1931 Flood in China, p. 18. 6. Statistics, p. 396. 7. Buck earlier reported for Kiangsu Province a normal equipment value of $64. Chinese Farm Economy, p. 57. ― 18 ― average family in the war areas of 1932 lost just over 2 shih tan. The average loss in the flood of 1931 was 4.2 piculs (5.1 shih tan).1 The recent grain losses reached a value of $4,200,000, or $22 per family.2 Destroyed Crops Crops destroyed were fortunately a small loss, only 2 per cent of the total. For the winter wheat, like some of the younger women, was partly hidden in the ground during the worst period. Yet this item, relatively small though it was, indicates a real burden upon farm families. More than 8 per cent of the area planted to wheat was destroyed, chiefly by the soldiers feeding of animals. In Kiangning and Kuyung the crop from 40 to 50 per cent of the intensively cultivated vegetable plots was lost to the farmer. The area of all winter crops destroyed was proportionately highest in Kuyung, 1.4 mow per family; and lowest in Kiangning, 0.62. The total area destroyed was 137,200 mow, or 0.85 per family; the total value $785,000 or $4 per family. The types of recent war losses differ from those of the 1931 flood as fire from water. Counting in values, buildings destroyed in the present calamity are 31 times the crops ($129 per family, as against $4). In 1931, crops were twice the buildings ($215 per family, as against $108).3 The 1932 war areas (rural) near Shanghai resembled Ningshu of the past few months, showing building losses as 28 times crops ($97 as against $3.50). The data regarding farm losses are reported in Tables 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, of which the first three are general. 2. WINTER CROPS AND SPRING SEED Importance of Food Production in This Area The importance of food production in this area, and its bearing upon relief needs, is emphasized by two facts. First, the 4.5 hsien here studied have an abnormally large city and town population. Even in the depleted condition of Nanking, it had at least 67,000 families, about one-fourth the number of a year ago; the market towns normally have 53,400 families, from which an unknown number should be subtracted for war migrants; the farm families originally numbered 186,000, from which a possible 30 per cent were absent in March as families, and an additional 11 per cent as individuals.4 If, we add these three figures, without making allowances, to form a total for the area, it exaggerates the importance of the farm families; yet even on this basis, they number only 61 per cent of the total, as against 22 for Nanking and 17 for the market towns. Compare the percentages for the Yangtze Rice-wheat Area as a whole farms 83; cities 5; market towns, 125. Secondly, transport of food from a distance has been practically impossible under war conditions, and there is scant improvement in sight. Most of the rice brought into Nanking this spring has come from Lishui and Kaoshun. ____________________________________________________________________ 1. The 1931 Flood in China, p. 12. 2. In the prices of fifteen years ago, Buck valued the normal inventory of grain in Kiangsu province as $29. Chinese Farm Economy, p. 57. 3. The 1931 Flood in China, p. 13. 4. Cf. Table 21, Note (****) and reference. Also Appendix B. 5. Buck, Land Utilization in China, p. 365. ― 19 ― Winter Crops Their Significance A large part of the cultivated land in this area 13 normally put into winter crops.3 For Ningshu, Lin says 70 to 80 per cent;4 for the Yangtze Rice-wheat Area, Buck reports 62 per cent, and for Kiangning Hsien,5 92; for Kiangning, Ts ui in his recent and close study, says 65 per cent.6 In general, the winter crop is followed by a summer crop on the same land; while the re-mainer of cultivated land grows a spring crop. Thus, in use of land, the winter crops represent 40 or more per cent of all crops, and are a large factor in the farm economy as well as in food production for the whole community. Extent Of Last Fall s Planting ... Last autumn s planting of winter crops was 1,629,000 mow (8.75 per family), or 47 per cent of the cultivated land. If we follow Ts ui, whose figure seems the best-founded in itself and is supported by the best of Buck s figures (the regional one), this would mean that 47/65, or 72 per cent of normal planting, was carried out. War conditions of active preparations and of bombing, prevailed through portions of this region all through the autumn, and became acute at some points before the normal planting time. Moreover, the weather was unusually dry, another cause of delay which pushed some farmers along till early December, when the full calamity came and field work was impossible. Of the planting, 64 per cent was in wheat, 20 per cent in barley. Destruction of Crops; Other Shortage Of the winter crops planted, 9 per cent are reported as destroyed. The estimated losses were 172,000 shih tan, or in money $765,000. Kuyung Hsien lost most heavily, 18 per cent; Kiangpu only 4; the remainder not far from the average. The different crops suffered at about the same level, save 33 per cent for the intensively cultivated and not inconsiderable plots of vegetables, which were persistently attractive to soldiers, as were the other crops to military horses. On the area planted but not destroyed (72 per cent of normal, discounted 9 per cent, leaving 65 per cent of normal) farmers expected 63 per cent of normal crops, fairly uniform according to grains. Remarkably dry weather prevailed until March; and there was also minor injury not to be classed as destruction, along with excess of weeds. Nevertheless, the expectation seems low, and this percentage may be colored by the farmers thoughts of their total yield in ordinary times. To that extent, this figure represents a comprehensive estimate of expectations and shortage. However, the questions were sharply stated, and the investigators and farmers tried to provide the proper answers. If we take 63 per cent of the remaining 65 per cent of normal planting, the result would be an expectation of 41 per cent of the ordinary crop. Perhaps the truth lies between the percentages of 41 and 63. Two later factors must be mentioned. Beginning in March, there was better rainfall, with marked ____________________________________________________________________ 1. In the following paragraphs, unless otherwise specified, wheat, barley, rapeseed, Broadbean, and field peas are considered; in certain of the tables, vegetables are also recorded, 2. D. Y. Lin, letter March 2, 1938. 3. Statistics, p. 207. 4. Land Classification of Kiangning Hsien. ― 20 ― improvement of the prospects. But in June the rainfall has been excessive at the time of wheat harvest in some localities, with great spoilage before threshing. Expected Crop in Terms of Consumption What does the harvest of wheat and barley mean in provision of food for the population of the haien studied and the city population linked with them? It is expected to provide 3.40 shih tan of grain per family, which would feed them for less than seven weeks, according to grain consumption reports by Buck and by Gamble for farm and city populations, respectively.1 The data regarding winter crops are found in Tables 21, 30, 31, 32, of which 21 is general. Shortage of Seed Data on this subject are perhaps the least satisfactory in the survey, and they are not counted in the list of losses (where they are of course involved in the losses of stored grain). Answers to inquiries, even assuming that questions were skillfully pressed, concerned estimates and wants rather than plain statements of fact; and in several items seed was also food, in a time of scarcity and uncertainty. Nevertheless the results of the survey were very moderate, and on the whole gave confidence in the essential integrity of farmers and investigators. The requirements reported total $2.87 per family, under 0.9 shih tan. Compare the 1931 flood data, which show a total want of winter and spring seeds in terms of 2.7 piculs (3.3 shih tan), of which spring seeds were 1.67 piculs (2.1 shih tan), the latter alone more than double the reports of the present inquiry.2 Evaluation of Seed Requirements Farmers reported that they intended to plant, on the average, nearly 15 mow per family of the 18.5 mow which they ordinarily would put into rice; and that they needed seed to the extent of almost 5 shih chin per mow of the intended planting. Was such an estimate unreasonable? Buck gives seed use as 5 per cent of total rice production in the Yangtze Rice-wheat Area, which on the base of most frequent yield works out at 19.3 shih chin per Kiangning mow.3 Ts ui s recent data for Kiangning would give 26.6 shih chin.4 Traditional allowances are lower. In any case, the farmers figures do not seem excessive. Among the types of seed required, rice represented 66 per cent by value, and soybeans 20. Total value was $570,000, of which $376,000 was rice. It is inferred that there were serious individual and local difficulties, but that by one means or another most of the families affected could find some way of secur- ____________________________________________________________________ 1. Statistics, p. 417, shows 239,450 families in the 4.5 hsien, including town families. We count 67,000 families in Nanking, making a total of 306,450 families. The average consumption of grain per farm family of 5.79 individuals, is 2.3 shih tan per month, based on the averages of three localities in South Kiangsu (Wutsin 1, Wutsin 2, and Changshu) as given in Statistics pp. 105,107. For the city families, Gamble s figures for a median income group (which extends with slight change down even to $10 per month) are employed, working out at 1.39 shih tan. The weighted average of these two types of consumption is 2.1 shih tan monthly for all families in the area considered. How Chinese Families Live in Peiping, p. 326. 2. The 1931 Flood in China, p. 80. 3. Statistics, pp. 238, 210. 4. Land Classification of Kiangning Hsien, soon to appear in "Economic Facts." ― 21 ― ing seed for the fields they would be able to prepare for cultivation under the conditions of this spring. The data regarding seed requirements are reported in Table 22. 3. THE WAR AND PERSONS Migration from the Farms Investigators reports show that 133,000 members of farm families resident in March (11 per cent of the estimated original members of those families) had left and had not returned. It must be remembered that possibly three times as many persons in entire families were still away; but we cannot accurately consider them because of inadequate information. (See Appendix B.). Of the 133,000 migrants, 111,000 were from Kiangning, 11,000 from Lishui, and 8,000 from Luho. The absent members from Kiangning were 20 per cent of the estimated total original population; perhaps this hsien was especially high because of its proximity to Nanking, the abundance of communications, and the association of individuals directly or indirectly with the government and private enterprises so largely removed before December 1937.1 Labor Shortage Separate inquiries were made as to the original number of laborers in the family, the actual number of laborers, and the number expected back soon. The results show the actual shortage of laborers to be serious in Kiangning, 19 per cent; but the majority of absentee laborers were expected to return soon, leaving a predicted shortage of 18,000 or 7 per cent of the original number of laborers. For the 4.5 hsien, the actual shortage was 15 per cent; the expected shortage, 8 per cent or 42,800. The expected shortage was highest in Lishui, 12 per cent; and in Luho, 11. (Again see Appendix B for the possible shortage through the absence of whole families).2 Data on migration and labor supply are recorded in Table 23. Deaths by Violence The total deaths reported were 31,000 or 29 per 1,000 residents for the 100 days covered, at the rate of 106 per annum. Compare the normal death rate for China of 27 per annum.3 87 per cent of the deaths were caused by violence, most of them the intentional acts of soldiers. One was killed in every seven families, equivalent to a total of some 1,700,000 killings if the same rate were applied to the rural families of the United States; over 8,000,000 among the farm families of all China; perhaps 800,000 among the strictly defined farm families of Japan proper. The conditions of this region and the methods of the survey were such as practically to exclude soldiers of any sort, though it is possible that a few local men acting as police or guards were included. The ____________________________________________________________________ 1. Migration within the hsien, or within this group of hsien, would leave the family within the net of this survey insofar as the sampling is satisfactory; though some escape in the hills is probable. In the 1931 flood, the total migration of families and of individuals showed more than 70 per cent of migrants remaining within the same hsien; and, apparently, a little more than 20 per cent migrating to other hsien, whether or not adjoining ones. The 1931 Flood in China, pp. 27, 33. 2. It is interesting to note the report of 2.8 laborers in an average family originally numbering 6.5. This suggests that according to the farmers own interpretation of the term "laborer," there are some 43 per cent of the family to be so considered. 3. Land Utilization in China, p. 338. ― 22 ― rate of killing was highest in Kiangpu, 45 per 1,000 in the 100 days; Kuyung 37, Kiangning 21, the others 15 and 12; for the 4.5 hsien, 25. The per cent of males among the killed was terrific, especially up to 45 years, and amounted to 84 per cent of the killed for all ages. Among the 22,490 males killed, those falling between 15 and 60 years were 80 per cent, a real drain upon economic strength. Among the 4,380 females killed, 83 per cent were above 45 years. More of the younger women migrated in search of safety, or were kept out of harm s way in times of obvious danger; while old women did more than their share of guard duty, as supposably less liable to attack than young women or able-bodied men. Deaths by Sickness Deaths from sickness were reported as very low, totalling 4,080 or 3.8 per thousand residents in the 100 days. This is apparently a serious under reporting; none at all was recorded under the age of 5 years, for example. A similar tendency is noticeable in normal times, and in the past winter attention was inevitably centered upon the great number of abnormal deaths. It is also possible that some deaths by sickness were confused with the killed, though the original questions presented the two as alternatives; and the margin of this confusion, as tested by comparison with the normal death rate, could not have been large enough to affect in noticeable degree the number reported as killed. The 100 days occurred in a healthy season with unusually mild and fair weather, after two successive years of big harvests. It is plain that there was no epidemic or extraordinary disease. In the great flood of 1931, deaths were reported at the rate of 22 per 1,000 during an almost identical period of time; of the deaths, 70 per cent were definitely attributed to disease, and 24 per cent to drowning.1 The present survey indicates only 12 per cent from sickness, which could at most be doubled by complete reporting. This only serves to emphasize the extent of the killings. Data on deaths are reported in Tables 24 and 25. 4. EFFECTS OF WAR FARMS AND CITY COMPARED Although before the war the rural population of the 4.5 hsien studied was not much greater than that of Nanking, at the period of the survey in March it was more than four times as great. While the remaining farm families lost only some 11 per cent of their members by migration, and possibly as many as 30 per cent went away and stayed away as entire families; the city lost by migration 14 per cent of the members of remaining families, and some 75 per cent of the original families entire. The surveyed population in Nanking was 221,000, as against 1,078,000 in the farm villages. On the farms, one resident in every 7 families was killed. In the city, one resident in every 5 families was killed, injured, or taken away; which works out to about an equal degree of social evil and distress. The total farm losses were $41,000,000, with no domestic property reported. The total losses for families remaining in Nanking were $40,000,000; while those of buildings and contents for the entire city were $246,000,000. ____________________________________________________________________ 1. The 131 Flood in China, p. 37. ― 23 ― The farm losses per family (domestic property not considered) were $220, of which buildings were $129. Among the city population remaining, all losses per family were $838, of which buildings accounted for $271, stock for sale $187, and domestic movables $276. Total city losses divided among original families would run to $1,262, of which buildings counted for $527, stock for $377, and domestic movables $152. It is not possible to compute the losses of farm and city in ratio to their respective total property values. It seems, however, that the farmer s losses do not weigh so heavily against his major property, land; as do the city people s losses against their total property. In any case, the farmer s basic capital for production has not been destroyed; while many city people have lost all important material means of production. These comments are not intended to lessen appreciation for the suffering and hardships of the large farm population; but merely to suggest that the average farmer has left to him more to struggle with and more to struggle for, than the average denizen of Nanking in this year of distress ― 24 ― III. RESULTS OF THE SURVEY IN THEIR BEARING UPON RELIEF NEEDS AND RELIEF PROGRAM The loss of 40 per cent of all farm buildings is a critical blow at the farmer s capital, his standard of living, and his productive power. Some families or parts of families have been delayed in their return to the land because of lack of housing; that means shortage of labor, lessened production, even further worsening through neglect or robbery in the farmer s absence. Moreover, the preservation and care of animals, implements, and stored crops is affected by deficiency of buildings. In recent heavy rains, some farmers were unable to prevent their cut wheat from spoiling before threshing, and did not even have a place for improvised indoor threshing. Working power is affected by shortage of laborers, of animals, and of implements. Deficiency of laborers is due (1) to irremediable deaths and injuries and to such war migration as will not be reversed in a few months; (2) more largely, to personal insecurity, especially for women. Improvement in such matters depends upon the purpose and the quality of government, a field which relief workers do not enter. Both animals and implements are insufficient, though farmers have done well in exchange and borrowing and cooperation, to make the most of what they have. Direct aid for the bringing in of animals, tools, and wood needed for handles and blades for implements, is desirable. Credits to assist in purchases, and in maintenance of breeding stock and young animals, are widely needed. In principle, and usually in practice, credit can be most usefully and most safely extended through cooperative societies. Seed does not appear to be a separate problem henceforward. However, grain is the staple food; and serious shortage of food would press some farmers hard for seed. The current wheat crop is seriously below normal, hurting farm incomes, and constituting a factor in the total food problem. Nevertheless, old supplies of various grains seem adequate to carry, till the autumn rice-harvest, all who have a little purchasing power or credit. More significant is the question of the coming rice crop, which cannot be accurately answered without further inquiry in July after the completion of transplanting. Interrogation of farmers and travelers from different localities brings a picture of wide variation at many points a practically normal planting; at others a distressing deficiency. Farmers are scarcely able to restore their injured capital and productive power, while short in those same necessities, and while working under conditions which in part are still those of war and military occupation. For example, as soon as spring crops were in around Nanking many farmers sold their buffalo for slaughter rather than take the risk of keeping the animal. Much less is there any margin against flood or drouth. After two years of excellent harvests, chanceful nature does not guarantee the next two. Indeed, there is already ― 25 ― great concern over the probability of flood in this Ningshu area sprawled across and along the Great River, excessively drenched in June rains and threatened by the extraordinary levels of the Middle and Upper Yangtze, plus the complication of the Yellow and Hwai waters through the Grand Canal (which overload the out-flow from the Lower Yangtze.) In thinking of this year s relief problem by comparison with that of the flood in 1931, there is the apparent difference that then there was one government concerned with the problem as a whole, and putting large resources into relief. Under existing conditions there are various authorities (in some sections none), the more important of which are so intensely concerned with military and political operations, and are receiving so little of regular revenue from the localities considered, that relatively small efforts at relief have been made thus far. Surely the facts themselves appeal to all present authorities, however constituted, to do their utmost in constructive aid to farmers. Such aid is not only a humanitarian necessity but will strengthen the economic basis of the community and of the government itself, and will be worth infinitely more than propaganda in securing the good will and cooperation of the people. Furthermore, the needs are so great that the total of all potential aid, public and private, would still be inadequate. The experience and resources of the China International Famine Relief Committee, or of any other private, non-political organization concerned with relief, should be welcome as useful supplements to the large-scale relief that governmental authorities ought to be undertaking. Freedom of transport by water, rail, and highway, is essential to any considerable recovery. In practice such freedom is dependent upon actual security as well as upon policy. Improvement of transport is acutely necessary both for producers and for consumers of food and of household requirements of all sorts. Fuel and raw materials are largely unprocurable in the places where they are most needed. In normal times needs for credit were great, and interest rates high. Now normal supplies of credit are generally missing, and the necessities for credit are multiplied. Both farms and city need all types of banking and means for transfer of money and credit. The need for security cannot be over emphasized. In many places, over a period of months, normal labor and normal family life have been continually disturbed by violence; while transport and credit and the incentive for productive effort, alike on the farm and in the shop, have been hamstrung by insecurity. The farmers and the city workers have done splendidly in helping themselves under adverse conditions, but further progress is dependent upon adequate safety for communications; protection of persons and private property against soldiers, bandits, and robbers of all types; and in particular, safe facilities for banks and for stocks of commodities. If political and military conditions do not provide better security, misery will continue and may increase. Insecurity and misery have bred a large part of the present insecurity; and the vicious circle will not easily be broken without unified, vigorous, and enlightened government. The comparison of the effects of the war upon the farms and upon the city suggests that in the Nanking region more of the cultivators will pull through ― 26 ― without planned aid, than will artisans and shopkeepers and peddlers. Even in the city, however, tribute must be paid to a population, that could endure the experiences of December to March as the climax of a war period, and still have only 35 per cent securing food in part by relief whether through kitchens or through cash. There has been an upturn since March, but reserves are now lower. Furthermore, material resources, excepting for agricultural products, are continually being consumed without chance of replacement. Deterioration is also taking its toll daily. Further economic trouble would bring a sharp worsening. But administrators of public welfare in the United States or in some other countries may well marvel at the endurance and self-reliance of the plain Chinese people. The price, however, in health and in all opportunities of life has been heavy, and ought not to be further exacted. It has been demonstrated that refugee camps are no longer needed as a major method of relief in Nanking. There are sufficient looted and damaged houses to shelter the present reduced population. Relief can best proceed through homes and personal services, supplying food, medical care, employment, credit, aid in reuniting separated families, to such degrees as ability, intent, and resources permit. Communal cooking may, however, become necessary if fuel stocks are not made available to the public. Every possible encouragement should be given to the restoration and development of municipal services police, sanitation, light, water, public works. If only some system of garbage disposal could be instituted, health conditions would improve. A police force with some authority could rapidly check the nightly depredations on property and persons. Finally, reports of losses and of needs are necessarily in terms of totals and averages. It must never be forgotten that many persons, families, villages or city streets, have suffered far more grievously than statistics or generalizations show. The reckoning for the whole community will gain from the corresponding items on the better side of the average; but that by no means brings an automatic compensation to those in the worse position. Relief efforts must look to the actual persons in greatest need, not merely to mathematical reports. ― 27 ― IV. APPENDICES APPENDIX A Further Notes on Organization and Method 1. Field Procedure. The technique of random sampling was followed instead of trying to locate "average villages" as done by Professor J. L. Buck in his surveys, because the difficulties existing in the situation made it improbable that investigators could go over the ground twice. Furthermore, it was not possible to put into the field a large group of trained observers such as worked in the war survey of rural areas around Shanghai in 1932. Lacking these opportunities and realizing how patchy war damage was in 1932, it was thought that a random sample selected at regular intervals would be less likely to misrepresent than would a hasty selection of "average villages." Furthermore, there is something to be said in principle for such random sampling by regular intervals as usually less subjective than the attempt to select "representative cases." The one instance in which this method seems to have failed is the average size of farm in Kiangpu Hsien and the resulting excess of total cultivated area. (See Table 17). The procedure was more successful than at first expected. However, the investigators in Luho Hsien were stopped by the Chinese authorities in control of the northern part of the hsien, and were held as spies until a letter from the Committee was sent to them. The same difficulty occurred in Kaoshun Hsien so early in the field work that that hsien had to be dropped from the results. Only the southern half of Luho is included in the reports. In Lishui Hsien the Chinese authorities in control sent a guard with the investigators; and the guard compelled the investigators to go to villages which they selected and to families in the villages selected by the village head. Consequently, their sample tended to come from the worse areas. In the western part of Kiangning Hsien the investigators let local expediency interfere with selecting every tenth family. A careful check on sampling village by village revealed errors both ways or so haphazard that any attempt at correcting for them by weighting would be just as likely to increase the error as to reduce it. So no correction was attempted. The men in Kuyung, Kiangpu, and Luho followed their sampling instructions very systematically. At the start of the building investigation in the City Survey, it was only intended to cover the main streets. But it was found difficult to fit together the family and building investigations, because the families remaining in the city were only one-fourth and the poorer part of the original population. Consequently, in order to get an estimate of total damage, the building survey was extended to every building in the city. If this had been expected at the beginning a smaller sample than one in ten would have been taken for estimating ― 28 ― value of loss, with consequent greater speed in securing results, but possible sacrifice of accuracy. 2. Statistical Procedure, The adequacy of the sample in the Agricultural Survey, with 1 family in 206, is midway between the 1 to 359 families in the 1931 flood survey and the 1 to 79 in the survey of the rural areas affected by the Shanghai hostilities (1932). However, the ratio was much lower in Kiangning Hsien (1 398) and relatively high in Lishui Hsien (1 140). (See Table 17). 3. Checks on Accuracy. (1) Previous surveys were available in the form of The 1931 Flood in China, and the "Survey of the Rural Areas affected by the Shanghai Hostilities (1932)" as well as Buck s Land Utilization in China. For instance if the hsien average for rice seed needed as reported in the 1931 flood survey (Table 17) were applied to the 4.5 hsien in the present study, it would yield a figure of 211,000 shih tan needed. The result herein (Table 22) is only 125,200 shih tan. The average loss per family, $220, is not too much greater than the loss of $147 per family in the Shanghai hostilities in 1932 when the more prolonged destruction in this area is taken into consideration. The comparisons are made under each item of loss of damage. The Land Utilization in China was useful in comparing reported losses with actual farm inventory in normal times. (2)Independent figures have been secured wherever possible Independent estimates of the total cultivated area involved were used to check farming area covered. (See Table 17). For the current Nanking city population there are the number of persons registered by the Japanese in December and January, and the registration totals given by the new City Government for May 3lst, 1938. No independent count or valuation of buildings in Nanking has been obtainable. Comparison of family losses in the city with losses reported to relief investigators, was not possible on all items because their information was much more sketchy and for buildings they failed to secure values of losses in the majority of cases. But on the items of bedding, clothing and money, they reported an average loss of $162.83 per family helped in March (9,256 families). Our figure of $124.96 for family loss of the same items is conservative, even allowing for the fact that the above were "relief families"―though 20 per cent of all families in the city! For comparison with normal conditions of the Nanking population representing the areas and classes that remained, the study of 2,027 families by Smythe in 1932 was the only work available. It made possible, however, some estimate of deviation from "normal." A further independent check in the city survey was that the group doing the study had lived through the situation and at every point could critically examine every survey result to see whether it agreed with known circumstances. (But in no case were survey results altered). The most striking agreement was the low percentage of damage caused by military operations which fact was readily observed by many on December 14th. Conversely, the extent and method of the burning and looting could only be understood by eyewitnesses. The survey more accurately measures the extent and value of the damage done. ― 29 ― (3) Internal consistency and moderation in both the Agricultural and City Surveys support the general conclusions and most points in detail. Such internal checks have been applied all through the report so only a few instances need be cited here. In the Agricultural Survey the variation in hsien results are within the reasonable expectation of what is known of local conditions. Except for crops destroyed (a small factor in the total), the order of loss by haien shows a fair degree of correlation between items. In the City Survey the average loss per family as shown by the family Investigation agrees very well with that shown by the building investigation when allowance is made for the fact that the poorer section of the population remained (though by no means limited to the very poor). (Compare Tables 3 and 27.) The sex and age distribution of the killed and taken away agrees with the decline of proportion of young males as compared with figures for the 1932 population. The family composition analysis shows a proportion of broken families similar to what one would expect in view of the number of persons migrating, killed and taken away. Compare Tables 2, 3, and 5.) For instances of moderation, the prices used in estimating agricultural losses are actual current prices which were below average; stored grain losses of 5.9 shih tan, while about the same as in the case of the 1931 flood and the 1932 Shanghai hostilities, are low considering the time of year and the fact that the troop movements and military occupation in this area followed two large rice harvests. Furthermore, this year s rice crop had little chance to move before the critical period. The city losses are moderate. $271 would only build a very modest house (and a high per cent of families remaining owned their houses); $291 worth of movables, for economic uses is quite within range of the small trade group remaining; as is also the figure of $276 for domestic movables. The total property loss of $838 per family is only equal to two year s income previous to hostilities. The item on which exaggeration could have been most expected, in view of the extent of military looting that had taken place, was money. Yet that is only $9.53 per family―less than what every family not on relief must have paid monthly for rice in order to survive. (See Table 9.) APPENDIX B. Migration op Whole Families Its Possible Influence on Reports op Resident Population, Migration, Losses, Labor Supply, Deaths. As a supplement to the survey of farm families, investigators were asked to make careful inquiries from at least three leading men in every third village on the survey route, as to their estimate for their own village people on the same points included in the farm family survey.1 This method was employed in the Flood Survey of 1931, and more widely in the Land Utilization Survey under Dr. Buck s direction. In March, 224 villages were reported in this manner, an average of 50 per hsien (4.5 hsien). This body of data confirmed the general picture of the farm survey, but varied irregularly in specific results. ____________________________________________________________________ 1. All farmers in Ningshu live in villages; farm families and village families are equivalent terms. ― 30 ― even within itself. Since the data consisted only of estimates on behalf of a community, they are of less value than the more precise individual report of each farm family secured on the spot. We have therefore not employed the village data in our general listing and reports. But on one point the village data throw light secured in no other way. They give an estimate of the number of whole families which migrated and had not returned; while the farm purvey could touch only those whole families or parts of families actually found in the farm villages. Thus they indicate a possible supplement or correction to our farm survey figures on estimate of population, migration, losses, labor supply, and death rate. We do not feel that our detailed figures from village estimates justify printing, but the best inference we can make from them is that only 70 per cent of the original families were actually present in March. Comparison of this with the individual farmers reports that 11 per cent of their family members were absent, suggests that migration under war conditions was usually by whole families, a result confirmed by the city survey and most remarkably by the practical coincidence of reports from the 1931 flood.1 It is possible that some of the supposed 30 per cent of migrant families still remained within the hsiens studied, but in remote hilly sections not adequately reached by investigators, though the samples obtained covered the ground fairly well. It seems justifiable to assume that the estimates of losses for the area studied need not be modified by consideration of the family migration, for they are calculated upon the average loss per family studied, times the original number of families. Common observation in city and country alike is that absent families suffered in general more grievous losses than those watchful on the spot; whether by burning or by looting. This disparity was offset only in part by the sometimes successful removal of animals and a limited amount of portable property along with the migrating family; and moreover, most of the losses here recorded were of possessions not easily moved in practice. If the figures of 30 per cent could be relied upon, it would in Table 23 increase the number of people left and not returned to a total of 496,590 (41 per cent of the estimated total original population of 1,211,200) ; and would increase the actual shortage of laborers enormously (62,000 families with an apparent average of 2.8 laborers in each, removing a figure of 173,600 laborers from the 447,400 mentioned in the Table as present in March); but would increase the expected shortage of laborers by a lesser figure, unknown because there is no report of intention to return. The figures for deaths (Table 25) are all in terms of rates for families reporting, and therefore are not subject to change unless we assume that the presumed 30 per cent of families suffered an incidence of death greater or less than did the resident majority. Probably some families who migrated early and to a considerable distance or to the relatively safer portions of Nanking, fared better than the rest. On the other hand, the reason why some families migrated and did not return was simply because they or their accompanying neighbors had already experienced military murder and wounding and burning. ____________________________________________________________________ 1. "Forty per cent of all people had to leave their homes, thirty-one per cent as families and nine per cent as individuals." The 1931 Flood in China, p, 27. ― 31 ―
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Top Script 作者不詳のInduction（催眠誘導）—Hand Shake Method（握手法） Hand Shake Method 握手法 Instructions to hypnotist 催眠家への指示 The following hypnotic induction utilizes all three of the learning modes. The subject will be responding through hearing, seeing, and feelings. Begin with the subject sitting in a comfortable chair. 下記の催眠誘導は、３つの学習モードすべてを利用する。被催眠者は、聞くこと、見ること、感じることを通して反応するだろう。被催眠者を座り心地のよい椅子に座らせて始めること。 Spoken to subject 被催眠者へのことば Would you like to experience the state of hypnosis? (After a yes response, have the subject extend his or her arm to you as though you were going to be shaking hands) 催眠状態を体験したいですか？（イエスの反応の後、あなた（催眠者）に向かって被催眠者に腕をのばさせる。まるでこれから握手でもしようというように） (Take the subjects hand with your right hand while making sure the subjects arm is straight) （被催眠者の手を右手で取り、被催眠者の腕がまっすぐ伸びていることを確認する） I would like you to look at me for just a moment. As you focus your eyes on me, and listen to my voice, I would like you to allow things to take place. しばらくの間、私を見てほしいと思います。あなたの目の焦点が私に合い、私の声に耳をすますと、いろんなことが起きるのをあなたに許してほしいと思います。 (Slowly begin raising and lowering the subjects arm. The up and down movement of the arm should be about three inches each way) （ゆっくり被催眠者の腕を上げ下げし始めよう。腕の上下の動きは、それぞれ３インチ（７〜８センチ）ぐらいがいい）。 As I raise and lower your arm, I wonder if you have noticed yet that there is a drowsy, heavy feeling beginning to occur in and around your eyes. 私があなたの腕を上げたり下ろしたりしていると、眠気と重い感じがあなたの目やそのまわりに生じはじめてることに、あなたはもう気付いているのだろうかと思います。 Each time I raise your arm upward, that heavy feeling in those eyes will keep becoming stronger. あなたの腕を上げる度に、目の重たい感じがどんどん強くなっていきます。 As the eyes begin to close down, it becomes increasingly more desirable to allow them to remain closed. 目が閉じ始めると、目を閉じたままにしておきたい気持ちが、どんどん大きくなっていきます。 They are closing down all the way now. Let it happen. Want it to happen. Feel it happening now. もう目はすっかり閉じようとしています。目がそうなるのにまかせましょう。そうなるまで待ってください。そう、今、目が閉じようしていることを感じてください。 (Make a special note to when the eyes begin to blink or start to close. This will be a signal to reinforce the feeling by raising the arm higher into the air. The subject will quickly associate the raising of the arm with closing of the eyes) （目が瞬きを始めたり、閉じ始めたりするのがいつか、特に注意を払うこと。それが、腕を宙に上げることで生まれる感覚を強化すべきタイミングを示すシグナルである。被催眠者はすばやく腕があがることと目が閉じることを結びつけるだろう）
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【Tags Luka S tL tT Kurousa-P】 Original Music title 最後の女王 English music title The Last Queen Romaji music title Saigo no Joou Music Lyrics written, Voice edited by 黒うさP (Kurousa-P) Music arranged by 黒うさP (Kurousa-P) Singer 巡音ルカ (Megurine Luka) Click here for the original Japanese Lyrics English Lyrics (translated by motokokusanagi2009)： I give you the end of the world, nameless songs and endless dreams I am the Queen of Ashes At the moment of the beginning In the sea of negatron Awaken me with your chilly hands Neither words nor feelings I know None of pretty dresses satisfy me In the eternal time The door has been just opened I flare magnificently, burn immediately I shall show you everything in me I give you the end of the world, nameless songs and endless dreams I am the Queen of Ashes If my eyes were closed, the future is brilliant In this frigid body lies a secret love for you You are gallant When the immoral sky falls The light will one day shine I flare glamorously, soar unsteadily What color shall affect me? Everything cruises, sounds reverberate I, Queen of Ashes, dedicate music floating through me to you I flare magnificently, burn immediately I shall show you everything in me The end of the world, nameless songs Take you to the endless dream I flare glamorously, soar unsteadily What color shall affect me? Everything cruises, sounds reverberate I, Queen of Ashes, dedicate music floating through me to you Romaji lyrics (transliterated by motokokusanagi2009)： sekai no hate o na mo naki uta o owara nai yume o anata ni todokeru hai no joō hajime no shunkan denshi no umi kara tsumetai sono te de watashi o okoshite kotoba wa shiranai omoi mo shiranai kirei na dress ja manzoku deki nai eien no toki no naka de ima door o hiraita azayaka ni moe kogashi matataku watashi no subete o misete age mashō sekai no hate o na mo naki uta o owaranai yume o anata ni todokeru hai no joō hitomi o tojireba mirai wa kagayaki rin to shita sugata ni hisoka na renjō haitoku no sora wa ochite itsuka hikari ga sasu hanayaka ni moe yuragi habataku watashi wa donna iro ni somaru deshō subete wa meguri hibiki au oto nagare dasu uta o anata ni sasageru hai no joō azayaka ni moe kogashi matataku watashi no subete o misete age mashō sekai no hate o na mo naki uta o owaranai yume no naka e... hanayaka ni moe yuragi habataku watashi wa donna iro ni somaru deshō subete wa meguri hibiki au oto nagare dasu uta o anata ni sasageru hai no joō [KurousaP, whiteflame, Kurousa-P]
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1. E. coli protein purification*大見出し I have several cDNA vectors for E.coli purification. 1. pQE vector (His tag) 2. pRSET vector (His tag) 3. pGEX vector (GST fusion protein) experiment procedure What I need to prepare 1. colums 2. complete, EDTA free (Roche) 3. PBS 4. 10 mM, 20 mM, 50 mM, 200 mM and 1 M Imidazole PBS buffer or 20 mM glutathione. GST-fusion protein Application note from GE healthcare GST fusion About His tag, what is the column name? About cell culturing 0. Shake E.coli of interest overnight and make saturation. 1. put 2.5 ml E.coli in 250 ml LB (100 times dilution) and 3-4 hour shaking @37C. It s OD value should be 0.6-0.8. 2. Add 1mM IPTG and shake 4 hour. 3. collect E.coli 4. Break E.coli with sonicator. 5. Spindown debris and pich up supernetant. 6. Add Ni++ beads or Glutathione beads and rotate 2 hour @4C. 7. 2. Insect cell protein purification Fisrt, this method is gonna be introduced in the case we cannot express the proteins of interest with E. coli. Actually I struggled out to find out the way to express and purify the fusion protein of EYFP and C1ABgamma with E.coli. This protein seems to express with proper molecular weight when I check with SDS-page, but no fluorescence. So that is why I used insect cell system. This simple protocol is based on Bac-to-Bac Baculovirus expression system from invitrogen and from some tricks Karam told me. First thing we need to do is that cDNA of interest is gonna be cloned in the FastBac vector, whose promotor is the Autographa californica multiple nuclear polyhedrosis virus promotor(AcMNPV 蛾核多角体病ウイルスのポリヘドリンプロモーター). This expression cassette is flanked by the left and right arms of Tn7. Tn7 is transposon, which moves freely and insert some place at random. Tn7 in this system workd as something by which the gene of interest is transfered from FastBac vector to baculovirus shuttle vector (bacmid), which is in DH10Bac cells. DH10Bac cells include baculovirus shuttle vector and a helper plasmid. easy flowchart 1. prepare insert-containing FastBac vector. 2. transformation of this vector into bacmid in DH10alpha. 3. check whethere insert inserts into bacmid correctly by PCR. 4. transfection of bacmid into insect cells. 5. prepare P1 virus from supernetant of insect cells. 6. prepare P2 virus from supernetant of insect cells. 7. protein purification from insect cells. Yoshi, this is the protocol. Expression test (24-well) The expression test is for the check of which P1 stock has maximum ability to express your protein. 1. Cells are growing in SF-900 II SFM with 5% FBS in suspension culture (log phase, ~1.0 x 106 cells/ml), with greater than 95% viability. 2. Seed 6 x 105 cells per well in a 24-well plate. Let cells attach for 30 minutes. 3. Remove the media and rinse the cells with fresh growth media (SF-900 II SFM with 5% FBS). Replace with 500 ul of fresh media. 4. Add 200 ul of P1 stock and incubate cells in the incubator. 5. Harvest cells at 48 hrs post-infection. Remove the media and rinse the cells with serum-free medium. 6. Lyse the cells with 100 ul of 1x SDS-PAGE buffer. Analyze protein expression. Amplifying Viral Stock (P2 stock, 6-well plate) 1. Cells are growing in SF-900 II SFM with 5% FBS in suspension culture (log phase, 1.0~2.0 x 106 cells/ml), with greater than 95% viability. 2. Prepare 50 ml of 0.5 x 106 cells/ml suspension SF9 cells, and incubate it at 27oC for 1 day. 3. Add 500 #61549;l of P1 viral stock, and incubate it at 27oC for 4 to 5 days. 4. Collect the sup, and store it as P2 viral stock at 4oC. Titer is generally 1 x 107 ~ 1 x 108 pfu/ml. Expression test 2 1. Prepare three 50 ml culture SF9 cells, and incubate for 1 day. The concentrations of these cells are 0.8 x 106 cells/ml. 2. Add variable amounts of P2 stocks to each bottle. Usually, we add 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 ml of P2 stocks in each bottle. 3. You can harvest cells at 48 hours after infection. Use 1ml of cells for expression check (WB). Collect remaining cells, and rapidly freeze them with liquid N2. Store it at -80 oC. If expression level of your protein is good, you could use it for purification. Real Infection 1. A day before infection, cell concentration is 0.8 x 106 cells/ml (100~500 ml). 2. Add appropriate amounts of P2 stock to cells, and incubate it for 3 days at 27oC. 3. Harvest cells. 1.At first, check insect cells that these have fluorescence. 2.Spine down these cells with 3000g for 5 min. 3.Suspend these cells in 10 ml 10 mM imidazole PBS(-) containing inhibitor cocktail. 4.Break cells with sonication, amplitude 3, 30 sec, 3 times. 5.Spine down these debris wit 15000g for 10 min. 6.Add Mi++-NTA beads into 10 ml solution. 7.incubation and rotate for 2 hours. 8.Put these solution on the coloum(poly-prep chromatography columns 731-1550 columns, 0.8*4cm Bio-lad) 9.Wash these gel with 1 ml 20 mM imidazole buffer 10.Wash these gel with 1 ml 50 mM imidazole buffer 11.Elute solution with 200mM imidazole 1ml. 12. complete! How long does it takes for getting protein of interest? In my impression, at least one month for beginner. How do we keep stock virus solution?
