--Niki
What you mean, 'we?'- Tonto
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Thexton [mailto:bethexton_at_...]
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 1:40 PM
> To: KingOfDragonPass_at_egroups.com
> Subject: and the poor get poorer
>
>
> I recently started a new game, again on the hard
> setting. The clan is friendly towards dragonkind. We
> happen not to have a trickster in the clan.
>
> I didn't realize what a horrible combination this is.
> Without offending our ancestors, we couldn't kill the
> wyrm in the mountains, and without a trickster we
> couldn't take a part of its treasure, so we just made
> friends.
>
> Soon, we found ourselves good locked. We have only
> one trading route, so we generate just enough profit
> in a year to pay for the upkeep on a few basic
> shrines. We cannot afford to either sacrifice anymore
> goods nor to build more shrines. We cannot even come
> close to building any fortifications beyond a
> watchtower. On the other hand, our best efforts at
> making trade routes keep getting rebuffed.
>
> We periodically take some goods in raids, but since we
> have minimal war blessings, no fortifications, and
> can't even afford to hire many weaponthanes, we are
> lucky to break even over the course of a year.
>
> I'm not complaining, and we will find a way out of
> this (oddly enough, we already know the myths for four
> heroquests, and we have four treasures, once we manage
> to succeed at the one or are forced to sell one of the
> other we will be in better shape, or maybe eventually
> we'll find something useful when we explore)....just
> warning that if you are starting a clan that is dragon
> friendly, if you find you don't have a trickster you
> are apt to be facing a real dilemna with of goods.
> Ditto of course if you are a dragon hater and you fail
> to kill the beast.
>
> --Bryan
>
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