Year 487 Summer Campaign

[Valka]

What's Arne doing up on his high horse? We're bathin' here!

Also, how do you have SO many more posts than me? We started at the same time!

[Arne]

Crap, I forgot about that!  I thought we had finished.  I'll have to re-edit my post.

Sorry about the post craziness.  I got a wee bit carried away there.   

[Valka]

No biggie, I wasn't expecting a change and just thought it was funny.

Speaking of derps, Craig I never updated my CS from winter processing, I realized earlier. The stats to be updated are in the processing thread and I'll update the CS in the next day or two.

[Cedwyn]

Oooo! Can I insult the Romans for being soft? Decimus has insulted our dignity. How do I draw him out to satisfy the demands of honor? What are the rules here? Do I need a courtrsy or intrigue roll?

[Arne]

I'm thinking it's best to insult just the decimus if Cedwyn wants to pursue the matter.  For all we know, the guy the soldiers are escorting us to might actually be civil, and might rake them over the coals for their bad conduct.  I'd rather bite back the anger for the time being than risk Roderick and Uther's anger when they hear that their envoys called out some of the Centurion King's soldiers to a fight.

Or would we actually have just cause to demand satisfaction?

[GM Craig]

It's a personal decision.

Public bath houses are definitely a Roman thing, and the Romans haven't been in charge of Britain for ~75 years or so. It's certainly not unheard of to wash in a river for big messes.

Personal choice if you want to take offence - there is grounds. Weigh that against your mission as you wish.

It is simply enough to call him out. The noble way would be a formal declaration. Custom would then let him decide the time and place. If you're not concerned with manners, you could just call him out and have it out right here.

[GM Craig]

Given his attitude, he may feel no obligation to accept, of course

Just as Cedwyn would never accept a challenge from a peasant, the Decimus may consider Cedwyn beneath him and just have his guards beat you for insolence.

It's a risky proposition, but none of your stats are above 16 so you're free to determine your own action.

Now, if the guy called Arne's Honour passion into account (24), Arne would have a very hard time refusing that challenge.

[Arne]

Ah.  Didn't know that about others cleaning themselves off in the river.  Yeah, I couldn't see the owner of a bath house too keen on having somebody caked in mud jumping into one of the pools.   

[Cedwyn]

What about the political implications? Those are part of Cedwyn's consideration as well. It'd be important to show strength of arms...right?

[Arne]

Possibly . . . but it also might blow back in our faces if we fire up animosity towards us before we even get to meet the steward.  These guys live like they're still in Imperial Rome, so we might just take a page from their book and look down our noses at the ones that insulted us like they're not worth bothering with . . . or not even there.  They might judge us as weak or effete if we try to start honor duels with underlings.  Just a thought (which could also be wrong).   

[Cedwyn]

Craig...should I roll courtesy and intrigue?

[GM Craig]

Sure.

[Cedwyn]

Courtesy: 6 versus 13. Success
Intrigue: 9 versus 6. fail.

[Valka]

It's a risky proposition, but none of your stats are above 16 so you're free to determine your own action.

Valka's hospitality is 19. I don't know if that should make her pissed at others not affording the same hospitality she would offer

[GM Craig]

Not really so far. Maybe if she were speaking to the steward.

But hospitality is more about offering it that expecting it. Someone (even a mortal enemy) could come to Valka and ask for hospitality, and Valka would be hard pressed to say no. As a guest of her lord, should she meet her sworn mortal foe, she would be extremely reluctant to engaged in any fighting which would break the rules of hospitality.