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dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_ask_exchange_fiefs|Would you like to exchange fiefs? dlga_lord_ask_exchange_fiefs lord_select_his_fief|It depends. Which one of my fiefs would you like to have? dlga_lord_select_his_fief lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_select_his_fief lord_respond_exchange_fiefs_his_fief|{s13} dlga_lord_respond_exchange_fiefs_his_fief lord_select_my_fief|So, {s13} it is. Interesting. But what fief will you give me in exchange? dlga_lord_select_my_fief lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_select_my_fief lord_respond_exchange_fiefs_my_fief|{s12} dlga_lord_respond_exchange_fiefs_my_fief lord_agree_or_not_to_fief_exchange|Hmm. This suggestion of yours is not exactly beneficial for me. However, I will agree to this as a sign of my good will, but only if you pay me {reg26} denars to at least partially compensate for my losses. dlga_lord_respond_exchange_fiefs_my_fief lord_agree_or_not_to_fief_exchange.1|All right, {playername}. Your suggestion sounds reasonable enough. So, is this a deal? dlga_lord_respond_exchange_fiefs_my_fief lord_agree_or_not_to_fief_exchange.2|What a splendid proposal, {playername}! {s11} dlga_lord_agree_or_not_to_fief_exchange lord_confirm_exchange_fiefs|Deal! dlga_lord_agree_or_not_to_fief_exchange lord_pretalk|Actually, never mind. dlga_lord_confirm_exchange_fiefs lord_pretalk|Excellent! Then, as agreed, I am giving you {s13}, and you are giving me {s12}. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_marriage_permission|{s19} dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_pretalk|Great heaven, man -- if I haven't given you permission to see her, do you think I'm going to give you permission to marry her? dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_pretalk.1|It is not my way to push my {s11} to marry against her will or her better judgment dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_pretalk.2|Sorry, lad -- I'm not going to make my {s11} marry you, when I'd rather see her married to {s12} dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_marriage_permission_endowment|Splendid news, my young man -- I shall be proud to have you in our family. Now, let us talk the terms of the marriage. As per our custom, the two of us must make sure that {s11} has sufficient finances to support herself, in the event of any unforeseen circumstances... dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer|I would say that, taking into consideration the prestige of our two houses, that you can provide a dower of {reg3} denars, while I will supply a dowry of {reg4} denars. This shall be her ladyship's property, as a security, lest for any reason you are unable to provide for her. What say you to that? dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date|Very well -- so let it be. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_delay|I cannot afford that right now. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_no|That is too much to pay. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_no close_window|Well. I cannot in all decency allow my daughter to marry without some security, can I? Let me know if you change your mind. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date close_window|Splendid! You two may now consider yourselves offically betrothed. Very well -- I shall plan to hold a great feast in {s24}, as soon as circumstances permit. We will be sure to notify you when the day comes. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date close_window.1|Unfortunately, there is one final complication -- there is no safe place to hold the wedding. Let us hold off on finalizing this, for the time being. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_delay lord_pretalk|No matter -- take the time you need to raise the money. I want her ladyship to be well looked after. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_delay lord_pretalk.1|That is a shame, but I would be remiss in my duty if I allowed her ladyship to face an uncertain future. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_courtship_permission|{s10} I have the honor of visiting with {s14}{s12}? dlga_lord_courtship_permission lord_pretalk|From what I hear, you have already spoken to her -- without my permission. Let me tell you this I am her lord and guardian, and I have plans for her. I will not be mocked behind my back as a man who cannot control the women of his household. I would ask you not to discuss this matter with me again. dlga_lord_courtship_permission lord_pretalk.1|{s14} dlga_lord_courtship_permission lord_pretalk.2|{s12} dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_marriage_1|What would it take to cement a lasting alliance with your house? dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_change_culture|I want you to train your soldiers according to the customs of my kingdom. dlga_lord_change_culture lord_pretalk|I am sorry, my {reg63?King Queen}, I simply cannot train inferior soldiers. dlga_lord_change_culture lord_change_culture_1|Are you sure, my {reg63?King Queen}? dlga_lord_change_culture_1 lord_change_culture_2|Yes, obey my order. dlga_lord_change_culture_1 lord_change_culture_2_no| Wait! Diversity in our forces may be beneficial to my new strategy. dlga_lord_change_culture_2_no lord_talk_ask_something_2|As you wish, my {reg63?King Queen}. dlga_lord_change_culture_2 lord_talk_ask_something_2|As you wish, my {reg63?King Queen}, though it pains me to abandon the ways of my forefathers. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location lord_talk_ask_location_2|Very well, I may or may not have an answer for you. About whom do you wish to hear? dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_2 lord_talk_ask_location_3|{s1} dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_2 lady_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_3 lady_pretalk|{s1} dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_3 lord_pretalk|{s1} dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war lord_talk_ask_about_war_2|{s12} dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war_2 lord_talk_ask_about_war_details|Tell me more about the war with {s1}. dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war_2 lord_pretalk|That's all I wanted to know. Thank you. dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war_details lord_talk_ask_about_war_2|{s9}. dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_strategy lord_strategy_follow_evaluation|{s7} {s9} {s14} dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_talk_ask_something_2|Did you have any other questions? dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up|Our leader {s4} is far too cautious. {reg4?She He} should either use the army to attack the enemy, or let it go home. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.1|Our army sits, doing nothing. Apparently, too few vassals have answered the call to arms. Perhaps {s4} does not enjoy the confidence of the great lords of this realm. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.2|I disagree with this strategy. I would prefer to {s4}. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.3|I personally would prefer to attack {s8}, but our marshal {s10} believes that it {s9} dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.4|I personally would prefer to defend {s8}, instead of {s9}. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_talk|Is there anything else? dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.5|This strategy seems reasonable to me. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_up lord_strategy_why_not|If you're attacking, why aren't you... dlga_lord_strategy_follow_up lord_talk_ask_something_again|I see.... dlga_lord_strategy_follow_up lord_talk_replace_marshal|Would you say, then, that {s4} should no longer be marshal? dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_ask_something_again|I believe that our realm should resolve the issue of {s4} before we begin to debate replacing the marshal. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_ask_something_again.1|Yes. I have already made my position on this matter clear. I believe that {s4} should be marshal instead of {s5}. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_ask_something_again.2|I will make up my mind on this matter without your persuasion, {reg63?sir my lady}. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_replace_marshal_decision|Hmm... dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal_decision lord_talk_ask_something_again|Yes, I would say that. At this point, I would be tempted to say that I support {s15} instead. I am glad that you and I had this discussion, so that I know that we are of the same mind on this matter. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal_decision lord_talk_ask_something_again.1|Not necessarily. It is possible for {s4} and I have to have an honest disagreement over strategy, without my seeking to replace him. dlga_lord_strategy_why_not lord_strategy_why_not_select|Yes? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_talk_ask_something_again|Never mind. dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_strategy_why_not_reason|..planning to continue with the attack on {s4}? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_strategy_why_not_reason.1|..defending {s4}? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_strategy_why_not_reason.2|..attacking {s4}? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_reason lord_talk_why_not_repeat|{s9} dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_reason lord_talk_why_not_repeat.1|Our marshal {s11} believes that {s8} {s9}{s10} dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_reason lord_talk_why_not_repeat.2|We could go there. {s7} However, {s5} {s3} {s4}. {s6} {s8}. dlga_lord_talk_why_not_repeat lord_strategy_why_not_select|Did you have any similar questions? Why we are not... dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_pretalk|You will not take offense if I tell you that, as a king, I have other plans for my children. dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_pretalk.1|It is our custom to seal any such alliances with marriage. Unfortunately, no one in my household is eligible to wed. dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_courtship_pre_permission|{s15} dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm|Are you proposing that you and I marry? dlga_lord_courtship_pre_permission lord_courtship_permission|May I {s15}suggest that I be considered as a groom? dlga_lord_courtship_pre_permission lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date|CHEAT -- Start engagement dlga_lord_courtship_pre_permission lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_reax|Yes. That is my proposal. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm lord_pretalk|No, I think you have misunderstood me. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_reax lord_pretalk|{s14} dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_reax lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step|{s14} dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_4|I suppose the next step would be for me to send a message to your family, asking for their permission to marry you, but I suppose that you make your own decisions. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_4 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_5|You assume correctly. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_5 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement|Very well, then. As there are no obstacles to our marriage, should we then consider ourselves engaged to be wed? I will organize a great feast, and we can exchange our vows before all the lords of the realm. If you are willing, that is... dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_yes|I am willing. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_no|Actually, I would like to reconsider. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_yes close_window|Very well. Hopefully, a little over a month from now, we shall be wed.{s12} dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_no close_window|Take whatever time you need, my lady. dlga_lord_talk party_encounter_lord_hostile_ultimatum_surrender|I say this only once, {s4}! Surrender or die! dlga_party_encounter_lord_hostile_ultimatum_surrender close_window|{s43} dlga_lord_talk lord_predemand|I'm here to deliver you my demands! dlga_lord_predemand lord_demand|Eh? What do you want? dlga_lord_demand lord_ultimatum_surrender|I offer you one chance to surrender or die. dlga_lord_ultimatum_surrender lord_attack_verify|{s43} dlga_lord_attack_verify lord_attack_verify_commit|That is none of your business. Prepare to fight! dlga_lord_attack_verify lord_attack_verify_cancel|Forgive me sir. I don't know what I was thinking. dlga_lord_attack_verify_cancel close_window|Be gone, then. dlga_lord_ultimatum_surrender lord_attack_verify_b|{s43} dlga_lord_attack_verify_b lord_attack_verify_cancel|Forgive me sir. I don't know what I was thinking. dlga_lord_attack_verify_b lord_attack_verify_commit|I stand my ground. Prepare to fight! dlga_lord_attack_verify_commit close_window|{s43} dlga_lord_demand lord_pretalk|Forgive me. It's nothing. dlga_lord_talk liege_defends_claim_1|I have met in my travels one who calls {reg3?herself himself} {s45}... dlga_liege_defends_claim_1 liege_defends_claim_2|Oh really? It is not everyone who dares mention that name in my presence. I am not sure whether to reward your bravery, or punish you for your impudence. dlga_liege_defends_claim_2 liege_defends_claim_3|Very well. I will indulge your curiosity. But listen closely, because I do not wish to speak of this matter again. dlga_liege_defends_claim_3 liege_defends_claim_4|{s48} dlga_liege_defends_claim_4 lord_talk|{s48} dlga_lord_talk lord_prison_break_chains|I've come to break you out of here. dlga_lord_prison_break_chains close_window|Thank the heavens you came! However, I'm not going anywhere with these chains on my legs. You'll need to get the key away from the guard somehow. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk|What am I doing? What does it look like I'm doing?! I'm a prisoner here! dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.1|I am not commanding any men at the moment. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.2|We are resting at {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.3|We are travelling to {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective_2 lord_pretalk|I am heading to the vicinity of {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.4|We are recruiting new soldiers from {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.5|We are scouting for the enemy around {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.6|We are laying waste to the village of {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.7|We are retreating to {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.8|We are besieging {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.9|We are fighting against {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.10|I am screening {s1}'s advance. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.11|We are accompanying {s1}. {s14}{s15} dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_talk_ask_about_strategy|I am leading the army of the realm. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.12|We are reconsidering our next objective. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.13|I don't know {reg1} {s1} (ERROR) dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_follow|Will you follow me? I have a plan. dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window|I enjoy your company, {playername}, but there are other things I must attend to. Perhaps in a few days I can ride with you again. dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window.1|That would hardly be proper, {playername}. Why don't you follow me instead? dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window.2|{s43} dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window.3|Lead the way, {playername}! Let us bring death and defeat to all our enemies. dlga_lord_talk_preoffer lord_talk_offer|Yes? dlga_lord_talk_offer knight_offer_join|I wish to ransom one of your prisoners. dlga_lord_talk_offer lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_knight_offer_join hero_pretalk|I fear I cannot join you at the moment, {playername}, I've important business to attend to and it cannot wait. dlga_knight_offer_join hero_pretalk.1|You forget your place, {reg63?sir madam}. I do not take orders from the likes of you. dlga_knight_offer_join knight_offer_join_2|I would be glad to fight at your side, my friend, but there is a problem... The thing is, I've found myself in a bit of debt that I must repay very soon. {reg6} denars altogether, and I am honor-bound to return every coin. Unless you've got {reg6} denars with you that you can spare, I've to keep my mind on getting this weight off my neck. dlga_knight_offer_join close_window|Join you? I think not. dlga_knight_offer_join knight_offer_join_2.1|Aye, my friend, I'll be happy to join you. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 knight_offer_join_accept|Here, take it, all {reg6} denars you need. 'Tis only money. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 knight_offer_join_accept.1|Then let us ride together, my friend. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 close_window|That's good to know. I will think on it. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 hero_pretalk|That's good to know. I will think on it. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept knight_offer_join_accept_party|I've some trusted men in my band who could be of use to you. What do you wish to do with them? dlga_knight_offer_join_accept close_window|Ah, certainly, it might be fun! dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_disband|You may disband your men. I've no need for other troops. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_join|Your men may join as well. We need every soldier we can muster. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_lead_out|Lead your men out of the town. I shall catch up with you on the road. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_lead_out.1|Keep doing what you were doing. I'll catch up with you later. dlga_knight_join_party_disband close_window|Ah... Very well, {playername}. Much as I dislike losing good men, the decision is yours. I'll disband my troops and join you. dlga_knight_join_party_join close_window|Excellent. My lads and I will ride with you. dlga_knight_join_party_lead_out close_window|Very well then. I shall maintain a patrol of this area. Return if you have further orders for me. dlga_lord_enter_service_reject close_window|Indeed.... Did you offer vassalage, then, just to buy time? Very well -- you shall have time to reconsider, but if you are toying with me, it will do your reputation no credit. dlga_lord_give_oath_give_up close_window|Indeed.... Did you offer vassalage, then, just to buy time? Very well -- you shall have time to reconsider, but if you are toying with me, it will do your reputation no credit. dlga_lord_enter_service_reject close_window.1|What pigswill! And to think I would offer you a place among my nobles. Begone, beggar, before I lose my temper! dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_give_oath_under_oath_already|You are already oath-bound to serve {s5}, are you not? dlga_lord_give_oath_under_oath_already lord_pretalk|Indeed I am, {s65}. Forgive my rambling. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_pretalk|{s1} dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_ask_enter_service_female_2|My lady, you seem to have the makings of a good war leader. For a woman to show such skill is an uncommon thing in Pendor, but not completely without precedent. Noblewomen have often taken command of armies after their husbands or fathers were slain or captured, for example. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_2 lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|However, I have never heard of a king who granted a fief to a woman, no matter how valorous, simply because he needed an extra vassal. Were I to do such a thing, I would raise eyebrows across Pendor. Men would say that I was besotted or bewitched, or that I aimed to overturn the natural order of things. As much as I regret it, I cannot afford to grant you a fief. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_capture|What if I were to take one of your enemy's castles by force? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_marriage|What if I were to marry one of your lords? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_competitor|Perhaps one of your competitors will prove to be more open-minded. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service|I would be willing to fight for you, even without the fief. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_marriage lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|Well, I still would not be willing to grant you any fiefs. However, you would no doubt have the use of your husband's properties, which would allow you to act as one of my vassals in all but name. Did you have an other questions? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_competitor lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|Oh, perhaps you might find someone who was truly desperate -- but then, I would think, they would not have many fiefs to bestow. Did you have an other questions? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_capture lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|Well, in that case, depending on the circumstances, I might be inclined to let you keep it. Did you have an other questions? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_give_oath_1|You are known as a brave {reg63?man-at-arms warrior} and a fine leader of men, {playername}. I shall be pleased to accept your sword into my service and bestow vassalage upon you, if you are ready to swear homage to me. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_pretalk.1|You've yet to show yourself as a competent commander, {playername}. Take your sword to my enemies and prove to me that you are worthy of becoming my vassal. Then we may speak more of this. dlga_lord_give_oath_1 lord_give_oath_2|I am ready, {s65}. dlga_lord_give_oath_1 lord_give_oath_give_up|Forgive me, {s65}, I must give the matter more thought first... dlga_lord_give_oath_give_up lord_pretalk|Take whatever time you need, my lady. dlga_lord_give_oath_give_up close_window.1|What are you playing at, {playername}? Go and make up your mind, and stop wasting my time. dlga_lord_give_oath_2 lord_give_oath_3|Good. Then repeat the words of the oath with me I swear homage to you as lawful ruler of the {s41}. dlga_lord_give_oath_3 lord_give_oath_4|I pledge homage to you as lawful ruler of the {s41}. dlga_lord_give_oath_3 lord_give_oath_give_up|Excuse me, {reg65?my lady sir}. But I feel I need to think about this. dlga_lord_give_oath_4 lord_give_oath_5|I will remain as your loyal and devoted {reg63?man follower} as long as my breath remains.... dlga_lord_give_oath_5 lord_give_oath_6|I will remain as your loyal and devoted {reg63?man follower} as long as my breath remains... dlga_lord_give_oath_5 lord_give_oath_give_up|{reg65?My lady Sir}, may I ask for some time to think about this? dlga_lord_give_oath_6 lord_give_oath_7|...and I will be at your side to fight your enemies should you need my sword. dlga_lord_give_oath_7 lord_give_oath_8|...and I will be at your side to fight your enemies should you need my sword. dlga_lord_give_oath_7 lord_give_oath_give_up|{reg65?My lady My lord}, please give me more time to think about this. dlga_lord_give_oath_8 lord_give_oath_9|Finally, I will uphold your lawful claims and those of your legitimate heirs. dlga_lord_give_oath_9 lord_give_oath_10|Finally, I will uphold your lawful claims and those of your legitimate heirs. dlga_lord_give_oath_9 lord_give_oath_give_up|{reg65?My lady Sir}, I must have more time to consider this. dlga_lord_give_oath_10 lord_give_oath_go_on_2|Very well. You have given me your solemn oath, {playername}. May you uphold it always, with proper courage and devotion. dlga_lord_give_oath_go_on_2 lord_give_oath_go_on_3|Let it be known that from this day forward, you are my sworn {reg63?man follower} and vassal. I give you my protection and grant you the right to bear arms in my name, and I pledge that I shall not deprive you of your life, liberty or properties except by the lawful judgement of your peers or by the law and custom of the land.{reg1? Furthermore I give you the fief of {s1} with all its rents and revenues. } dlga_lord_give_oath_go_on_3 lord_give_conclude|You have done a wise thing, {playername}. Serve me well and I promise, you will rise high. dlga_lord_give_conclude lord_give_conclude_2|{s41} dlga_lord_give_conclude_2 close_window.1|So be it, my wife. May all my vassals be as valiant and loyal as you. dlga_lord_give_conclude_2 close_window.2|I have great hopes for you {playername}. I know you shall prove yourself worthy of the trust I have placed in you. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_enter_service_swear|Heh, a wise move, {playername}. With loyal service, a {reg63?man woman} in my service could become wealthy and powerful, and our enemies... Well, our enemies are as wheat before a scythe. However, to enter my service you must first renounce all worldly oaths and bonds, and swear to serve only the {s5}. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear lord_enter_service_swear_accepted|I do so swear, {s65}. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear lord_enter_service_swear_denied|I need some time to think about this. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear_denied close_window|Are you having me on? I've no time for games, {playername}. Make up your mind and stop wasting my time. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear_accepted lord_enter_service_swear_accepted_2|Then it is my pleasure to welcome you to the service of my house. From this day on, {playername}, you are a soldier of the {s5} with all the duties and privileges that come with it. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear_accepted_2 close_window|I charge you with rooting out and destroying the forces of our enemies wherever you may find them. Moreover, I will have special tasks for you from time to time, as may some of my other vassal lords. Serve, fight, and honor your oaths. These things will take you far, if you've a mind for promotion. May God grant us long lives and many victories to toast in my hall! dlga_lord_ask_leave_service lord_ask_leave_service_verify|Hrm. Has your oath become burdensome, {playername}? It is unusual to request release from homage, but in respect of your fine service, I will not hold you if you truly wish to end it. Though you would be sorely missed. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service lord_ask_leave_service_verify.1|Release from homage? Hmm, perhaps it would be for the best... However, {playername}, you must be sure that release is what you desire. This is not a thing done lightly. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify lord_ask_leave_service_2|It is something I must do, {s65}. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify lord_ask_leave_service_giveup|You are right, {s65}. My place is here. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_giveup lord_pretalk|I am pleased to hear it, {playername}. I hope you'll banish such unworthy thoughts from your mind from now on. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_2 lord_ask_leave_service_verify_again|Then you are sure? Also, be aware that if you leave my services, you will be surrendering to me all the fiefs which you hold in my name. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify_again lord_ask_leave_service_3|Yes, {s65}. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify_again lord_ask_leave_service_giveup|Of course not, {s65}. I am ever your loyal vassal. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_3 lord_ask_leave_service_end|As you wish. I hereby declare your oaths to be null and void. You will no longer hold land or titles in my name, and you are released from your duties to my house. You are free, {playername}. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_end lord_ask_leave_service_end_2|Thank you, sir. It was an honor to serve you.. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_end lord_ask_leave_service_end_2.1|My thanks. It feels good to be {reg63?a free man free} once again. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_end_2 close_window|Farewell then, {playername}, and good luck go with you. dlga_lord_active_mission_1 lord_lend_companion_end|Oh, you want your companion back? I see... dlga_lord_active_mission_1 lord_pretalk|{playername}, I must beg your patience, I still have need of your companion. Please return later when things have settled. dlga_lord_active_mission_1 lord_active_mission_2|Yes, have you made any progress on it? dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_generic_mission_thank|Indeed. I brought you {reg1} {s1} as prisoners. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 capture_enemy_hero_thank|Oh, indeed. I've captured a lord from {s13} for you. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank capture_enemy_hero_thank_2|Many thanks, my friend. He will serve very well for a bargain. You've done a fine work here. Please accept these {reg5} denars for your help. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank_2 lord_pretalk|Certainly, {s65}. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank_2 lord_pretalk.1|It was nothing. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank_2 lord_pretalk.2|Give me more of a challenge next time. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_raise_troops_thank|Indeed. I have raised {reg1} {s13}. You can take them. dlga_lord_raise_troops_thank lord_raise_troops_thank_2|These men may well turn the tide in my plans, {playername}. I am confident you've trained them well. My thanks and my compliments to you. dlga_lord_raise_troops_thank_2 lord_pretalk|Well, the lads are at your command now, sir. I am sure you will take good care of them. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_collect_taxes_success|Here are all the taxes from {s3}. It comes up to {reg19} denars. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_collect_taxes_half_success|Here are the taxes from {s3}. It comes up to {reg19} denars. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_collect_taxes_fail|Unfortunately, a revolt broke up while I was collecting the taxes. I could only collect {reg19} denars. dlga_lord_collect_taxes_success lord_pretalk|Well done, {playername}, very well done indeed! You were truly the right {reg63?man person} for the job. I promised you a fifth of the taxes, so that amounts to {reg21} denars. If you give me {reg20} denars, you may keep the difference. A good result for everyone, eh? dlga_lord_collect_taxes_half_success lord_pretalk|What?! Is this some scheme of yours, {playername}? That's less than half the taxes I'm owed! You have let them get away with murder as well as my money. What a farce! You can forget the money I promised you, I'm taking {reg20} denars from what you collected, and you're lucky I'm leaving you a few coins for honor's sake. dlga_lord_collect_taxes_fail lord_pretalk|God, what a bloody mess you've gotten us into, {playername}.This could turn very ugly if I do not take immediate action.I certainly hope you're not here expecting to be paid for failure.Hand over my {reg19} denars, if you please, and end our business together. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success|I found {s4} hiding at {s3} and gave him his punishment. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_fail|I'm afraid he got away. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success_2|And we'll all be a lot better off without him! Thank you, {playername}, for removing this long-festering thorn from my side. 'Tis good to know you can be trusted to handle things with an appropriate level of tactfulness. A bounty I promised, and a bounty you shall have. {reg33} denars and not a copper less! dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_accept|Let me take the money, {s65}. Thank you. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_reject|This is blood money. I can't accept it. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_accept lord_pretalk|Of course, {playername}. Here you are. Once again, you've my thanks for ridding me of that {s43}. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_reject lord_pretalk|You are a {reg63?man woman} for whom justice is its own reward, eh? As you wish it, {playername}, as you wish it. An honorable sentiment, to be true. Regardless, you've my thanks for ridding me of that {s43}. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_fail lord_pretalk|It is a sad day when that {s43} manages to avoid the hand of justice yet again. I thought you would be able to do this, {playername}. Clearly I was wrong. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_active_mission_3|I am still working on it. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_mission_failed|I am afraid I won't be able to do this quest. dlga_lord_active_mission_3 lord_pretalk|Good. Remember, I am counting on you. dlga_lord_mission_failed lord_pretalk|{s43} dlga_lord_suggets_attack_enemy_castle3 lord_pretalk|That should be possible. Very well, we'll attack {s1}. dlga_lord_propose_mercenary companion_comment_mercenary_service|As it happens, {playername}, I promised {s10} that I would hire a company of mercenaries for an upcoming campaign. What do you say to entering the service of {s9} as a mercenary captain? dlga_companion_comment_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_service_interject|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_service_interject.1|This should not show dlga_lord_mercenary_service_interject lord_mercenary_service|I've no doubt that you would be up to the task. dlga_lord_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_service_accept|Aye, I'll join {s9}. dlga_lord_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_elaborate_pay|I'm interested. Please tell me more. dlga_lord_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_service_reject|I'm not interested, thank you. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_accept lord_mercenary_service_verify|Perfect. Of course you shall have to make a formal declaration of allegiance, and give your oath that you and your company will remain in service to {s9} for a period of no less than one month. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_verify lord_mercenary_service_verify_2|As you wish. Your enemies are my enemies. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_verify lord_mercenary_service_reject|On second thought, forget it. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_verify_2 lord_mercenary_service_accept_3|That will do. You've made a wise choice, my friend. {s9} does well by its loyal fighters, you will receive many rewards for your service. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_accept_3 lord_pretalk|Now, I suggest you prepare for a serious campaign. Train and equip your soldiers as best you can in the meantime, and respond quickly when you are summoned for duty. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_reject lord_pretalk|I'm very sorry to hear that. You'll find no better place than {s9}, be sure of that. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_pay lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|I can offer you a contract for one month. At the end of this period, it can be extended on a monthly basis. An initial sum of {reg12} denars will be paid to you to seal the contract. After that, you'll receive wages from {s10} each week, according to the number and quality of the soldiers in your company. You still have your rights to battlefield loot and salvage, as well as any prisoners you capture. War can be very profitable at times... dlga_lord_mercenary_service_elaborate_duty lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|Duties... There are only a few, none of them difficult. The very first thing is to declare your allegiance. An oath of loyalty to our cause. Once that's done, you shall be required to fulfill certain responsibilities. You'll participate in military campaigns, fulfill any duties given to you by your commanders, and most of all you shall attack the enemies of our kingdom wherever you might find them. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_service_elaborate_duty|And what about my duties as a mercenary? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle|Can I hold on to any castles I take? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_elaborate_banner|Can I fly my own banner? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_elaborate_pay|How much will you pay me for my service? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_service_accept|Sounds good. I wish to enter your service as a mercenary. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_service_reject|Apologies, my sword is not for hire. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|Only my loyal vassals can own lands and castles in my realm -- and all my vassals are men.\I am not inclined to depart from this tradition without a very good reason. If you prove yourself in battle, you can swear an oath of homage to me and become my vassal.\We may then discuss how you may obtain a castle. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.1|Hmm... Only loyal vassals of {s10} can own lands and castles. While kings will sometimes accept vassalage from men who prove themselves in battle, and grant them land, I have never heard of a king who gave fiefs to women. You had best discuss that issue with {s10} himself. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.2|Only my loyal vassals can own lands and castles in my realm. A mercenary can not be trusted with such a responsibility. However, after serving for some time, you can swear homage to me and become my vassal. Then you will be rewarded with a fief. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.3|Only loyal vassals of {s10} can own lands and castles. You understand, a simple mercenary cannot be trusted with such responsibility. However, after serving for some time, you may earn the right to swear homage to {s10} and become his vassal. Then you would be rewarded with a fief. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_banner lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|Only my noble vassals have the honor of carrying their own banners. However, after some time in mercenary service, you may earn the opportunity to swear homage to me and become my vassal, gaining the right to choose a banner of your own and fight under it in battle. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_banner lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.1|Only noble vassals of {s10} have the honor of carrying their own banners. However, after some time of mercenary service, perhaps you can earn the opportunity to swear homage to {s10} and become his vassal, gaining the right to choose a banner of your own and fight under it in battle. dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_pretalk|You still haven't finished the last job I gave you, {playername}. You should be working on that, not asking me for other things to do. dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_pretalk.1|I don't have any other jobs for you right now. dlga_lord_request_mission_ask companion_comment_mission|A task? dlga_companion_comment_mission lord_tell_mission|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_mission lord_tell_mission.1|This should not show dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_pretalk.2|My lady, by the traditions of courtship, I should be offering my services to you. Unfortunately, I have little time right now, so I beg you to take this declaration of my esteem in its place. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal|There are some minor errands which I need completed, but it would be more appropriate to give them to one of my own men, not to a sworn vassal of the realm. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk|If you are looking for action against our foes, you may join our attack on {s4}. The enemy may come in force to oppose us, so it is good to have as many men as possible. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk.1|If you are looking for action against our foes, you may try venturing out to {s4}. We have received word that a force of the {s5} is in the area, and I am going there myself. I cannot guarantee that our enemies will be there when you arrive, of course. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk.2|If you are looking for action against our foes, you may try venturing out to {s4}. We have received word that a force of the {s5} is in the area. I am not currently headed that way, but others may be. I cannot guarantee that our enemies will be there when you arrive, of course. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk.3|If a worthy task presents itself, however, I may have a favor to ask of you at a later date. dlga_lord_tell_mission destroy_lair_quest_brief|Yes -- there is something you can do for us. We have heard reports that a group of {s4} have established a hideout in this area, and have been attacking travelers. If you could find their lair and destroy it, we would be very grateful. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_rescue_prisoner|My {s11}, {s13}, has been taken prisoner by {s14} of the {s15}. Normally, honorable nobles will grant prisoners of gentle blood the privilege of parole, and treat them as honored guests so long as they give their word that they will not attempt to escape, until such time as a ransom can be paid. But {s14}, instead of granting {s13} parole, has consigned my {s11} to his dungeons - no doubt in the hope that he can demand more from us. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_confirm|We need you to get him out of prison. You may be able to pay a ransom - in which case we could cover your expenses, up to 5000 denars. If you have connections within {s24}, you may be able to use them to sneak him out. Or, you may try a more direct approach - walk up to the gaoler, take the keys by force, and then fight your way out. Can you do this for us? dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_confirm lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_accepted|I can try. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_confirm lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_rejected|I don't think that I can help you. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_rejected close_window|It would not have been an easy task. Perhaps we will find another way. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_accepted lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method|We are most grateful. Could I ask you how you were planning to proceed? dlga_lord_mission_rescue_other_ideas lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method|Did you have any other ideas which you wished to discuss? dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak|I am thinking of breaking into the prison in {s24}, finding {s13}, and fighting my way out. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_siege|I am thinking of taking {s24} by storm. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_planning_end|I have done enough planning. Time to act! dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_planning_end close_window|May the heavens protect you. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak_2|I had discussed this idea with some of my men. One could enter {s24}, either in disguise or openly, then walk up to the prison guard and try to take the keys by force. However, getting out may be difficult. The garrison may be slow to react, but even so, you are likely to find yourself fighting a half dozen or more of the enemy at once, with limited space in which to maneuver. If you can fight your way past them, though, you can probably get out. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak_2 lord_mission_rescue_other_ideas|You may find it useful to create a distraction, to divert the attention of some of the garrison. If you have any connections in the villages near {s24}, this may be a time to put them to use. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_siege lord_mission_rescue_other_ideas|Well, that is certainly the most direct approach. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_deliver_message|I need to send a letter to {s13} who should be currently at {s4}. If you will be heading towards there, would you deliver it to him? The letter needs to be in his hands in 30 days. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message lord_mission_deliver_message_accepted|Certainly, I intend to pass by {s4} and it would be no trouble. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected|I doubt I'll be seeing {s13} anytime soon, {s65}. You'd best send it with someone else. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely|I am no errand boy, sir. Hire a courier for your trivialities. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_accepted close_window|I appreciate it, {playername}. Here's the letter, and a small sum to cover your travel expenses. Give my regards to {s13} when you see him. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected lord_pretalk|Ah, all right then. Well, I am sure I will find someone else. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_2|Hm, is this how you respond to a polite request for a small favor? A poor show, {playername}. I didn't know you would take offence. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_2 lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_3|Then you shall know better from now on. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_2 lord_mission_deliver_message_accepted|Forgive my temper, {s65}. I'll deliver your letter. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_3 close_window|All right. I will remember that. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_deliver_message.1|I need to deliver a letter to {s13} of {s15}, who must be at {s4} currently. If you are going towards there, would you deliver my letter to him? The letter needs to reach him in 40 days. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_escort_lady|There is a small thing... My {s17} {s13} is due for a visit to her relatives at {s14}. The visit has been postponed several times already with all the trouble on the roads, but this time she is adamant about going. So, I want to at least make sure she's well-guarded. I trust you well, {playername} so I would be very grateful if you could escort her to {s14}. dlga_companion_comment_escort_lady companion_comment_escort_lady_interject|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_escort_lady companion_comment_escort_lady_interject.1|This should not show dlga_companion_comment_escort_lady_interject lord_mission_told|Make sure she arrives safe and sound. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_deal_with_bandits|A group of bandits have taken refuge in my village of {s15}. They are plundering nearby farms, and killing villagers at whim and feasting on my cattle.I'd like nothing better than to go out there and teach them a lesson. dlga_companion_comment_deal_with_bandits companion_comment_deal_with_bandits_interject|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_deal_with_bandits companion_comment_deal_with_bandits_interject.1|This should not show dlga_companion_comment_deal_with_bandits_interject lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_told|I have my hands full at the moment, so I can't do anything about it. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_told lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_accepted|Worry not, I can go to {s15} and deal with these scum for you. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_told lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_rejected|You shall have to find help elsewhere, I am too busy. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_accepted close_window|Will you do that? Know that, I will be grateful to you. Here is some money for the expenses of your campaign. Make an example of those {s43}s. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_rejected lord_pretalk|Ah... Very well then, forget I brought it up. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_raise_troops|No lord should have to admit this, {playername}, but I was inspecting my soldiers the other day and there are men here who don't know which end of a sword to hold. {s43} You are a warrior of renown, {playername}. Will you train some troops for me? I would be grateful to you. dlga_companion_comment_raise_troops lord_tell_mission_raise_troops|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_raise_troops lord_tell_mission_raise_troops.1|This should not show dlga_lord_tell_mission_raise_troops lord_tell_mission_raise_troops_2|How many men do you need? dlga_lord_tell_mission_raise_troops_2 lord_mission_raise_troops_told|If you can raise {reg1} {s14} and bring them to me, that will probably be enough. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_told lord_mission_raise_troops_accepted|Of course, {s65}. Give me {reg1} fresh recruits and I'll train them to be {s14}. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_told lord_mission_raise_troops_rejected|I am too busy these days to train anyone. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_accepted close_window|You've taken a weight off my shoulders, {playername}. I shall tell my sergeants to send you the recruits and attach them to your command. Also, I'll advance you some money to help with expenses. Here, this purse should do it. Thank you for your help. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_rejected lord_pretalk|Oh, of course. I had expected as much. Well, good luck to you then. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_collect_taxes|You probably know that I am the lord of the {reg9?town village} of {s3}. However, it has been months since {s3} has delivered the taxes and rents due me as its rightful lord. Apparently the populace there has grown unruly lately and I need someone to go there and remind them of their obligations. And to... persuade them if they won't listen. dlga_companion_comment_collect_taxes lord_mission_collect_taxes_told_interject|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_collect_taxes lord_mission_collect_taxes_told_interject.1|This should not show dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_told_interject lord_mission_collect_taxes_told|If you go there and raise the taxes they owe me, I will grant you one-fifth of everything you collect. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_told lord_mission_collect_taxes_accepted|A fair offer, {s65}. We have an agreement. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_told lord_mission_collect_taxes_rejected|Forgive me, I don't have the time. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_accepted close_window|Welcome news, {playername}. I will entrust this matter to you. Remember, those {reg9?townsmen peasants} are foxy beasts, they will make every excuse not to pay me my rightful incomes. Do not let them fool you. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_rejected lord_pretalk|Oh, yes. Well, good luck to you then. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_hunt_down_fugitive|I have something you could help with, an issue with the lawless villain known as {s4}. He murdered one of my men and has been on the run from his judgment ever since. I can't let him get away with avoiding justice, so I've put a bounty of {reg33} denars on his head. Friends of the murdered man reckon that this assassin may have taken refuge with his kinsmen at {s3}. dlga_companion_comment_hunt_down_fugitive companion_comment_hunt_down_fugitive_interject|{s5} dlga_companion_comment_hunt_down_fugitive companion_comment_hunt_down_fugitive_interject.1|This should not show dlga_companion_comment_hunt_down_fugitive_interject lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_told|You might be able to hunt him down and give him what he deserves, and claim the bounty for yourself. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_told lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_accepted|Then I will hunt him down and execute the law. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_told lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_rejected|I am too busy to go after him at the moment. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_accepted close_window|That's excellent, {playername}. I will be grateful to you and so will the family of the man he murdered. And of course the bounty on his head will be yours if you can get him. Well, good hunting to you. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_rejected lord_pretalk|As you wish, {playername}.I suppose there are plenty of bounty hunters around to get the job done... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told_kill_local_merchant|The wretched truth is that I owe a considerable sum of money to one of the merchants here in {s3}. I've no intention of paying it back, of course, but that loud-mouthed fool is making a terrible fuss about it. He even had the audacity to come and threaten me -- me! -- with a letter of complaint to the trade guilds and bankers. Why, he'd ruin my good reputation! So I need a {reg63?man woman} I can trust, someone who will guarantee the man's silence. For good. dlga_lord_mission_told_kill_local_merchant lord_mission_accepted_kill_local_merchant|Worry not, he shan't breathe a word. dlga_lord_mission_told_kill_local_merchant lord_mission_rejected|I'm no common murderer, sir. Find someone else for your dirty job. dlga_lord_mission_accepted_kill_local_merchant close_window|Very good. I trust in your skill and discretion, {playername}. Do not disappoint me. Go now and wait for my word, I'll send you a message telling when and where you can catch the merchant. Dispose of him for me and I shall reward you generously. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told_meet_spy_in_enemy_town|I have a sensitive matter which needs tending to, {playername}, and no trustworthy retainers to take care of it. The fact is that I have a spy in {s13} to keep an eye on things for me, and report anything that might warrant my attention. Every week I send someone to collect the spy's reports and bring them back to me. The job's yours if you wish it. dlga_lord_mission_told_meet_spy_in_enemy_town quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted|I don't mind a bit of skullduggery. Count me in. dlga_lord_mission_told_meet_spy_in_enemy_town quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_rejected|I must decline. This cloak-and-dagger work isn't fit for me. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|Excellent! Make your way to {s13} as soon as you can, the spy will be waiting. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_2|{s13} is heavily defended. How can I get close without being noticed? dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_2 quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|You shall have to use stealth. Take care to avoid enemy strongholds, villages and patrols, and don't bring too many men with you. If you fail to sneak in the first time, give it a while for the garrison to lower its guard again, or you may have a difficult time infiltrating the town. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_3|How will I recognize the spy? dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_3 quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|Once you get to {s13} you must talk to the locals, the spy will be one of them. If you think you've found the spy, say the phrase '{s11}' The spy will respond with the phrase '{s12}' Thus you will know the other, and {reg7?she he} will give you any information {reg7?she he}'s gathered in my service. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_4|Will I be paid? dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_4 quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|Of course, I have plenty of silver in my coffers for loyal {reg63?men women} like you. Do well by me, {playername}, and you'll rise high. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_end|I know what to do. Farewell, my lord. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_end lord_pretalk|Good luck, {playername}. Remember, the secret phrase is '{s11}' The counterphrase is '{s12}' Bring any reports back to me, and I'll compensate you for your trouble. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_rejected lord_pretalk|As you wish, {playername}, but I strongly advise you to forget anything I told you about any spies. They do not exist, have never existed, and no one will ever find them. Remember that. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_raid_caravan_war|This peace with {s13} ill suits me, {playername}. We've let those swine have their way for far too long. Now they get stronger with each passing and their arrogance knows no bounds. I say, we must wage war on them before it's too late! Unfortunately, some of the bleeding hearts among our realm's lords are blocking a possible declaration of war. dlga_companion_comment_raid_caravan_war companion_comment_raid_caravan_war_interject|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_raid_caravan_war companion_comment_raid_caravan_war_interject.1|This should not show dlga_companion_comment_raid_caravan_war_interject lord_mission_told_raid_caravan_to_start_war|Witless cowards with no stomach for blood. dlga_lord_mission_told_raid_caravan_to_start_war lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_2|You are right, {s65}, but what can we do? dlga_lord_mission_told_raid_caravan_to_start_war quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_1|I disagree, sir. It is better that there be peace. