101

- “Help?” “Nope, but I’ll purchase your lumberyard for shillings on the pound out of mercy”

- He thinks we’re weak, good

- Try to schmooze supplier, fails according to plan

- Finds out name of lumber supplier

- Finds clothing of supplier

- Enrages guard, wears same clothes, lures guard to busy town centre

- Oh shit, he’s wearing a different hat, hope he doesn’t notice

- Guard attacks supplier, ruh roh

- Pressure on rival, agrees to do business, aaaaactually, I struck a deal with the sheriff and I get all your shit, so suck it

- Leon at bar with Abel, guard shows up/is there

- Abel’s frank talk about religion

• “I’m not just a fanatic, I believe in a God who promotes love and virtues”

• “Don’t be blasphemous”

- Guard beats the shit out of Leon

• Leon arrives at will reading like an Irish housewife

- “Who the fuck is lord baron!?“

102

• The market in the village has been somewhat revitalised

- Finding Lord Baron

• “How do we find Lord Baron?” “To expand outside our town we need the king’s seal” “How do we get that?” “By doing business outside of the town” ”…”

- An audience with the lord

• Ineptly trying to get what he wants

- “Tell me about your ‘master manipulation’” “I lured a rival’s guard into savagely beating their supplier” “How did you do that?” “…threw a rock at him” “Oh dear god.”

• Dumb luck

Seek vulnerability, exploit, destroy, claim ruins (Mentor introduces this, “Everyone has their curse. Mine was drinking”)

- “What’s my vulnerability?”

- “Is that their title?”

- Talking to castle guild

- Market is so quiet but it’s supposed to be a market fair?

- All but one of Edward’s properties were sold off and the gold sent to Lord Baron

- Before mentor dies, tells Leon to follow the trail of …?

104

- Genoa

- Abel finally gets a letter back for Leon to go to Genoa and open a bank account or something I dunno RESEARCH BANKING LATER

?- A lady of the town who is a powerful sadistic circle affiliate, who is basically just being kept in check by the circle

• Leon ain’t gonna take her down just yet, but she’s gonna show up later

- Tense negotiations, Leon puts up something(s) valuable as collateral (like businesses)

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• “Who are you?” “Lord Baron, sir” DISAPPEARS

MISC

- The final straw for abel is Leon hiring an assassin or someone who does dirty work

• Or maybe when Abel suspects that Leon murdered someone

- Convincing the King of Belgium

• As soon as the Circle is brought up, the king gets nervous and deflects

• “I’ll join your side, but I need you to do something for me first” — King whatshisface of Belgium

- Leon gets given a fief or something but turns it down

- Leon massacres the village to prove they can’t be protected by the Circle.

- Leon uses his own death warrant to convince world rulers to abandon the circle

• “Wait, we need to go back in” “What on earth are you talking about? We just barely got you out” “I need to find a piece of paper” “What?” “The Circle may have signed my death warrant, but I think they just signed their own as well”

DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this story is historically accurate in the slightest, and a lot of it I just made up for fun. I apologise to history majors and people who have at least a high school history education. Just call it alternate history or something I dunno.