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_2 lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_3|Ah, 'tis good to hear someone who understands! As a matter of fact, there is something we can do, {playername}. A little bit of provocation ... If one of our war parties managed to enter their territory and pillage one of their caravans, or raided one of their villages, and perhaps left behind a little token or two of the {s14}, they would have ample cause to declare war on us. And then, well, even the cowards among us must rise to defend themselves. So what do you say? Are you interested? dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_3 quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_accepted|An excellent plan. Count me in. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_3 lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_4|Why don't you do that yourself? dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_4 lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_5|Well, {playername}, some of the lords in our kingdom won't like the idea of someone inciting a war without their consent. They are already looking for an excuse to get at me, and if I did this they could make me pay for it dearly. You, on the other hand, are young, well-liked, and daring, so you might just get away with it. And of course I will back you up and defend your actions against your opponents. All in all, a few lords might be upset at your endeavor, but I am sure you won't be bothered with that. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_5 quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_accepted|That seems reasonable. I am willing to do this. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_5 quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_2|I don't like this. Find yourself someone else to take the blame for your schemes. dlga_quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_accepted close_window|Very good! A raid on a caravan, or, if you can't manage that, an attack on one of their villages, should do the trick. Now, good luck and good hunting. Go set the borders aflame! dlga_quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_1 lord_pretalk|Ah, you think so? But how long will your precious peace last? Not long, believe me. dlga_quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_2 lord_pretalk|Hm. As you wish, {playername}. I thought you had some fire in you, but it seems I was wrong. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told|Well, some of the serfs working my fields in {s4} have run away. The ungrateful swine, I let them plough my fields and rent my cottages, and this is how they repay me! From what I've been hearing, they're running to {s3} as fast as they can, and have split up into three groups to try and avoid capture. I want you to capture all three groups and fetch them back to {s4} by whatever means necessary. I should really have them hanged for attempting to escape, but we need hands for the upcoming harvest, so I'll let them go off this time with a good beating. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_follow_spy|I have good information that a man in this very town is actually an enemy spy. He should be seized and hanged for his impudence, but we also believe that very soon he will leave town to meet with his master, the man to whom the spy feeds all his little whispers. The spy himself is of little import, but the master is a dangerous man, and could tell us a great deal if we could only get our hands on him... dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_2|I want you to wait here until the spy leaves town. Then you must follow him, stealthily, to the meeting place. You must take absolute care not to be seen by the spy on your way, else he may suspect foul play and turn back. When the master appears, you must ambush and arrest them and bring the pair back to me. Alive, if you please. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_2 lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_accepted|I'll do it, {s65}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_2 lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_rejected|No, this skulking is not for me. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_accepted close_window|Good, I'm sure you'll do a fine job of it. One of my men will point the spy out to you when he leaves, so you will know the man to follow. Remember, I want them both, and I want them alive. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_rejected lord_pretalk|A shame. Well, carry on as you were, {playername}... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero|There is a difficult job I need done, {playername}, and you may be the {reg63?man one} who can carry it off. I need someone to capture one of the noble lords of {s13} and bring him to me. Afterwards, I'll be able to exchange him in return for a relative of mine held by {s13}. It is a simple enough job, but whomever you choose will be guarded by an elite band of personal retainers. Are you up for a fight? dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_accepted|Consider it done, {s65}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_rejected|I must refuse, {s65}. I am not a kidnapper. dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_accepted close_window|I like your spirit! Go and bring me one of our enemies, and I'll toast your name in my hall when you return! And reward you for your efforts, of course... dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_rejected lord_pretalk|Clearly you lack the mettle I had thought you possessed. Very well, {playername}, I will find someone else. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_lend_companion|I don't have a job for you right now, but your companion {s3} is a skilled {reg3?lass fellow} and I need someone with {reg3?her his} talents. Will you lend {reg3?her him} to me for a while? dlga_companion_comment_lend_companion lord_tell_mission_lend_companion|{s4} dlga_companion_comment_lend_companion lord_tell_mission_lend_companion.1|This should not show dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_2|How long will you be needing {reg3?her him}? dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_2 lord_mission_lend_companion_told|Just a few days, a week at most. dlga_lord_mission_lend_companion_told lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_accepted|Then I will leave {s3} with you for one week. dlga_lord_mission_lend_companion_told lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_rejected|I am sorry, but I cannot do without {s3} for a whole week. dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_accepted close_window|I cannot thank you enough, {playername}. Worry not, your companion shall be returned to you with due haste. dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_rejected lord_pretalk|Well, that's damned unfortunate, but I suppose I cannot force you or {s3} to agree. I shall have to make do without. dlga_lord_tell_mission companion_comment_collect_debt|Some time ago, I loaned out a considerable sum of money to {s3}. {reg4} denars, to be precise. He was supposed to pay it back within a month but I haven't received a copper from him since. That was months ago. If you could collect the debt from him on my behalf, I would be grateful indeed. I would even let you keep one fifth of the money for your trouble. What do you say? dlga_companion_comment_collect_debt lord_tell_mission_collect_debt|{s5} dlga_companion_comment_collect_debt lord_tell_mission_collect_debt.1|This should not show dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_2|Do you know where I can find {s3}, {s65}? dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_2 lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_3|If you leave now, you should be able to find him at {s4}. I've no doubt that he will be suitably embarassed by his conduct and give you all the money he owes me. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_3 lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_accepted|Then I will talk to {s3} on your behalf. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_3 lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_rejected|Forgive me, {s65}, but I doubt I would be more successful than yourself. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_accepted close_window|You made me very happy by accepting this {playername}. Please, talk to {s3} and don't leave him without my money. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_rejected lord_pretalk|Perhaps not, {playername}. I suppose I'm never getting that money back... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander|I tell you, that blubbering fool {s13} is not fit to rule {s14}. God knows he would be divested of his lands in an instant were it not for one of his loyal vassals, {s15}. As long as he has his vassal aiding him, it will be a difficult job beating him. So I need to get {s15} out of the picture, and I have a plan just to do that... With your help, naturally. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_2|{s66}, I am all ears. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected|I don't wish to involve myself in anything dishonorable against {s15}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected lord_pretalk|Dishonorable? Bah! I was hoping I could count on you, {playername}, but you've shown me what a fool I was. I shall have to find someone whose loyalty I can trust. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_2 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_3|I have written a fake letter to {s15}, bearing my own seal, which implicates him in a conspiracy with us to stage a coup in {s14}, in my favor. If we can make {s13} believe the letter is genuine, he will deal with {s15} very swiftly. Of course, the challenge there is to convince {s13} that the letter is indeed real... dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_3 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_4|Please continue, {s65}... dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_3 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected|No, I will not sully myself with this dishonorable scheme. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_4 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_5|This is where you come into play. You'll take the letter to {s14}, then give it to one of your soldiers and instruct him to take it to {s15}. I will have one of my spies inform the town garrison so that your man will be arrested on his way. The guards will then find the letter and take it to {s13}. They'll torture your man, of course, to try and get the truth out of him, but all he knows is that you ordered the letter to be delivered to {s15} under the utmost secrecy. {s13} knows you serve me, and the fool will certainly believe the whole charade. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_5 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_7|Is that all? dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_7 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_8|There is one more thing... Your messenger must be someone trustworthy. If you sent the letter with a simple peasant, someone expendable, {s13} might suspect a plot. He may have the wits of a snail, but even a snail can see the obvious. Give the letter to someone of rank. One of your {s9}, perhaps. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_8 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_9|What? I can't send one of my trusted {s9} to his death! dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_8 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_fin|Then a {s8} it will be. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_9 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_10|Come now, {playername}. There is a place for sentimentality, but this is not it. Believe me, you shall be generously compensated, and what is the purpose of soldiers if not to die at our say-so? dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_10 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_fin|A {s8} it is. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_10 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected|No, I'll not sacrifice one of my chosen men. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_fin lord_pretalk|I can't tell you how pleased I am to hear that, {playername}. You are removing one of the greatest obstacles in my path. Here is the letter, as well as 300 denars for your expenses. Remember, there'll be more once you succeed. Much, much more... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told.1|A group of my soldiers were captured in a recent skirmish with the enemy. Thankfully we have a mutual agreement of prisoner exchange, and they will release my men, but they want us to give them prisoners of equal rank and number. Prisoners I don't currently have. So, I need a good {reg63?man warrior} to find me {reg1} {s3} as prisoners, that I may exchange them. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_pretalk|No {playername}. I do not need your help at this time. dlga_lord_mission_told lord_mission_accepted|You can count on me, {s65}. dlga_lord_mission_told lord_mission_rejected|I fear I cannot accept such a mission at the moment. dlga_lord_mission_accepted close_window|Excellent, {playername}, excellent. I have every confidence in you. dlga_lord_mission_rejected close_window|Is that so? Well, I suppose you're just not up to the task. I shall have to look for somebody with more mettle. dlga_lord_talk defeat_lord_answer_2|You are free to go. dlga_lord_talk lord_leave_prison|I must leave now. dlga_lord_talk lord_leave|This audience is over. I leave now. dlga_lord_talk lord_leave.1|I must beg my leave. dlga_lord_leave lord_leave_give_quest|Before you go, {playername}, I have something to ask of you... We may be enemies in this war, but I pray that you believe, as I do, that we can still be civil towards each other. Thus I hoped that you would be kind enough to assist me in something important to me. dlga_lord_leave_give_quest enemy_lord_tell_mission|I am listening. dlga_enemy_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told|I have a friend here, an old warrior, who is very sick. Pestilence has infected an old battle wound, and unless he is seen to by a surgeon soon, he will surely die. This man is dear to me, {playername}, but he's also stubborn as a hog and refuses to have anyone look at his injury because he doesn't trust the physicians here. I have heard that you've a capable surgeon with you. If you would let your surgeon come here and have a look, {reg3?she he} may be able to convince him to give his consent to an operation. Please, I will be deeply indebted to you if you grant me this request. dlga_lord_leave_prison close_window|We'll meet again. dlga_lord_leave close_window|Farewell, my lady. I shall remain your most ardent admirer. dlga_lord_leave close_window.1|Of course, {playername}. Farewell. dlga_lord_leave close_window.2|Good journeys to you, {playername}. dlga_lord_leave close_window.3|Yes, yes. Farewell. dlga_lord_leave close_window.4|We will meet again. dlga_member_chat lady_journey_1|Are you enjoying the journey, {s65}? dlga_lady_journey_1 close_window|I am doing quite fine, {playername}. Thank you for your concern. dlga_start spouse_talk|Yes, my husband? dlga_spouse_talk minister_issues|As you are my chief minister, I wish to speak to about affairs of state. dlga_spouse_talk spouse_cancel_political_quest|Let's abandon our plan to {s10}. dlga_spouse_cancel_political_quest spouse_cancel_political_quest_confirm|Are you sure you want to drop that idea? dlga_spouse_cancel_political_quest_confirm spouse_pretalk|Yes, I am sure. Let's abandon that idea. dlga_spouse_cancel_political_quest_confirm spouse_pretalk.1|Actually, never mind. dlga_spouse_talk combined_political_quests|Let us think of a way to improve our standing in this realm. dlga_spouse_talk spouse_organize_feast|I was thinking that perhaps we could host a feast. dlga_spouse_talk spouse_household_possessions|Let us take inventory of our household possessions. dlga_spouse_household_possessions spouse_pretalk|Anyway, that is the content of our larder. dlga_spouse_talk husband_outfit|Please accept this crown, my husband. dlga_husband_outfit spouse_pretalk|Of course, my ... Queen. dlga_spouse_talk wife_outfit|Could you reconsider your outfit? dlga_wife_outfit spouse_pretalk|I can't at this time, I have too much goods on me at the moment.^^^^^(the 'household possessions' storage area is full) dlga_wife_outfit close_window|Of course dear. If you could excuse the room I will put on something new.^^^^^(first allowed hat/dress/boots, from the top row in the 'household possessions' storage, will be put on) dlga_spouse_talk hat_issue|May I see you without your hat? dlga_hat_issue spouse_pretalk|I don't have any free space to store it, my dear.^^^^^(the 'household possessions' storage area is full) dlga_hat_issue spouse_pretalk.1|Maybe on your next visit, my dear. dlga_spouse_talk close_window|We shall speak later, my {reg63?wife husband}. dlga_wedding_ceremony_bride_vow wedding_ceremony_player_vow|My husband, I hereby pledge to be your wife, to stand with you in good times and bad. May the heavens smile upon us and bless us with children, livestock, and land. dlga_wedding_ceremony_player_vow wedding_ceremony_vows_complete|I pledge the same. Let us be husband and wife. dlga_wedding_ceremony_player_vow close_window|Wait -- hold on... I'm not quite ready for this. dlga_wedding_ceremony_vows_complete close_window|I now declare you and {s3} to be husband and wife. Go now to the chamber prepared for you, and we shall make arrangements for your bride to join you in your hall in {s11}. dlga_spouse_pretalk spouse_talk|Is there anything else, my {reg63?husband wife}? dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_pretalk|A splendid idea, my {reg63?husband wife}. However, let us wait for the current feast here to conclude, before organizing another. dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_pretalk.1|A splendid idea, my {reg63?husband wife}. However, we must establish a court before hosting a feast. dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_pretalk.2|A splendid idea, my {reg63?husband wife}. However, our realm has recently had a feast. Perhaps we should wait another {reg3} days before we organize another one. dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_evaluate_larder_for_feast|A splendid idea, my {reg63?husband wife}. However, to not insult our guests, we must make sure that we can provide a large and varied repast, for the lords, their families, and their retinues. All told, we should count on a couple of hundred mouths to feed, over several days. Let us take an inventory of our household possessions... dlga_spouse_evaluate_larder_for_feast spouse_feast_confirm|{s9} dlga_spouse_feast_confirm spouse_feast_added_items|Let me add more items to our storehouses. dlga_spouse_feast_added_items spouse_evaluate_larder_for_feast|All right -- let me reevaluate what is there... dlga_spouse_feast_confirm spouse_feast_confirm_yes|Let us dispatch the invitations. dlga_spouse_feast_confirm spouse_pretalk|Let us wait, then. dlga_spouse_feast_confirm_yes spouse_pretalk|I shall send word, then, that we will host a feast as soon as conditions in the realm permit. You perhaps should continue to stock our larder, so that we may do justice to our reputation for hospitality. dlga_spouse_feast_confirm_yes spouse_pretalk.1|Very well, then. Let the feast begin immediately at our court {reg4?here } in {s9}. You perhaps should continue to stock our larder, so that we may do justice to our reputation for hospitality. You may declare the feast to be concluded at any time, either by beginning a campaign or by letting it be known that the vassals can return to their homes. dlga_start close_window.19|How wonderful it is... In a short while we shall be married! However, I should point out that, in the remaining few days, it is not customary for us to speak too much together. dlga_start close_window.20|Em, {playername}, you might not be used to our wedding customs, but I had hoped that someone would tell you... Speak first to my {s11}, {s4}. dlga_start close_window.21|I do not know where to find my {s11} {s10}, who by tradition should preside over our wedding. Perhaps we should wait until he can be found... dlga_start close_window.22|The honorable {s12} has agreed to allow us to return home to our families. We shall be departing shortly. dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive|So great is my loneliness! How I miss my family! dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive.1|You are a cad, {reg63?sir madame}, to hold a lady like this... dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive.2|It is strange. On occasion you have shown me such kindness, and yet you continue to hold me here against my will. dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive.3|Why haven't my family paid my ransom? You may hold me as prisoner, but it seems that you care for me more than they do! dlga_lady_stranded_next close_window|Greetings, {reg63?sir my lady}. The tides of war have left me stranded here in this fortress, but I will shortly be departing. dlga_start lady_talk_refugee|{playername} -- I assume that you, as a {reg63?man lady} of honor, will accord gentle-born ladies such as ourselves the right to return to our families, and not demand a ransom. dlga_start lady_escort_lady_succeeded|Thank you for escorting me here, {playername}. Please accept this gift as a token of my gratitude. I hope we shall meet again sometime in the future. dlga_lady_escort_lady_succeeded close_window|It was an honor to serve you, {s65}. dlga_start close_window.23|We will shortly depart{s5}. It is good to know that some people in this world retain a sense of honor. dlga_lady_talk_refugee close_window|Of course, my lady dlga_lady_talk_refugee lady_captive_talk|You assume wrong, my lady! dlga_lady_captive_talk lady_captive_confirm|What?! What infamy is this? dlga_lady_captive_confirm close_window|My apologies - you must have misunderstood me. Of course you may leave. dlga_lady_captive_confirm close_window.1|Contact your family to arrange for a ransom, my lady. dlga_kingdom_lady_captive close_window|Then write to your family, and ask them to hurry up with the ransom! dlga_kingdom_lady_captive close_window.1|I have changed my mind -- you are free to go dlga_start close_window.24|Well, {playername} -- you fought a duel with {s10}, and lost. According to our custom and tradition, I should no longer receive you. Farewell, {playername}. dlga_start lady_duel_lost|Oh {playername} -- I heard of your duel with {s10}. I wish now that you had never fought him, for our honor and tradition demand that, having lost to him, you now break off your suit with me. Farewell, {playername}. dlga_lady_duel_lost close_window|Very well - we must do as tradition demands... Farewell, my lady dlga_lady_duel_lost lady_duel_lost_flaunt_conventions|Let honor and tradition hang! dlga_lady_duel_lost_flaunt_conventions close_window|Oh, {playername}! Although people will talk, it would so break my heart to no longer be able to see you. We shall ignore this silly, cruel tradition. dlga_lady_duel_lost_flaunt_conventions close_window.1|No, {playername} -- I cannot afford to fritter away my good name, and neither can you. dlga_start lady_start|Oh, {playername} -- I have heard that you won your duel with {s10}. I'm grateful that you have delivered me from that man's attentions! dlga_start lady_start.1|Well, {playername} -- you won your duel with {s10}. Clearly, he was not worthy of my affections. dlga_lady_duel_rep_1 lady_start|Well, {playername} -- you won your duel with {s10}. Oh, such foolishness, that men should fight over me! Sigh... But it is a bit romantic, I suppose. dlga_lady_duel_rep_2 lady_start|Well, {playername} -- you won your duel with {s10}. Honor now demands that he and I no longer meet... I was fond of him, you know. You did me no service by fighting him, sir. dlga_start lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1|My dear {playername}, how joyous to see you again! I heard you gave that vile {s13} a well-deserved lesson. I hope he never forgets his humiliation. I've a reward for you, but I fear it's little compared to what you've done for me. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1 lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2|Oh, it will just have to do. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1 lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2.1|{s66}, this is far too much! dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1 lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2.2|Please, {s65}, no reward is necessary. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2 lady_pretalk|{s10} dlga_start lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed|I was told that you sought satisfaction from {s13} to prove my innocence, {playername}. It was a fine gesture, and I thank you for your efforts. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed_2|I beg your forgiveness for my defeat, {s65}... dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed_2 lady_pretalk|It matters not, dear {playername}. You tried. The truth cannot be proven at the point of a sword, but you willingly put your life at stake for my honor. That alone will convince many of my innocence. dlga_start lady_start.2|Ah {playername} - you must have received my message. How happy I am that you could come! dlga_start lady_proposal_pending|{playername} - is there any word from my family? dlga_start lady_betrothed|I hear that my {s11} has refused your request to marry me. Does that mean that we must part? dlga_start lady_generic_mission_succeeded|Oh, {playername}, you brought him back to me! Thank you ever so much for rescuing my {s11}. Please, take this as some small repayment for your noble deed. dlga_start rescue_prisoner_succeed_1|Oh, {playername}, you brought him back to me! Thank you ever so much for rescuing my {s11}. Please, take this as some small repayment for your noble deed. dlga_rescue_prisoner_succeed_1 lady_pretalk|Always an honor to serve, {s65}. dlga_start ghostlover_start_response|Why do you approach me? I have not been properly introduced to you. dlga_ghostlover_start_response close_window|I crave your pardon, Lady. I will not trouble you further. dlga_ghostlover_start_response ghostlover_backstory_intro|I am {playername}, in search of the person who murdered Lady Alienor. dlga_ghostlover_backstory_intro ghostlover_backstory_response|She was murdered? Why question me? I had nothing to do with her death. I was not here when she died. I am here merely to console {s4} in his grief. We have been friends since childhood, and I love him dearly. dlga_ghostlover_backstory_response ghostlover_backstory_a|I ask because you are staying in her castle, umm, 'grieving' with her lord. dlga_ghostlover_backstory_a ghostlover_backstory_a_response|How dare you?! I am nothing more than a companion to my friend in his grief. I have known him since he was a young squire in my father's castle. We were dear friends then, and remain so. I confess I wish we could have been more, but once he set eyes upon Alienor he fell top over tail in love and never looked at another woman again. I was angry at them once, but my anger passed long ago. I grieve deeply for him as well as for her. She was my friend, too. dlga_ghostlover_backstory_a_response ghostlover_backstory_b|Yes, it is patently obvious how you are 'consoling' him. dlga_ghostlover_backstory_b ghostlover_backstory_b_response|Certainly not! In fact, I am betrothed and due to marry next month a Lord whom I esteem greatly. As I could not win the love of {s4}, I looked elsewhere and found my own true love. But you say Alienor was murdered? I know I did not kill her, so who did and how? dlga_ghostlover_backstory_b_response ghostlover_backstory_c|Hmm, so you then had no desire or reason to eliminate a rival? dlga_ghostlover_backstory_c ghostlover_backstory_c_response|I will listen to this nonsense no longer. If you discover a murderer, then I will listen to you. Until then, get out of my sight. dlga_ghostlover_backstory_c_response close_window|She was poisoned. I will inform you by whom when I find her killer. dlga_ghostlover_start_response ghostlover_accuse|A slut like you is surely capable of murdering a rival. I accuse you of killing the lady! dlga_ghostlover_accuse close_window|What an epic failure you are, you cretin. I am not the guilty party! dlga_start ghostlover_success_response|You again. Are you back with more ridiculous accusations? dlga_ghostlover_success_response ghostlover_end|My lady, I wrongly suspected you of murdering Lady Alienor. Her true killer, the scribe, has paid for his crime. dlga_ghostlover_end close_window|High time you admitted I was telling the truth! I may enjoy bedding {s5}, but he is not so talented that I'd kill his wife merely to continue warming his bed. Besides, I am growing bored with him. dlga_start ghostlover_start_go_away|Please leave me alone. dlga_ghostlover_start_go_away close_window|I will ... for now. dlga_start lady_meet_end|You must be {playername}. We have just had the honor of watching you distinguish yourself in the recent tournament{s8}. dlga_start lady_meet_end.1|You must be {playername}. My {s15} {s16} has spoken most highly of you. I am delighted to make your acquaintance. dlga_start lady_premeet|I say, you don't look familiar... dlga_start close_window.25|Ah, {playername}. How good it is to see you again. However, I believe that I am required elsewhere. dlga_start lady_start.3|{playername} -- how good it is to see you. (Whispers ) I still remember your visits fondly. dlga_start lady_meet_end.2|Ah, {playername}. How spendid it was to see you distinguish yourself in the recent tournament. dlga_start lady_start.4|{s12} dlga_lady_start lady_betrothed|I have sad news. I have become betrothed to {s5} -- against my will, I should say! Oh {playername} - I would so much rather be wed to you! dlga_lady_start lady_betrothed.1|Good {playername} -- I have become betrothed to {s5}. It is now no longer seemly for us to see each other like this. dlga_lady_start lady_other_suitor|I must tell you -- there is another lord who has been paying me attentions, although I cannot abide him. I fear he has designs on me, and may try to force me to wed against my will. dlga_lady_start lady_talk|{s11}It is probably not suitable for us to tarry too long here in conversation, but I would hope to see you again soon. dlga_lady_start lady_talk.1|{s11} dlga_lady_start lady_talk.2|I was planning to retire for a little while, but perhaps we may have a chance to speak more later... dlga_lady_start lady_talk.3|It is so delightful to have a chance to spend some time together.{s12} dlga_lady_start lady_talk.4|What brings you here today? dlga_lady_proposal_pending close_window|No word so far... dlga_lady_proposal_pending lady_proposal_pending_end|On second thought, now is not the time for us to marry dlga_lady_proposal_pending_end close_window|{s11} dlga_lady_betrothed lady_suggest_elope|Never! We must elope together at once! dlga_lady_betrothed lady_pretalk|Perhaps I may still be able to change your {s11}'s mind dlga_lady_betrothed lady_conclude_relationship|So be it -- let us then part dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship|Good {playername} -- you are a good and kind man, but a lady cannot defy her family. Such things are not done! dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_other_suitor|Sir -- as you may know, I have been entertaining offers from a number of gentlemen such as yourself. I am not yet at a stage where I can commit to any of them. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.1|Ah {playername}, you must realize. You are still finding your way in the world. I have great affection for you, {playername}, but I will not consign myself to obscurity. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.2|Ah {playername}, although you are kind to me, I am not certain enough of your moral fiber to risk such a thing. Although I bare little affection for my husband, it would be a weighty thing to go against my family's wishes, and I am not certain enough of you to take that step. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.3|Good {playername} -- to elope would be to throw away my ties with my family, which are everything to me! I have a considerable affection for you, but I am not sure that I am prepared to risk that. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.4|Good {playername} -- I am not used to the hardships of campaigning as you are. I want a home to call my own. If you were lord of a castle or town with a great hall, I would gladly go there as your wife, to be mistress of the household. But I do not wish to live like a hunted animal. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_elope_agree|Elope with you? Yes -- we could do that. It is a great step to defy my family -- but a loveless marriage, and life without you, might be a far worse thing! But be warned -- this will be a terrible blow to my {s11}'s prestige, and he will do everything in his power to bring you down. dlga_lady_elope_agree lady_elope_agree_nurse|Quickly, then! There is no time to lose. dlga_lady_elope_agree close_window|Everything in his power, you say? Em... Let me think about this... dlga_lady_elope_agree_nurse lady_elope_agree_lady_vows|Your lordship... Your ladyship... Would you like me to witness your exchange of vows? dlga_lady_elope_agree_lady_vows lady_elope_agree_nurse_2|Yes, do that. For my part, I make the following vow I, {s4}, do swear that I accept {playername} as my husband, according to the ancient law and custom of our land... dlga_lady_elope_agree_nurse_2 lady_elope_agree_player_vows|Very good. Do you, {playername}, swear similarly to accept {s4} as your wife? dlga_lady_elope_agree_player_vows close_window|I do. dlga_lady_elope_agree_player_vows close_window.1|Eh, what? This is all moving too fast... dlga_lady_elope_agree lady_conclude_relationship|Oh, really? My dear -- I could never separate a lady from her family like that... dlga_lady_conclude_relationship lady_conclude_relationship_confirm|So I suppose our time together must come to an end... dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_yes|Yes -- it must be... dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_no|Wait -- perhaps there is still a chance for us! dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_yes close_window|Farewell, {playername}. We will see each other, in the courts and castles of this realm, but we must keep our distance from each other. I will remember these days fondly, nonetheless. dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_no close_window|In that case, we shall see what the future brings. dlga_lady_generic_mission_succeeded lady_pretalk|Always an honor to serve, {s65}. dlga_lady_premeet lady_meet|I am {playername}. dlga_lady_premeet lady_meet.1|My name is {playername}. At your service. dlga_lady_meet lady_meet_end|Of course. How splendid to finally make your acquaintance. dlga_lady_meet lady_meet_end.1|{playername}? I do not believe I've heard of you before. dlga_lady_meet_end lady_talk|I am about to retire for a little while, but perhaps we may have a chance to speak more later... dlga_lady_meet_end lady_talk.1|Now, if you will excuse me... dlga_lady_meet_end lady_talk.2|Can I help you with anything? dlga_lady_talk lord_talk_ask_location|I want to know the location of someone. dlga_lady_pretalk lady_talk|Now, if you will excuse me... dlga_lady_pretalk lady_talk.1|Is there anything else? dlga_lady_talk lady_relations|May I have the honor of knowing more about you, my lady? dlga_lady_relations lady_pretalk|{s12} dlga_lady_talk lady_profess_admiration|My lady, I would like to profess myself your most ardent admirer dlga_lady_talk lady_tournament_dedication_reaction|My lady, I would like to dedicate my successes in this recent tournament to you dlga_lady_tournament_dedication_reaction lady_pretalk|{s9} dlga_lady_profess_admiration close_window|{s11}I would like it very much if we could see more of each other. dlga_lady_profess_admiration lady_pretalk|Ah... You are too kind... My, the hour is getting rather late, isn't it? I really must be going. dlga_lady_talk lady_recite_poetry|Do you like poetry, my lady? dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry|That would depend on the poem. Did you intend to recite a verse? dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response|The wind that blows the dry steppe dust... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.1|All the silks of Ethos/All the furs of Poinsbruk... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.2|You are the first and the last/the outer and the inner... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.3|A light pierced the gloom over Windholm cliffs... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.4|I deflected her skeptical questioning darts/with armor made of purest devotion... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_pretalk|Actually, I can't think of any that I would care to recite... dlga_lady_recite_poetry_response lady_private_conversation_end|{s11} dlga_lady_private_conversation_end lady_pretalk|Time is passing quickly, and we cannot linger here too long. dlga_lady_talk lady_marriage_discussion|Do you think that we may have a future together, my lady? dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_other_suitor|Sir -- as you may know, I have been entertaining offers from a number of gentlemen such as yourself. I am not yet at a stage where I can commit to any of them. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_proposal_refused|It is good to hear that you are thinking seriously about the future. However, I would like to see you rise a little further in the world before I am ready to commit to marrying you. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_proposal_refused.1|It is good to hear that your intentions are honorable. However, I have resolved only to marry a man of the strongest moral fiber. I would like you to prove yourself more in that regard. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_proposal_refused.2|Sir -- it is comforting to hear that your intentions towards me are honorable. But perhaps we should take the time to get to allow our affections for each other to grow a little stronger, before making any such decision. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_betrothed|Oh {playername}, how happy that would make me! But my {s11} {s4} would never allow it... Perhaps it is best that we part... dlga_lady_marriage_discussion close_window|Oh {playername}, how happy that would make me! Go ask my {s11} {s4} for permission! dlga_lady_proposal_refused lady_proposal_refused_persuade_check|Perhaps I can persuade you to delay no further. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_check lady_proposal_refused_persuade_player_response|What do you have to say? dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_player_response lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result|Love is as a rose, my lady. Left unplucked, it may wither. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_player_response lady_pretalk|Oh, never mind. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result close_window|Enough, sir! I shall not be rushed into marriage, with you or with anyone else! You have made me very cross. Please, leave me alone for a while. I shall let you know when I am ready to speak to you again. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result lady_betrothed|Oh {playername}, I could never allow that to happen! Oh, if only we could be wed! But my {s11} {s4} would never give his permission... Perhaps it is best that we part... dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result close_window.1|Oh {playername}, I could never allow that to happen! Go ask my {s11} {s4} his permission for us to be wed! dlga_lady_proposal_refused close_window|Very well -- I shall continue to strive to be worthy of your esteem! dlga_lady_proposal_refused lady_player_threatens_compel|I am tired of these games! I will speak to your family about arranging a wedding immediately.. dlga_lady_player_threatens_compel lady_player_threatens_compel_2|What? Do you mean that? dlga_lady_player_threatens_compel_2 lady_private_conversation_end|No, of couse not. Please forgive my burst of temper dlga_lady_player_threatens_compel_2 close_window|Yes -- you clearly do not know what is in your best interests. dlga_lady_other_suitor lady_pretalk|It grieves me to hear that, my lady, but such things must be dlga_lady_other_suitor lady_other_suitor_challenge|Who is the miscreant! Tell me his name! dlga_lady_other_suitor lady_player_threatens_compel|I am tired of these games! I will demand that your family compel you to marry me.. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_pretalk|I would be so grateful! But from what I understand, you already have a duel on your hands. He is not honor-bound to fight you, if you are committed to another combat. Please, conclude your other business in a hurry, to rescue me from that man's attentions!. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_pretalk.1|Ah! Such talk. But from what I hear, you already have a duel on your hands. Finish one before you start another! Sigh... You men can be so silly... dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm|It is {s5}. Please, rescue me from that man's attentions! dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm.1|Will you now? This should be interesting. Very well. Your rival is {s5}. Let us see which of you has the greater mettle. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm.2|Oh, fie! I wish that this were not a matter of honor, so I could refuse such a request. But alas, I feel compelled to tell you that your rival is {s5}. I wish that heaven had not granted me such a fair visage, so that I would not inspire such passions in men! dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm.3|I will have none of such talk! It is nonsense for you and {s5} to fight over -- whoops! I beg of you, sir, forget the name that just escaped my lips... dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_yes|So be it! I shall challenge him to a trial of arms! dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_no|On second thought, I let my passions run away with me there. Never mind. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_yes lady_pretalk|{s15} dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_no lady_private_conversation_end|Good. You are wise not to let your temper guide you. dlga_lady_talk lady_ask_for_quest|Is there anything I can do to win your favor? dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_pretalk|I don't have anything else for you to do right now. dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_mission_told|Oh, I fear I may never see my {s17}, {s13}, again... He is a prisoner in the dungeon of {s14}. We have tried to negotiate his ransom, but it has been set too high. We can never hope to raise that much money without selling everything we own, and God knows {s13} would rather spend his life in prison than make us destitute. Instead I came up with a plan to get him out of there, but it requires someone to make a great sacrifice, and so far my pleas have fallen on deaf ears... dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_mission_told.1|My poor {s11}, {s13}, is a prisoner in the {s14} dungeons. The only way we can talk to each other is by exchanging letters whenever we can, but the journey is so dangerous that we get little chance to do so. Please, would you deliver one for me? dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_quest_duel_for_lady|Dear {playername}, you are kind to ask, but you know little of my troubles and I can't possibly ask you to throw yourself into danger on my behalf. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady lady_quest_duel_for_lady_2|Tell me what the problem is, and I can make my own decision. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_2 lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3|Very well, as you wish it... My husband has made certain enemies in his life, {playername}. One of the most insidious is {s13}. He is going around making terrible accusations against me, impugning my honor at every turn! Because he cannot harm my husband directly, he is using me as a target to try and stain our name. You should hear the awful things he's said! I only wish there was someone brave enough to make him recant his slander, but {s13} is a very fine swordsman, and he's widely feared... dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3 lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_accepted|I fear him not, {s65}. I will make him take back his lies. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_accepted close_window|Oh! I can't ask that of you, {playername}, but... I would be forever indebted to you, and you are so sure. It would mean so much if you would defend my honor. Thank you a thousand times, all my prayers and my favor go with you. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3 lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_rejected|If he's that dangerous, perhaps maybe it would be better to ignore him... dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_rejected close_window|Oh... Perhaps you're right, {playername}. I should let go of these silly childhood ideas of chivalry and courage. {reg63?Men People} are not like that, not anymore. Good day to you. dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_pretalk.1|No, {playername}, I've no need for a champion right now. dlga_lady_mission_told lady_mission_accepted|As you wish it, {s65}, it shall be done. dlga_lady_mission_told lady_mission_rejected|{s66}, I fear I cannot help you right now. dlga_lady_mission_accepted close_window|You are a true {reg63?gentleman lady}, {playername}. Thank you so much for helping me dlga_lady_mission_rejected close_window|You'll not help a woman in need? You should be ashamed, {playername}... Please leave me, I have some important embroidery to catch up. dlga_lady_talk lady_restore_relation|I want to improve my relation with a lord. Can you help me? dlga_lady_restore_relation lady_pretalk|{playername}, I don't know you well enough to act on your behalf. I am sorry. dlga_lady_restore_relation lady_restore_relation_2|Hmm. I guess you got on the wrong side of somebody. Very well, who do you want to restore your relation with? dlga_lady_restore_relation_2 lady_restore_relation_2b|{s1} dlga_lady_restore_relation_2 lady_pretalk|Never mind. I get along with everyone well enough. dlga_lady_restore_relation_2b lady_restore_relation_3|Well I can try to help you there. I am sure a few expensive gifts will make {s10} look at you more favorably. dlga_lady_restore_relation_3 lady_restore_relation_4|You can improve your relation with {s10} by sending {reg4?her him} a gift worth {reg10} denars. But if you can afford spending {reg11} denars on the gift, it would make a good impression on {reg4?her him}. And if you can go up to {reg12} denars, that would really help smooth things out. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_5|I think a gift of {reg10} denars will do. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_5.1|Maybe I can afford {reg11} denars. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_5.2|In that case, I am ready to spend {reg12} denars. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_cant_afford|I don't think I can afford a gift at the moment. dlga_lady_restore_relation_5 lady_restore_relation_6|Excellent. Then I'll choose an appropriate gift for you and send it to {s10} with your compliments. I am sure {reg4?she he} will appreciate the gesture. dlga_lady_restore_relation_6 lady_pretalk|Thank you for your help, madame. dlga_lady_restore_relation_cant_afford lady_pretalk|I am afraid, I can't be of much help in that case, {playername}. I am sorry. dlga_lady_talk lady_leave|I must beg my leave. dlga_lady_leave close_window|{s12} dlga_convince_begin convince_options|I still don't see why I should accept what you're asking of me. dlga_convince_options convince_bribe|Then I'll make it worth your while. ({reg8} denars) dlga_convince_options convince_friendship|Please, do it for the sake of our friendship. (-{reg9} to relation) dlga_convince_options convince_persuade_begin|Let me try and convince you. (Persuasion) dlga_convince_options lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_convince_bribe convince_bribe_verify|Mmm, a generous gift to my coffers would certainly help matters... {reg8} denars should do it. If you agree, then I'll go with your suggestion. dlga_convince_bribe_verify convince_bribe_cant_afford|I'm afraid my finances will not allow for such a gift. dlga_convince_bribe_verify convince_bribe_goon|Very well, please accept these {reg8} denars as a token of my gratitude. dlga_convince_bribe_verify convince_begin|Let me think about this some more. dlga_convince_bribe_cant_afford convince_options|Ah. In that case, there is little I can do, unless you have some further argument to make. dlga_convince_bribe_goon convince_accept|My dear {playername}, your generous gift has led me to reconsider what you ask, and I have come to appreciate the wisdom of your proposal. dlga_convince_friendship convince_friendship_verify|You've done well by me in the past, {playername}, and for that I will go along with your request, but know that I do not like you using our relationship this way. dlga_convince_friendship_verify convince_friendship_go_on|I am sorry, my friend, but I need your help in this. dlga_convince_friendship_verify lord_pretalk|If it will not please you, then I'll try something else. dlga_convince_friendship_go_on convince_accept|All right then, {playername}, I will accept this for your sake. But remember, you owe me for this. dlga_convince_friendship lord_pretalk|I don't think I owe you such a favor {playername}. I see no reason to accept this for you. dlga_convince_friendship lord_pretalk.1|Is this a joke? You've some nerve asking me for favours, {playername}, and let me assure you you'll get none. dlga_convince_persuade_begin convince_persuade_begin_2|Very well. Make your case. dlga_convince_persuade_begin_2 convince_persuade|[Attempt to persuade] dlga_convince_persuade_begin_2 convince_begin|Wait, perhaps there is another way to convince you. dlga_convince_persuade_begin lord_pretalk|By God's grace, {playername}! Haven't we talked enough already? I am tired of listening to you, and I do not want to hear any more of it right now. dlga_convince_persuade convince_accept|All right, all right. You have persuaded me to it. I'll go ahead with what you suggest. dlga_convince_persuade convince_options|You've a point, {playername}, I'll admit that much. However I am not yet convinced I should do as you bid. dlga_convince_persuade convince_options.1|Enough, {playername}. You've a lot of arguments, but I find none of them truly convincing. I stand by what I said before. dlga_convince_persuade convince_options.2|Truthfully, {playername}, I fail to see the virtue of your reasoning. What you ask for makes even less sense now than it did before. dlga_start siege_won_seneschal_1|I must congratulate you on your victory, my {reg63?lord lady}. Welcome to {s1}. We, the housekeepers of this castle, are at your service. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_1 siege_won_seneschal_2|Are you the seneschal? dlga_siege_won_seneschal_2 siege_won_seneschal_3|Indeed I am, my {reg63?lord lady}. I have always served the masters of {s1} to the best of my ability, whichever side they might be on. Thus you may count on my utmost loyalty for as long as you are the {reg63?lord lady} of this place. Now, do you intend to keep me on as the seneschal? I promise you will not be disappointed. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_3 siege_won_seneschal_4|Very well, you may keep your post for the time being. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_3 siege_won_seneschal_4.1|You can stay, but I shall be keeping a close watch on you. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_4 siege_won_seneschal_5|Thank you, my {reg63?lord lady}. If you do not mind my impudence, may I inquire as to what you wish to do with the castle? dlga_siege_won_seneschal_5 siege_won_seneschal_6|I will sell it to another lord. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_5 siege_won_seneschal_6.1|I intend to claim it for myself. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_5 siege_won_seneschal_list_options|I haven't given it much thought. What are my options? dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options siege_won_seneschal_list_options_2|According to our laws and traditions, you can do one of several things. First, you could station a garrison here to protect the castle from any immediate counterattacks, then request an audience with some wealthy lord and ask him to make you an offer. It would be worth a tidy sum, believe you me. If you do not wish to sell, then you will have to find yourself a liege lord and protector who would accept homage from you. Without a royal investiture and an army at your back, you would have a difficult time holding on to the castle. Both you and {s1} would become great big targets for any man with a few soldiers and a scrap of ambition. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options_2 siege_won_seneschal_list_options_3|What do you mean, a liege lord and protector? I won this place by my own hand, I don't need anyone else! dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options_3 siege_won_seneschal_list_options_4|Of course you don't, my {reg63?lord lady}. However, no lord in the land will recognize your claim to the castle unless it is verified by royal decree. They would call {s1} an outlaw stronghold and take it from you at the earliest opportunity. Surely not even you could stand against a whole army. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options_4 siege_won_seneschal_6|Hmm. I'll give it some thought. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_6 close_window|I am very pleased to hear it, my {reg63?lord lady}. I am only trying to serve you to the best of my ability. Now, if at any time you find you have further need of me, I will be in the great hall arranging a smooth handover of the castle to your forces. dlga_start seneschal_intro_1|Good day, {reg63?sir madam}. I do not believe I've seen you here before. Let me extend my welcome to you as the seneschal of {s1}. dlga_seneschal_intro_1 seneschal_intro_1a|A pleasure to meet you, {s65}. dlga_seneschal_intro_1a seneschal_talk|How can I help you? dlga_seneschal_intro_1 seneschal_intro_1b|What exactly do you do here? dlga_seneschal_intro_1b seneschal_talk|Ah, a seneschal's duties are many, good {reg63?sir woman}. For example, I collect the rents from my lord's estates, I manage the castle's storerooms, I deal with the local peasantry, I take care of castle staff, I arrange supplies for the garrison... All mundane matters on this fief are my responsibility, on behalf of my lord. Everything except commanding the soldiers themselves. dlga_start seneschal_talk|Good day, {reg63?sir madam}. dlga_seneschal_pretalk seneschal_talk|Anything else? dlga_start pop2_remove_equip_confirm|You want to remove the {s9}, I see.^This will forfeit any costs we had in obtaining them.^Are you sure you want to do this, {reg63?Sir Madam}? dlga_pop2_remove_equip_confirm pop2_war_room_menu|Yes, it is necessary. dlga_pop2_remove_equip_confirm pop2_war_room_menu.1|No, I've changed my mind. dlga_start pop2_war_room_menu|I am but a simple steward, please remove, replace or add one item at once. Shall we try again? dlga_start pop2_war_room_menu.1|No new equipment is needed, I see. Anything else? dlga_start pop2_war_room_menu.2|You want to {s2}, I see.^Unfortunately this will cost us {reg0} in gold and you don't have that much in the treasury.^Shall we look for something more affordable? dlga_start pop2_upgrade_equip_confirm|You want to {s2}, I see.^This will cost {reg0} in gold and will take {reg1} days.^Shall I notify the Order quartermaster? dlga_pop2_upgrade_equip_confirm pop2_war_room_menu|Yes, give the order. dlga_pop2_upgrade_equip_confirm pop2_war_room_menu.1|No, I've changed my mind. dlga_start close_window.26|Good Day {playername}. Welcome to {s9}. I am the Seneschal of the town. When you are ready, I am at your service to manage this location. dlga_start close_window.27|Good Day {playername}. Welcome to {s9}. I am the Seneschal of the town and serve the Lord here with day to day tasks. Perhaps one day, when you are a Lord of a fief, you will engage the services of your steward as well. dlga_start steward_menu|Good Day My {reg63?Lord Lady} {playername}. What may I do for you? dlga_steward_menu close_window|Thank you. That is all. dlga_steward_menu pop2_war_room_menu|I wish to go to the War room. dlga_steward_menu pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney|Let us hold a tournament. dlga_steward_menu castle_feast|Let us hold a great feast to raise the spirits of my men. dlga_steward_menu steward_gossip|What news has reached your ears? dlga_steward_gossip town_steward_gossip_talk|{s3} dlga_town_steward_gossip_talk close_window|Very good. Good-bye. dlga_steward_menu steward_menu2|Send your quartermaster to recruit from my surrounding villages for a month. dlga_steward_menu pop2_loc_status_center|Give me a general report of this location. dlga_steward_menu steward_menu2.1|Tell me of your skills. dlga_steward_menu steward_menu3|I wish to schedule a training session with you to update your skill set. dlga_steward_menu mine_close_confirm|I wish you to close your current mine. dlga_mine_close_confirm1 steward_menu2|Yes, close the mine. dlga_mine_close_confirm1 steward_menu2.1|Perhaps we should reconsider. dlga_steward_menu1 steward_menu|Very well, my {reg63?Lord Lady}. Let us go to the Great Hall. dlga_steward_menu2 steward_menu|Very good, my {reg63?Lord Lady}. Will there be anything else? dlga_mine_close_confirm mine_close_confirm1|Closing the current mine will reduce our base income by {reg9}, but will allow us to send out prospectors that may find a more valuable site. Are you sure you wish to close the current mine? dlga_steward_menu3 steward_menu|As you say my {reg63?Lord Lady}. The arrangements for the training session have been made. May I be of any further assistance? dlga_castle_feast castle_feast|Ah! Yes, my {reg63?Lord Lady}, we can accomplish that for our troops. We can do that for {reg1} gold! dlga_castle_feast steward_menu2|Very good... take {reg1} gold from my treasury! dlga_castle_feast steward_menu2.1|That is too expensive, we must do with hard cheese and stale bread. dlga_pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney_1|Very well {reg63?Sir Madame}! Just as a reminder, you must have a positive honor rating, and a fair amount of denars in order to hold a tournament. The event will take some days to set up - the more you spend, the longer it will take. How much shall we spend on preperations? dlga_pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney_1 steward_menu2|A modest sum.. 5000 denars. (+1 Honor +5 Renown) dlga_pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney_1 steward_menu2.1|We should have a Grand Tournament.. 10000 denars (+2 Honor +10 Renown +10 Prosperity) dlga_pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney_1 steward_menu2.2|Spare no expense, 20000 denars! (+3 Honor +25 Renown +20 Prosperity, Base income raise of 1 to 10) dlga_pop_diplomacy_menu_sub_tourney_1 steward_menu2.3|Perhaps this is not the best idea right now, let us move on. dlga_pop_change_color1 pop_change_color|Very well {reg63?sir madame}, I shall call for the Artists.. please select your color. dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk|Change the color to Buff dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.1|Change the color to Yellow dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.2|Change the color to Violet dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.3|Change the color to Sea Shell Tan dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.4|Change the color to Purple dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.5|Change the color to Turquoise dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.6|Change the color to Terra Cotta dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.7|Change the color to Teal dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.8|Change the color to Sandy Brown dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.9|Change the color to Tangerine dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.10|Change the color to Steel Blue dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.11|Change the color to Salmon dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.12|Change the color to Spring Green dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.13|Change the color to Black dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.14|Change the color to Dark Blue dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.15|Change the color to Blue green dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.16|Change the color to White dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.17|Change the color to Royal Blue dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.18|Change the color to Red-Violet dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.19|Change the color to Ravenstern Blue dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.20|Change the color to Empire Yellow dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.21|Change the color to Sarleon Red dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.22|Change the color to D'Shar Brown dlga_pop_change_color minister_pretalk.23|Change the color to Fierdsvain Green dlga_pop_change_culture1 pop_change_culture_confirm|{reg63?Sire Madame}... are you sure you want to do this? The people... dlga_pop_change_culture_confirm pop_change_culture2|Don't question my wisdom! Of course I am sure! This is for the best of the people! dlga_pop_change_culture_confirm minister_pretalk|Hmmm... you are right, I may have been too rash. Let us discuss other issues. dlga_pop_change_culture2 pop_change_culture|Very well {reg63?Sire Madame}, I shall prepare the Chalice but there is a price to pay, and some of our people may become unhappy... dlga_pop_change_culture minister_pretalk|I take this Chalice as a symbol of my divine right, and declare that our culture will follow the Old Kings of Pendor. dlga_pop_change_culture minister_pretalk.1|I take this Crown as a symbol of my divine right, and declare that our culture will follow the Kingdom of Sarleon. dlga_pop_change_culture minister_pretalk.2|I take this Sword as a symbol of my divine right, and declare that our culture will follow the Kingdom of Ravenstern. dlga_pop_change_culture minister_pretalk.3|I take this Axe as a symbol of my divine right, and declare that our culture will follow the Fierdsvain. dlga_pop_change_culture minister_pretalk.4|I take this Bow as a symbol of my divine right, and declare that our culture will follow the D'Shar. dlga_pop_change_culture minister_pretalk.5|I take this Spear as a symbol of my divine right, and declare that our culture will follow the Empire. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_order_goes_player|Terrible news, my {reg63?Lord Lady}! The {s16} Order, appalled at your actions, decided to leave! dlga_pop2_order_goes_player pop2_war_room_menu|I never trusted them anyway. Let's proceed with other business. dlga_pop2_order_goes_player pop2_war_room_menu.1|Hmph, attacking their patrols might not have been a good idea. Well, too late now. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_menu|Very well my {reg63?Lord Lady}, let us go to the War Room. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu steward_menu2|We need to field an army. Prepare a Baggage Train immediately. (once per 14 game days)... dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_menu.1|{s15} dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_noble_recruits|I want to view our noble recruits. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_create_order|I want to create a chapter of a Knighthood Order... dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_train_order_troops|I want to induct my troops into a Knighthood Order... dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_equip_player_order_troops|I want to improve the equipment of my {s1}. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop2_war_room_improve_troops|I want to improve the quality of the {s1}. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu dismantle_ko_confirm|I want to dismantle the Knighthood Order that is established here. dlga_dismantle_ko_confirm dismantle_ko_confirm1|You have {s15}. Are you sure you want to dismantle the {s14} order here {reg9?in at} {s16}? dlga_dismantle_ko_confirm1 pop2_war_room_menu|Yes, proceed with dismantling the {s14} order. dlga_dismantle_ko_confirm1 pop2_war_room_menu.1|No. Leave the {s14} order in place. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu steward_menu2.1|I want to transfer all my troops to the garrison. dlga_pop2_war_room_menu pop37_male_female|I want to speak about recruits of the {s1}. dlga_pop37_male_female pop37_male_female_1|My {reg63?Lord Lady}, what would you like to change? dlga_pop37_male_female_1 pop37_male_female_2|The Order should accept only male knights. dlga_pop37_male_female_1 pop37_male_female_2.1|The Order should accept only female knights. dlga_pop37_male_female_1 pop37_male_female_2.2|The Order should accept only male sergeants. dlga_pop37_male_female_1 pop37_male_female_2.3|The Order should accept only female sergeants. dlga_pop37_male_female_1 pop2_war_room_menu|I need more time to decide. dlga_pop37_male_female_2 pop2_war_room_menu|It is done my {reg63?Lord Lady}, The requirements of {s1} have been changed. ^In the meantime, what else can I do for you? dlga_pop2_war_room_menu steward_menu2.2|Let us adjourn to the great hall. dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_menu|I'm sorry, {reg63?M'Lord m'Lady}, but there are no Nobles wishing to join your court. Maybe we should wait for a week or so.^In the meantime, what else can I do for you? dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_menu.1|I'm sorry, {reg63?M'Lord m'Lady}, but you have no place in your party to hire more Nobles. I'd suggest disposing of some of the rabble there, if I may be so bold.^In the meantime, what else can I do for you? dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_menu.2|I'm sorry, {reg63?M'Lord m'Lady}, but we have no Training Grounds in {s9}. We should build one if you want to train your Nobles here.^In the meantime, what else can I do for you? dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_noble_recruits|Very good, {reg63?M'Lord m'Lady}. It takes 500 crowns for each Noble that you accept into your court. It also requires that you have a training ground present at this location. Each Noble can then be put onto the path to be trained into an elite defender of the realm, and the type of Noble will be based upon our culture. ^^There are {reg1} Nobles willing to join you. dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_noble_recruits.1|Accept 1x {s17} into your court for 500 denars. dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_noble_recruits.2|Accept 10x {s17} into your court for 5000 denars. dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_noble_recruits.3|Accept {reg40}x {s17} into your court for {reg41} denars. dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits pop2_war_room_menu.3|Return to the war-room discussion. dlga_pop2_war_room_noble_recruits steward_menu1|Let's return to the Great Hall. dlga_pop2_war_room_equip_player_order_troops pop2_war_room_menu|I am sorry, {reg63?M'Lord M'Lady}, your {s1} are already busy re-equipping with {s11} and will take about {reg0} more days to be ready. Let us wait for them to complete that task first.^Anything else? dlga_pop2_war_room_equip_player_order_troops pop2_war_room_equip_choose|{reg63?M'Lord M'Lady}, how do you want to improve your {s1}?^I can send the quartermaster to purchase new horses, armor or weapons. dlga_pop2_war_room_equip_choose pop2_war_room_buy_horses|I want to purchase new mounts for my {s1}. dlga_pop2_war_room_equip_choose pop2_war_room_buy_armor|My {s1} certainly deserve better armor. dlga_pop2_war_room_equip_choose pop2_war_room_buy_weapons|Better weapons, that's what we need right now. dlga_pop2_war_room_equip_choose pop2_war_room_menu|Never mind, let's get back to the War Room. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_horses close_window|Very well, {reg63?Sire Madam}. Choose one of the horses on the right and drag it to replace the old one on the LEFTMOST troop. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice|What type of armor did you have in mind, {reg63?Sire Madam}? dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward|Exceptional body armor. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.1|Quality body armor. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.2|Fine body armor. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.3|Affordable armor and clothes. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.4|Exceptional helms and caps. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.5|Quality helms and caps. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.6|Fine helms and caps. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.7|Affordable helms and caps. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.8|Boots and greaves. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_choice pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward.9|Gloves and gauntlets. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_armor_steward close_window|Very well, {reg63?Sire Madam}. Choose one of the armor pieces on the right and drag it to replace the old one on the LEFTMOST troop. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice|What type of weapons did you have in mind, {reg63?Sire Madam}? dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward|Quality one-handed weapons. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.1|One-handed weapons. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.2|Two-handed weapons. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.3|Polearms. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.4|Durable shields. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.5|Shields. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.6|Bows. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.7|Arrows. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.8|Crossbows. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.9|Bolts. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.10|Thrown weapons. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.11|Muskets. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_choice pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward.12|Bullets. dlga_pop2_war_room_buy_weapons_steward close_window|Very well, {reg63?Sire Madam}. Choose one of weapons on the right and drag it to replace the old one on the LEFTMOST troop. dlga_pop2_war_room_improve_troops pop2_war_room_improve_troops_response|{reg63?M'Lord M'Lady}, for {reg30} gold and {reg29} Prestige you will raise your Honor Troops' Strength and Agility by 2 each, and increase all weapon proficiencies by 20. dlga_pop2_war_room_improve_troops_response pop2_war_room_improve_troops_done|Improve the {s1}. dlga_pop2_war_room_improve_troops_response pop2_war_room_menu|Return to the war-room discussion. dlga_pop2_war_room_improve_troops_response steward_menu1|Let's return to the Great Hall. dlga_pop2_war_room_improve_troops_done pop2_war_room_improve_troops|The training has been completed and their attributes and proficiencies raised! dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops pop2_war_room_train_order_troops|{s2}. dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops pop2_war_room_train_order_troops.1|Train one {s12} to {s11}. dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops pop2_war_room_train_order_troops.2|Train all {reg1} {s12} to {s11}. dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops pop2_war_room_train_order_troops.3|Train one {s12} to {s11}. dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops pop2_war_room_train_order_troops.4|Train all {reg1} {s12} to {s11}. dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops pop2_war_room_menu|Return to the war-room discussion. dlga_pop2_war_room_train_order_troops steward_menu1|Let's return to the Great Hall. dlga_pop2_war_room_create_order pop2_war_room_create_order|Ah! Then let's see what options we have available. ^^Note that most knighthood orders require between 5 and 30 honor (-20 for Eventide) as well as 20000 to 30000 gold to create.^Also note that each order enables an upgrade from the specified troop. dlga_pop2_war_room_create_order pop2_war_room_create_order_after|Create {s7} dlga_pop2_war_room_create_order pop2_war_room_menu|Return to the war-room discussion.. dlga_pop2_war_room_create_order steward_menu2|Let's return to the Great Hall. dlga_pop2_war_room_create_order_after close_window|Excellent, my Liege. Since you founded the Order, it is your right to provide suitable names for it and its members. dlga_pop2_war_room_create_order_after pop2_war_room_menu|Excellent, my Liege. I will see to it personally.^Anything else? dlga_pop2_loc_status_center steward_menu|The Base income value here is {reg52}, and the current prosperity is {reg2}. In addition, the mineral value here is {reg1}. dlga_seneschal_talk seneschal_ask_something|I would like to ask you a question... dlga_seneschal_talk seneschal_ask_about_someone|I wish to know more about someone... dlga_seneschal_ask_about_someone seneschal_ask_about_someone_2|Perhaps I may be able to help. Whom did you have in mind? dlga_seneschal_ask_about_someone_2 seneschal_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_seneschal_talk close_window|I must take my leave of you now. Farewell. dlga_seneschal_ask_something seneschal_ask_something_2|I'll do what I can to help, of course. What did you wish to ask? dlga_seneschal_ask_something_2 seneschal_ask_location|Perhaps you know where to find someone... dlga_seneschal_ask_location seneschal_ask_location_2|Well, a man in my position does hear a lot of things. Of whom were you thinking? dlga_seneschal_ask_location_2 seneschal_ask_location_3|{s1} dlga_seneschal_ask_location_2 seneschal_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_seneschal_ask_location_3 seneschal_pretalk|{s1} dlga_start close_window.28|There! I can see the walls of {s3} in the distance. We've made it safely. Here, take this purse of {reg3} denars, as I promised. I hope we can travel together again someday. dlga_start talk_caravan_escort|We've made it this far... Is everything clear up ahead? dlga_talk_caravan_escort talk_caravan_escort_2a|There might be bandits nearby. Stay close. dlga_talk_caravan_escort_2a close_window|Trust me, {playername}, we're already staying as close to you as we can. Lead the way. dlga_talk_caravan_escort talk_caravan_escort_2b|No sign of trouble, we can breathe easy. dlga_talk_caravan_escort_2b close_window|I'll breathe easy when we reach {s1} and not a moment sooner. Let's keep moving. dlga_start merchant_talk|What do you want? We paid our toll to you less than three days ago. dlga_start merchant_talk.1|Hail, friend. dlga_start merchant_talk.2|What do you want? We are but simple merchants, we've no quarrel with you, so leave us alone. dlga_start merchant_talk.3|Be warned, knave! This caravan is under the protection of {s9}. Step out of our way or you will face his fury! dlga_start merchant_talk.4|Yes? What do you want? dlga_merchant_pretalk merchant_talk|Anything else? dlga_merchant_talk caravan_start_war_quest_1|You are trespassing in the territory of the {s17}. I am confiscating this caravan and all its goods! dlga_caravan_start_war_quest_1 caravan_start_war_quest_2|What? What nonsense is this? We are at peace with the {s17}, and are free to cross its lands! dlga_caravan_start_war_quest_2 merchant_attack|We'll see about that! Defend yourselves! dlga_caravan_start_war_quest_2 close_window|Hmm. Maybe this was all a misunderstanding. Farewell. dlga_merchant_talk merchant_talk_offer|I have an offer for you. dlga_merchant_talk_offer merchant_talk_offer_2|What is it? dlga_merchant_talk_offer_2 caravan_offer_protection|I can escort you to your destination for a price. dlga_merchant_talk_offer_2 merchant_pretalk|Nothing. Forget it dlga_merchant_talk merchant_bandit_information|I am hunting a group of bandits with the following description... Have you seen them? dlga_merchant_bandit_information merchant_pretalk|{s15} dlga_merchant_talk merchant_trip_explanation|Tell me about your journey dlga_merchant_trip_explanation merchant_pretalk|We are coming from {s11} and heading to {s12}.{s14} dlga_merchant_talk merchant_demand|I demand something from you! dlga_merchant_demand merchant_demand_2|What do you want? dlga_merchant_demand_2 merchant_demand_toll|There is a toll for free passage here! dlga_merchant_demand_toll merchant_demand_toll_2|Please, I don't want any trouble. I can give you {reg6} denars, just let us go. dlga_merchant_demand_toll merchant_demand_toll_2.1|I don't want any trouble. I can give you {reg6} denars if you'll let us go. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_2 merchant_demand_toll_accept|Agreed, hand it over and you may go in peace. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_accept close_window|Very well then. Here's {reg6} denars. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_2 merchant_pretalk|I changed my mind, I can't take your money. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_2 merchant_attack|No, I want everything you have! [Attack] dlga_merchant_demand_2 merchant_attack_begin|Hand over your gold and valuables now! dlga_merchant_demand_2 merchant_pretalk|Nothing. Forget it. dlga_merchant_attack_begin merchant_attack_verify|Are you robbing us?{s11} dlga_merchant_attack_verify merchant_attack_verify_norob|Robbing you? No, no! It was a joke. dlga_merchant_attack_verify_norob close_window|God, don't joke about that, {reg63?lad lass}. For a moment I thought we were in real trouble. dlga_merchant_attack_verify merchant_attack|Of course I'm robbing you. Now hand over your goods. dlga_merchant_attack close_window|Damn you, you won't get anything from us without a fight! dlga_caravan_offer_protection caravan_offer_protection_2|These roads are dangerous indeed. One can never have enough protection. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_2 close_window|An escort? We're almost there already! Thank you for the offer, though. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_2 caravan_offer_protection_3|We are heading to {s1}. I will pay you {reg2} denars if you escort us there. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_3 caravan_offer_protection_4|Agreed. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_4 caravan_offer_protection_5|I want you to stay close to us along the way. We'll need your help if we get ambushed by bandits. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_5 caravan_offer_protection_6|Don't worry, you can trust me. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_6 close_window|Good. Come and collect your money when we're within sight of {s1}. For now, let's just get underway. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_3 caravan_offer_protection_4b|Forget it. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_4b close_window|Perhaps another time, then. dlga_merchant_talk talk_caravan_enemy_2|Not so fast. First, hand over all your goods and money. dlga_talk_caravan_enemy_2 close_window|Never. It is our duty to protect these goods. You shall have to fight us, brigand! dlga_merchant_talk close_window|Leave. dlga_start prison_guard_players|Good day, my {reg63?lord lady}. Will you be visiting the prison? dlga_prison_guard_players close_window|Yes. Unlock the door. dlga_prison_guard_players close_window.1|No, not now. dlga_start prison_guard_talk|Yes? What do you want? dlga_prison_guard_talk prison_guard_ask_prisoners|Who is imprisoned here? dlga_prison_guard_talk prison_guard_visit_prison|I want to speak with a prisoner. dlga_prison_guard_ask_prisoners prison_guard_talk|Currently, {s50} {reg1?are is} imprisoned here.{s49} dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison close_window|Of course, {reg63?sir madam}. Go in. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison prison_guard_visit_prison_2|You need to get permission from the lord to talk to prisoners. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison prison_guard_visit_prison_nobody|There is nobody inside, therefore you can freely go inside and look around. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_nobody close_window|All right then. I'll take a look at the prison. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_nobody close_window.1|I have more important business to do. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_2 close_window|All right then. I'll try that. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_2 prison_guard_visit_prison_3|Come on now. I thought you were the boss here. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_3 prison_guard_visit_prison_4|Heh-heh. You got that right. Still, I can't let you into the prison. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_4 close_window|All right then. I'll leave now. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_4 prison_guard_visit_prison_5|I found a purse with 100 denars a few paces away. I reckon it belongs to you. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_5 close_window|Ah! I was looking for this all day. How good of you to bring it back {reg63?sir madam}. Well, now that I know what an honest {reg63?man lady} you are, there can be no harm in letting you inside for a look. Go in... Just so you know, though, I'll be hanging onto the keys, in case you were thinking about undoing anyone's chains. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_4 prison_guard_visit_break|Give me the keys to the cells -- now! dlga_prison_guard_visit_break close_window|Help! Help! Prison break! dlga_prison_guard_talk close_window|Never mind. dlga_start castle_guard_players|Your orders, {reg63?Lord Lady}? dlga_castle_guard_players close_window|Open the door. I'll go in. dlga_castle_guard_players close_window.1|Never mind. dlga_start castle_guard_sneaked_intro_1|Get out of my sight, beggar! You stink! dlga_start close_window.29|Get lost before I lose my temper you vile beggar! dlga_castle_guard_sneaked_intro_1 castle_guard_sneaked_intro_2|I want to enter the hall and speak to the lord. dlga_castle_guard_sneaked_intro_1 close_window|Leave. dlga_castle_guard_sneaked_intro_2 close_window|Are you out of your mind, {reg63?man woman}? Beggars are not allowed into the hall. Now get lost or I'll beat you bloody. dlga_start castle_guard_intro_1|What do you want? dlga_castle_guard_intro_1 castle_guard_intro_2|I want to enter the hall and speak to the lord. dlga_castle_guard_intro_1 close_window|Never mind. dlga_castle_guard_intro_2 close_window|I'm afraid there is a feast in progress, and you are not invited. dlga_castle_guard_intro_2 castle_guard_intro_3|You can go in after leaving your weapons with me. No one is allowed to carry arms into the lord's hall. dlga_castle_guard_intro_3 close_window|Here, take my arms. I'll go in. dlga_castle_guard_intro_3 castle_guard_intro_2b|No, I give my arms to no one. dlga_castle_guard_intro_2b close_window|Then you can't go in. dlga_start castle_gate_guard_talk|What do you want? dlga_castle_gate_guard_pretalk castle_gate_guard_talk|Yes? dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk castle_gate_open|We need shelter for the night. Will you let us in? dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk request_meeting_castle_lord|I want to speak with the lord of the castle. dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk request_meeting_other|I want to speak with someone in the castle. dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk close_window|Leave. dlga_request_meeting_castle_lord close_window|Wait here. {s2} will see you. dlga_request_meeting_castle_lord castle_gate_guard_pretalk|My lord is not here now. dlga_request_meeting_other request_meeting_3|Who is that? dlga_request_meeting_3 request_meeting_4|{s3} dlga_request_meeting_3 close_window|Never mind. dlga_request_meeting_4 request_meeting_5|Wait there. I'll send him your request. dlga_request_meeting_5 request_meeting_6|I'm waiting... dlga_request_meeting_6 close_window|All right. {s2} will talk to you now. dlga_request_meeting_6 close_window.1|{s2} says he will not see you. Begone now. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window|My lord {s2} will be happy to see you {reg63?sir madam}. Come on in. I am opening the gates for you. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.1|My lord {s2} is not in the castle now. But I think he would approve of you taking shelter here. Come on in. I am opening the gates for you. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.2|Come on in. I am opening the gates for you. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.3|Come on in. But make sure your men behave sensibly within the walls. My lord {s2} does not want trouble here. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.4|My lord {s2} does not want you here. Begone now. dlga_start close_window.30|You have come just in time. Let us join our forces now and teach our enemy a lesson. dlga_start close_window.31|You are making a big mistake by fighting against us. dlga_start ally_thanks_meet|I don't think we have met properly, my friend. You just saved my life out there, and I still don't know your name... dlga_start ally_thanks_meet.1|Your help was most welcome stranger. My name is {s1}. Can I learn yours? dlga_start ally_thanks_meet.2|Thanks for your help, stranger. We haven't met properly yet, have we? What is your name? dlga_ally_thanks_meet ally_thanks_meet_2|My name is {playername}. dlga_ally_thanks_meet_2 close_window|Well met indeed {playername}. My name is {s1} and I am forever in your debt. If there is ever anything I can help you with, just let me know... dlga_ally_thanks_meet_2 close_window.1|Well met {playername}. I am in your debt for what you just did. I hope one day I will find a way to repay it. dlga_ally_thanks_meet_2 close_window.2|Well met {playername}. I am {s1}. Thanks for your help, and I hope we meet again. dlga_start close_window.32|Again you save our necks, {playername}! Truly, you are the best of friends. {s43} dlga_start close_window.33|You arrived just in the nick of time! {playername}. You have my deepest thanks! {s43} dlga_start close_window.34|You turned up just in time, {playername}. I will not forget your help. {s43} dlga_start close_window.35|Good to see you here, {playername}. {s43} dlga_start close_window.36|{s43} dlga_start close_window.37|{s43} dlga_start close_window.38|Thank you for your help, {reg63?sir madam}. You saved {reg42?our lives my life} out there. dlga_start close_window.39|Thank you for your help {reg63?sir madam}. Things didn't look very well for us but then you came up and everything changed. dlga_start close_window.40|Thank you for your help, {reg63?sir madam}. It was fortunate to have you nearby. dlga_start kidnapped_girl_liberated_battle|Oh {reg63?sir madam}. Thank you so much for rescuing me. Will you take me to my family now? dlga_start freed_hero_answer|I am in your debt for freeing me, friend. dlga_freed_hero_answer freed_hero_answer_1|You're not going anywhere. You'll be my prisoner now! dlga_freed_hero_answer_1 close_window|Alas. Will my luck never change? dlga_freed_hero_answer freed_hero_answer_2|You're free to go, {s65}. dlga_freed_hero_answer_2 close_window|Thank you, good {reg63?sir lady}. I never forget someone who's done me a good turn. dlga_freed_hero_answer freed_hero_answer_3|Would you like to join me? dlga_freed_hero_answer_3 close_window|All right, I will join you. dlga_freed_hero_answer_3 close_window.1|No, I want to go on my own. dlga_start defeat_hero_answer|You'll not live long to enjoy your victory. My kinsmen will soon wipe out the stain of this defeat. dlga_defeat_hero_answer defeat_hero_answer_1|You are my prisoner now. dlga_defeat_hero_answer_1 close_window|Damn you. You will regret this. dlga_defeat_hero_answer defeat_hero_answer_2|You're free to go this time, but don't cross my path again. dlga_defeat_hero_answer_2 close_window|We will meet again. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested|{s9} dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window|I think that is a wise move. Good luck to you. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.1|Your relations with {s4} are not all that they could be. As {reg4?she he} is my {s11}, I can mediate to attempt to mend your quarrel. Perhaps the best way for me to do this would be to send {reg4?her him} a gift -- a fur-trimmed velvet robe, perhaps. If you can provide me with a bolt of velvet and a length of furs, I can have one made and sent to {reg4?her him.} dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.1|Splendid. I shall await the materials. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.2|As you may realize, {s4} has many enemies among the lords of the {s5}. In particular, they feel that {reg4?she he} is {s7}, and worry that {reg4?she he} will {s8}. Were you to denounce {s4} to {reg4?her his} face, you may reap much popularity -- although, of course, you would make an enemy of {reg4?her him}, and risk being challenged to a duel. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.3|As you may realize, many of us in the peerage of the {s5} consider {s4} to be {s7}, and a liability to our cause. We worry that {reg4?she he} will {s8}. People know my views on {s4} already, but if you were to denounce {reg4?her him} to {reg4?her his} face, you would further erode his standing -- and discourage our liege from entrusting {reg4?her him} with any more power or responsibility. Of course, you would make an enemy of {reg4?her him}, and risk being challenged to a duel.{s9} dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.2|We appreciate what you are doing. I find such intrigues distasteful, but it is all for the good of the {s5}. dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.3|Very well. It is always risky to involve yourself in intrigues of this sort, but in this case, I think you will benefit. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.4|You and I have a common interest in seeking to curtail the rise of {s4}. I feel that {reg4?she he} is {s7}, and worry that {reg4?she he} will {s8}. Were you to tell our liege {s9} your opinion of {s4}, it might discourage {s9} from granting {s4} any further powers or responsibilities, at least for a while, and I would be much obliged to you. dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.4|We appreciate what you are doing. I find such intrigues distasteful, but it is all for the good of the {s5}. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.5|I cannot think of anything right now, but we will have some items of mutual interest in the future. dlga_political_quest_suggested political_quest_follow_on|I like that idea. dlga_political_quest_suggested combined_political_quests|Hmm ... Maybe you can think of something else? dlga_political_quest_suggested political_quests_end|Let us discuss another topic dlga_political_quests_end lord_pretalk|Very well. dlga_political_quests_end spouse_pretalk|Very well. dlga_political_quests_end minister_pretalk|Very well. dlga_political_quests_end close_window|Very well. dlga_start local_merchant_mercy|Mercy! Please don't kill me! dlga_local_merchant_mercy local_merchant_mercy_no|I have nothing against you, man. But {s2} wants you dead. Sorry. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_no close_window|Damn you! May you burn in Hell! dlga_local_merchant_mercy local_merchant_mercy_yes|I'll let you live, if you promise me... dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes local_merchant_mercy_yes_2|Of course, I promise, I'll do anything. Just spare my life... dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_2 local_merchant_mercy_yes_3|You are going to forget about {s2}'s debt to you. And you will sign a paper stating that he owes you nothing. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_3 local_merchant_mercy_yes_4|Yes, of course. I'll do as you say. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_4 local_merchant_mercy_yes_5|And if my lord hears so much of a hint of a complaint about this issue, then I'll come back for you, and it won't matter how much you scream for mercy then. Do you understand me? dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_5 local_merchant_mercy_yes_6|Yes, {reg63?sir madam}. Don't worry. I won't make any complaint. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_6 close_window|Good. Go now, before I change my mind. dlga_start fugitive_1|What do you want? dlga_fugitive_1 fugitive_2|I am looking for a murderer by the name of {s4}. You fit his description. dlga_fugitive_1 close_window|Nothing. Sorry to trouble you. dlga_fugitive_2 fugitive_3|I don't understand, {reg63?sir madam}. I've never killed anyone. I think you've got the wrong man. dlga_fugitive_3 fugitive_4|Then drop your sword. If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear. We'll go now and talk to your neighbours, and if they verify your story, I'll go on my way. dlga_fugitive_4 fugitive_5|I'm not going anywhere, friend. You're going to have to fight for your silver today. dlga_fugitive_5 fugitive_fight_start|No problem. I really just need your head, anyway. dlga_fugitive_5 fugitive_fight_start.1|I come not for money, but to execute the law! dlga_fugitive_5 fugitive_fight_start.2|Alas, that you cannot be made to see reason. dlga_fugitive_fight_start close_window|Die, dog! dlga_member_chat sacrificed_messenger_1|Yes {reg63?sir madam}? dlga_sacrificed_messenger_1 sacrificed_messenger_2|Take this letter to {s1} and give it to {s2}. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_1 close_window|Nothing. Nothing at all. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_2 sacrificed_messenger_3|Yes {reg63?sir madam}. You can trust me. I will not fail you. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_3 close_window|Good. I will not forget your service. You will be rewarded when you return. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_3 sacrificed_messenger_cancel|Arggh! I can't do this. I can't send you to your own death! dlga_sacrificed_messenger_cancel sacrificed_messenger_cancel_2|What do you mean {reg63?sir madam} dlga_sacrificed_messenger_cancel_2 sacrificed_messenger_cancel_3|There's a trap set up for you in the town. {s3} ordered me to sacrifice one of my chosen warriors to fool the enemy, but he will just need to find another way. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_cancel_3 close_window|Thank you, {reg63?sir madam}. I would follow you to the gates of hell, but this would not be a good death. dlga_start close_window.41|Don't worry, {reg63?sir madam}, I'm on my way. dlga_start follow_spy_talk|Good day {reg63?sir madam}. Such fine weather don't you think? If you'll excuse me now I must go on my way. dlga_follow_spy_talk follow_spy_talk_2|In the name of {s1}, you are under arrest! dlga_follow_spy_talk_2 close_window|You won't get me alive! dlga_follow_spy_talk close_window|Never mind me. I was just passing by. dlga_start spy_partners_talk|Greetings. dlga_spy_partners_talk spy_partners_talk_2|In the name of {s1} You are under arrest! dlga_spy_partners_talk_2 close_window|You will have to fight us first! dlga_spy_partners_talk close_window|Never mind me. I was just passing by. dlga_start runaway_serf_intro_1|Good day {reg63?sir madam}. dlga_runaway_serf_intro_1 runaway_serf_intro_2|I have been sent by your {s4} whom you are running from. He will not punish you if you return now. dlga_runaway_serf_intro_2 runaway_serf_intro_3|My good {reg63?sir madam}. Our lives at our village {s1} was unbearable. We worked all day long and still went to bed hungry. We are going to {s6} to start a new life, where we will be treated like humans. dlga_runaway_serf_intro_3 runaway_serf_go_back|You have gone against our laws by running from your bondage. You will go back to {s1} now! dlga_runaway_serf_intro_3 runaway_serf_let_go|Well, maybe you are right. All right then. If anyone asks, I haven't seen you. dlga_runaway_serf_go_back close_window|All right {reg63?sir madam}. As you wish. We'll head back to {s5} now. dlga_runaway_serf_let_go close_window|God bless you, {reg63?sir madam}. We will not forget your help. dlga_start runaway_serf_reconsider|Good day {reg63?sir madam}. Don't worry. If anyone asks, we haven't seen you. dlga_runaway_serf_reconsider runaway_serf_go_back|I have changed my mind. You must back to your village! dlga_runaway_serf_reconsider runaway_serf_let_go|Good. Go quickly now before I change my mind. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_caught|Good day {reg63?sir madam}. We were heading back to {s5}, but I am afraid we lost our way. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_caught runaway_serf_go_back|Do not test my patience. You are going back now! dlga_runaway_serf_talk_caught runaway_serf_let_go|Well, if you are that eager to go, then go. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_again_return|We are on our way back to {s5} {reg63?sir madam}. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_again_return runaway_serf_talk_again_return_2|Make haste now. The sooner you return the better. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_again_return runaway_serf_talk_again_return_2.1|Good. Keep going. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_again_return_2 close_window|Yes {reg63?sir madam}. As you wish. dlga_start troublesome_bandits_intro_1|This must be your unlucky day, mate. We're just about the worst people you could run into, in these parts. dlga_troublesome_bandits_intro_1 troublesome_bandits_intro_2|Heh. For me, you are nothing more than walking money bags. A merchant in {s1} offered me good money for your heads. dlga_troublesome_bandits_intro_2 close_window|A bounty hunter! Kill {reg63?him her}! Kill {reg63?him her} now! dlga_start marauding_jatu_intro_1|We hunt for Noldor, and their god-cursed dwelling in the woods. Tell me all you know, now! dlga_marauding_jatu_intro_1 marauding_jatu_intro_2|And we are hunting for you, thieving tribals. We'll cleanse the woods of your filth! dlga_marauding_jatu_intro_2 close_window|HAZAH Jatu! Prepare to Fight! Prepare to Die! dlga_start deserter_paid_talk|What do you want? You want to pay us some more money? dlga_deserter_paid_talk deserter_paid_talk_2a|Sorry to trouble you. I'll be on my way now. dlga_deserter_paid_talk_2a close_window|Yeah. Stop fooling around and go make some money. I want to see that purse full next time I see you. dlga_deserter_paid_talk deserter_paid_talk_2b|No. It's your turn to pay me this time. dlga_deserter_paid_talk_2b close_window|What nonsense are you talking about? You want trouble? You got it. dlga_start deserter_talk|We are free warriors! We will fight only for ourselves, and to take what we want and when we want. Now give us your gold, or taste our steel. dlga_deserter_talk close_window|When I'm done with you, you'll regret ever leaving your army. dlga_deserter_talk deserter_barter|There's no need to fight. I am ready to pay for free passage. dlga_deserter_barter deserter_barter_2|Good. You are clever. Now, having a look at your baggage, I reckon a fellow like you could pretty easily afford {reg5} denars. We wouldn't want to be too greedy, now would we? Pay us, and then you can go. dlga_deserter_barter_2 deserter_barter_3a|All right here's your {reg5} denars. dlga_deserter_barter_2 deserter_barter_3b|I don't have that much money with me dlga_deserter_barter_3b close_window|Too bad. Then we'll have to sell you to the slavers. dlga_deserter_barter_3a close_window|Heh. That wasn't difficult, now, was it? All right. Go now. dlga_start tavernkeeper_talk|Good day dear {reg63?sir madam}. How can I help you? dlga_tavernkeeper_pretalk tavernkeeper_talk|Anything else? dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_1|Do you know anyone who breeds war horses? dlga_tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_1 tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_2|Hmm... many different people visit my tavern... it is, quite extraordinarily hard, to remember all of them... (the keeper cleans a mug, glancing at nearby denars on the bar) dlga_tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_2 tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_3|Maybe few coins will improve your memory? dlga_tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_2 tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_3.1|Maybe this blade will improve your memory? dlga_tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_3 tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_4|Woah, woah, okay, okay! I know only one man... who breeds farm horses ... dlga_tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_4 tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_5|'WAR', I said 'WAR' horses! dlga_tavernkeeper_talk_horse_armor_5 tavernkeeper_pretalk|Oh... in that case I really don't know... maybe visit local market. It is quite crowded today and I'm sure someone may know something. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_feast|I want to bring my lads here for ale and lively entertainment, so we can improve morale. dlga_tavernkeeper_feast tavernkeeper_feast|I think we can do that for {reg1} gold! dlga_tavernkeeper_feast tavernkeeper_pretalk|Very good. Here is {reg1} gold. dlga_tavernkeeper_feast tavernkeeper_pretalk.1|That is too expensive, they can stay in the stables and drink water! dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_deliver_wine|I was told to deliver to you {reg9} units of {s4}. dlga_tavernkeeper_deliver_wine tavernkeeper_pretalk|At last! My stock was almost depleted. I had paid the cost of the {s4} in advance. Here, take these {reg5} denars. That should cover your pay. And give {s9} my regards. I'll put in a good word for you next time I deal with him. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_incomplete|I was told to deliver you {reg9} units of {s4}, but I lost some of the cargo on the way. dlga_tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_incomplete tavernkeeper_pretalk|Attacked by bandits eh? You are lucky they left you alive. Anyway, I can pay you no more than {reg5} denars for this. And I will let {s1} know that my order was delivered less than completely, so you will probably be charged for this loss. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_lost|I was told to deliver you {reg9} units of {s4}, but I lost the cargo on the way. dlga_tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_lost tavernkeeper_pretalk|What? I was waiting for that {s4} for weeks! And now you are telling me that you lost it? You may rest assured that I will let {s1} know about this. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_rumors|What are people talking about in town? dlga_tavernkeeper_rumors bar_post_rumor|{s3} dlga_bar_post_rumor tavernkeeper_pretalk|Very good, thank you. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_buy_drinks|I'd like to buy every man who comes in here tonight a jar of your best wine. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_2|Of course, {reg63?my lord my lady}. I reckon {reg5} denars should be enough for that. What should I tell the lads? dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_2 tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_end|Let everyone know of the generosity of {playername} to the people of {s10}. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_end tavernkeeper_pretalk|Don't worry {reg63?sir madam}. Your name will be cheered and toasted here all night. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_2 tavernkeeper_pretalk|Actually, cancel that order. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_job_ask|Have you heard of anyone in this realm who might have a job for a {reg63?man woman} like myself? dlga_tavernkeeper_job_ask tavern_bard_talk|{s9} dlga_tavern_bard_talk close_window|Yes, I will take the Job!. dlga_tavern_bard_talk close_window.1|Not right now. I will be back! dlga_tavern_bard_talk tavernkeeper_job_ask|Yes, please tell me. dlga_tavernkeeper_job_ask tavernkeeper_job_search|Hmm... Well, {s10} is often looking for mercenaries to fight in his wars.{s9} dlga_tavernkeeper_job_search tavernkeeper_job_result|Let me think some more... dlga_tavernkeeper_job_result tavernkeeper_job_search|I have heard that {s7} {s9}{s10} You may want to speak with {reg4?her him}. dlga_tavernkeeper_job_result tavernkeeper_job_result_2|There may be other work, of course -- lords and guildmasters often have other tasks which we don't hear about. Also, the villages around here frequently need help, although they'd be more likely to pay you with a wedge of cheese and goodwill than with cold hard denars. dlga_tavernkeeper_job_result_2 close_window|I'll keep my ears open for other opportunities. You may want to ask again from time to time. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_spawned_armies|Any news about invading armies? dlga_tavernkeeper_spawned_armies close_window|Maybe, but you don't have enough gold to buy this type of information. dlga_tavernkeeper_spawned_armies tavernkeeper_spawned_armies_1|Yes, I have heard something interesting and could share it with you for ... a 2000 shiny gold pieces. dlga_tavernkeeper_spawned_armies close_window.1|No, I haven't heard anything. dlga_tavernkeeper_spawned_armies_1 close_window|That is way too much. Goodbye. dlga_tavernkeeper_spawned_armies_1 tavernkeeper_spawned_armies_2|You filthy ... here is your gold. dlga_tavernkeeper_spawned_armies_2 close_window|Business is business. That is what have reached my ears ^ {s54} dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_supplies|I am looking for supplies. dlga_tavernkeeper_supplies tavernkeeper_pretalk|Your party seems to already have enough supplies for a campaign. ^^^^^^(at least one Baggage Train already present in the game) dlga_tavernkeeper_supplies tavernkeeper_pretalk.1|You will need more spoils of war, if you want to make a fair deal. ^^^^^^(requires 2x Various Loot) dlga_tavernkeeper_supplies tavernkeeper_supplies_1|We will get you the proper supplies. It will be shipped to you shortly. ^^^^^^(Baggage Train uses 2x Various Loot) dlga_tavernkeeper_supplies_1 close_window|Very well. dlga_tavernkeeper_supplies_1 tavernkeeper_pretalk|Maybe later. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk close_window|I guess I should leave now.
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dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_1 lord_quarrel_intervention_2|{s14} dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_2 lord_quarrel_intervention_3a|Ah, well. It sounds like you're in the right, then. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_2 lord_quarrel_intervention_3b|Whatever your differences, I want you to settle them. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_2 lord_quarrel_intervention_3b.1|Could you not be convinced to settle your differences? dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_2 lord_pretalk|On second thought, I want nothing to do with this. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_3a lord_pretalk|I'm glad that you think so. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_3b lord_quarrel_intervention_4|For the sake of our friendship, I defer to your judgment. I will try to make amends with {s11}. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_3b lord_pretalk|I will not reconcile with {s11}. I know my rights. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_4 lord_pretalk|Let it be as though our quarrel never occurred. dlga_lord_quarrel_intervention_4 lord_pretalk.1|I suppose that you should speak to {s11}, and see if {reg0?she he} will do the same for me. dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response|I had already made up my mind to support you. dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response.1|I had already made up my mind to support {s4}. dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response.2|I am unable to decide at this time dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response.3|I support {s15}. {s10} dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate|Let me tell you whom I support... dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response|CHEAT -- Reset support dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select|Whom do you support? dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select lord_internal_politics_pretalk|I would like to nominate myself for that honor dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select lord_internal_politics_pretalk.1|I support my {reg0?wife husband}, {s4} dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select lord_internal_politics_support_acknowledge|I would support you, {s4} dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select lord_internal_politics_support_same_acknowledge|I would support your choice, {s4} dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_acknowledge lord_pretalk|That is most gracious of you, but I do not seek the honor, and I decline your support. dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_acknowledge lord_pretalk.1|I do not trust you, and I do not need your support. dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_acknowledge lord_pretalk.2|That is most gracious of you dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_same_acknowledge lord_pretalk|You may tell {reg3?her him} that yourself. I do not trust you, and I will have no part in any game which you are playing. dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_same_acknowledge lord_pretalk.1|Given your relation with {s4}, I do not think that {reg3?she he} would welcome your support. dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_same_acknowledge lord_pretalk.2|I will tell {s4}. {reg3?She He} will no doubt be grateful for your support. dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_choose_candidate_select lord_internal_politics_pretalk.2|I support {s4} dlga_lord_internal_politics_pretalk lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response|Ah. Most interesting. dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support|Can I convince you to support me instead? dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_1|Can I convince you to support someone else? dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2|Can I convince you to support {s4}? dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_1 dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_1|Whom did you have in mind? dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_1 lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_1 dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2|{s4} dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk|Given our relationship, I would prefer to keep my own counsel on this matter. dlga_lord_internal_politics_support_same_acknowledge lord_pretalk.3|Given your relation with {s4}, I do not think that {reg3?she he} would welcome your support. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.1|{s4} has engendered too much controversy for {reg3?her him} to be a viable candidate right now. I would advise {reg3?her him} to wait a little while before seeking any further honors. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.2|{s4} has already been well-rewarded with fiefs appropriate to {reg3?her his} accomplishments, I would say. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.3|I think {s4} would need to prove {reg3?herself himself} further before {reg3?she he} is eligible for that position. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.4|{s3} deserves to receive {s0} more than {s4}, I would say. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.5|I think {s4} would need to prove {reg3?herself himself} further before {reg3?she he} is eligible for that position. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.6|{s1} dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.7|Hmm... That is too much to ask, given the state of my relationship with the two of you. dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.8|I am sorry. I would not wish to strain my relationship with {s4} dlga_dplmc_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support_2 lord_pretalk.9|I will gladly support {s4}. dlga_lord_internal_politics_cur_stance_plyr_response lord_pretalk|Anyway, enough of politics for the time being. dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support lord_pretalk|You have engendered too much controversy to be a viable candidate right now. I would advise you to wait a little while before seeking any further honors for yourself. dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support lord_pretalk.1|I am sorry. I would not wish to strain my relationship with {s4} dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support lord_pretalk.2|You have already been well-rewarded with fiefs appropriate to your accomplishments, I would say. dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support lord_pretalk.3|I think you would need to prove yourself further before you are eligible for that position. dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support lord_pretalk.4|Hmm... That is too much to ask, given the state of our relationship. dlga_lord_internal_politics_plyr_request_support lord_pretalk.5|I would support you with pleasure. dlga_lord_recruit_1_relation lord_pretalk|I am a bit weary of talking politics. Perhaps at a later date dlga_lord_recruit_1_relation lord_pretalk.1|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_1_relation lord_recruit_pretender|You have raised the standard of rebellion on behalf of {s16}. Have you come to plead {reg3?her his} case? dlga_lord_recruit_pretender lord_recruit_3_dilemma_1|I have dlga_lord_recruit_pretender lord_recruit_1_relation|No, that's not it. There's another issue I wish to discuss. dlga_lord_recruit_1_relation lord_pretalk.2|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_1_relation lord_recruit_2|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_2 lord_recruit_2_philosophy|What do you think, in general terms, about kings, lords, and politics? dlga_lord_recruit_2 lord_spouse_leave_faction|My {reg65?wife husband}, I believe that you should rethink your allegiance to {s11} dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction lord_spouse_leave_faction_2|{s9} has always been a good liege to me, but I will hear you out. What do you suggest we do? dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction lord_spouse_leave_faction_2.1|I see no particular reason to abandon {s9}, but I will heed your advice. What do you suggest we do? dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction lord_spouse_leave_faction_2.2|Yes -- as a liege, {s9} is a great disappointment. What do you suggest we do? dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_2 lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king|I believe you should be the ruler, my {reg65?wife husband}! dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_2 lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen|I am the rightful ruler of the world dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen lord_pretalk|I swore an oath to serve {s11}, and {he/she} has upheld {his/her} end of the bargain. Let us have no more of this talk. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen lord_pretalk.1|I see no reason to turn my back on {s11} now. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king lord_pretalk|Perhaps some day, {s0} -- but before I declare myself {s1}, I should like for one of us to hold a fortress which could serve as our court before we declare ourselves publically. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen lord_pretalk.2|While I do not contest your claim, {s0}, I should like for one of us to hold a fortress which could serve as our court before we declare ourselves publically. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen_confirm|{s11} dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen lord_pretalk.3|{s11} dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen_confirm close_window|I am ready now, my {wife/husband}. Let us go forth to seek our throne. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_proclaim_queen_confirm lord_pretalk|Perhaps I am not yet ready. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king lord_pretalk.1|Perhaps, but I would need your full support to press that claim. You would want to resolve {s4}'s rebellion before pushing this any further. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king_2|Most of the great families of this land have a claim to the throne... Given the recent issues with the succession, I should be as legitimate a {s0} as {s4}. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king_2 lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king_3|While {s0}, I will defer to your judgment in the appointment of ministers, the conduct of diplomacy, and other such matters. dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king_3 close_window|Very well, my {wife/husband}. Let us ride forth to press your claim! dlga_lord_spouse_leave_faction_husband_king_3 lord_pretalk|Actually, let us bide out time for a bit. dlga_lord_recruit_2_philosophy lord_recruit_2|{s43} Did you wish to speak of anything else? dlga_lord_recruit_2 lord_recruit_2_discontent|How do you feel about {s15}? dlga_lord_recruit_2 lord_recruit_3_a|Do you remember what I had told you earlier? dlga_lord_recruit_2 lord_recruit_quarrel_describe|I have heard that you have quarreled with {s16} dlga_lord_recruit_quarrel_describe lord_recruit_2|It is no secret. {s14} dlga_lord_recruit_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_lord_recruit_2_discontent lord_recruit_2_discontent_b|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_2_discontent lord_recruit_hesitant|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_2_discontent_b lord_recruit_3|Sometimes, I do worry about the state of the realm. dlga_lord_recruit_hesitant lord_recruit_hesitant_persuade|Can't I persuade you to say a little more? dlga_lord_recruit_hesitant lord_pretalk|Ah. Very good. dlga_lord_recruit_hesitant_persuade lord_recruit_3|If you put it that way, I admit that I do sometimes worry about the state of the realm. dlga_lord_recruit_hesitant_persuade lord_pretalk|You try my patience. I said that I have nothing to say. dlga_lord_recruit_3 lord_recruit_3_a|Well, I have something to tell you. dlga_lord_recruit_3 lord_pretalk|Well, that's interesting to know. But enough about politics. dlga_lord_recruit_3_a lord_recruit_3_reset_claim|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_3_reset_claim lord_recruit_3_claim|Yes, that's it. dlga_lord_recruit_3_reset_claim lord_recruit_3_a_reset|Let me phrase that a little differently. dlga_lord_recruit_3_a lord_recruit_3_b|Yes? dlga_lord_recruit_3_a_reset lord_recruit_3_b|Yes? dlga_lord_recruit_3_b lord_recruit_3_why|I ask for your support for the throne of this realm dlga_lord_recruit_3_b lord_recruit_3_why.1|I ask you to pledge allegiance to my liege, {s45}, as monarch of all the realm dlga_lord_recruit_3_b lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_lord_recruit_3_dilemma_1 lord_recruit_3_dilemma_2|{s43} dlga_lord_recruit_3_dilemma_2 lord_recruit_3_why|{s43} dlga_lord_recruit_3_why lord_pretalk|Neither of us has so much as a single fortress to our name. Would you rule your sovereignty from an outlaw's den in the woods? dlga_lord_recruit_3_why lord_recruit_3_d|Why should I support {s44}? dlga_lord_recruit_3_d lord_recruit_3_claim|{s43} dlga_lord_recruit_3_d lord_recruit_3_claim.1|If {he/she} were the ruler of the realm, {he/she} would deal with all men fairly and uphold the rights of the commons. dlga_lord_recruit_3_d lord_recruit_3_claim.2|If {he/she} were your liege, {he/she} would uphold your ancient rights as a noble of this land. dlga_lord_recruit_3_d lord_recruit_3_claim.3|Because {he/she} can unify the realm and end this discord. dlga_lord_recruit_3_d lord_recruit_3_claim.4|Because {he/she} will reward you with lands. dlga_lord_recruit_3_d lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_lord_recruit_3_claim lord_recruit_3_claim|Do you perhaps tell each person what you think they most want to hear? {s12} dlga_lord_recruit_3_claim lord_recruit_4|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_3_claim lord_pretalk|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_4 lord_recruit_4_objective_conditions|I ask you to pledge your allegiance to {s16}. dlga_lord_recruit_4 lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_recruit_4_objective_conditions lord_recruit_5_security|Let me think... dlga_lord_recruit_5_security lord_recruit_5_political|{s32} dlga_lord_recruit_5_political lord_recruit_5_ideological|{s31} dlga_lord_recruit_5_ideological lord_recruit_5_change_sides|{s33} dlga_lord_recruit_5_change_sides lord_recruit_6|{s34} dlga_lord_recruit_6 lord_recruit_6_reaction|It is time for you to make a decision. dlga_lord_recruit_6 lord_pretalk|No need to decide anything -- we can speak of this at a later time. dlga_lord_recruit_6_reaction lord_recruit_7_decision|Very well... dlga_lord_recruit_7_decision lord_pretalk|{s12} dlga_lord_recruit_7_decision lord_recruit_pledge|Very well -- I am ready to pledge myself to {s4} as my {reg4?queen king}. dlga_lord_recruit_pledge lord_recruit_pledge|Remember. You have promised me a fief. I will hold you to that promise. dlga_lord_recruit_pledge lord_recruit_pledge_conclude|So be it -- I pledge allegiance to you as your faithful vassal. I shall stand at your side to fight your enemies should you need my {s0}, and uphold your claims and those of your legitimate heirs. I expect in turn that you will protect me and recognize my rights as your vassal. dlga_lord_recruit_pledge lord_recruit_pledge_conclude.1|So be it -- you may inform {s4} that I am now {reg4?her his} faithful vassal, that I will follow {reg4?her him} as long as my breath remains, and I will be at {reg4?her his} side to fight {reg4?her his} enemies should {reg4?she he} need my {s0}, and that I uphold {reg4?her his} lawful claims and those of {reg4?her his} legitimate heirs. In turn, I expect {reg4?her his} protection and {reg4?her his} recognition of my rights as {reg4?her his} vassal. dlga_lord_recruit_pledge_conclude close_window|Now... It is a momentous step I have taken. I will take my leave, as I may need some time prepare myself for what comes next. dlga_lord_start close_window.3|I received the gift, presented to me through my {s11} {s10}. It was a noble gesture, {s0}, and I regret that we ever quarreled. dlga_lord_start close_window.4|I received the gift, presented to me through my {s11} {s10}. For {reg4?her his} sake, I am willing to let bygones be bygones. dlga_lord_start close_window.5|I received the gift, presented to me through my {s11} {s10}. Bah! Do you think you can buy my friendship? dlga_lord_start close_window.6|I received the gift, presented to me through my {s11} {s10}. As dear as {reg4?she he} is to me, however, I cannot forget our differences. dlga_lord_talk denounce_lord_results|I did as you suggested, and denounced {s4} dlga_denounce_lord_results lord_pretalk|Yes, and hopefully now {s4} will think twice before entrusting {reg0?her him} with any additional fiefs, honors, or offices. We are grateful to you. dlga_denounce_lord_results close_window|So you did -- and we have heard that {reg0?she he} forced you to retract your words, and thus emerged from this affair looking stronger than before. You will forgive me, if my gratitude to you is somewhat muted. dlga_lord_talk lord_quest_intrigue_result|I did as you asked, and spoke to {s5} about the danger posed by {s4}. dlga_lord_quest_intrigue_result lord_pretalk|So we hear. Hopefully now {s5} will think twice before entrusting {reg0?her him} with any additional fiefs, honors, or offices. We are grateful to you. dlga_lord_quest_intrigue_result close_window|So we hear -- but alas, {s5} seems not to have listened. Still, we are grateful to you for trying. dlga_lord_talk lord_lend_companion_end|I should like {s14} returned to me, {s65}, if you no longer require {reg3?her his} services. dlga_lord_lend_companion_end lord_pretalk|You've too many men in your company already, {playername}. You could not lead any more at the moment. dlga_lord_lend_companion_end lord_pretalk.1|Certainly, {playername}. {reg3?She He} is a bright {reg3?girl fellow}, you're a lucky {man/woman} to have such worthy companions. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_to_collect_debt|I've come to collect the debt you owe to {s1}. dlga_lord_ask_to_collect_debt lord_ask_to_collect_debt_2|Oh. Well, {s1} did lend me some silver a ways back, but I've done {reg0?her him} many favours in the past and I consider that money as my due payment. dlga_lord_ask_to_collect_debt_2 convince_begin|{s1} considers it a debt. {reg0?She He} asked me to speak to you on {reg0?her his} behalf. dlga_lord_ask_to_collect_debt_2 lord_pretalk|Then I will not press the matter any further. dlga_convince_accept close_window|My debt to {s8} has long been overdue and was a source of great discomfort to me. Thank you for accepting to take the money to {reg0?her him}. Please give {reg0?her him} these {reg10} coins and thank {reg0?her him} on my behalf. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_to_make_peace|Please, {s64}, it's time to end this war between {s12} and {s13}. dlga_lord_ask_to_make_peace lord_ask_to_make_peace_2|Eh? I'm not sure I heard you right, {playername}. War is not easily forgotten by either side of the conflict, and I have a very long memory. Why should I take any interest in brokering peace with those dogs? dlga_lord_ask_to_make_peace_2 convince_begin|Perhaps I can talk you into it... dlga_lord_ask_to_make_peace_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind, peace can wait for now. dlga_convince_accept close_window.1|You... have convinced me, {playername}. Very well then, you've my blessing to bring a peace offer to {s14}. I cannot guarantee they will accept it, but on the off-chance they do, I will stand by it. dlga_lord_talk lord_challenge_duel_for_lady|I want you to take back your accusations against {s1}. dlga_lord_challenge_duel_for_lady lord_challenge_duel_for_lady_2|What accusations? Everyone knows that she beds her stable boys and anyone else she can lay hands on while her husband is away. I merely repeat the words of many. dlga_lord_challenge_duel_for_lady_2 lord_challenge_duel|You will recant these lies, or prove them against my {s0}! dlga_lord_challenge_duel_for_lady_2 lord_pretalk|If you say so... dlga_lord_challenge_duel close_window|{s15} dlga_lord_talk lord_challenge_courtship_rival|Relinquish your suit of {s5}! dlga_lord_challenge_courtship_rival lord_challenge_courtship_rival_2|Or what? Do you intend to duel over a lady? I'll let you know -- our liege frowns on this sort of hot-headed challenge, when every man must stand together against the foreign foe. dlga_lord_challenge_courtship_rival_2 lord_challenge_duel|Do you fear to fight me? dlga_lord_challenge_courtship_rival_2 lord_pretalk|My pardon. I have spoken rashly... dlga_start lady_pretalk|Hello {playername}. what's that, you have a letter from {s9}? Let me see. Oh. What a peculiar turn of phrase. Oh my. I don't know what to say. Did {s9} really write this himself? I was unaware of his interest, but now that I know.... well, let's say that I shall look favourably on him when next we meet. Thank you {playername}, thank you so much! dlga_start lady_pretalk.1|Hello {playername}. what's that, you have a letter from {s9}? Let me see. Oh my. What a strange man. Did that poltroon really write this, or he get one of his stablehands to scrawl it? I have never been so insulted! If you see {s9} please tell him to keep his distance. Oaf! dlga_lord_talk lord_message_delivered|I bring a message from {s9}. dlga_lord_message_delivered lord_pretalk|Oh? Let me see that... Well, well, well! It was good of you to bring me this, {playername}. Take my seal as proof that I've received it, and give my regards to {s9} when you see {reg4?her him} again. dlga_lord_talk lord_message_delivered_enemy|I bring a message from {s9}. dlga_lord_message_delivered_enemy close_window|Oh? Let me see that... Hmmm. It was good of you to bring me this, {playername}. Take my seal as proof that I've received it, with my thanks. dlga_lord_talk lord_deliver_message_prisoner|I bring a message from {s11}. dlga_lord_deliver_message_prisoner lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2|Can it be true? Oh, thank you kindly, {playername}! You have brought hope and some small ray of light to these bleak walls. Perhaps one day I will be able to repay you. dlga_lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2 lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2a| 'Twas the least I could do, {s65}. dlga_lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2a close_window|You've no idea how grateful I am, {playername}. A thousand thanks and more. dlga_lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2 lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2b|Worry not, {s65}. You'll have ample opportunity once you are free again. dlga_lord_deliver_message_prisoner_2b close_window|Hah, of course, {playername}. My eternal thanks go with you. dlga_lord_talk lord_rescue_by_replace_offer|Fear not, I am here to rescue you. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_2|By God, are you serious? What is your plan? dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_2 lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_3|A simple ruse, {s65}. If we exchange garments, I shall take your place here in prison, while you make your escape disguised as myself. I paid the guards a handsome bribe, with which I am sure they have already purchased half the wine stocks of the nearest tavern. With some luck they'll soon get so drunk they'd have trouble recognising their own mothers, let alone telling one of us from the other. At least not until you are safely away. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_3 lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_4|Hmm, it might just work... But what of you, my {friend/lady}? The guards won't take kindly to this trickery. You may end up spending some time in this cell yourself. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_4 lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_5a|Not to worry, {s65}. The place is already starting to grow on me. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_4 lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_5b|I shall be fine as long there is an ample reward waiting at the end. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_5a lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_6|You are a brave soul indeed. I won't forget this. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_5b lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_6|Of course, my {friend/lady}, of course! Come to me when you have regained your freedom, and perhaps I shall be able to repay the debt I owe you. dlga_lord_rescue_by_replace_offer_6 close_window|Quickly, {s65}, let us change garments. It is past time you were away from here. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_pardon_after_oath_renounced|{s66}, I wish to restore my old oath to {s4}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_after_oath_renounced lord_pretalk|That is too great a matter for me to decide, {playername}. You should seek out {s4}. Such clemency is {reg0?hers his} alone to grant or deny. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_after_oath_renounced lord_ask_pardon_terms|{s11}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_pretalk|As you like, {s65}. I will accept your judgment. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_pretalk.1|A shame, {s65}. A shame. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_pretalk.2|Very well, go and die without me. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_ask_pardon_after_renounce_peace|Aye, I am ready. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_ask_pardon_terms_rejected|On second thought, no. I don't wish to be in your service again. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_ask_pardon_after_renounce_peace.1|Aye, I agree to those terms. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms lord_ask_pardon_terms_rejected.1|That is too high a price, {s65}. I must decline. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_after_renounce_peace lord_pretalk|Excellent. Though you strayed from us, {playername}, it gladdens all our hearts that you have found your way back to the right path. I hereby restore your homage to me. Rise once more as an honoured {man/warrior} in my service. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_terms_rejected close_window|Then get out of my sight, traitor! Begone with you, and do not come back! dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_pardon|I wish to make peace with {s4}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_pretalk|Do you indeed, {playername}? Then go and trip on your sword. Give us all peace. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_pretalk.1|{playername}, you are a {lord/lady} without a master, holding lands in your name, with only the barest scrap of a claim to legitimacy. No king in this world would accept a lasting peace with you. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_pretalk.2|Make peace when I have you at an advantage? I think not. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_pretalk.3|I do not see it as being in my current interest to make peace, and have no interest in negotiations. dlga_lord_ask_pardon dplmc_lord_ask_pardon_ruler_1|As things stand I do not see it as being in my current interest to make peace, but if you were to hand over {s0} I would be willing to agree to a truce of twenty days. dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_pardon_ruler_1 close_window|I accept. I will give you {s0}, and let there be peace. dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_pardon_ruler_1 dplmc_lord_ask_pardon_ruler_2a|I don't have {s0} with me. dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_pardon_ruler_2a lord_pretalk|In that case, the war will continue. dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_pardon_ruler_1 lord_pretalk|On second thought, such an accord would not be in my interests. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_truce_offer|Yes... I am weary of fighting you. I could offer you a truce of twenty days. If you keep your word and do not molest my lands and subjects, we may talk again... dlga_lord_truce_offer close_window|I accept. Let us stop making war upon each other, for the time being anyway dlga_lord_truce_offer lord_pretalk|On second thought, such an accord would not be in my interests. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_ask_pardon_2|Hmm. I could use my considerable influence to arrange a pardon for you, {playername}, but there are some who see you as an enemy and will not be satisfied unless you pay tribute. All in all, you'd need to bring no less than {reg16} coins to make any friends in {s4}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_pretalk.4|I am in no position to offer you anything. You must speak to {s7}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_ask_pardon_2.1|Yes... I have bigger worries than you or your followers. However, you have wronged my subjects, and wrongs demand compensation. For the sum of {reg16} coins, I suppose that I could agree to grant you a pardon. What do you say? dlga_lord_ask_pardon lord_pretalk.5|I am sorry. I am in no position to offer you a pardon dlga_lord_ask_pardon_2 lord_ask_pardon_tribue_accept|I have the money here. {reg16} coins. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_2 lord_ask_pardon_tribue_deny|I fear I cannot pay that much. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_tribue_accept close_window|Excellent, {playername}. I will use this to make amends to those you have wronged, and I will let it be known that you are no longer an enemy of {s4}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_tribue_accept close_window.1|Excellent, {playername}. I'll use the coin to smooth the feathers of those that can oppose your pardon, and I'm sure that word will soon spread that you are no longer an enemy of {s4}. dlga_lord_ask_pardon_tribue_deny lord_pretalk|Then there's nothing I can do for you, {playername}. No silver, no pardon. dlga_lord_talk lord_active_mission_1|About the task you gave me... dlga_lord_talk lord_switch_to_spouse|Let us discuss matters related to our household. dlga_lord_switch_to_spouse lord_pretalk|Let us wait until we are in a hall, {s0}, as it is difficult to deal with household inventories and such matters in the field. dlga_lord_switch_to_spouse spouse_talk|Certainly, {s0} dlga_lord_talk lord_request_mission_ask|Do you have any tasks for me? dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2|Do you own a valyrian dagger? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3|I do, I do. A fine thing, quite exquisite. Forged in the fires of the Freehold, you know. I own quite a collection actually. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk4|Can I convince you to let me buy one of them? dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk5|I suppose that could be arranged. I shall require 10000 coins for one of my daggers. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk|Very well. Here is the gold. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.1|I can't afford that. dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.1|Of course I do. I am a triarch of Volantis, of the blood of Old Valyria. We are the heirs to the Dragonlords, and house Vhassar is the most noble of all the families who live within the Black Walls. We have several artifacts from the Freehold, daggers, ingots of steel, weapons of great importance. dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk5.1|I suppose that could be arranged. The elections are almost upon us, and the people should be mollified by games and feasts, that they may know my great power. But alas, such spectacle is not cheap. I shall require 15000 coins for one of my daggers. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.2|I can't afford that. dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.2|What noble in Volantis does not? We where the closest allies of the Freehold, the first daughter of Old Valyria. Amongst the families living within the Black Walls, valyrian daggers are as plentiful as the dates upon a palm tree. I use one as a paper weight, hah! dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk5.2|Bah! Like a common merchant? Who do you think I am? I am of the blood of the dragons! How dare you! No, I cannot sell you a dagger. But ah, what kind of man would I be if I was not generous! You can have a dagger from me, on one condition. Bring me a bottle of Tyroshi Pear Brandy. I have a thirst, and nothing quenches it like a large goblet of brandy. Say what you will of the tyroshi, but they know how to make liquor. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.3|Very well. Here is the brandy. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.4|I will return with a bottle of brandy. dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.3|Ah, yes. A fine blade. I own quite a few. They make for very good gifts, especially when one looks to obtain favorable winds for ones fleet. I myself favor Bakkalon, but I've heard that Gomon Eldros sacrificed one to Boash, the Blind God! Can you imagine that? dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk5.3|I suppose that could be arranged. Daggers are not good for much, you know. I don't need one to cut my meat, an ordinary one suffices for that, and what else can one do with it? I shall require 5000 coins for one of my daggers. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.5|I can't afford that. dlga_lord_talk pj_wildfire_talk2|I've cleared out the pirates on Bloodstone. dlga_pj_wildfire_talk2 pj_wildfire_talk3|Well, I'm glad they have been taken care of. Those islands are usually teeming with outlaws, but it haven't been too bad lately. dlga_pj_wildfire_talk3 pj_wildfire_talk4|I imagine their death might be worth a reward. dlga_pj_wildfire_talk4 pj_wildfire_talk5|Reckon so, do you? dlga_pj_wildfire_talk5 pj_wildfire_talk6|I suppose the people of Tyrosh could find some way to thank you for your services. Here, take this. dlga_pj_wildfire_talk6 pj_wildfire_talk7|Thank you. dlga_pj_wildfire_talk7 lord_pretalk|My pleasure. Less pirates means more trade. dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.1|How can I serve you? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.4|Fight for me, {playername}, and do so honorably. Remain my loyal bannerman, and a leal friend to my house. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk5|But if you're looking for a more specific service to do my house, then I should have you talk to Ser Rodrik Cassel. dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk10|He has been a good castellan, as I always knew he would. The North is quiet, and my army is well-supplied, in no small part thanks to his work. But he has written me lately to keep me informed, and it seems trouble is brewing in the the lands close to the Wall. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.6|I cannot deal with the wildlings while also fighting a war in the south. Help me guard the realm, {playername}. dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.2|What will you do about Renly? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.5|Renly... What has Renly ever done to earn a throne? He sits in council and jests with Littlefinger, and at tourneys he dons his splendid suit of armor and allows himself to be knocked off his horse by a better man. That is the sum of my brother Renly, who wants to be king. It is not a question of wanting. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk5.1|The throne is mine, as Robert's heir. That is law. After me, it must pass to my daughter, unless Selyse should finally give me a son. I am king. Wants do not enter into it. I have a duty to my daughter. To the realm. Even to Robert. He loved me but little, I know, yet he was my brother. The Lannister woman gave him horns and made a motley fool of him. She may have murdered him as well, as she murdered Jon Arryn and Ned Stark. For such crimes there must be justice. I mean to scour King's Landing clean, to bring justice to lord and peasant alike, and for that I must sit the Iron Throne. dlga_wildfire_talk5 wildfire_talk6|How can I be of service, my lord? dlga_wildfire_talk6 wildfire_talk7|How indeed, {playername}? Renly is my younger brother. By law the throne belongs to me. By all the laws of gods and men. He intends to flaunt these laws, and for that there must be justice. dlga_wildfire_talk7 wildfire_talk8|I, Stannis Baratheon, King of Westeros, hereby charge you with bringing justice to Renly Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End. I denounce him, and attaint him, I strip him of all rank and title, of all lands and holdings, and sentence him to death. Do your duty, {playername}. dlga_wildfire_talk8 wildfire_talk9|The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of the gods, your Grace. dlga_wildfire_talk9 wildfire_talk10|I stopped believing in gods the day I saw the Windproud break up across the bay. Any gods so monstrous as to drown my mother and father would never have my worship, I vowed. In King痴 Landing, the High Septon would prattle at me of how all justice and goodness flowed from the Seven, but all I ever saw of either was made by men. Men make justice, and it is all a king must do. dlga_wildfire_talk10 lord_pretalk|I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head, but so long as I am the king, I have a duty. I shall bring justice to my Seven Kingdoms, a thing Renly understands as little as war. The lords must pay the traitors price, and when I come into my kingdom, they shall. Every man shall reap what he has sown, from the highest lord to the lowest gutter rat. And some will lose more than the tips off their fingers, I promise you. They have made my kingdom bleed, and I do not forget that. dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.3|How can I be of service? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.6|The wildlings are disappearing, {playername}, and we're hearing strange rumours from the Frostfangs. Mance Rayder is gathering all his strenght to him, but for what purpose I do not know. Cotter Pyke reports that queer lights have been seen off the shores close to Storrold's Point, and captured wildlings talk of dead things in the woods. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk4.1|I don't like it. The Night's Watch has been passive for too long, rangers are disappearing, and now Benjen Stark is gone as well. We need to know what is happening beyond the Wall. dlga_wildfire_talk4 lord_pretalk|We're putting together a ranging group, bigger than any seen during my lifetime. We'll find out what is going on in the Frostfangs, and if the gods are good, we'll find Benjen Stark. His nephew is currently procuring supplies for the journey through the Haunted Forest. Talk to him if you wish to join our ranging. dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk_2_2|What now? dlga_wildfire_talk_2_2 wildfire_talk_2_3|Mind your tone! I am the king's friend, you know, and the Lord of Harrenhal! That Robb Stark was insolent as well, I'm sure, like his father. And look where it got him. Consider that a warning! dlga_wildfire_talk_2_3 wildfire_talk_2_4|While the savages roam beyond the Wall, we need to focus on our defences, so I've sent for all the men from Eastwatch by-the-Sea to join us. But Cotter Pyke hasn't returned any of our ravens! Hoping we'll be overrun so he can get elected Lord Commander no doubt... but I'm acting Lord Commander now! dlga_wildfire_talk_2_4 lord_pretalk|That blind maester says you're good in a fight, {playername}. Are you good with words? Can you convince Cotter Pyke to bring his men here? dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.4|Janos Slynt sent me. dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk4|That snivelling worm? Yes, Harmune has told me about his letters. Lord of Harrenhal. Hah! He's as much a lord as Harmune is sober. There will be an election when all of this is over, but Janos Slynt will never be Lord Commander. Tell him that! dlga_wildfire_talk4 lord_pretalk.1|And tell him that there's no such thing as 'Acting Lord Commander'! dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk_3_2|Pyke says no. dlga_wildfire_talk_3_2 wildfire_talk_3_3|The bastard! And you! You're in league with him, I'll wager! Trying to usurp my command! I won't have it! dlga_wildfire_talk_3_3 wildfire_talk_3_4|I was Commander of the Gold Cloaks and Lord of Harrenhal! I have the kings ear! You lie through your bastard's teeth. Well, I will not suffer it. I will not! You might have fooled this crippled maester, but not Janos Slynt! Oh, no. Janos Slynt does not swallow lies so easily. Did you think my skull was stuffed with cabbage? dlga_wildfire_talk_3_4 lord_pretalk|Go and scurry off to your blind master, {playername}! dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.5|How can I serve you? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.7|The king has seen fit to name me his Hand, but while I am in the field, I have decreed that my son Tyrion shall act as Hand in my stead. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk5.2|He speaks with my voice, the Hands voice, whilst in King's Landing. But with the court in disarray and the feeble-minded lords of the Crownlands being... unwilling to show us their full support, I should like more of my leal subjects close at hand, aiding my son. dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk10.1|{playername}, I charge you with serving my son, and do as he bids. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.7|And do not hesitate to take his orders further than he might ask. Tyrion has always had a heart too soft for his own good. If the situation requires it, then I expect you to put heads on spikes. dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.6|How can I be of service? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.8|I have more than enough household knights at the moment, {playername}, but that shouldn't keep you from trying to gain my notice or that of my father. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk5.3|A tourney is about to be held here. Fine knights from all over the Reach will compete in what we have decided to call 'The Tourney of the Tower'. dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk10.2|Tourney is the lifeblood of a knight, the only place where a mans true skill at arms can be tested. Battles are unpredictable, but in the saddle of a horse, with your opponent in front of you, only your skill matters. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.8|The lists are open to everyone, if they can prove noble blood and carry a noble banner. Talk to my brother-in-law, Ser Jon, if you wish to test your mettle. dlga_lord_talk wildfire_talk2.7|How can I serve you? dlga_wildfire_talk2 wildfire_talk3.9|The realm is in turmoil, {playername}, and dangers are everywhere. dlga_wildfire_talk3 wildfire_talk5.4|So the Lady Lysa has decreed a tourney, to decide which of our finest knights shall guard the young lord. dlga_wildfire_talk4 wildfire_talk10.3|The Winged Brotherhood she calls it. Splendid idea if you ask me. The young hotheads skulking in their fathers castles are going to have the time of their life. dlga_wildfire_talk5 lord_pretalk.9|The lists are open to everyone. Colemon is in charge of the entire thing. I think he's at the Gates of the Moon, keeping a sharp watch on the carpenters. If you desire to join the lists yourself, then pay him a visit. dlga_lord_talk renly_dead_1|Lord Renly is dead. dlga_renly_dead_1 renly_dead_2|Renly... The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny it are my foes. Yet Renly was my brother. I did not like the man he grew to be, but I remember him as a boy... If he had done his duty by me, I would sit the throne now, and he would be my chosen heir. dlga_renly_dead_2 lord_pretalk|Those lords who supported him, however... Good men and true will fight for Joffrey, wrongly believing him the true king. A northman might even say the same of Robb Stark. But these lords who flocked to my brother痴 banners knew him for a usurper. They turned their backs on their rightful king for no better reason than dreams of power and glory, and I have marked them for what they are. dlga_lord_talk combined_political_quests|Do you think we can work together to advance our standings in this realm? dlga_combined_political_quests lord_pretalk|I do not imagine that you and I have many mutual interests. dlga_combined_political_quests lord_pretalk.1|Hmm.. Perhaps we can discuss this matter in a more private setting, at a later date. dlga_combined_political_quests lord_pretalk.2|Hmm.. I do have an idea, but it would require you that you be free of controversy. If you were to wait some time without getting into any arguments with the other {s0} of our realm, perhaps we could proceed further. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_resign_marshalship|I wish to resign the marshalship dlga_lord_ask_resign_marshalship lord_pretalk|So be it. I shall have to find someone else. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_enter_service|{s66}, I have come to offer you my sword in vassalage! dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_enter_service.1|{s66}, I wish to become your sworn {man/woman} and fight for your honour. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_leave_service|{s66}, I wish to be released from my oath to you. dlga_lord_talk lord_talk_preoffer|I have an offer for you. dlga_lord_talk lord_give_troops|I want to give some troops to you. dlga_lord_give_troops lord_pretalk|I can't accomodate any more {reg65?men soldiers} right now. My supply lines are overtaxed as it is. dlga_lord_give_troops lord_pretalk.1|I have plenty of soldiers at the moment, but I suppose I could accomodate a few more. dlga_lord_give_troops lord_give_troops_1|Well, I could use some good soldiers. dlga_lord_give_troops_1 lord_give_troops_2|Thank you. dlga_lord_give_troops_2 lord_pretalk|It's my pleasure to do this. dlga_lord_talk lord_give_order_ask|I have a new task for you. dlga_lord_talk lord_give_suggestion_ask|May I suggest a course of action? dlga_lord_give_order_ask lord_give_order|Yes? dlga_lord_give_suggestion_ask lord_give_order|I will gladly follow your direction, {my lord/your Highness}. If you intend to direct an extensive campaign, however, you may also wish to declare yourself marshal, so there is no cause for confusion. dlga_lord_give_suggestion_ask lord_pretalk|My apologies. I don't know you well enough to take your advice. dlga_lord_give_suggestion_ask lord_give_order.1|What is it? dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_answer|Follow me. dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_answer.1|Will you follow me? I have a plan... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask|Go to... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask.1|Raid around the village of... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask.2|Patrol around... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_assault|Together, you and I can take {s11}. You should assault immediately... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask.3|We are under attack, but the enemy can be repulsed. You should ride towards... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask.4|We are under attack, but the enemy can be repulsed. You should assemble the army and march to... dlga_lord_give_order_assault lord_pretalk|{s4} is directing this siege. I suggest you speak to {reg4?her him} dlga_lord_give_order_assault lord_pretalk.1|Our preparations are not yet ready. We need another {s11} dlga_lord_give_order_assault close_window|Very well -- to the walls! dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask.5|There is a fortress which can easily be taken. Go to.. dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_details_ask.6|The enemy is coming in force. Flee in the direction of... dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_stop|I won't need you for some time. You are free to do as you like. dlga_lord_give_order lord_give_order_stop.1|You no longer need to accompany me. dlga_lord_give_order lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_give_order_details_ask lord_pretalk|It is not my way to turn tail and run, without even laying eyes on the enemy. dlga_lord_give_order_details_ask lord_pretalk.1|You want me to shed my blood outside a fortress while others stand by and watch? I think not. dlga_lord_give_order_details_ask lord_give_order_details|Where? dlga_lord_give_order_details lord_give_order_answer|{s1} dlga_lord_give_order_details lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_give_order_stop lord_pretalk|All right. I will stop here. dlga_lord_give_order_answer lord_give_order|That would hardly be proper. It would be more appropriate for you to follow me instead. Did you have any other ideas? dlga_lord_give_order_answer lord_pretalk|All right. I will do that.{s12} dlga_lord_give_order_answer lord_pretalk.1|I am sorry. I need to attend my own business at the moment. dlga_lord_start lord_talk.5|What is it? dlga_lord_talk lord_give_order_call_to_arms_verify|I want to start a new campaign. Let us assemble the army here. dlga_lord_give_order_call_to_arms_verify lord_give_order_call_to_arms_verify_2|You wish to summon all lords for a new campaign? dlga_lord_give_order_call_to_arms_verify_2 lord_give_order_call_to_arms|Yes. We must gather all our forces before we march on the enemy. dlga_lord_give_order_call_to_arms_verify_2 lord_pretalk|On second thought, it won't be necessary to summon everyone. dlga_lord_give_order_call_to_arms lord_pretalk|All right then. I will send messengers and tell everyone to come here. dlga_lord_talk lord_give_order_disband_army_verify|I want to end the campaign and let everyone return home. dlga_lord_give_order_disband_army_verify lord_give_order_disband_army_2|You want to end the current campaign and release all lords from duty? dlga_lord_give_order_disband_army_2 lord_give_order_disband_army|Yes. We no longer need all our forces here. dlga_lord_give_order_disband_army_2 lord_pretalk|On second thought, it will be better to stay together for now. dlga_lord_give_order_disband_army lord_pretalk|All right. I will let everyone know that they are released from duty. dlga_lord_talk lord_talk_ask_something|I wish to ask you something. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something lord_talk_ask_something_2|Aye? What is it? dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_skill|Have your skills increased since the days when we were travelling companions? dlga_lord_talk_ask_skill lord_pretalk|Let me show you... dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_skill.1|If it would please you, can you tell me about your skills? dlga_lord_talk_ask_skill lord_pretalk.1|Well, all right. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_again lord_talk_ask_something_2|Is there anything else? dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_location|I want to know the location of someone. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_tell_objective|What are you and your men doing? dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_about_strategy|What is the realm doing? dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_strategy lord_pretalk|You should decide that, as you are the marshal. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_about_war|How goes the war? dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_marriage_permission|{s19} dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 dplmc_lord_ask_exchange_fief_1|{s19} dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_exchange_fief_1 lord_pretalk|{s19} dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_exchange_fief_1 dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_1|{s19} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_1 dplmc_lord_ask_exchange_fief_2|{s1} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_1 lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_dplmc_lord_ask_exchange_fief_2 dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_2|{s19} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_2 dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_3|{s1} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_3 dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_confirm|{s14} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_select_3 lord_pretalk|{s14} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_confirm lord_pretalk|{s14} dlga_dplmc_lord_exchange_fief_confirm lord_pretalk.1|Actually, forget about this for now. dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_pretalk|Great heaven, man -- if I haven't given you permission to see her, do you think I'm going to give you permission to marry her? dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_pretalk.1|It is not my way to push my {s11} to marry against her will or her better judgment dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_pretalk.2|Sorry, lad -- I'm not going to make my {s11} marry you, when I'd rather see her married to {s12} dlga_lord_marriage_permission lord_marriage_permission_endowment|Splendid news, my young man -- I shall be proud to have you in our family. Now, let us talk the terms of the marriage. As per our custom, the two of us must make sure that {s11} has sufficient finances to support herself, in the event of any unforeseen circumstances.. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer|I would say that, taking into consideration the prestige of our two houses, that you can provide a dower of {reg3} coins, while I will supply a dowry of {reg4} coins. This shall be her ladyship's property, as a security, lest for any reason you are unable to provide for her. What say you to that? dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date|Very well -- so let it be. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_delay|I cannot afford that right now. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_no|That is too much to pay. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_no close_window|Well. I cannot in all decency allow my daughter to marry without some security, can I? Let me know if you change your mind. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date close_window|Splendid! You two may now consider yourselves offically betrothed. Very well -- I shall plan to hold a great feast in {s24}, as soon as circumstances permit. We will be sure to notify you when the day comes. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date close_window.1|Unfortunately, there is one final complication -- there is no safe place to hold the wedding. Let us hold off on finalizing this, for the time being. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_delay lord_pretalk|No matter -- take the time you need to raise the money. I want her ladyship to be well looked after. dlga_lord_marriage_permission_endowment_answer_delay lord_pretalk.1|That is a shame, but I would be remiss in my duty if I allowed her ladyship to face an uncertain future. dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_courtship_permission|{s10} I have the honor of visiting with {s14}{s12}? dlga_lord_courtship_permission lord_pretalk|{s12} dlga_lord_courtship_permission lord_pretalk.1|From what I hear, you have already spoken to her -- without my permission. Let me tell you this I am her lord and guardian, and I have plans for her. I will not be mocked behind my back as a man who cannot control the women of his household. I would ask you not to discuss this matter with me again. dlga_lord_courtship_permission lord_pretalk.2|{s14} dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_talk_ask_marriage_1|What would it take to cement a lasting alliance with your house? dlga_lord_talk_ask_something_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location lord_pretalk|Then you will have to ask someone else. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location lady_pretalk|I am afraid you will have to ask someone else. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location lord_talk_ask_location_2|Very well, I may or may not have an answer for you. About whom do you wish to hear? dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_2 lord_talk_ask_location_3|{s1} dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_2 lady_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_2 lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_3 lady_pretalk|{s1} dlga_lord_talk_ask_location_3 lord_pretalk|{s1} dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war lord_talk_ask_about_war_2|{s12} dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war_2 lord_talk_ask_about_war_details|Tell me more about the war with {s1}. dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war_2 lord_pretalk|That's all I wanted to know. Thank you. dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_war_details lord_talk_ask_about_war_2|{s9}. dlga_lord_talk_ask_about_strategy lord_strategy_follow_evaluation|{s7} {s9} {s14} dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_talk_ask_something_2|Did you have any other questions? dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up|Our leader {s4} is far too cautious. {reg4?She He} should either use the army to attack the enemy, or let it go home. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.1|Our army sits, doing nothing. Apparently, too few vassals have answered the call to arms. Perhaps {s4} does not enjoy the confidence of the great lords of this realm. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.2|I disagree with this strategy. I would prefer to {s4}. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.3|I personally would prefer to attack {s8}, but our marshal {s10} believes that it {s9} dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.4|I personally would prefer to defend {s8}, instead of {s9}. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_talk|Is there anything else? dlga_lord_strategy_follow_evaluation lord_strategy_follow_up.5|This strategy seems reasonable to me. dlga_lord_strategy_follow_up lord_strategy_why_not|If you're attacking, why aren't you... dlga_lord_strategy_follow_up lord_talk_ask_something_again|I see.... dlga_lord_strategy_follow_up lord_talk_replace_marshal|Would you say, then, that {s4} should no longer be marshal? dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_ask_something_again|I believe that our realm should resolve the issue of {s4} before we begin to debate replacing the marshal. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_ask_something_again.1|Yes. I have already made my position on this matter clear. I believe that {s4} should be marshal instead of {s5}. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_ask_something_again.2|I will make up my mind on this matter without your persuasion. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal lord_talk_replace_marshal_decision|Hmm... dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal_decision lord_talk_ask_something_again|Yes, I would say that. At this point, I would be tempted to say that I support {s15} instead. I am glad that you and I had this discussion, so that I know that we are of the same mind on this matter. dlga_lord_talk_replace_marshal_decision lord_talk_ask_something_again.1|Not necessarily. It is possible for {s4} and I have to have an honest disagreement over strategy, without my seeking to replace him. dlga_lord_strategy_why_not lord_strategy_why_not_select|Yes? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_talk_ask_something_again|Never mind dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_strategy_why_not_reason|..planning to continue with the attack on {s4}? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_strategy_why_not_reason.1|..defending {s4}? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_select lord_strategy_why_not_reason.2|..attacking {s4}? dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_reason lord_talk_why_not_repeat|{s9} dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_reason lord_talk_why_not_repeat.1|Our marshal {s11} believes that {s8} {s9}{s10} dlga_lord_strategy_why_not_reason lord_talk_why_not_repeat.2|We could go there. {s7} However, {s5} {s3} {s4}. {s6} {s8}. dlga_lord_talk_why_not_repeat lord_strategy_why_not_select|Did you have any similar questions? Why we are not... dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_pretalk|Have no fear, I have no intention of changing my mind. We will be married as soon as there is an opportunity worthy of the august event. dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_confirm|I do not forget that it was your strong right arm that placed me on this throne. Do you aim to take Baybak's place as my {husband/wife}, to rule the {s0} with me as Commander of the Armies even as I am Mother of the Realm? dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_confirm.1|Are you proposing to rule the {s0} alongside me as my {husband/wife}? dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_confirm dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax|Yes. That is my proposal. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_confirm lord_pretalk|No, I think you have misunderstood me. Forget I brought it up. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_confirm lord_pretalk.1|Oh, HELL no! No, you totally have the wrong idea... forget I said anything. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_pretalk|Have no fear, I have no intention of changing my mind. We will be married as soon as there is an opportunity worthy of the august event. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_pretalk.1|Unfortunately this is impossible, since I am already married to {s0}. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_pretalk.2|Unfortunately this is impossible, since you are already married to {s0}. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_pretalk.3|Unfortunately this is impossible, since I am already engaged to {s0}. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_pretalk.4|Unfortunately this is impossible, since you are already engaged to {s0}. dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_pretalk.5|{s14} dlga_dplmc_claimant_marriage_proposal_pc_reax lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement|{s14} dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_pretalk.1|It is our custom to seal any such alliances with marriage. You have made quite a few waves since your arrival, and I might be willing to consider such an arrangement, but unfortunately no one in my household is eligible to wed. dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_pretalk.2|You will not take offense if I tell you that, as a ruler, I have other plans for my children. dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_pretalk.3|It is our custom to seal any such alliances with marriage. Unfortunately, no one in my household is eligible to wed. dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_courtship_pre_permission|{s15} dlga_lord_talk_ask_marriage_1 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm|Are you proposing that you and I marry? dlga_lord_courtship_pre_permission lord_courtship_permission|May I {s15}suggest that I be considered as a {groom/bride}? dlga_lord_courtship_pre_permission lord_marriage_permission_engagement_date|CHEAT -- Start engagement dlga_lord_courtship_pre_permission lord_pretalk|Never mind dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_reax|Yes. That is my proposal. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm lord_pretalk|No, I think you have misunderstood me. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm lord_pretalk.1|Oh, HELL no! No, you totally have the wrong idea... forget I said anything. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_reax lord_pretalk|{s14} dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_reax lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step|{s14} dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_2|I must say, though. You live your life like a {woman/man}, riding where you will, with the company you choose. This will not make it easy for the other {s0} to accept our marriage. I don't suppose that you would give up adventuring, for the sake of our marriage? dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_2 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_5|I think not! dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_2 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_5.1|Very well. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_4|I suppose the next step would be for me to send a message to your family, asking for their permission to marry you, but I suppose that you make your own decisions. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_4 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_5|You assume correctly. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_next_step_5 lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement|Very well, then. As there are no obstacles to our marriage, should we then consider ourselves engaged to be wed? I will organize a great feast, and we can exchange our vows before all the {s0} of the realm. If you are willing, that is... dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_yes|I am willing. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_no|Actually, I would like to reconsider. dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_yes close_window|Very well. Hopefully, a little over a month from now, we shall be wed.{s12} dlga_lord_marriage_proposal_female_pc_confirm_engagement_no close_window|Take whatever time you need, my {lord/lady}. dlga_lord_talk party_encounter_lord_hostile_ultimatum_surrender|I say this only once, {s4}! Surrender or die! dlga_party_encounter_lord_hostile_ultimatum_surrender close_window|{s43} dlga_lord_talk lord_predemand|I'm here to deliver you my demands! dlga_lord_predemand lord_demand|Eh? What do you want? dlga_lord_demand lord_ultimatum_surrender|I offer you one chance to surrender or die. dlga_lord_ultimatum_surrender lord_attack_verify|{s43} dlga_lord_attack_verify lord_attack_verify_cancel|Forgive me, my lord. I don't know what I was thinking. dlga_lord_attack_verify_cancel close_window|Be gone, then. dlga_lord_attack_verify lord_attack_verify_commit|That is none of your business. Prepare to fight! dlga_lord_ultimatum_surrender lord_attack_verify_b|{s43} dlga_lord_attack_verify_b lord_attack_verify_cancel|Forgive me, my lord. I don't know what I was thinking. dlga_lord_attack_verify_b lord_attack_verify_commit|I stand my ground. Prepare to fight! dlga_lord_attack_verify_commit close_window|{s43} dlga_lord_demand lord_pretalk|Forgive me. It's nothing. dlga_lord_talk liege_defends_claim_1|I have met in my travels one who calls {reg3?herself himself} {s45}... dlga_liege_defends_claim_1 liege_defends_claim_2|Oh really? It is not everyone who dares mention that name in my presence. I am not sure whether to reward your bravery, or punish you for your impudence. dlga_liege_defends_claim_2 liege_defends_claim_3|Very well. I will indulge your curiosity. But listen closely, because I do not wish to speak of this matter again. dlga_liege_defends_claim_3 liege_defends_claim_4|{s48} dlga_liege_defends_claim_4 lord_talk|{s48} dlga_lord_join_rebellion_suggest_cheat close_window|Cheat Allright. dlga_lord_talk lord_prison_break_chains|I've come to break you out of here. dlga_lord_prison_break_chains close_window|Thank the heavens you came! However, I'm not going anywhere with these chains on my legs. You'll need to get the key away from the guard somehow. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk|What am I doing? What does it look like I'm doing?! I'm a prisoner here! dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.1|I am not commanding any {reg65?soldiers men} at the moment. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.2|We are resting at {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.3|We are travelling to {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective_2 lord_pretalk|I am heading to the vicinity of {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.4|We are recruiting new soldiers from {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.5|We are scouting for the enemy around {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.6|We are laying waste to the village of {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.7|We are retreating to {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.8|We are besieging {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.9|We are fighting against {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.10|I am screening {s1}'s advance. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.11|We are accompanying {s1}. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_talk_ask_about_strategy|I am leading the army of the realm. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.12|We are reconsidering our next objective. dlga_lord_tell_objective lord_pretalk.13|We are resting at the moment. dlga_lord_talk lord_ask_follow|Will you follow me? I have a plan. dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window|I enjoy your company, {playername}, but there are other things I must attend to. Perhaps in a few days I can ride with you again. dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window.1|That would hardly be proper, {playername}. Why don't you follow me instead? dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window.2|{s43} dlga_lord_ask_follow close_window.3|Lead the way, {playername}! Let us bring death and defeat to all our enemies. dlga_lord_talk_preoffer lord_talk_offer|Yes? dlga_lord_talk_offer knight_offer_join|I wish to ransom one of your prisoners. dlga_lord_talk_offer lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_knight_offer_join hero_pretalk|I fear I cannot join you at the moment, {playername}, I've important business to attend to and it cannot wait. dlga_knight_offer_join hero_pretalk.1|You forget your place. I do not take orders from the likes of you. dlga_knight_offer_join knight_offer_join_2|I would be glad to fight at your side, my friend, but there is a problem... The thing is, I've found myself in a bit of debt that I must repay very soon. {reg6} coins altogether, and I am honour-bound to return every coin. Unless you've got {reg6} coins with you that you can spare, I've to keep my mind on getting this weight off my neck. dlga_knight_offer_join close_window|Join you? I think not. dlga_knight_offer_join knight_offer_join_2.1|Aye, my friend, I'll be happy to join you. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 knight_offer_join_accept|Here, take it, all {reg6} coins you need. 'Tis only money. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 knight_offer_join_accept.1|Then let us ride together, my friend. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 close_window|That's good to know. I will think on it. dlga_knight_offer_join_2 hero_pretalk|That's good to know. I will think on it. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept knight_offer_join_accept_party|I've some trusted men in my band who could be of use to you. What do you wish to do with them? dlga_knight_offer_join_accept close_window|Ah, certainly, it might be fun! dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_disband|You may disband your men. I've no need for other troops. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_join|Your men may join as well. We need every soldier we can muster. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_lead_out|Lead your men out of the town. I shall catch up with you on the road. dlga_knight_offer_join_accept_party knight_join_party_lead_out.1|Keep doing what you were doing. I'll catch up with you later. dlga_knight_join_party_disband close_window|Ah . . . Very well, {playername}. Much as I dislike losing good men, the decision is yours. I'll disband my troops and join you. dlga_knight_join_party_join close_window|Excellent. My lads and I will ride with you. dlga_knight_join_party_lead_out close_window|Very well then. I shall maintain a patrol of this area. Return if you have further orders for me. dlga_lord_enter_service_reject close_window|Indeed.... Did you offer vassalage, then, just to by time? Very well -- you shall have time to reconsider, but if you are toying with me, it will do your reputation no credit. dlga_lord_give_oath_give_up close_window|Indeed.... Did you offer vassalage, then, just to buy time? Very well -- you shall have time to reconsider, but if you are toying with me, it will do your reputation no credit. dlga_lord_enter_service_reject close_window.1|What pigswill! And to think I would offer you a place among my nobles. Begone, beggar, before I lose my temper! dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_give_oath_under_oath_already|You are already oath-bound to serve {s5}, are you not? dlga_lord_give_oath_under_oath_already lord_pretalk|Indeed I am, {s65}. Forgive my rambling. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_pretalk|I accept oaths only from those I can trust to keep them, {playername}. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_ask_enter_service_female_2|My {lord/lady}, you seem to have the makings of a good war leader. For a {man/woman} to show such skill is an uncommon thing, but not completely without precedent. Noble{men/women} have often taken command of armies after their {wives/husbands} or {mothers/fathers} were slain or captured, for example. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_2 lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|However, I have never heard of a {s0} who granted a fief to a {man/woman}, no matter how valorous, simply because {reg65?she he} needed an extra vassal. Were I to do such a thing, I would raise eyebrows across the realm. {People/Men} would say that I was besotted or bewitched, or that I aimed to overturn the natural order of things. As much as I regret it, I cannot afford to grant you a fief. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_capture|What if I were to take one of your enemy's castles by force? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_marriage|What if I were to marry one of your lords? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_competitor|Perhaps one of your competitors will prove to be more open-minded. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_ask_enter_service|I would be willing to fight for you, even without the fief. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_response lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_marriage lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|Well, I still would not be willing to grant you any fiefs. However, you would no doubt have the use of your {wife/husband}'s properties, which would allow you to act as one of my vassals in all but name. Did you have an other questions? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_competitor lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|Oh, perhaps you might find someone who was truly desperate -- but then, I would think, they would not have many fiefs to bestow. Did you have an other questions? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service_female_solution_capture lord_ask_enter_service_female_response|Well, in that case, depending on the circumstances, I might be inclined to let you keep it. Did you have an other questions? dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_give_oath_1|You are known as a brave warrior and a fine leader of men, {playername}. I shall be pleased to accept your {s0} into my service and bestow vassalage upon you, if you are ready to swear homage to me. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_pretalk.1|You've yet to show yourself as a competent commander, {playername}. Take your {s0} to my enemies and prove to me that you are worthy of becoming my vassal. Then we may speak more of this. dlga_lord_give_oath_1 lord_give_oath_2|I am ready, {s65}. dlga_lord_give_oath_1 lord_give_oath_give_up|Forgive me, {s65}, I must give the matter more thought first... dlga_lord_give_oath_give_up lord_pretalk|Take whatever time you need, my lady. dlga_lord_give_oath_give_up close_window.1|What are you playing at, {playername}? Go and make up your mind, and stop wasting my time. dlga_lord_give_oath_2 lord_give_oath_3|Good. Then repeat the words of the oath with me I swear homage to you as lawful ruler of {s41}. dlga_lord_give_oath_3 lord_give_oath_4|I pledge homage to you as lawful ruler of {s41}. dlga_lord_give_oath_3 lord_give_oath_give_up|Excuse me. But I feel I need to think about this. dlga_lord_give_oath_4 lord_give_oath_5|I will remain as your loyal and devoted {man/follower} as long as my breath remains.... dlga_lord_give_oath_5 lord_give_oath_6|I will remain as your loyal and devoted {man/follower} as long as my breath remains... dlga_lord_give_oath_5 lord_give_oath_give_up|May I ask for some time to think about this? dlga_lord_give_oath_6 lord_give_oath_7|...and I will be at your side to fight your enemies should you need my sword. dlga_lord_give_oath_7 lord_give_oath_8|...and I will be at your side to fight your enemies should you need my sword. dlga_lord_give_oath_7 lord_give_oath_give_up|Please give me more time to think about this. dlga_lord_give_oath_8 lord_give_oath_9|Finally, I will uphold your lawful claims and those of your legitimate heirs. dlga_lord_give_oath_9 lord_give_oath_101|Finally, I will uphold your lawful claims and those of your legitimate heirs. dlga_lord_give_oath_9 lord_give_oath_give_up|I must have more time to consider this. dlga_lord_give_oath_101 lord_give_oath_102|This I swear by all the gods known to man... dlga_lord_give_oath_102 lord_give_oath_10|This I swear by all the gods known to man. dlga_lord_give_oath_102 lord_give_oath_give_up|I must have more time to consider this. dlga_lord_give_oath_10 lord_give_oath_go_on_2|Very well. You have given me your solemn oath, {playername}. May you uphold it always, with proper courage and devotion. dlga_lord_give_oath_go_on_2 lord_give_oath_go_on_3|Let it be known that from this day forward, you are my sworn {man/follower} and vassal. I give you my protection and grant you the right to bear arms in my name, and I pledge that I shall not deprive you of your life, liberty or properties except by the lawful judgment of your peers or by the law and custom of the land.{reg1? Furthermore I give you the fief of {s1} with all its rents and revenues. } dlga_lord_give_oath_go_on_3 lord_give_conclude|You have done a wise thing, {playername}. Serve me well and I promise, you will rise high. dlga_lord_give_conclude lord_give_conclude_2|{s41} dlga_lord_give_conclude_2 close_window.1|So be it, {s0}. May all my vassals be as valiant and loyal as you. dlga_lord_give_conclude_2 close_window.2|I have great hopes for you {playername}. I know you shall prove yourself worthy of the trust I have placed in you. dlga_lord_ask_enter_service lord_enter_service_swear|Heh, a wise move, {playername}. With loyal service, a {man/woman} in my service could become wealthy and powerful, and our enemies... Well, our enemies are as wheat before a scythe. However, to enter my service you must first renounce all worldly oaths and bonds, and swear to serve only the {s5}. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear lord_enter_service_swear_accepted|I do so swear, {s65}. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear lord_enter_service_swear_denied|I need some time to think about this. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear_denied close_window|Are you having me on? I've no time for games, {playername}. Make up your mind and stop wasting my time. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear_accepted lord_enter_service_swear_accepted_2|Then it is my pleasure to welcome you to the service of my house. From this day on, {playername}, you are a soldier of the {s5} with all the duties and privileges that come with it. dlga_lord_enter_service_swear_accepted_2 close_window|I charge you with rooting out and destroying the forces of our enemies wherever you may find them. Moreover, I will have special tasks for you from time to time, as may some of my other vassal lords. Serve, fight, and honour your oaths. These things will take you far, if you've a mind for promotion. May God grant us long lives and many victories to toast in my hall! dlga_lord_ask_leave_service lord_ask_leave_service_verify|Hrm. Has your oath become burdensome, {playername}? It is unusual to request release from homage, but in respect of your fine service, I will not hold you if you truly wish to end it. Though you would be sorely missed. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service lord_ask_leave_service_verify.1|Release from homage? Hmm, perhaps it would be for the best... However, {playername}, you must be sure that release is what you desire. This is not a thing done lightly. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify lord_ask_leave_service_2|It is something I must do, {s65}. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify lord_ask_leave_service_giveup|You are right, {s65}. My place is here. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_giveup lord_pretalk|I am pleased to hear it, {playername}. I hope you'll banish such unworthy thoughts from your mind from now on. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_2 lord_ask_leave_service_verify_again|Then you are sure? Also, be aware that if you leave my services, you will be surrendering to me all the fiefs which you hold in my name. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify_again lord_ask_leave_service_3|Yes, {s65}. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_verify_again lord_ask_leave_service_giveup|Of course not, {s65}. I am ever your loyal vassal. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_3 lord_ask_leave_service_end|As you wish. I hereby declare your oaths to be null and void. You will no longer hold land or titles in my name, and you are released from your duties to my house. You are free, {playername}. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_end lord_ask_leave_service_end_2|Thank you, my lord. It was an honour to serve you. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_end lord_ask_leave_service_end_2.1|My thanks. It feels good to be {a free man/free} once again. dlga_lord_ask_leave_service_end_2 close_window|Farewell then, {playername}, and good luck go with you. dlga_lord_active_mission_1 lord_lend_companion_end|Oh, you want your companion back? I see... dlga_lord_active_mission_1 lord_pretalk|{playername}, I must beg your patience, I still have need of your companion. Please return later when things have settled. dlga_lord_active_mission_1 lord_active_mission_2|Yes, have you made any progress on it? dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_generic_mission_thank|Indeed. I brought you {reg1} {s1} as prisoners. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 capture_enemy_hero_thank|Oh, indeed. I've captured a lord from {s13} for you. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank capture_enemy_hero_thank_2|Many thanks, my friend. He will serve very well for a bargain. You've done a fine work here. Please accept these {reg5} coins for your help. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank_2 lord_pretalk|Certainly, {s65}. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank_2 lord_pretalk.1|It was nothing. dlga_capture_enemy_hero_thank_2 lord_pretalk.2|Give me more of a challenge next time. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_raise_troops_thank|Indeed. I have raised {reg1} {s13}. You can take them. dlga_lord_raise_troops_thank lord_raise_troops_thank_2|These men may well turn the tide in my plans, {playername}. I am confident you've trained them well. My thanks and my compliments to you. dlga_lord_raise_troops_thank_2 lord_pretalk|Well, the lads are at your command now, my lord. I am sure you will take good care of them. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_collect_taxes_success|Here are all the taxes from {s3}. It comes up to {reg19} coins. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_collect_taxes_half_success|Here are the taxes from {s3}. It comes up to {reg19} coins. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_collect_taxes_fail|Unfortunately, a revolt broke up while I was collecting the taxes. I could only collect {reg19} coins. dlga_lord_collect_taxes_success lord_pretalk|Well done, {playername}, very well done indeed! You were truly the right {man/person} for the job. I promised you a fifth of the taxes, so that amounts to {reg21} coins. If you give me {reg20} coins, you may keep the difference. A good result for everyone, eh? dlga_lord_collect_taxes_half_success lord_pretalk|What?! Is this some scheme of yours, {playername}? That's less than half the taxes I'm owed! You have let them get away with murder as well as my money. What a farce! You can forget the money I promised you, I'm taking {reg20} coins from what you collected, and you're lucky I'm leaving you a few coins for honour's sake. dlga_lord_collect_taxes_fail lord_pretalk|God, what a bloody mess you've gotten us into, {playername}.This could turn very ugly if I do not take immediate action.I certainly hope you're not here expecting to be paid for failure.Hand over my {reg19} coins, if you please, and end our business together. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success|I found {s4} hiding at {s3} and gave him his punishment. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_fail|I'm afraid he got away. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success_2|And we'll all be a lot better off without him! Thank you, {playername}, for removing this long-festering thorn from my side. 'Tis good to know you can be trusted to handle things with an appropriate level of tactfulness. A bounty I promised, and a bounty you shall have. 300 coins and not a copper less! dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_accept|Let me take the money, {s65}. Thank you. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_success_2 lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_reject|This is blood money. I can't accept it. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_accept lord_pretalk|Of course, {playername}. Here you are. Once again, you've my thanks for ridding me of that {s43}. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_reward_reject lord_pretalk|You are a {man/woman} for whom justice is its own reward, eh? As you wish it, {playername}, as you wish it. An honourable sentiment, to be true. Regardless, you've my thanks for ridding me of that {s43}. dlga_lord_hunt_down_fugitive_fail lord_pretalk|It is a sad day when that {s43} manages to avoid the hand of justice yet again. I thought you would be able to do this, {playername}. Clearly I was wrong. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_active_mission_3|I am still working on it. dlga_lord_active_mission_2 lord_mission_failed|I am afraid I won't be able to do this quest. dlga_lord_active_mission_3 lord_pretalk|Good. Remember, I am counting on you. dlga_lord_mission_failed lord_pretalk|{s43} dlga_lord_suggets_attack_enemy_castle3 lord_pretalk|That should be possible. Very well, we'll attack {s1}. dlga_lord_propose_mercenary lord_mercenary_service|As it happens, {playername}, I promised {s10} that I would hire a company of sellswords for an upcoming campaign. dlga_lord_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_service_reject|I'm not interested, thank you. dlga_lord_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_service_accept|Aye, I'll join {s9}. dlga_lord_mercenary_service lord_mercenary_elaborate_pay|I'm interested. Please tell me more. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_accept lord_mercenary_service_verify|Perfect. Of course you shall have to make a formal declaration of allegiance, and give your oath that you and your company will remain in service to {s9} for a period of no less than one month. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_verify lord_mercenary_service_verify_2|As you wish. Your enemies are my enemies. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_verify lord_mercenary_service_reject|On second thought, forget it. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_verify_2 lord_mercenary_service_accept_3|That will do. You've made a wise choice, my friend. {s9} does well by its loyal fighters, you will receive many rewards for your service. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_accept_3 lord_pretalk|Now, I suggest you prepare for a serious campaign. Train and equip your soldiers as best you can in the meantime, and respond quickly when you are summoned for duty. dlga_lord_mercenary_service_reject lord_pretalk|I'm very sorry to hear that. You'll find no better place than {s9}, be sure of that. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_pay lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|I can offer you a contract for one month. At the end of this period, it can be extended on a monthly basis. An initial sum of {reg12} coins will be paid to you to seal the contract. After that, you'll receive wages from {s10} each week, according to the number and quality of the soldiers in your company. You still have your rights to battlefield loot and salvage, as well as any prisoners you capture. War can be very profitable at times... dlga_lord_mercenary_service_elaborate_duty lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|Duties... There are only a few, none of them difficult. The very first thing is to declare your allegiance. An oath of loyalty to our cause. Once that's done, you shall be required to fulfill certain responsibilities. You'll participate in military campaigns, fulfill any duties given to you by your commanders, and most of all you shall attack the enemies of our sovereignty wherever you might find them. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_service_elaborate_duty|And what about my duties as a mercenary? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle|Can I hold on to any castles I take? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_elaborate_banner|Can I fly my own banner? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_elaborate_pay|How much will you pay me for my service? dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_service_accept|Sounds good. I wish to enter your service as a mercenary. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_1 lord_mercenary_service_reject|Apologies, my sword is not for hire. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|Only my loyal vassals can own lands and castles in my realm -- and all my vassals are {women/men}. I am not inclined to depart from this tradition without a very good reason. If you prove yourself in battle, you can swear an oath of homage to me and become my vassal. We may then discuss how you may obtain a castle. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.1|Hmm... Only loyal vassals of {s10} can own lands and castles. While {s0} will sometimes accept vassalage from {men/women} who prove themselves in battle, and grant them land, I have never heard of a {s1} who gave fiefs to {men/women}. You had best discuss that issue with {s10} {reg0?herself himself}. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.2|Only my loyal vassals can own lands and castles in my realm. A mercenary can not be trusted with such a responsibility. However, after serving for some time, you can swear homage to me and become my vassal. Then you will be rewarded with a fief. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_castle lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.3|Only loyal vassals of {s10} can own lands and castles. You understand, a simple mercenary cannot be trusted with such responsibility. However, after serving for some time, you may earn the right to swear homage to {s10} and become {reg0?her his} vassal. Then you would be rewarded with a fief. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_banner lord_mercenary_elaborate_1|Only my noble vassals have the honour of carrying their own banners. However, after some time in mercenary service, you may earn the opportunity to swear homage to me and become my vassal, gaining the right to choose a banner of your own and fight under it in battle. dlga_lord_mercenary_elaborate_banner lord_mercenary_elaborate_1.1|Only noble vassals of {s10} have the honour of carrying their own banners. However, after some time of mercenary service, perhaps you can earn the opportunity to swear homage to {s10} and become {reg0?her his} vassal, gaining the right to choose a banner of your own and fight under it in battle. dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_pretalk|You still haven't finished the last job I gave you, {playername}. You should be working on that, not asking me for other things to do. dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_pretalk.1|I don't have any other jobs for you right now. dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_tell_mission|A task? dlga_lord_request_mission_ask lord_pretalk.2|My {lord/lady}, by the traditions of courtship, I should be offering my services to you. Unfortunately, I have little time right now, so I beg you to take this declaration of my esteem in its place. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal|There are some minor errands which I need completed, but it would be more appropriate to give them to one of my own {reg65?servants men}, not to {reg0?my sworn liege a sworn vassal of the realm}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk|If you are looking for action against our foes, you may join our attack on {s4}. The enemy may come in force to oppose us, so it is good to have as many {reg65?soldiers {soldiers/men}} as possible. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk.1|If you are looking for action against our foes, you may try venturing out to {s4}. We have received word that a force of the {s5} is in the area, and I am going there myself. I cannot guarantee you that our enemies will be there when you arrive, of course. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk.2|If you are looking for action against our foes, you may try venturing out to {s4}. We have received word that a force of the {s5} is in the area. I am not currently headed that way, but others may be. I cannot guarantee you that our enemies will be there when you arrive, of course. dlga_lord_tell_mission_sworn_vassal lord_pretalk.3|If a worthy task presents itself, however, I may have a favor to ask of you at a later date. dlga_lord_tell_mission destroy_lair_quest_brief|Yes -- there is something you can do for us. We have heard reports that a group of {s4} have established a hideout in this area, and have been attacking travellers. If you could find their lair and destroy it, we would be very grateful. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_rescue_prisoner|My {s11}, {s13}, has been taken prisoner by {s14} of the {s15}. Normally, honorable nobles will grant prisoners of gentle blood the privilege of parole, and treat them as honored guests so long as they give their word that they will not attempt to escape, until such time as a ransom can be paid. But {s14}, instead of granting {s13} parole, has consigned my {s11} to {reg3?her his} dungeons -- no doubt in the hope that {reg3?she he} can demand more from us. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_confirm|We need you to get my {s11} out of prison. You may be able to pay a ransom -- in which case we could cover your expenses, up to 5000 coins. If you have connections within {s24}, you may be able to use them to sneak {reg4?her him} out. Or, you may try a more direct approach -- walk up to the gaoler, take the keys by force, and then fight your way out. Can you do this for us? dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_confirm lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_accepted|I can try. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_confirm lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_rejected|I don't think that I can help you. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_rejected close_window|It would not have been an easy task. Perhaps we will find another way. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_accepted lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method|We are most grateful. Could I ask you how you were planning to proceed? dlga_lord_mission_rescue_other_ideas lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method|Did you have any other ideas which you wished to discuss? dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak|I am thinking of breaking into the prison in {s24}, finding {s13}, and fighting my way out. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_siege|I am thinking of taking {s24} by storm. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_planning_end|I have done enough planning. Time to act! dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_planning_end close_window|May the heavens protect you. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak_2|I had discussed this idea with some of my men. One could enter {s24}, either in disguise or openly, then walk up to the prison guard and try to take the keys by force. However, getting out may be difficult. The garrison may be slow to react, but even so, you are likely to find yourself fighting a half dozen or more of the enemy at once, with limited space in which to maneuver. If you can fight your way past them, though, you can probably get out. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_prisonbreak_2 lord_mission_rescue_other_ideas|You may find it useful to create a distraction, to divert the attention of some of the garrison. If you have any connections in the villages near {s24}, this may be a time to put them to use. dlga_lord_mission_rescue_prisoner_method_siege lord_mission_rescue_other_ideas|Well, that is certainly the most direct approach. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_deliver_message|I need to send a letter to {s13} who should be currently at {s4}. If you will be heading towards there, would you deliver it to {reg0?her him}? The letter needs to be in {reg0?her his} hands in 30 days. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message lord_mission_deliver_message_accepted|Certainly, I intend to pass by {s4} and it would be no trouble. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected|I doubt I'll be seeing {s13} anytime soon, {s65}. You'd best send it with someone else. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely|I am no errand {boy/girl}, {reg65?my lady ser}. Hire a courier for your trivialities. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_accepted close_window|I appreciate it, {playername}. Here's the letter, and a small sum to cover your travel expenses. Give my regards to {s13} when you see {reg0?her him}. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected lord_pretalk|Ah, all right then. Well, I am sure I will find someone else. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_2|Hm, is this how you respond to a polite request for a small favor? A poor show, {playername}. I didn't know you would take offence. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_2 lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_3|Then you shall know better from now on. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_2 lord_mission_deliver_message_accepted|Forgive my temper, {s65}. I'll deliver your letter. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_message_rejected_rudely_3 close_window|All right. I will remember that. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_deliver_message.1|I need to deliver a letter to {s13} of {s15}, who must be at {s4} currently. If you are going towards there, would you deliver my letter to {reg0?her him}? The letter needs to reach {reg0?her him} in 40 days. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_deliver_love_letter|Ah, love. Have you ever been in love, {playername}? I have fallen for a lady. I saw {s13} at a banquet not long ago, and have thought of little else since... I must know if she feels the same way. Will you deliver this message for me? dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_accepted|Certainly, I will carry your message. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_rejected|I doubt I'll be seeing {s13} anytime soon, {s65}. You'd best send it with someone else. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_accepted lord_mission_deliver_love_letter1|I appreciate it, {playername}. Er, there's just one small snag. I'm not a literary man, and I suspect this type of thing is beyond me. You will have to help me write the note. Hmmm, let's see. How do you think I should start it off? I was thinking either, 'Greetings, wench,' or 'My love, my darling, I hunger for your touch'. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter1 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_2|Greetings, wench. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter1 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_2.1|My love, my darling, I hunger for your love. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter1 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_2.2|Er, how about, Dear Lady, I hope this letter finds you well. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_2 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter3|Excellent, I like it! Now, what next? ^'I could not help but notice your bustle at the ball,' 'Your fragile beauty excites my desires,' or 'I admire a woman with some meat on her bones'? dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter3 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_4|I could not help but notice your bustle at the ball. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter3 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_4.1|Your fragile beauty excites my desires. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter3 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_4.2|I admire a woman with some meat on her bones. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_4 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter5|Wonderful. Truly a masterpiece. And to conclude on a high note? ^How about, 'In truth, I love you more than my own horse.' No? Well, what about, 'Your beauty dazzles me like glare of the sun on an enemy shield.' Ahhh, I like that one. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter5 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_6|In truth, I love you more than my own horse. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter5 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_6.1|Your beauty dazzles me like glare of the sun on an enemy shield. dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter5 lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_6.2|Maybe, your noble mien evokes a subtle mystery? dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_6 close_window|I appreciate your help, {playername}. Here's the letter, and some money to cover your travel expenses. Ha ha! How can she resist? dlga_lord_mission_deliver_love_letter_rejected lord_pretalk|Ah, all right then. Well, I am sure I will find someone else. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told|There is a small thing... My {s17} {s13} is due for a visit to {reg4?her his} relatives at {s14}. The visit has been postponed several times already with all the trouble on the roads, but this time {reg4?he she} is adamant about going. So, I want to at least make sure {reg4?she he}'s well-guarded. I trust you well, {playername} so I would be very grateful if you could escort {reg4?her him} to {s14} and make sure {reg4?she he} arrives safe and sound. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_told|A group of bandits have taken refuge in my village of {s15}. They are plundering nearby farms, and getting rich and fat stealing my taxes and feasting on my cattle.I'd like nothing better than to go out there and teach them a lesson, but I have my hands full at the moment, so I can't do anything about it. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_told lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_accepted|Worry not, I can go to {s15} and deal with these scum for you. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_told lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_rejected|You shall have to find help elsewhere, I am too busy. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_accepted close_window|Will you do that? Know that, I will be grateful to you. Here is some money for the expenses of your campaign. Make an example of those {s43}s. dlga_lord_mission_deal_with_bandits_rejected lord_pretalk|Ah... Very well then, forget I brought it up. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_raise_troops|No lord should have to admit this, {playername}, but I was inspecting my soldiers the other day and there are {reg0?{reg65?women soldiers} {reg65?soldiers men}} here who don't know which end of a sword to hold. {s43} You are a warrior of renown, {playername}. Will you train some troops for me? I would be grateful to you. dlga_lord_tell_mission_raise_troops lord_tell_mission_raise_troops_2|How many men do you need? dlga_lord_tell_mission_raise_troops_2 lord_mission_raise_troops_told|If you can raise {reg1} {s14} and bring them to me, that will probably be enough. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_told lord_mission_raise_troops_accepted|Of course, {s65}. Give me {reg1} fresh recruits and I'll train them to be {s14}. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_told lord_mission_raise_troops_rejected|I am too busy these days to train anyone. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_accepted close_window|You've taken a weight off my shoulders, {playername}. I shall tell my sergeants to send you the recruits and attach them to your command. Also, I'll advance you some money to help with expenses. Here, this purse should do it. Thank you for your help. dlga_lord_mission_raise_troops_rejected lord_pretalk|Oh, of course. I had expected as much. Well, good luck to you then. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_collect_taxes_told|You probably know that I am the lord of the {reg9?town village} of {s3}. However, it has been months since {s3} has delivered the taxes and rents due me as its rightful lord. Apparently the populace there has grown unruly lately and I need someone to go there and remind them of their obligations. And to . . . persuade them if they won't listen. If you go there and raise the taxes they owe me, I will grant you one-fifth of everything you collect. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_told lord_mission_collect_taxes_accepted|A fair offer, {s65}. We have an agreement. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_told lord_mission_collect_taxes_rejected|Forgive me, I don't have the time. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_accepted close_window|Welcome news, {playername}. I will entrust this matter to you. Remember, those {reg9?townsmen peasants} are foxy beasts, they will make every excuse not to pay me my rightful incomes. Do not let them fool you. dlga_lord_mission_collect_taxes_rejected lord_pretalk|Oh, yes. Well, good luck to you then. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_told|I have something you could help with, an issue with the lawless villain known as {s4}. He murdered one of my men and has been on the run from his judgment ever since. I can't let him get away with avoiding justice, so I've put a bounty of 300 coins on his head. Friends of the murdered man reckon that this assassin may have taken refuge with his kinsmen at {s3}. You might be able to hunt him down and give him what he deserves, and claim the bounty for yourself. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_told lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_accepted|Then I will hunt him down and execute the law. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_told lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_rejected|I am too busy to go after him at the moment. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_accepted close_window|That's excellent, {playername}. I will be grateful to you and so will the family of the man he murdered. And of course the bounty on his head will be yours if you can get him. Well, good hunting to you. dlga_lord_mission_hunt_down_fugitive_rejected lord_pretalk|As you wish, {playername}.I suppose there are plenty of bounty hunters around to get the job done . . . dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told_kill_local_merchant|The wretched truth is that I owe a considerable sum of money to one of the merchants here in {s3}. I've no intention of paying it back, of course, but that loud-mouthed fool is making a terrible fuss about it. He even had the audacity to come and threaten me -- me! -- with a letter of complaint to the trade guilds and bankers. Why, he'd ruin my good reputation! So I need a {man/woman} I can trust, someone who will guarantee the man's silence. For good. dlga_lord_mission_told_kill_local_merchant lord_mission_accepted_kill_local_merchant|Worry not, he shan't breathe a word. dlga_lord_mission_told_kill_local_merchant lord_mission_rejected|I'm no common murderer, my lord. Find someone else for your dirty job. dlga_lord_mission_accepted_kill_local_merchant close_window|Very good. I trust in your skill and discretion, {playername}. Do not disappoint me. Go now and wait for my word, I'll send you a message telling when and where you can catch the merchant. Dispose of him for me and I shall reward you generously. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told_meet_spy_in_enemy_town|I have a sensitive matter which needs tending to, {playername}, and no trustworthy retainers to take care of it. The fact is that I have a spy in {s13} to keep an eye on things for me, and report anything that might warrant my attention. Every week I send someone to collect the spy's reports and bring them back to me. The job's yours if you wish it. dlga_lord_mission_told_meet_spy_in_enemy_town quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted|I don't mind a bit of skullduggery. Count me in. dlga_lord_mission_told_meet_spy_in_enemy_town quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_rejected|I must decline. This cloak-and-dagger work isn't fit for me. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|Excellent! Make your way to {s13} as soon as you can, the spy will be waiting. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_2|{s13} is heavily defended. How can I get close without being noticed? dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_2 quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|You shall have to use stealth. Take care to avoid enemy strongholds, villages and patrols, and don't bring too many men with you. If you fail to sneak in the first time, give it a while for the garrison to lower its guard again, or you may have a difficult time infiltrating the town. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_3|How will I recognise the spy? dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_3 quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|Once you get to {s13} you must talk to the locals, the spy will be one of them. If you think you've found the spy, say the phrase '{s11}' The spy will respond with the phrase '{s12}' Thus you will know the other, and {reg7?she he} will give you any information {reg7?she he}'s gathered in my service. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_4|Will I be paid? dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_4 quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response|Of course, I have plenty of silver in my coffers for loyal {men/women} like you. Do well by me, {playername}, and you'll rise high. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_response quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_end|I know what to do. Farewell, my lord. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_accepted_end lord_pretalk|Good luck, {playername}. Remember, the secret phrase is '{s11}' The counterphrase is '{s12}' Bring any reports back to me, and I'll compensate you for your trouble. dlga_quest_meet_spy_in_enemy_town_rejected lord_pretalk|As you wish, {playername}, but I strongly advise you to forget anything I told you about any spies. They do not exist, have never existed, and no one will ever find them. Remember that. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told_raid_caravan_to_start_war|This peace with {s13} ill suits me, {playername}. We've let those swine have their way for far too long. Now they get stronger with each passing and their arrogance knows no bounds. I say, we must wage war on them before it's too late! Unfortunately, some of the bleeding hearts among our realm's lords are blocking a possible declaration of war. Witless cowards with no stomach for blood. dlga_lord_mission_told_raid_caravan_to_start_war lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_2|You are right, {s65}, but what can we do? dlga_lord_mission_told_raid_caravan_to_start_war quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_1|I disagree, my lord. It is better that there be peace. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_2 lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_3|Ah, 'tis good to hear someone who understands! As a matter of fact, there is something we can do, {playername}. A little bit of provocation... If one of our war parties managed to enter their territory and pillage one of their caravans, or raided one of their villages, and perhaps left behind a little token or two of the {s14}, they would have ample cause to declare war on us. And then, well, even the cowards among us must rise to defend themselves. So what do you say? Are you interested? dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_3 quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_accepted|An excellent plan. Count me in. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_3 lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_4|Why don't you do that yourself? dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_4 lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_5|Well, {playername}, some of the lords in our sovereignty won't like the idea of someone inciting a war without their consent. They are already looking for an excuse to get at me, and if I did this they could make me pay for it dearly. You, on the other hand, are young and well-liked and daring, so you might just get away with it. And of course I will back you up and defend your actions against your opponents. All in all, a few lords might be upset at your endeavour, but I am sure you won't be bothered with that. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_5 quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_accepted|That seems reasonable. I am willing to do this. dlga_lord_mission_tell_raid_caravan_to_start_war_5 quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_2|I don't like this. Find yourself someone else to take the blame for your schemes. dlga_quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_accepted close_window|Very good! A raid on a caravan, or, if you can't manage that, an attack on one of their villages, should do the trick. Now, good luck and good hunting. Go set the borders aflame! dlga_quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_1 lord_pretalk|Ah, you think so? But how long will your precious peace last? Not long, believe me. dlga_quest_raid_caravan_to_start_war_rejected_2 lord_pretalk|Hm. As you wish, {playername}. I thought you had some fire in you, but it seems I was wrong. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told.1|Well, some of the serfs working my fields in {s4} have run away. The ungrateful swine, I let them plough my fields and rent my cottages, and this is how they repay me! From what I've been hearing, they're running to {s3} as fast as they can, and have split up into three groups to try and avoid capture. I want you to capture all three groups and fetch them back to {s4} by whatever means necessary. I should really have them hanged for attempting to escape, but we need hands for the upcoming harvest, so I'll let them go off this time with a good beating. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_follow_spy|I have good information that a man in this very town is actually an enemy spy. He should be seized and hanged for his impudence, but we also believe that very soon he will leave town to meet with his master, the man to whom the spy feeds all his little whispers. The spy himself is of little import, but the master is a dangerous man, and could tell us a great deal if we could only get our hands on him... dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_2|I want you to wait here until the spy leaves town. Then you must follow him, stealthily, to the meeting place. You must take absolute care not to be seen by the spy on your way, else he may suspect foul play and turn back. When the master appears, you must ambush and arrest them and bring the pair back to me. Alive, if you please. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_2 lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_accepted|I'll do it, {s65}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_2 lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_rejected|No, this skulking is not for me. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_accepted close_window|Good, I'm sure you'll do a fine job of it. One of my men will point the spy out to you when he leaves, so you will know the man to follow. Remember, I want them both, and I want them alive. dlga_lord_tell_mission_follow_spy_rejected lord_pretalk|A shame. Well, carry on as you were, {playername}... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero|There is a difficult job I need done, {playername}, and you may be the {man/one} who can carry it off. I need someone to capture one of the noble lords of {s13} and bring him to me. Afterwards, I'll be able to exchange him in return for a relative of mine held by {s13}. It is a simple enough job, but whomever you choose will be guarded by an elite band of personal retainers. Are you up for a fight? dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_accepted|Consider it done, {s65}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_rejected|I must refuse, {s65}. I am not a kidnapper. dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_accepted close_window|I like your spirit! Go and bring me one of our enemies, and I'll toast your name in my hall when you return! And reward you for your efforts, of course... dlga_lord_tell_mission_capture_enemy_hero_rejected lord_pretalk|Clearly you lack the mettle I had thought you possessed. Very well, {playername}, I will find someone else. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_lend_companion|I don't have a job for you right now, but your companion {s3} is a skilled {reg3?lass fellow} and I need someone with {reg3?her his} talents. Will you lend {reg3?her him} to me for a while? dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_2|How long will you be needing {reg3?her him}? dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_2 lord_mission_lend_companion_told|Just a few days, a week at most. dlga_lord_mission_lend_companion_told lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_accepted|Then I will leave {s3} with you for one week. dlga_lord_mission_lend_companion_told lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_rejected|I am sorry, but I cannot do without {s3} for a whole week. dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_accepted close_window|I cannot thank you enough, {playername}. Worry not, your companion shall be returned to you with due haste. dlga_lord_tell_mission_lend_companion_rejected lord_pretalk|Well, that's damned unfortunate, but I suppose I cannot force you or {s3} to agree. I shall have to make do without. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_collect_debt|Some time ago, I loaned out a considerable sum of money to {s3}. {reg4} coins, to be precise. {reg0?She He} was supposed to pay it back within a month but I haven't received a copper from {reg0?her him} since. That was months ago. If you could collect the debt from {reg0?her him} on my behalf, I would be grateful indeed. I would even let you keep one fifth of the money for your trouble. What do you say? dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_2|Do you know where I can find {s3}, {s65}? dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_2 lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_3|If you leave now, you should be able to find {reg0?her him} at {s4}. I've no doubt that {reg0?she he} will be suitably embarassed by {reg0?her his} conduct and give you all the money {reg0?she he} owes me. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_3 lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_accepted|Then I will talk to {s3} on your behalf. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_3 lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_rejected|Forgive me, {s65}, but I doubt I would be more successful than yourself. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_accepted close_window|You made me very happy by accepting this {playername}. Please, talk to {s3} and don't leave {reg0?her him} without my money. dlga_lord_tell_mission_collect_debt_rejected lord_pretalk|Perhaps not, {playername}. I suppose I'm never getting that money back... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander|I tell you, that blubbering fool {s13} is not fit to rule {s14}. God knows {reg3?she he} would be divested of {reg3?her his} lands in an instant were it not for one of {reg3?her his} loyal vassals, {s15}. As long as {reg3?she he} has {reg3?her his} vassal aiding {reg3?her him}, it will be a difficult job beating {reg3?her him}. So I need to get {s15} out of the picture, and I have a plan just to do that... With your help, naturally. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_2|{s66}, I am all ears. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected|I don't wish to involve myself in anything dishonourable against {s15}. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected lord_pretalk|Dishonourable? Bah! I was hoping I could count on you, {playername}, but you've shown me what a fool I was. I shall have to find someone whose loyalty I can trust. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_2 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_3|I have written a fake letter to {s15}, bearing my own seal, which implicates {reg4?her him} in a conspiracy with us to stage a coup in {s14}, in my favour. If we can make {s13} believe the letter is genuine, {reg3?she he} will deal with {s15} very swiftly. Of course, the challenge there is to convince {s13} that the letter is indeed real... dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_3 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_4|Please continue, {s65}... dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_3 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected|No, I will not sully myself with this dishonourable scheme. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_4 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_5|This is where you come into play. You'll take the letter to {s14}, then give it to one of your soldiers and instruct him to take it to {s15}. I will have one of my spies inform the town garrison so that your man will be arrested on his way. The guards will then find the letter and take it to {s13}. They'll torture your man, of course, to try and get the truth out of him, but all he knows is that you ordered the letter to be delivered to {s15} under the utmost secrecy. {s13} knows you serve me, and the fool will certainly believe the whole charade. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_5 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_7|Is that all? dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_7 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_8|There is one more thing... Your messenger must be someone trustworthy. If you sent the letter with a simple peasant, someone expendable, {s13} might suspect a plot. {reg3?She He} may have the wits of a snail, but even a snail can see the obvious. Give the letter to someone of rank. One of your {s9}, perhaps. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_8 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_9|What? I can't send one of my trusted {s9} to his death! dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_8 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_fin|Then a {s8} it will be. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_9 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_10|Come now, {playername}. There is a place for sentimentality, but this is not it. Believe me, you shall be generously compensated, and what is the purpose of soldiers if not to die at our say-so? dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_10 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_fin|A {s8} it is. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_10 lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_rejected|No, I'll not sacrifice one of my chosen men. dlga_lord_tell_mission_incriminate_commander_fin lord_pretalk|I can't tell you how pleased I am to hear that, {playername}. You are removing one of the greatest obstacles in my path. Here is the letter, as well as 300 coins for your expenses. Remember, there'll be more once you succeed. Much, much more... dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told.2|A group of my soldiers were captured in a recent skirmish with the enemy. Thankfully we have a mutual agreement of prisoner exchange, and they will release my men, but they want us to give them prisoners of equal rank and number. Prisoners I don't currently have. So, I need a good {man/warrior} to find me {reg1} {s3} as prisoners, that I may exchange them. dlga_lord_tell_mission lord_pretalk|No {playername}. I do not need your help at this time. dlga_lord_mission_told lord_mission_accepted|You can count on me, {s65}. dlga_lord_mission_told lord_mission_rejected|I fear I cannot accept such a mission at the moment. dlga_lord_mission_accepted close_window|Excellent, {playername}, excellent. I have every confidence in you. dlga_lord_mission_rejected close_window|Is that so? Well, I suppose you're just not up to the task. I shall have to look for somebody with more mettle. dlga_lord_talk lord_request_enlistment|I would like to join your retinue. dlga_lord_talk lord_request_reassignment|My liege, I would like to be reassigned to another division. dlga_lord_talk lord_request_retire|My liege, I would like to retire from your service. dlga_lord_talk lord_request_vacation|My liege, I would like to request some personal leave. dlga_lord_talk ask_return_from_leave|My liege, I am ready to return to your retinue. dlga_lord_talk lord_leave_prison|I must leave now. dlga_lord_talk lord_leave|This audience is over. I leave now. dlga_lord_talk lord_leave.1|I must beg my leave. dlga_lord_leave lord_leave_give_quest|Before you go, {playername}, I have something to ask of you... We may be enemies in this war, but I pray that you believe, as I do, that we can still be civil towards each other. Thus I hoped that you would be kind enough to assist me in something important to me. dlga_lord_leave_give_quest enemy_lord_tell_mission|I am listening. dlga_enemy_lord_tell_mission lord_mission_told|I have a friend here, an old warrior, who is very sick. Pestilence has infected an old battle wound, and unless he is seen to by a surgeon soon, he will surely die. This man is dear to me, {playername}, but he's also stubborn as a hog and refuses to have anyone look at his injury because he doesn't trust the physicians here. I have heard that you've a capable surgeon with you. If you would let your surgeon come here and have a look, {reg3?she he} may be able to convince him to give his consent to an operation. Please, I will be deeply indebted to you if you grant me this request. dlga_lord_leave_prison close_window|We'll meet again. dlga_lord_leave close_window|Farewell, my lady. I shall remain your most ardent admirer. dlga_lord_leave close_window.1|Of course, {playername}. Farewell. dlga_lord_leave close_window.2|Good journeys to you, {playername}. dlga_lord_leave close_window.3|Yes, yes. Farewell. dlga_lord_leave close_window.4|We will meet again. dlga_member_chat lady_journey_1|Are you enjoying the journey, {s65}? dlga_lady_journey_1 close_window|I am doing quite fine, {playername}. Thank you for your concern. dlga_start spouse_talk|Yes? dlga_spouse_talk minister_issues|As you are my chief minister, I wish to speak to about affairs of state dlga_spouse_talk spouse_cancel_political_quest|Let's abandon our plan to {s10}. dlga_spouse_cancel_political_quest spouse_cancel_political_quest_confirm|Are you sure you want to drop that idea? dlga_spouse_cancel_political_quest_confirm spouse_pretalk|Yes, I am sure. Let's abandon that idea. dlga_spouse_cancel_political_quest_confirm spouse_pretalk.1|Actually, never mind. dlga_spouse_talk combined_political_quests|Let us think of a way to improve our standing in this realm dlga_spouse_talk dplmc_spouse_tournament_dedication_reaction|My {reg65?wife husband}, I would like to dedicate my successes in this recent melee to you dlga_dplmc_spouse_tournament_dedication_reaction spouse_pretalk|{s9} dlga_spouse_talk spouse_organize_feast|I was thinking that perhaps we could host a feast dlga_spouse_talk spouse_household_possessions|Let us take inventory of our household possessions dlga_spouse_household_possessions spouse_pretalk|Anyway, that is the content of our larder. dlga_spouse_talk close_window|We shall speak later, my {wife/husband} dlga_wedding_ceremony_bride_vow wedding_ceremony_player_vow|My husband, I hearby pledge to be your wife, to stand with you in good times and bad. May the heavens smile upon us and bless us with children, livestock, and land. dlga_wedding_ceremony_player_vow wedding_ceremony_vows_complete|I pledge the same. Let us be husband and wife. dlga_wedding_ceremony_player_vow close_window|Wait -- hold on... I'm not quite ready for this. dlga_wedding_ceremony_vows_complete close_window|I now declare you and {s3} to be husband and wife. Go now to the chamber prepared for you, and we shall make arrangements for your bride to join {reg10?you in your hall in your liege's court at} {s11}. dlga_spouse_pretalk spouse_talk|Is there anything else, {s0}? dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_pretalk|A splendid idea, {s0}. However, let us wait for the current feast here to conclude, before organizing another. dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_pretalk.1|A splendid idea, {s0}. However, we must establish a court before hosting a feast. dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_pretalk.2|A splendid idea, {s0}. However, our realm has recently had a feast. Perhaps we should wait another {reg3} days before we organize another one. dlga_spouse_organize_feast spouse_evaluate_larder_for_feast|A splendid idea, {s0}. However, to not insult our guests, we must make sure that we can provide a large and varied repast, for the lords, their families, and their retinues. All told, we should count on a couple of hundred mouths to feed, over several days. Let us take an inventory of our household possessions... dlga_spouse_evaluate_larder_for_feast spouse_feast_confirm|{s9} dlga_spouse_feast_confirm spouse_feast_added_items|Let me add more items to our storehouses dlga_spouse_feast_added_items spouse_evaluate_larder_for_feast|All right -- let me reevalute what is there... dlga_spouse_feast_confirm spouse_feast_confirm_yes|Let us dispatch the invitations dlga_spouse_feast_confirm spouse_pretalk|Let us wait, then dlga_spouse_feast_confirm_yes spouse_pretalk|I shall send word, then, that we will host a feast as soon as conditions in the realm permit. You perhaps should continue to stock our larder, so that we may do justice to our reputation for hospitality. dlga_spouse_feast_confirm_yes spouse_pretalk.1|Very well, then. Let the feast begin immediately at our court {reg4?here } in {s9}. You perhaps should continue to stock our larder, so that we may do justice to our reputation for hospitality. You may declare the feast to be concluded at any time, either by beginning a campaign or by letting it be known that the vassals can return to their homes. dlga_start close_window.19|How wonderful it is... In a short while we shall be married! However, I should point out that, in the remaining few days, it is not customary for us to speak too much together. dlga_start close_window.20|Em, {playername}, you might not be used to our wedding customs, but I had hoped that someone would tell you... Speak first to my {s11}, {s4}. dlga_start close_window.21|I do not know where to find my {s11} {s10}, who by tradition should preside over our wedding. Perhaps we should wait until {reg4?she he} can be found... dlga_start close_window.22|The honorable {s12} has agreed to allow us to return home to our families. We shall be departing shortly. dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive|So great is my loneliness! How I miss my family! dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive.1|You are a cad, to hold a {reg65?lady free-spirited lad} like this... dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive.2|It is strange. On occasion you have shown me such kindness, and yet you continue to hold me here against my will. dlga_start kingdom_lady_captive.3|Why haven't my family paid my ransom? You may hold me as prisoner, but it seems that you care for me more than they do! dlga_lady_stranded_next close_window|Greetings, {s0}. The tides of war have left me stranded here in this fortress, but I will shortly be departing. dlga_start lady_talk_refugee|{playername} -- I assume that you, as a {man/lady} of honor, will accord gentle-born {reg65?ladies lads} such as ourselves the right to return to our families, and not demand a ransom. dlga_start close_window.23|We will shortly depart{s5}. It is good to know that some people in this world retain a sense of honor. dlga_lady_talk_refugee close_window|Of course, my lady dlga_lady_talk_refugee lady_captive_talk|You assume wrong, {reg65?my lady sirrah}! dlga_lady_captive_talk lady_captive_confirm|What?! What infamy is this? dlga_lady_captive_confirm close_window|My apologies - you must have misunderstood me. Of course you may leave. dlga_lady_captive_confirm close_window.1|Contact your family to arrange for a ransom, my lady. dlga_kingdom_lady_captive close_window|Then write to your family, and ask them to hurry up with the ransom! dlga_kingdom_lady_captive close_window.1|I have changed my mind -- you are free to go dlga_start close_window.24|Well, {playername} -- you fought a duel with {s10}, and lost. According to our custom and tradition, I should no longer receive you. Farewell, {playername}. dlga_start lady_duel_lost|Oh {playername} -- I heard of your duel with {s10}. I wish now that you had never fought {reg3?her him}, for our honor and tradition demand that, having lost to {reg3?her him}, you now break off your suit with me. Farewell, {playername}. dlga_lady_duel_lost close_window|Very well - we must do as tradition demands... Farewell, my lady dlga_lady_duel_lost lady_duel_lost_flaunt_conventions|Let honor and tradition hang! dlga_lady_duel_lost_flaunt_conventions close_window|Oh, {playername}! Although people will talk, it would so break my heart to no longer be able to see you. We shall ignore this silly, cruel tradition. dlga_lady_duel_lost_flaunt_conventions close_window.1|No, {playername} -- I cannot afford to fritter away my good name, and neither can you. dlga_start lady_start|Oh, {playername} -- I have heard that you won your duel with {s10}. I'm grateful that you have delivered me from that {reg3?woman man}'s attentions! dlga_start lady_start.1|Well, {playername} -- you won your duel with {s10}. Clearly, {reg3?she he} was not worthy of my affections. dlga_lady_duel_rep_1 lady_start|Well, {playername} -- you won your duel with {s10}. Oh, such foolishness, that {men/people} should fight over me! Sigh... But it is a bit romantic, I suppose. dlga_lady_duel_rep_2 lady_start|Well, {playername} -- you won your duel with {s10}. Honor now demands that {reg0?she he} and I no longer meet... I was fond of {reg0?her him}, you know. You did me no service by fighting {reg0?her him}. dlga_start lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1|My dear {playername}, how joyous to see you again! I heard you gave that vile {s13} a well-deserved lesson. I hope {reg3?she he} never forgets {reg3?her his} humiliation. I've a reward for you, but I fear it's little compared to what you've done for me. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1 lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2|Oh, it will just have to do. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1 lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2.1|{s66}, this is far too much! dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_1 lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2.2|Please, {s65}, no reward is necessary. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_succeeded_2 lady_pretalk|{s10} dlga_start lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed|I was told that you sought satisfaction from {s13} to prove my innocence, {playername}. It was a fine gesture, and I thank you for your efforts. dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed_2|I beg your forgiveness for my defeat, {s65}... dlga_lady_qst_duel_for_lady_failed_2 lady_pretalk|It matters not, dear {playername}. You tried. The truth cannot be proven at the point of a sword, but you willingly put your life at stake for my honour. That alone will convince many of my innocence. dlga_start lady_escort_lady_succeeded|Thank you for escorting me here, {playername}. Please accept this gift as a token of my gratitude. I hope we shall meet again sometime in the future. dlga_lady_escort_lady_succeeded close_window|It was an honor to serve you, {s65}. dlga_start lady_start.2|Ah {playername} - you must have received my message. How happy I am that you could come! dlga_start lady_proposal_pending|{playername} - is there any word from my family? dlga_start lady_betrothed|I hear that my {s11} has refused your request to marry me. Does that mean that we must part? dlga_start lady_generic_mission_succeeded|Oh, {playername}, you brought {reg4?her him} back to me! Thank you ever so much for rescuing my {s11}. Please, take this as some small repayment for your noble deed. dlga_start rescue_prisoner_succeed_1|Oh, {playername}, you brought {reg4?her him} back to me! Thank you ever so much for rescuing my {s11}. Please, take this as some small repayment for your noble deed. dlga_rescue_prisoner_succeed_1 lady_pretalk|Always an honour to serve, {s65}. dlga_start lady_meet_end|You must be {playername}. We have just had the honor of watching you distinguish yourself in the recent melee{s8}. dlga_start lady_meet_end.1|You must be {playername}. My {s15} {s16} has spoken most highly of you. I am delighted to make your acquaintance. dlga_start lady_premeet|I say, you don't look familiar... dlga_start close_window.25|Ah, {playername}. How good it is to see you again. However, I believe that I am required elsewhere. dlga_start lady_start.3|{playername} -- how good it is to see you. (Whispers ) I still remember your visits fondly. dlga_start lady_meet_end.2|Ah, {playername}. How spendid it was to see you distinguish yourself in the recent melee. dlga_start lady_start.4|{s12} dlga_lady_start lady_betrothed|I have sad news. I have become betrothed to {s5} -- against my will, I should say! Oh {playername} - I would so much rather be wed to you! dlga_lady_start lady_betrothed.1|Good {playername} -- I have become betrothed to {s5}. It is now no longer seemly for us to see each other like this. dlga_lady_start lady_other_suitor|I must tell you -- there is another lord who has been paying me attentions, although I cannot abide {reg0?her him}. I fear {reg0?she he} has designs on me, and may try to force me to wed against my will. dlga_lady_start lady_talk|{s11}It is probably not suitable for us to tarry too long here in conversation, but I would hope to see you again soon. dlga_lady_start lady_talk.1|{s11} dlga_lady_start lady_talk.2|I was planning to retire for a little while, but perhaps we may have a chance to speak more later... dlga_lady_start lady_talk.3|It is so delightful to have a chance to spend some time together.{s12} dlga_lady_start lady_talk.4|What brings you here today? dlga_lady_proposal_pending close_window|No word so far... dlga_lady_proposal_pending lady_proposal_pending_end|On second thought, now is not the time for us to marry dlga_lady_proposal_pending_end close_window|{s11} dlga_lady_betrothed lady_suggest_elope|Never! We must elope together at once! dlga_lady_betrothed lady_pretalk|Perhaps I may still be able to change your {s11}'s mind dlga_lady_betrothed lady_conclude_relationship|So be it -- let us then part dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship|Good {playername} -- you are a good and kind man, but a lady cannot defy her family. Such things are not done! dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_other_suitor|As you may know, I have been entertaining offers from a number of {gentlemen/suitors} such as yourself. I am not yet at a stage where I can commit to any of them. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.1|Ah {playername}, you must realize. You are still finding your way in the world. I have great affection for you, {playername}, but I will not consign myself to obscurity. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.2|Ah {playername}, although you are kind to me, I am not certain enough of your moral fiber to risk such a thing. Although I bear little affection for my betrothed, it would be a weighty thing to go against my family's wishes, and I am not certain enough of you to take that step. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.3|Good {playername} -- to elope would be to throw away my ties with my family, which are everything to me! I have a considerable affection for you, but I am not sure that I am prepared to risk that. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_conclude_relationship.4|Good {playername} -- I am not used to the hardships of campaigning as you are. I want a home to call my own. If you were lord of a castle or town with a great hall, I would gladly go there as your {reg0?wife husband}, to be {reg0?mistress keeper} of the household. But I do not wish to live like a hunted animal. dlga_lady_suggest_elope lady_elope_agree|Elope with you? Yes -- we could do that. It is a great step to defy my family -- but a loveless marriage, and life without you, might be a far worse thing! But be warned -- this will be a terrible blow to my {s11}'s prestige, and {reg4?she he} will do everything in {reg4?her his} power to bring you down. dlga_lady_elope_agree lady_elope_agree_nurse|Quickly, then! There is no time to lose. dlga_lady_elope_agree close_window|Everything in {reg4?her his} power, you say? Em... Let me think about this... dlga_lady_elope_agree_nurse lady_elope_agree_lady_vows|Your lordship... Your ladyship... Would you like me to witness your exchange of vows? dlga_lady_elope_agree_lady_vows lady_elope_agree_nurse_2|Yes, do that. For my part, I make the following vow I, {s4}, do swear that I accept {playername} as my {husband/wife}, according to the ancient law and custom of our land... dlga_lady_elope_agree_nurse_2 lady_elope_agree_player_vows|Very good. Do you, {playername}, swear similarly to accept {s4} as your {reg65?wife husband}? dlga_lady_elope_agree_player_vows close_window|I do. dlga_lady_elope_agree_player_vows close_window.1|Eh, what? This is all moving too fast... dlga_lady_elope_agree lady_conclude_relationship|Oh, really? My dear -- I could never separate a {reg65?lady young lad} from {reg65?her his} family like that... dlga_lady_conclude_relationship lady_conclude_relationship_confirm|So I suppose our time together must come to an end... dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_yes|Yes -- it must be... dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_no|Wait -- perhaps there is still a chance for us! dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_yes close_window|Farewell, {playername}. We will see each other, in the courts and castles of this realm, but we must keep our distance from each other. I will remember these days fondly, nonetheless. dlga_lady_conclude_relationship_confirm_no close_window|In that case, we shall see what the future brings. dlga_lady_generic_mission_succeeded lady_pretalk|Always an honour to serve, {s65}. dlga_lady_premeet lady_meet|I am {playername}. dlga_lady_premeet lady_meet.1|My name is {playername}. At your service. dlga_lady_meet lady_meet_end|Of course. How splendid to finally make your acquaintance. dlga_lady_meet lady_meet_end.1|{playername}? I do not believe I've heard of you before. dlga_lady_meet_end lady_talk|I am about to retire for a little while, but perhaps we may have a chance to speak more later... dlga_lady_meet_end lady_talk.1|Now, if you will excuse me... dlga_lady_meet_end lady_talk.2|Can I help you with anything? dlga_lady_talk lord_talk_ask_location|I want to know the location of someone. dlga_lady_pretalk lady_talk|Now, if you will excuse me... dlga_lady_pretalk lady_talk.1|Is there anything else? dlga_lady_talk dplmc_lady_relations2|I wished to ask about one of your relatives. dlga_dplmc_lady_relations2 dplmc_lady_info_relative_select|About which lord do you want information? dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_select dplmc_lady_info_relative_1|Your {s11} {s18} dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_select lady_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_1 lady_pretalk|Pardon, but I do not feel comfortable discussing such personal matters with you. dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_1 dplmc_lady_info_relative_2|{s47} dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_1 lady_pretalk.1|{12} dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_2 lady_pretalk|{s12}. dlga_dplmc_lady_info_relative_2 lady_pretalk.1|{s1} dlga_lady_talk dplmc_lady_feasts|Do you know of any ongoing feasts? dlga_dplmc_lady_feasts lady_pretalk|{s12} dlga_lady_talk lady_relations|May I have the honor of knowing more about you, {reg65?my lady good sir}? dlga_lady_relations lady_pretalk|{s12} dlga_lady_talk lady_profess_admiration|My {reg65?lady lord}, I would like to profess myself your most ardent admirer dlga_lady_talk lady_tournament_dedication_reaction|My {reg65?lady lord}, I would like to dedicate my successes in this recent melee to you dlga_lady_tournament_dedication_reaction lady_pretalk|{s9} dlga_lady_profess_admiration close_window|{s11}I would like it very much if we could see more of each other. dlga_lady_profess_admiration lady_pretalk|Ah... You are too kind... My, the hour is getting rather late, isn't it? I really must be going. dlga_lady_talk lady_recite_poetry|Do you like music, my {reg65?lady lord}? dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry|That would depend on the song. Did you intend to recite a verse? dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response|'And who are you, the proud lord said,' dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.1|'A bear there was, A bear, A BEAR!' dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.2|You are the first and the last/the outer and the inner... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.3|'A light pierced the gloom over Maidenpool...' dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_recite_poetry_response.4|I deflected her skeptical questioning darts/with armor made of purest devotion... dlga_lady_recite_poetry lady_pretalk|Actually, I can't think of any that I would care to recite... dlga_lady_recite_poetry_response lady_private_conversation_end|{s11} dlga_lady_private_conversation_end lady_pretalk|Time is passing quickly, and we cannot linger here too long. dlga_lady_talk lady_marriage_discussion|Do you think that we may have a future together, {reg65?my lady kind sir}? dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_other_suitor|As you may know, I have been entertaining offers from a number of {nobles/suitors} such as yourself. I am not yet at a stage where I can commit to any of them. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_proposal_refused|It is good to hear that you are thinking seriously about the future. However, I would like to see you rise a little further in the world before I am ready to commit to marry you. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_proposal_refused.1|It is good to hear that your intentions are honorable. However, I have resolved only to marry a man of the strongest moral fiber. I would like you to prove yourself more in that regard. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_proposal_refused.2|Sir -- it is comforting to hear that your intentions towards me are honorable. But perhaps we should take the time to get to allow our affections for each other to grow a little stronger, before making any such decision. dlga_lady_marriage_discussion lady_betrothed|Oh {playername}, how happy that would make me! But my {s11} {s4} would never allow it... Perhaps it is best that we part... dlga_lady_marriage_discussion close_window|Oh {playername}, how happy that would make me! Go ask my {s11} {s4} for permission! dlga_lady_proposal_refused lady_proposal_refused_persuade_check|Perhaps I can persuade you to delay no further. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_check lady_proposal_refused_persuade_player_response|What do you have to say? dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_player_response lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result|Love is as a rose, my {reg65?lady lord}. Left unplucked, it may wither. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_player_response lady_pretalk|Oh, never mind. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result close_window|Enough! I shall not be rushed into marriage, with you or with anyone else! You have made me very cross. Please, leave me alone for a while. I shall let you know when I am ready to speak to you again. dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result lady_betrothed|Oh {playername}, I could never allow that to happen! Oh, if only we could be wed! But my {s11} {s4} would never give {reg4?her his} permission... Perhaps it is best that we part... dlga_lady_proposal_refused_persuade_result close_window.1|Oh {playername}, I could never allow that to happen! Go ask my {s11} {s4} {reg4?her his} permission for us to be wed! dlga_lady_proposal_refused close_window|Very well -- I shall continue to strive to be worthy of your esteem! dlga_lady_proposal_refused lady_player_threatens_compel|I am tired of these games! I will speak to your family about arranging a wedding immediately.. dlga_lady_player_threatens_compel lady_player_threatens_compel_2|What? Do you mean that? dlga_lady_player_threatens_compel_2 lady_private_conversation_end|No, of couse not. Please forgive my burst of temper dlga_lady_player_threatens_compel_2 close_window|Yes -- you clearly do not know what is in your best interests. dlga_lady_other_suitor lady_pretalk|It grieves me to hear that, my {reg65?lady lord}, but such things must be dlga_lady_other_suitor lady_other_suitor_challenge|Who is the miscreant! Tell me {his/her} name! dlga_lady_other_suitor lady_player_threatens_compel|I am tired of these games! I will demand that your family compel you to marry me.. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_pretalk|I would be so grateful! But from what I understand, you already have a duel on your hands. {reg0?She He} is not honor-bound to fight you, if you are committed to another combat. Please, conclude your other business in a hurry, to rescue me from that {reg0?woman man}'s attentions!. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_pretalk.1|Ah! Such talk. But from what I hear, you already have a duel on your hands. Finish one before you start another! Sigh... {reg0?You {men/women} People} can be so silly... dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm|It is {s5}. Please, rescue me from that {reg0?woman man}'s attentions! dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm.1|Will you now? This should be interesting. Very well. Your rival is {s5}. Let us see which of you has the greater mettle. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm.2|Oh, fie! I wish that this were not a matter of honor, so I could refuse such a request. But alas, I feel compelled to tell you that your rival is {s5}. I wish that heaven had not granted me such a fair visage, so that I would not inspire such passions in {men/women}! dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm.3|I will have none of such talk! It is nonsense for you and {s5} to fight over -- whoops! I beg of you, forget the name that just escaped my lips... dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_yes|So be it! I shall challenge {reg0?her him} to a trial of arms! dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_no|On second thought, I let my passions run away with me there. Never mind. dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_yes lady_pretalk|{s15} dlga_lady_other_suitor_challenge_confirm_no lady_private_conversation_end|Good. You are wise not to let your temper guide you. dlga_lady_talk lady_ask_for_quest|Is there anything I can do to win your favour? dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_pretalk|I don't have anything else for you to do right now. dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_mission_told|Oh, I fear I may never see my {s17}, {s13}, again... {s13} is a prisoner in the dungeon of {s14}. We have tried to negotiate a ransom, but it has been set too high. We can never hope to raise that much money without selling everything we own. Instead I came up with a plan to get {s13} out of there, but it requires someone to make a great sacrifice, and so far my pleas have fallen on deaf ears... dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_mission_told.1|My poor {s11}, {s13}, is a prisoner in the {s14} dungeons. The only way we can talk to each other is by exchanging letters whenever we can, but the journey is so dangerous that we get little chance to do so. Please, would you deliver one for me? dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_quest_duel_for_lady|Dear {playername}, you are kind to ask, but you know little of my troubles and I can't possibly ask you to throw yourself into danger on my behalf. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady lady_quest_duel_for_lady_2|Tell me what the problem is, and I can make my own decision. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_2 lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3|Very well, as you wish it... My {reg1?wife husband} has made certain enemies in {reg1?her his} life, {playername}. One of the most insidious is {s13}. {reg0?She He} is going around making terrible accusations against me, impugning my honour at every turn! Because {reg0?she he} cannot harm my {reg1?wife husband} directly, {reg0?she he} is using me as a target to try and stain our name. You should hear the awful things {reg0?she he}'s said! I only wish there was someone brave enough to make {reg0?her him} recant {reg0?her his} slander, but {s13} is a very fine swordsman, and {reg0?she he}'s widely feared... dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3 lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_accepted|I fear {reg0?her him} not, {s65}. I will make {reg0?her him} take back {reg0?her his} lies. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_accepted close_window|Oh! I can't ask that of you, {playername}, but... I would be forever indebted to you, and you are so sure. It would mean so much if you would defend my honour. Thank you a thousand times, all my prayers and my favour go with you. dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3 lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_rejected|If {reg0?she he}'s that dangerous, perhaps maybe it would be better to ignore {reg0?her him}... dlga_lady_quest_duel_for_lady_3_rejected close_window|Oh... Perhaps you're right, {playername}. I should let go of these silly childhood ideas of chivalry and courage. {Men/People} are not like that, not anymore. Good day to you. dlga_lady_ask_for_quest lady_pretalk.1|No, {playername}, I've no need for a champion right now. dlga_lady_mission_told lady_mission_accepted|As you wish it, {s65}, it shall be done. dlga_lady_mission_told lady_mission_rejected|{s66}, I fear I cannot help you right now. dlga_lady_mission_accepted close_window|You are a true {gentleman/lady}, {playername}. Thank you so much for helping me dlga_lady_mission_rejected close_window|You'll not help a {reg65?woman young lad} in need? You should be ashamed, {playername}... Please leave me, I have some important embroidery to catch up. dlga_lady_talk lady_restore_relation|I want to improve my relation with a lord. Can you help me? dlga_lady_restore_relation lady_pretalk|{playername}, I don't know you well enough to act on your behalf. I am sorry. dlga_lady_restore_relation lady_restore_relation_2|Hmm. I guess you got on the wrong side of somebody. Very well, who do you want to restore your relation with? dlga_lady_restore_relation_2 lady_restore_relation_2b|{s1} dlga_lady_restore_relation_2 lady_pretalk|Never mind. I get along with everyone well enough. dlga_lady_restore_relation_2b lady_restore_relation_3|Well I can try to help you there. I am sure a few expensive gifts will make {s10} look at you more favorably. dlga_lady_restore_relation_3 lady_restore_relation_4|You can improve your relation with {s10} by sending {reg4?her him} a gift worth {reg10} coins. But if you can afford spending {reg11} coins on the gift, it would make a good impression on {reg4?her him}. And if you can go up to {reg12} coins, that would really help smooth things out. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_5|I think a gift of {reg10} coins will do. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_5.1|Maybe I can afford {reg11} coins. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_5.2|In that case, I am ready to spend {reg12} coins. dlga_lady_restore_relation_4 lady_restore_relation_cant_afford|I don't think I can afford a gift at the moment. dlga_lady_restore_relation_5 lady_restore_relation_6|Excellent. Then I'll choose an appropriate gift for you and send it to {s10} with your compliments. I am sure {reg4?she he} will appreciate the gesture. dlga_lady_restore_relation_6 lady_pretalk|Thank you for your help, my lady. dlga_lady_restore_relation_cant_afford lady_pretalk|I am afraid, I can't be of much help in that case, {playername}. I am sorry. dlga_lady_talk lady_leave|I must beg my leave. dlga_lady_leave close_window|{s12} dlga_convince_begin convince_options|I still don't see why I should accept what you're asking of me. dlga_convince_options convince_bribe|Then I'll make it worth your while. ({reg8} coins) dlga_convince_options convince_friendship|Please, do it for the sake of our friendship. (-{reg9} to relation) dlga_convince_options convince_persuade_begin|Let me try and convince you. (Persuasion) dlga_convince_options lord_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_convince_bribe convince_bribe_verify|Mmm, a generous gift to my coffers would certainly help matters... {reg8} coins should do it. If you agree, then I'll go with your suggestion. dlga_convince_bribe_verify convince_bribe_cant_afford|I'm afraid my finances will not allow for such a gift. dlga_convince_bribe_verify convince_bribe_goon|Very well, please accept these {reg8} coins as a token of my gratitude. dlga_convince_bribe_verify convince_begin|Let me think about this some more. dlga_convince_bribe_cant_afford convince_options|Ah. In that case, there is little I can do, unless you have some further argument to make. dlga_convince_bribe_goon convince_accept|My dear {playername}, your generous gift has led me to reconsider what you ask, and I have come to appreciate the wisdom of your proposal. dlga_convince_friendship convince_friendship_verify|You've done well by me in the past, {playername}, and for that I will go along with your request, but know that I do not like you using our relationship this way. dlga_convince_friendship_verify convince_friendship_go_on|I am sorry, my friend, but I need your help in this. dlga_convince_friendship_verify lord_pretalk|If it will not please you, then I'll try something else. dlga_convince_friendship_go_on convince_accept|All right then, {playername}, I will accept this for your sake. But remember, you owe me for this. dlga_convince_friendship lord_pretalk|I don't think I owe you such a favor {playername}. I see no reason to accept this for you. dlga_convince_friendship lord_pretalk.1|Is this a joke? You've some nerve asking me for favours, {playername}, and let me assure you you'll get none. dlga_convince_persuade_begin convince_persuade_begin_2|Very well. Make your case. dlga_convince_persuade_begin_2 convince_persuade|[Attempt to persuade] dlga_convince_persuade_begin_2 convince_begin|Wait, perhaps there is another way to convince you. dlga_convince_persuade_begin lord_pretalk|By God's grace, {playername}! Haven't we talked enough already? I am tired of listening to you, and I do not want to hear any more of it right now. dlga_convince_persuade convince_accept|All right, all right. You have persuaded me to it. I'll go ahead with what you suggest. dlga_convince_persuade convince_options|You've a point, {playername}, I'll admit that much. However I am not yet convinced I should do as you bid. dlga_convince_persuade convince_options.1|Enough, {playername}. You've a lot of arguments, but I find none of them truly convincing. I stand by what I said before. dlga_convince_persuade convince_options.2|Truthfully, {playername}, I fail to see the virtue of your reasoning. What you ask for makes even less sense now than it did before. dlga_start siege_won_seneschal_1|I must congratulate you on your victory, my {lord/lady}. Welcome to {s1}. We, the housekeepers of this castle, are at your service. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_1 siege_won_seneschal_2|Are you the seneschal? dlga_siege_won_seneschal_2 siege_won_seneschal_3|Indeed I am, my {lord/lady}. I have always served the masters of {s1} to the best of my ability, whichever side they might be on. Thus you may count on my utmost loyalty for as long as you are the {lord/lady} of this place. Now, do you intend to keep me on as the seneschal? I promise you will not be disappointed. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_3 siege_won_seneschal_4|Very well, you may keep your post for the time being. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_3 siege_won_seneschal_4.1|You can stay, but I shall be keeping a close watch on you. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_4 siege_won_seneschal_5|Thank you, my {lord/lady}. If you do not mind my impudence, may I inquire as to what you wish to do with the castle? dlga_siege_won_seneschal_5 siege_won_seneschal_6|I will sell it to another lord. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_5 siege_won_seneschal_6.1|I intend to claim it for myself. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_5 siege_won_seneschal_list_options|I haven't given it much thought. What are my options? dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options siege_won_seneschal_list_options_2|According to our laws and traditions, you can do one of several things. First, you could station a garrison here to protect the castle from any immediate counterattacks, then request an audience with some wealthy lord and ask him to make you an offer. It would be worth a tidy sum, believe you me. If you do not wish to sell, then you will have to find yourself a liege lord and protector who would accept homage from you. Without a royal investiture and an army at your back, you would have a difficult time holding on to the castle. Both you and {s1} would become great big targets for any man with a few soldiers and a scrap of ambition. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options_2 siege_won_seneschal_list_options_3|What do you mean, a liege lord and protector? I won this place by my own hand, I don't need anyone else! dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options_3 siege_won_seneschal_list_options_4|Of course you don't, my {lord/lady}. However, no lord in the land will recognize your claim to the castle unless it is verified by royal decree. They would call {s1} an outlaw stronghold and take it from you at the earliest opportunity. Surely not even you could stand against a whole army. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_list_options_4 siege_won_seneschal_6|Hmm. I'll give it some thought. dlga_siege_won_seneschal_6 close_window|I am very pleased to hear it, my {lord/lady}. I am only trying to serve you to the best of my ability. Now, if at any time you find you have further need of me, I will be in the great hall arranging a smooth handover of the castle to your forces. dlga_start seneschal_intro_1|Good day. I do not believe I've seen you here before. Let me extend my welcome to you as the seneschal of {s1}. dlga_seneschal_intro_1 seneschal_intro_1a|A pleasure to meet you, {s65}. dlga_seneschal_intro_1a seneschal_talk|How can I help you? dlga_seneschal_intro_1 seneschal_intro_1b|What exactly do you do here? dlga_seneschal_intro_1b seneschal_talk|Ah, a seneschal's duties are many, good {my lord/woman}. For example, I collect the rents from my lord's estates, I manage the castle's storerooms, I deal with the local peasantry, I take care of castle staff, I arrange supplies for the garrison... All mundane matters on this fief are my responsibility, on behalf of my lord. Everything except commanding the soldiers themselves. dlga_start seneschal_talk|Good day. dlga_seneschal_pretalk seneschal_talk|Anything else? dlga_seneschal_talk seneschal_ask_something|I would like to ask you a question... dlga_seneschal_talk seneschal_ask_about_someone|I wish to know more about someone... dlga_seneschal_ask_about_someone seneschal_ask_about_someone_2|Perhaps I may be able to help. Whom did you have in mind? dlga_seneschal_ask_about_someone_2 seneschal_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_seneschal_talk close_window|I must take my leave of you now. Farewell. dlga_seneschal_ask_something seneschal_ask_something_2|I'll do what I can to help, of course. What did you wish to ask? dlga_seneschal_ask_something_2 seneschal_ask_location|Perhaps you know where to find someone... dlga_seneschal_ask_location seneschal_ask_location_2|Well, a man in my position does hear a lot of things. Of whom were you thinking? dlga_seneschal_ask_location_2 seneschal_ask_location_3|{s1} dlga_seneschal_ask_location_2 seneschal_pretalk|Never mind. dlga_seneschal_ask_location_3 seneschal_pretalk|{s1} dlga_start close_window.26|There! I can see the walls of {s3} in the distance. We've made it safely. Here, take this purse of {reg3} coins, as I promised. I hope we can travel together again someday. dlga_start talk_caravan_escort|We've made it this far... Is everything clear up ahead? dlga_talk_caravan_escort talk_caravan_escort_2a|There might be bandits nearby. Stay close. dlga_talk_caravan_escort_2a close_window|Trust me, {playername}, we're already staying as close to you as we can. Lead the way. dlga_talk_caravan_escort talk_caravan_escort_2b|No sign of trouble, we can breathe easy. dlga_talk_caravan_escort_2b close_window|I'll breathe easy when we reach {s1} and not a moment sooner. Let's keep moving. dlga_start merchant_talk|What do you want? We paid our toll to you less than three days ago. dlga_start merchant_talk.1|Hail, friend. dlga_start merchant_talk.2|What do you want? We are but simple merchants, we've no quarrel with you, so leave us alone. dlga_start merchant_talk.3|Be warned, knave! This caravan is under the protection of {s9}. Step out of our way or you will face his fury! dlga_start merchant_talk.4|Yes? What do you want? dlga_merchant_pretalk merchant_talk|Anything else? dlga_merchant_talk caravan_start_war_quest_1|You are trespassing in the territory of the {s17}. I am confiscating this caravan and all its goods! dlga_caravan_start_war_quest_1 caravan_start_war_quest_2|What? What nonsense is this? We are at peace with the {s17}, and are free to cross its lands! dlga_caravan_start_war_quest_2 merchant_attack|We'll see about that! Defend yourselves! dlga_caravan_start_war_quest_2 close_window|Hmm. Maybe this was all a misunderstanding. Farewell. dlga_merchant_talk merchant_talk_offer|I have an offer for you. dlga_merchant_talk_offer merchant_talk_offer_2|What is it? dlga_merchant_talk_offer_2 caravan_offer_protection|I can escort you to your destination for a price. dlga_merchant_talk_offer_2 merchant_pretalk|Nothing. Forget it dlga_merchant_talk merchant_bandit_information|I am hunting a group of bandits with the following description... Have you seen them? dlga_merchant_bandit_information merchant_pretalk|{s15} dlga_merchant_talk merchant_trip_explanation|Tell me about your journey dlga_merchant_trip_explanation merchant_pretalk|We are coming from {s11} and heading to {s12}.{s14} dlga_merchant_talk merchant_demand|I demand something from you! dlga_merchant_demand merchant_demand_2|What do you want? dlga_merchant_demand_2 merchant_demand_toll|There is a toll for free passage here! dlga_merchant_demand_toll merchant_demand_toll_2|Please, I don't want any trouble. I can give you {reg6} coins, just let us go. dlga_merchant_demand_toll merchant_demand_toll_2.1|I don't want any trouble. I can give you {reg6} coins if you'll let us go. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_2 merchant_demand_toll_accept|Agreed, hand it over and you may go in peace. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_accept close_window|Very well then. Here's {reg6} coins. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_2 merchant_pretalk|I changed my mind, I can't take your money. dlga_merchant_demand_toll_2 merchant_attack|No, I want everything you have! [Attack] dlga_merchant_demand_2 merchant_attack_begin|Hand over your gold and valuables now! dlga_merchant_demand_2 merchant_pretalk|Nothing. Forget it. dlga_merchant_attack_begin merchant_attack_verify|Are you robbing us?{s11} dlga_merchant_attack_verify merchant_attack_verify_norob|Robbing you? No, no! It was a joke. dlga_merchant_attack_verify_norob close_window|God, don't joke about that, {lad/lass}. For a moment I thought we were in real trouble. dlga_merchant_attack_verify merchant_attack|Of course I'm robbing you. Now hand over your goods. dlga_merchant_attack close_window|Damn you, you won't get anything from us without a fight! dlga_caravan_offer_protection caravan_offer_protection_2|These roads are dangerous indeed. One can never have enough protection. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_2 close_window|An escort? We're almost there already! Thank you for the offer, though. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_2 caravan_offer_protection_3|We are heading to {s1}. I will pay you {reg2} coins if you escort us there. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_3 caravan_offer_protection_4|Agreed. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_4 caravan_offer_protection_5|I want you to stay close to us along the way. We'll need your help if we get ambushed by bandits. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_5 caravan_offer_protection_6|Don't worry, you can trust me. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_6 close_window|Good. Come and collect your money when we're within sight of {s1}. For now, let's just get underway. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_3 caravan_offer_protection_4b|Forget it. dlga_caravan_offer_protection_4b close_window|Perhaps another time, then. dlga_merchant_talk talk_caravan_enemy_2|Not so fast. First, hand over all your goods and money. dlga_talk_caravan_enemy_2 close_window|Never. It is our duty to protect these goods. You shall have to fight us, brigand! dlga_merchant_talk close_window|[Leave] dlga_start prison_guard_players|Good day, {s0}. Will you be visiting the prison? dlga_prison_guard_players close_window|Yes. Unlock the door. dlga_prison_guard_players close_window.1|No, not now. dlga_start prison_guard_talk|Yes? What do you want? dlga_prison_guard_talk prison_guard_ask_prisoners|Who is imprisoned here? dlga_prison_guard_talk prison_guard_visit_prison|I want to speak with a prisoner. dlga_prison_guard_talk dplmc_prison_guard_talk_ask_prisoner|I want to release a prisoner. dlga_dplmc_prison_guard_talk_ask_prisoner dplmc_prison_guard_talk_prisoner_select|Alright, which prisoner shall I set free? dlga_dplmc_prison_guard_talk_prisoner_select dplmc_prison_guard_exchange_prisoner_ask_confirm|{s10} of {s11}. dlga_dplmc_prison_guard_talk_prisoner_select close_window|No one. dlga_dplmc_prison_guard_exchange_prisoner_ask_confirm dplmc_prison_guard_exchange_prisoner_confirm|As you wish, I will release {s10} of {s11}. dlga_dplmc_prison_guard_exchange_prisoner_confirm close_window|Very well. dlga_dplmc_prison_guard_exchange_prisoner_confirm close_window.1|No, I changed my mind. dlga_prison_guard_ask_prisoners prison_guard_talk|Currently, {s50} {reg1?are is} imprisoned here.{s49} dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison close_window|Of course. Go in. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison prison_guard_visit_prison_2|You need to get permission from the lord to talk to prisoners. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison prison_guard_visit_prison_nobody|There is nobody inside, therefore you can freely go inside and look around. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_nobody close_window|All right then. I'll take a look at the prison. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_nobody close_window.1|I have more important business to do. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_2 close_window|All right then. I'll try that. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_2 prison_guard_visit_prison_3|Come on now. I thought you were the boss here. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_3 prison_guard_visit_prison_4|He-heh. You got that right. Still, I can't let you into the prison. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_4 close_window|All right then. I'll leave now. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_4 prison_guard_visit_prison_5|I found a purse with 100 coins a few paces away. I reckon it belongs to you. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_5 close_window|Ah! I was looking for this all day. How good of you to bring it back {Ser/my lady}. Well, now that I know what an honest {man/lady} you are, there can be no harm in letting you inside for a look. Go in.... Just so you know, though -- I'll be hanging onto the keys, in case you were thinking about undoing anyone's chains. dlga_prison_guard_visit_prison_4 prison_guard_visit_break|Give me the keys to the cells -- now! dlga_prison_guard_visit_break close_window|Help! Help! Prison break! dlga_prison_guard_talk close_window|Never mind. dlga_start castle_guard_players|Your orders, {Lord/Lady}? dlga_castle_guard_players close_window|Open the door. I'll go in. dlga_castle_guard_players close_window.1|Never mind. dlga_start castle_guard_sneaked_intro_1|Get out of my sight, beggar! You stink! dlga_start close_window.27|Get lost before I lose my temper you vile beggar! dlga_castle_guard_sneaked_intro_1 castle_guard_sneaked_intro_2|I want to enter the hall and speak to the lord. dlga_castle_guard_sneaked_intro_1 close_window|[Leave] dlga_castle_guard_sneaked_intro_2 close_window|Are you out of your mind, {man/woman}? Beggars are not allowed into the hall. Now get lost or I'll beat you bloody. dlga_start castle_guard_intro_1|What do you want? dlga_castle_guard_intro_1 castle_guard_intro_2|I want to enter the hall and speak to the lord. dlga_castle_guard_intro_1 close_window|Never mind. dlga_castle_guard_intro_2 close_window|I'm afraid there is a feast in progress, and you are not invited. dlga_castle_guard_intro_2 castle_guard_intro_3|You can go in after leaving your weapons with me. No one is allowed to carry arms into the lord's hall. dlga_castle_guard_intro_3 close_window|Here, take my arms. I'll go in. dlga_castle_guard_intro_3 castle_guard_intro_2b|No, I give my arms to no one. dlga_castle_guard_intro_2b close_window|Then you can't go in. dlga_start castle_gate_guard_talk|What do you want? dlga_castle_gate_guard_pretalk castle_gate_guard_talk|Yes? dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk castle_gate_open|We need shelter for the night. Will you let us in? dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk request_meeting_castle_lord|I want to speak with the lord of the castle. dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk request_meeting_other|I want to speak with someone in the castle. dlga_castle_gate_guard_talk close_window|[Leave] dlga_request_meeting_castle_lord close_window|Wait here. {s2} will see you. dlga_request_meeting_castle_lord castle_gate_guard_pretalk|My lord is not here now. dlga_request_meeting_other request_meeting_3|Who is that? dlga_request_meeting_3 request_meeting_4|{s3} dlga_request_meeting_3 close_window|Never mind. dlga_request_meeting_4 request_meeting_5|Wait there. I'll send {reg0?her him} your request. dlga_request_meeting_5 request_meeting_6|I'm waiting... dlga_request_meeting_6 close_window|All right. {s2} will talk to you now. dlga_request_meeting_6 close_window.1|{s2} says {reg0?she he} will not see you. Begone now. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window|My lord {s2} will be happy to see you {Ser/my lady}. Come on in. I am opening the gates for you. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.1|My lord {s2} is not in the castle now. But I think he would approve of you taking shelter here. Come on in. I am opening the gates for you. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.2|Come on in. I am opening the gates for you. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.3|Come on in. But make sure your men behave sensibly within the walls. My lord {s2} does not want trouble here. dlga_castle_gate_open close_window.4|My lord {s2} does not want you here. Begone now. dlga_start close_window.28|You have come just in time. Let us join our forces now and teach our enemy a lesson. dlga_start close_window.29|You are making a big mistake by fighting against us. dlga_start ally_thanks_meet|I don't think we have met properly my friend. You just saved my life out there, and I still don't know your name... dlga_start ally_thanks_meet.1|Your help was most welcome stranger. My name is {s1}. Can I learn yours? dlga_start ally_thanks_meet.2|Thanks for your help, stranger. We haven't met properly yet, have we? What is your name? dlga_ally_thanks_meet ally_thanks_meet_2|My name is {playername}. dlga_ally_thanks_meet_2 close_window|Well met indeed {playername}. My name is {s1} and I am forever in your debt. If there is ever anything I can help you with, just let me know... dlga_ally_thanks_meet_2 close_window.1|Well met {playername}. I am in your debt for what you just did. I hope one day I will find a way to repay it. dlga_ally_thanks_meet_2 close_window.2|Well met {playername}. I am {s1}. Thanks for your help and I hope we meet again. dlga_start close_window.30|Again you save our necks, {playername}! Truly, you are the best of friends. {s43} dlga_start close_window.31|You arrived just in the nick of time! {playername}. You have my deepest thanks! {s43} dlga_start close_window.32|You turned up just in time, {playername}. I will not forget your help. {s43} dlga_start close_window.33|Good to see you here, {playername}. {s43} dlga_start close_window.34|{s43} dlga_start close_window.35|{s43} dlga_start close_window.36|Thank you for your help {Ser/my lady}. You saved {reg1?our lives my life} out there. dlga_start close_window.37|Thank you for your help {Ser/my lady}. Things didn't look very well for us but then you came up and everything changed. dlga_start close_window.38|Thank you for your help, {Ser/my lady}. It was fortunate to have you nearby. dlga_start kidnapped_girl_liberated_battle|Oh {Ser/my lady}. Thank you so much for rescuing me. Will you take me to my family now? dlga_start kidnapped_wife_liberated_battle|Oh {my lord/my lady}. Thank you so much for rescuing me. Will you take me back to my village now? dlga_start freed_hero_answer|I am in your debt for freeing me friend. dlga_freed_hero_answer freed_hero_answer_1|You're not going anywhere. You'll be my prisoner now! dlga_freed_hero_answer_1 close_window|Alas. Will my luck never change? dlga_freed_hero_answer freed_hero_answer_2|You're free to go, {s65}. dlga_freed_hero_answer_2 close_window|Thank you, my good {lord/lady}. I never forget someone who's done me a good turn. dlga_freed_hero_answer freed_hero_answer_3|Would you like to join me? dlga_freed_hero_answer_3 close_window|All right I will join you. dlga_freed_hero_answer_3 close_window.1|No, I want to go on my own. dlga_start defeat_hero_answer|You'll not live long to enjoy your victory. My kinsmen will soon wipe out the stain of this defeat. dlga_defeat_hero_answer defeat_hero_answer_1|You are my prisoner now. dlga_defeat_hero_answer_1 close_window|Damn you. You will regret this. dlga_defeat_hero_answer defeat_hero_answer_2|You're free to go this time, but don't cross my path again. dlga_defeat_hero_answer_2 close_window|We will meet again. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested|{s9} dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window|I think that is a wise move. Good luck to you. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.1|Your relations with {s4} are not all that they could be. As {reg4?she he} is my {s11}, I can mediate to attempt to mend your quarrel. Perhaps the best way for me to do this would be to send {reg4?her him} a gift -- a fur-trimmed velvet robe, perhaps. If you can provide me with a bolt of velvet and a length of furs, I can have one made and sent to {reg4?her him.} dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.1|Splendid. I shall await the materials. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.2|As you may realize, {s4} has many enemies among the lords of the {s5}. In particular, they feel that {reg4?she he} is {s7}, and worry that {reg4?she he} will {s8}. Were you to denounce {s4} to {reg4?her his} face, you may reap much popularity -- although, of course, you would make an enemy of {reg4?her him}, and risk being challenged to a duel. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.3|As you may realize, many of us in the peerage of the {s5} consider {s4} to be {s7}, and a liability to our cause. We worry that {reg4?she he} will {s8}. People know my views on {s4} already, but if you were to denounce {reg4?her him} to {reg4?her his} face, you would further erode his standing -- and discourage our liege from entrusting {reg4?her him} with any more power or responsibility. Of course, you would make an enemy of {reg4?her him}, and risk being challenged to a duel.{s9} dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.2|We appreciate what you are doing. I find such intrigues distasteful, but it is all for the good of the {s5}. dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.3|Very well. It is always risky to involve yourself in intrigues of this sort, but in this case, I think you will benefit. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.4|You and I have a common interest in seeking to curtail the rise of {s4}. I feel that {reg4?she he} is {s7}, and worry that {reg4?she he} will {s8}. Were you to tell our liege {s9} your opinion of {s4}, it might discourage {s9} from granting {s4} any further powers or responsibilities, at least for a while, and I would be much obliged to you. dlga_political_quest_follow_on close_window.4|We appreciate what you are doing. I find such intrigues distasteful, but it is all for the good of the {s5}. dlga_combined_political_quests political_quest_suggested.5|I cannot think of anything right now, but we will have some items of mutual interest in the future. dlga_political_quest_suggested political_quest_follow_on|I like that idea. dlga_political_quest_suggested combined_political_quests|Hmm.. Maybe you can think of something else? dlga_political_quest_suggested political_quests_end|Let us discuss another topic dlga_political_quests_end lord_pretalk|Very well. dlga_political_quests_end spouse_pretalk|Very well. dlga_political_quests_end minister_pretalk|Very well. dlga_political_quests_end close_window|Very well. dlga_start local_merchant_mercy|Mercy! Please don't kill me! dlga_local_merchant_mercy local_merchant_mercy_no|I have nothing against you {reg65?woman man}. But {s2} wants you dead. Sorry. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_no close_window|Damn you! May you burn in Hell! dlga_local_merchant_mercy local_merchant_mercy_yes|I'll let you live, if you promise me... dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes local_merchant_mercy_yes_2|Of course, I promise, I'll do anything. Just spare my life... dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_2 local_merchant_mercy_yes_3|You are going to forget about {s2}'s debt to you. And you will sign a paper stating that {reg4?she he} owes you nothing. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_3 local_merchant_mercy_yes_4|Yes, of course. I'll do as you say. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_4 local_merchant_mercy_yes_5|And if my lord hears so much of a hint of a complaint about this issue, then I'll come back for you, and it won't matter how much you scream for mercy then. Do you understand me? dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_5 local_merchant_mercy_yes_6|Yes {Ser/my lady}. Don't worry. I won't make any complaint. dlga_local_merchant_mercy_yes_6 close_window|Good. Go now, before I change my mind. dlga_start fugitive_1|What do you want? dlga_fugitive_1 fugitive_2|I am looking for a murderer by the name of {s4}. You fit his description. dlga_fugitive_1 close_window|Nothing. Sorry to trouble you. dlga_fugitive_2 fugitive_3|I don't understand, {Ser/my lady}. I never killed anyone. I think you've got the wrong man. dlga_fugitive_3 fugitive_4|Then drop your sword. If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear. We'll go now and talk to your neighbours, and if they verify your story, I'll go on my way. dlga_fugitive_4 fugitive_5|I'm not going anywhere, friend. You're going to have to fight for your silver, today. dlga_fugitive_5 fugitive_fight_start|No problem. I really just need your head, anyway. dlga_fugitive_5 fugitive_fight_start.1|I come not for money, but to execute the law! dlga_fugitive_5 fugitive_fight_start.2|Alas, that you cannot be made to see reason. dlga_fugitive_fight_start close_window|Die, dog! dlga_start fugitive_12|Slain! All slain! All that blood! Please don't hurt me. dlga_start close_window.39|I will do as you say. dlga_start close_window.40|I will do as you say. dlga_fugitive_12 fugitive_22|I am looking for a runaway maiden called {s4}. You fit her description. dlga_fugitive_12 close_window|Calm down dear. I have no business with you. dlga_fugitive_22 fugitive_32|I suppose there's no point pretending otherwise... I merely wanted to make a better life with my love. And he was so fair to look at! But...but my father will kill me for sure if I go back. dlga_fugitive_32 fugitive_42|I'm sure you have nothing to fear in returning to your village. The people there seemed a nice enough lot. dlga_fugitive_42 fugitive_52|And what would you know? You think I risked fleeing in the night over some love-struck boy? Fool! Terrible things happen in that village. Terrible things! dlga_fugitive_52 fugitive_72|Really? I won't ask what 'things', but you can stay here if you want. dlga_fugitive_52 fugitive_62|Get someone else to listen to your tales. Be off with you! dlga_fugitive_62 close_window|I see I have no choice... dlga_fugitive_72 close_window|Oh... Thank you, {my lord/my lady}! dlga_member_chat sacrificed_messenger_1|Yes {Ser/my lady}? dlga_sacrificed_messenger_1 sacrificed_messenger_2|Take this letter to {s1} and give it to {s2}. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_1 close_window|Nothing. Nothing at all. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_2 sacrificed_messenger_3|Yes {Ser/my lady}. You can trust me. I will not fail you. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_3 close_window|Good. I will not forget your service. You will be rewarded when you return. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_3 sacrificed_messenger_cancel|Arggh! I can't do this. I can't send you to your own death! dlga_sacrificed_messenger_cancel sacrificed_messenger_cancel_2|What do you mean {Ser/my lady}? dlga_sacrificed_messenger_cancel_2 sacrificed_messenger_cancel_3|There's a trap set up for you in the town. {s3} ordered me to sacrifice one of my chosen warriors to fool the enemy, but he will just need to find another way. dlga_sacrificed_messenger_cancel_3 close_window|Thank you, {Ser/my lady}. I will follow you to the gates of hell. But this would not be a good death. dlga_start close_window.41|Don't worry, {Ser/my lady}, I'm on my way. dlga_start follow_spy_talk|Good day {Ser/my lady}. Such fine weather don't you think? If you'll excuse me now I must go on my way. dlga_follow_spy_talk follow_spy_talk_2|In the name of {s1}, you are under arrest! dlga_follow_spy_talk_2 close_window|You won't get me alive! dlga_follow_spy_talk close_window|Never mind me. I was just passing by. dlga_start spy_partners_talk|Greetings. dlga_spy_partners_talk spy_partners_talk_2|In the name of {s1} You are under arrest! dlga_spy_partners_talk_2 close_window|You will have to fight us first! dlga_spy_partners_talk close_window|Never mind me. I was just passing by. dlga_start runaway_serf_intro_1|Good day {Ser/my lady}. dlga_runaway_serf_intro_1 runaway_serf_intro_2|I have been sent by your {s4} whom you are running from. He will not punish you if you return now. dlga_runaway_serf_intro_2 runaway_serf_intro_3|My good {Ser/my lady}. Our lives at our village {s1} was unbearable. We worked all day long and still went to bed hungry. We are going to {s6} to start a new life, where we will be treated like humans. dlga_runaway_serf_intro_3 runaway_serf_go_back|You have gone against our laws by running from your bondage. You will go back to {s1} now! dlga_runaway_serf_intro_3 runaway_serf_let_go|Well, maybe you are right. All right then. If anyone asks, I haven't seen you. dlga_runaway_serf_go_back close_window|All right {Ser/my lady}. As you wish. We'll head back to {s5} now. dlga_runaway_serf_let_go close_window|God bless you, {Ser/my lady}. We will not forget your help. dlga_start runaway_serf_reconsider|Good day {Ser/my lady}. Don't worry. If anyone asks, we haven't seen you. dlga_runaway_serf_reconsider runaway_serf_go_back|I have changed my mind. You must back to your village! dlga_runaway_serf_reconsider runaway_serf_let_go|Good. Go quickly now before I change my mind. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_caught|Good day {Ser/my lady}. We were heading back to {s5}, but I am afraid we lost our way. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_caught runaway_serf_go_back|Do not test my patience. You are going back now! dlga_runaway_serf_talk_caught runaway_serf_let_go|Well, if you are that eager to go, then go. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_again_return|We are on our way back to {s5} {Ser/my lady}. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_again_return runaway_serf_talk_again_return_2|Make haste now. The sooner you return the better. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_again_return runaway_serf_talk_again_return_2.1|Good. Keep going. dlga_runaway_serf_talk_again_return_2 close_window|Yes {Ser/my lady}. As you wish. dlga_start runaway_serf_reconsider.1|Good day, my {lord/lady}. Don't worry. If anyone asks, we haven't seen you. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_caught.1|Good day, {lord/lady}. We were heading back to {s5}, but I am afraid we lost our way. dlga_start runaway_serf_intro_1.1|Good day to you, my {lord/lady}. dlga_start runaway_serf_reconsider.2|Good day, my {lord/lady}. Don't worry. If anyone asks, we haven't seen you. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_caught.2|Good day, my {lord/lady}. We were heading back to {s5}, but I am afraid we lost our way. dlga_start runaway_serf_talk_again_return.1|We are on our way back to {s5}, my {lord/lady}. dlga_start troublesome_bandits_intro_1|This must be your unlucky day, mate. We're just about the worst people you could run into, in these parts. dlga_troublesome_bandits_intro_1 troublesome_bandits_intro_2|Heh. For me, you are nothing more than walking money bags. A merchant in {s1} offered me good money for your heads. dlga_troublesome_bandits_intro_2 close_window|A bounty hunter! Kill {him/her}! Kill {him/her} now! dlga_start deserter_paid_talk|What do you want? You want to pay us some more money? dlga_deserter_paid_talk deserter_paid_talk_2a|Sorry to trouble you. I'll be on my way now. dlga_deserter_paid_talk_2a close_window|Yeah. Stop fooling around and go make some money. I want to see that purse full next time I see you. dlga_deserter_paid_talk deserter_paid_talk_2b|No. It's your turn to pay me this time. dlga_deserter_paid_talk_2b close_window|What nonsense are you talking about? You want trouble? You got it. dlga_start deserter_talk|We are the free brothers. We will fight only for ourselves from now on. Now give us your gold or taste our steel. dlga_deserter_talk close_window|When I'm done with you, you'll regret ever leaving your army. dlga_deserter_talk deserter_barter|There's no need to fight. I am ready to pay for free passage. dlga_deserter_talk deserter_recruit|I will give you money and good protection if you join my party. dlga_deserter_recruit deserter_recruit_2|Sounds like a good deal. To show us your good will, pay us {reg5} coins and we will join you. dlga_deserter_recruit_2 deserter_recruit_3a|All right here's your {reg5} coins. dlga_deserter_recruit_2 deserter_barter_3b|I don't have that much money with me dlga_deserter_recruit_3a close_window|Ok, we are at your service from now on. dlga_deserter_barter deserter_barter_2|Good. You are clever. Now, having a look at your baggage, I reckon a fellow like you could pretty easily afford {reg5} coins. We wouldn't want to be too greedy, now would we? Pay us, and then you can go. dlga_deserter_barter_2 deserter_barter_3a|All right here's your {reg5} coins. dlga_deserter_barter_2 deserter_barter_3b|I don't have that much money with me dlga_deserter_barter_3b close_window|Too bad. Then we'll have to sell you to the slavers. dlga_deserter_barter_3a close_window|Heh. That wasn't difficult, now, was it? All right. Go now. dlga_start tavernkeeper_talk|Good day dear {friend/my lady}. How can I help you? dlga_tavernkeeper_pretalk tavernkeeper_talk|Anything else? dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_deliver_wine|I was told to deliver you {reg9} units of {s4}. dlga_tavernkeeper_deliver_wine tavernkeeper_pretalk|At last! My stock was almost depleted. I had paid the cost of the {s4} in advance. Here, take these {reg5} coins. That should cover your pay. And give {s9} my regards. I'll put in a good word for you next time I deal with him. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_incomplete|I was told to deliver you {reg9} units of {s4}, but I lost some of the cargo on the way. dlga_tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_incomplete tavernkeeper_pretalk|Attacked by bandits eh? You are lucky they left you alive. Anyway, I can pay you no more than {reg5} coins for this. And I will let {s1} know that my order was delivered less than completely, so you will probably be charged for this loss. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_lost|I was told to deliver you {reg9} units of {s4}, but I lost the cargo on the way. dlga_tavernkeeper_deliver_wine_lost tavernkeeper_pretalk|What? I was waiting for that {s4} for weeks! And now you are telling me that you lost it? You may rest assured that I will let {s1} know about this. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_buy_drinks|I'd like to buy every man who comes in here tonight a jar of your best {s0}. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_2|Of course, {my lord/my lady}. I reckon {reg5} coins should be enough for that. What should I tell the lads? dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_2 tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_end|Let everyone know of the generosity of {playername} to the people of {s10}. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_end tavernkeeper_pretalk|Don't worry {s0}. Your name will be cheered and toasted here all night. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops|I'd like to buy me and my men a barrel of your best ale. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops_2|Of course, {my lord/my lady}. I reckon {reg5} coins should be enough for that. What should I tell the lads? dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops_2 tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops_end|The price is fair enough, let my men have at it. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops_end tavernkeeper_pretalk|Don't worry {Ser/my lady}. Your men will enjoy their pints. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_troops_2 tavernkeeper_pretalk|Actually, cancel that order. dlga_tavernkeeper_buy_drinks_2 tavernkeeper_pretalk|Actually, cancel that order. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk tavernkeeper_job_ask|Have you heard of anyone in this realm who might have a job for a {man/woman} like myself? dlga_tavernkeeper_job_ask tavernkeeper_job_search|Hmm... Well, {s10} is often looking for sellswords to fight in {reg0?her his} wars.{s9} dlga_tavernkeeper_job_search tavernkeeper_job_result|Let me think some more... dlga_tavernkeeper_job_result tavernkeeper_job_search|I have heard that {s7} {s9}{s10} You may want to speak with {reg4?her him}. dlga_tavernkeeper_job_result tavernkeeper_job_result_2|There may be other work, of course -- lords and guildmasters often have other tasks which we don't hear about. Also, the villages around here frequently need help, although they'd be more likely to pay you with a wedge of cheese and goodwill than with cold hard coins. dlga_tavernkeeper_job_result_2 close_window|I'll keep my ears open for other opportunities. You may want to ask again from time to time. dlga_tavernkeeper_talk close_window|I guess I should leave now. dlga_start ransom_broker_intro|Greetings to you, {s0}. You look like someone who should get to know me. dlga_ransom_broker_intro ransom_broker_intro_2|Why is that? dlga_ransom_broker_intro_2 ransom_broker_info_talk|I broker ransoms for the poor wretches who are captured in these endless wars. Normally I travel between the salt mines and the slave markets on the coast, on commission from those whose relatives have gone missing. But if I'm out on my errands of mercy, and I come across a fellow dragging around a captive or two, well, there's no harm in a little speculative investment, is there? And you look like the type who might have a prisoner to sell. dlga_ransom_broker_info_talk ransom_broker_families|What if their families can't pay? dlga_ransom_broker_families ransom_broker_info_talk|Oh, then I spin them a few heartwarming tales of life on the galleys. You'd be surprised what sorts of treasures a peasant can dig out of his cowshed or wheedle out of his cousins, assuming he's got the proper motivation! And if in the end they cannot come up with the silver, then there are always slave merchants who are looking for galley slaves. One cannot do the Gods work with an empty purse, you see. dlga_ransom_broker_info_talk ransom_broker_prices|What can I get for a prisoner? dlga_ransom_broker_prices ransom_broker_info_talk|It varies. I fancy that I have a fine eye for assessing a ransom. There are a dozen little things about a man that will tell you whether he goes to bed hungry, or dines each night on soft dumplings and goose. The real money of course is in the gentry, and if you ever want to do my job you'll want to learn about every landowning family in the known world, their estates, their heraldry, their offspring both lawful and bastard, and, of course, their credit with the merchants. dlga_ransom_broker_info_talk ransom_broker_ransom_me|Would you be able to ransom me if I were taken? dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_me ransom_broker_info_talk|Of course. I'm welcome in every court. There's not many who can say that! So always be sure to keep a pot of coins buried somewhere, and a loyal servant who can find it in a hurry. dlga_ransom_broker_info_talk ransom_broker_pretalk|That's all I need to know. Thank you. dlga_start ransom_broker_talk|Greetings. If you have any prisoners, I will be happy to buy them from you. dlga_ransom_broker_pretalk ransom_broker_talk|Anyway, if you have any prisoners, I will be happy to buy them from you. dlga_ransom_broker_talk ransom_broker_sell_prisoners|Then you'd better bring your purse. I have got prisoners to sell. dlga_ransom_broker_talk ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_all|I want to sell all the prisoners I have with me. dlga_ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_all ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_all_2|Let's see... I'll give you {reg0} coins for your {reg1} {reg2?prisoners prisoner}. Do we have a deal? dlga_ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_all_2 ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_2|We have a deal. dlga_ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_all_2 ransom_broker_pretalk|Let me think about it again. dlga_ransom_broker_talk ransom_broker_intro_2|Tell me about what you do again. dlga_ransom_broker_talk ransom_broker_ransom_companion|I wish to ransom one of my companions. dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion ransom_broker_ransom_companion_choose|Whom do you wish to ransom? dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_choose ransom_broker_ransom_companion_name_sum|{s4} dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_choose ransom_broker_pretalk|Never mind dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_name_sum ransom_broker_ransom_companion_verify|Let me check my ledger, here... Yes. Your friend is being held in the dungeon at {s7}. How interesting! I remember hearing that the rats down there are unusually large -- like mastiffs, they say... Now... For the very reasonable sum of {reg5} coins, which includes both the ransom and my commission and expenses, we can arrange it so that {s5} can once again enjoy {reg4?her his} freedom. What do you say? dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_verify ransom_broker_ransom_companion_accept|Here's your money. dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_verify ransom_broker_ransom_companion_refuse|I can't afford that right now. dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_accept ransom_broker_talk|Splendid! In a few days, I would think, you should find {s5} riding to rejoin you, blinking in the sunlight and no doubt very grateful! Is there any other way in which I can help you? dlga_ransom_broker_ransom_companion_refuse ransom_broker_talk|Of course, of course... Never mind what they say about the rats, by the way -- I've never actually seen one myself, on account of the pitch-black darkness. Anyway, I'm sure that {s5} will understand why it's important for you to control expenditures. Now... Was there anything else? dlga_ransom_broker_talk close_window|Not this time. Good-bye. dlga_ransom_broker_sell_prisoners ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_2|Let me see what you have... dlga_ransom_broker_sell_prisoners_2 close_window|I will be staying here for a few days. Let me know if you need my services.
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ACT THREE Scene 1 41.- Symphony Arrival of Queen of Sheba 42.- Recitative QUEEN OF SHEBA From Arabia’s spicy shores, bounded by the boary main, Sheba’s queen these seats explores, to be taught thy heav’nly strain. SOLOMON Thrice welcome queen, with open arms our court receives thee, and thy charms. The temple of the Lord first meets your eyes, rich with the well-accepted sacrifice. Here all our treasures free behold, where cedars lie, o’erwrought with gold; next, view a mansion fit for kings to own, the forest call’d of tow’ring Lebanon, where art her utmost skill displays, and ev’ry object claims your praise. 43. Air QUEEN OF SHEBA Ev ry sight these eyes behold Does a different charm unfold; Flashing gems and sculptur d gold, Still attract my ravish d sight. But to hear fair truth distilling, In expressions choice and thrilling, From that tongue so soft and killing, That my soul does most delight. 44.- Recitative SOLOMON Sweep, sweep the string, to soothe the royal fair, and rouse each passion with th’alternate air. 45.- Solo and Chorus SOLOMON, CHORUS Music, spread thy voice around, sweetly flow the lulling sound. 46.- Solo and Chorus SOLOMON Now a diff’rent measure try, shake the dome, and pierce the sky. Rouse us next to martial deeds; clanking arms, and neighing steeds, seem in fury to oppose. Now the hard-fought battle glows. SOLOMON, CHORUS Shake the dome, and pierce the sky... 47.- Recitative SOLOMON Then at once from rage remove; draw the tear form hopeless love; lengthen out the solemn air, full of death and wild despair. 48.- Chorus CHORUS Draw the tear form hopeless love... 49.- Recitative SOLOMON Next the tortur’d soul release, and the mind restore to peace. 50.- Solo and Chorus SOLOMON, CHORUS Thus rolling surges rise, and plough the troubled main; but soon the tempest dies, and all is calm again. 51.- Recitative QUEEN OF SHEBA Thy harmony’s divine, great king, all, all obeys the artist’s string. And now, illustrious prince, receive such tribute as my realm can give. Here, purest gold, from earth’s dark entrails torn; and gems resplendent, that outshine the morn; there balsam breathes a grateful smell, with thee the fragrant strangers wish to dwell. Yet of ev’ry object I behold, amid the glare of gems and gold, the temple most attracts my eye, where, with unwearied zeal, you serve the Lord on high. 52.- Air LEVITE Pious king, and virtuous queen, May your name resound in story; In time s latest annals seen, Crown d with honour, crown d with glory. 53.- Recitative ZADOK Thrice happy king, to have achiev’d, what scarce will henceforth be believ’d; when seven times around the sphere the sun had led the new born year, the temple rose, to mark thy days with endless themes for future praise. Our pious David wish’d in vain, by this great act to bless his reign; but Heav’n the monarch’s hopes withstood, for ah! his hands were stain’d with blood. 54.- Air Golden columns, fair and bright, catch the mortals’ ravish’d sight; round their sides ambitious twine tendrils of the clasping vine; cherubims stand there display’d, o’er the ark their wings are laid ev’ry object swells with state, all is pious, al is great. 55.- Double Chorus CHORUS 1 Praise the Lord with harp and tongue! Praise Him all ye old and young, He s in mercy ever strong. CHORUS 2 Praise the Lord through ev ry state, Praise Him early, praise Him late, God alone is good and great. FULL CHORUS Let the loud Hosannahs rise, Widely spreading through the skies, God alone is just and wise. 56. Recitative SOLOMON Gold now is common on our happy shore, And cedars frequent are as sycamore. All, all conspires to bless my days; Fair plenty does her treasures raise, And o er the fruitful plains her countless gifts displays. 57. Air How green our fertile pastures look! How fair our olive groves! How limpid is the gliding brook, That through the meadows roves. A hundred diff rent balmy flow rs Salute the passing gale, When ev ning breezes fan the bow rs, And sweep th enamell d vale. 58. Recitative QUEEN OF SHEBA May peace in Salem ever dwell! Illustrious Solomon, farewell! Thy wise instructions be my future care, Soft as the show rs that cheer the vernal air, Whose warmth bids ev ry plant her sweets disclose; The lily wakes, and paints the op ning rose. 59. Air Will the sun forget to streak Eastern skies with amber ray, When the dusky shades to break He unbars the gates of day? Then demand if Sheba s queen E er can banish from her thought All the splendour she has seen, All the knowledge thou hast taught. 60. Recitative SOLOMON Adieu, fair queen, and in thy breast May peace and virtue ever rest! 61. Duet QUEEN OF SHEBA Ev ry joy that wisdom knows, May st thou, pious monarch, share! SOLOMON Ev ry blessing Heav n bestows, Be thy portion, virtuous fair! QUEEN OF SHEBA Gently flow thy rolling days. SOLOMON Sorrow be a stranger here. BOTH May thy people sound thy praise, Praise unbought by price of fear. 62. Chorus CHORUS OF ISRAELITES The name of the wicked shall quickly be past; But the fame of the just shall eternally last. ACT THREE Scene 1 41.- Symphony Arrival of Queen of Sheba 42.- Recitative QUEEN OF SHEBA From Arabia’s spicy shores, bounded by the boary main, Sheba’s queen these seats explores, to be taught thy heav’nly strain. SOLOMON Thrice welcome queen, with open arms our court receives thee, and thy charms. The temple of the Lord first meets your eyes, rich with the well-accepted sacrifice. Here all our treasures free behold, where cedars lie, o’erwrought with gold; next, view a mansion fit for kings to own, the forest call’d of tow’ring Lebanon, where art her utmost skill displays, and ev’ry object claims your praise. 43. Air QUEEN OF SHEBA Ev ry sight these eyes behold Does a different charm unfold; Flashing gems and sculptur d gold, Still attract my ravish d sight. But to hear fair truth distilling, In expressions choice and thrilling, From that tongue so soft and killing, That my soul does most delight. 44.- Recitative SOLOMON Sweep, sweep the string, to soothe the royal fair, and rouse each passion with th’alternate air. 45.- Solo and Chorus SOLOMON, CHORUS Music, spread thy voice around, sweetly flow the lulling sound. 46.- Solo and Chorus SOLOMON Now a diff’rent measure try, shake the dome, and pierce the sky. Rouse us next to martial deeds; clanking arms, and neighing steeds, seem in fury to oppose. Now the hard-fought battle glows. SOLOMON, CHORUS Shake the dome, and pierce the sky... 47.- Recitative SOLOMON Then at once from rage remove; draw the tear form hopeless love; lengthen out the solemn air, full of death and wild despair. 48.- Chorus CHORUS Draw the tear form hopeless love... 49.- Recitative SOLOMON Next the tortur’d soul release, and the mind restore to peace. 50.- Solo and Chorus SOLOMON, CHORUS Thus rolling surges rise, and plough the troubled main; but soon the tempest dies, and all is calm again. 51.- Recitative QUEEN OF SHEBA Thy harmony’s divine, great king, all, all obeys the artist’s string. And now, illustrious prince, receive such tribute as my realm can give. Here, purest gold, from earth’s dark entrails torn; and gems resplendent, that outshine the morn; there balsam breathes a grateful smell, with thee the fragrant strangers wish to dwell. Yet of ev’ry object I behold, amid the glare of gems and gold, the temple most attracts my eye, where, with unwearied zeal, you serve the Lord on high. 52.- Air LEVITE Pious king, and virtuous queen, May your name resound in story; In time s latest annals seen, Crown d with honour, crown d with glory. 53.- Recitative ZADOK Thrice happy king, to have achiev’d, what scarce will henceforth be believ’d; when seven times around the sphere the sun had led the new born year, the temple rose, to mark thy days with endless themes for future praise. Our pious David wish’d in vain, by this great act to bless his reign; but Heav’n the monarch’s hopes withstood, for ah! his hands were stain’d with blood. 54.- Air Golden columns, fair and bright, catch the mortals’ ravish’d sight; round their sides ambitious twine tendrils of the clasping vine; cherubims stand there display’d, o’er the ark their wings are laid ev’ry object swells with state, all is pious, al is great. 55.- Double Chorus CHORUS 1 Praise the Lord with harp and tongue! Praise Him all ye old and young, He s in mercy ever strong. CHORUS 2 Praise the Lord through ev ry state, Praise Him early, praise Him late, God alone is good and great. FULL CHORUS Let the loud Hosannahs rise, Widely spreading through the skies, God alone is just and wise. 56. Recitative SOLOMON Gold now is common on our happy shore, And cedars frequent are as sycamore. All, all conspires to bless my days; Fair plenty does her treasures raise, And o er the fruitful plains her countless gifts displays. 57. Air How green our fertile pastures look! How fair our olive groves! How limpid is the gliding brook, That through the meadows roves. A hundred diff rent balmy flow rs Salute the passing gale, When ev ning breezes fan the bow rs, And sweep th enamell d vale. 58. Recitative QUEEN OF SHEBA May peace in Salem ever dwell! Illustrious Solomon, farewell! Thy wise instructions be my future care, Soft as the show rs that cheer the vernal air, Whose warmth bids ev ry plant her sweets disclose; The lily wakes, and paints the op ning rose. 59. Air Will the sun forget to streak Eastern skies with amber ray, When the dusky shades to break He unbars the gates of day? Then demand if Sheba s queen E er can banish from her thought All the splendour she has seen, All the knowledge thou hast taught. 60. Recitative SOLOMON Adieu, fair queen, and in thy breast May peace and virtue ever rest! 61. Duet QUEEN OF SHEBA Ev ry joy that wisdom knows, May st thou, pious monarch, share! SOLOMON Ev ry blessing Heav n bestows, Be thy portion, virtuous fair! QUEEN OF SHEBA Gently flow thy rolling days. SOLOMON Sorrow be a stranger here. BOTH May thy people sound thy praise, Praise unbought by price of fear. 62. Chorus CHORUS OF ISRAELITES The name of the wicked shall quickly be past; But the fame of the just shall eternally last. Handel,George Frideric/Solomon