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[impathy]

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It's a fine day for sunshine. I find myself pitying those who choose to live beneath stones and only play at seeing sunlight. The real thing is not so easy to replicate. It seems to be getting warmer as well. Summer Is Coming, as they might say in my own Westerlands. If there is anything to love about this world, it is the peculiarly short seasons. It is a strange thing to have them all wrapped up in one year. I find myself wondering how it is you're able to keep track of them when they each go by so swiftly. It is near spring, but I'm told it will only be a few months long with more certainty than even the wisest maesters can manage - and this from an ill-bred soldier with scant few hairs on his lip.

I will say this for the south, however. It is blessed with very few imps.

[Locked to the Unseelie]

I've spent an uncomfortably long time in Seelie lands these past few weeks, though I am to understand a fairy ring is not so far off ahead of me. Would that we had such things in my own seven kingdoms, I might have done a fair bit more traveling. Though I confess I find it terribly disappoint how utterly small this world is made out to be. Is it truly a void beyond the oceans? I would imagine that it could not have always been that way. Certainly there had to be something far off out there, beyond where ships are able to reach.

In any case, I do have a point beyond the tedium of long riding. My name is Tyrion Lannister, which may not merit much weight here, but I was known as the King's Hand and the Master of Coin where I was from. I excelled in both duties and while I have no mind to butcher my features in further battles, I would see my skills put to proper use still. There is a certain spire that I feel might benefit from my talents and so it is there I mean to go. But I am given to understand there are a number of spires in all and would be only too glad to find other similar minded individuals to begin making certain investments. I do not yet have all my wealth at my disposal, but I promise you I always pay my due. A Lannister always pays his debts.

There is one other matter. Briefly for a time there were two of my kin here. My brother Jaime Lannister and my bastard nephew, Joffrey. Did anyone perchance to meet either of them? I know they are long gone from this world, but I would be interested to know if there was anything they might have left behind.

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[bethany_hawke]

What are seasons like where you come from, serrah?

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[impathy]

Long and tedious, my lady. The past summer has stretched for near a decade now and so our winter is like to last as long.

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[bethany_hawke]

A decade? Of winter?

I can't even imagine it. How do people survive with no crops?

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[impathy]

We prepare for it. We have long years of harvests to set aside food for the coming winters. Though truth be told, in those long winters, it is not uncommon to see the population of the small folk thinned. Even the kindest of lords will ultimately preference their own family and guard when the food becomes meager.

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[withbite]

Well, well, look who cleaned up.

So you were a banker, huh?

[He was being nice and not mentioning leprechauns and pots of gold, not that he thought this guy would understand it.]

And what if someone at one of these spires agreed. What sort of duties could you provide?

[It was the tower of misfit vampires and deviant soldiers. Come party, Tyrion.]

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[impathy]

Not a banker, no. I counted coppers and ensured the king always had coin to spend.

[And there was little enough left of that after Littlefinger had sent the kingdom into deep debt.]

[withbite]

The king, huh? Lofty little accountant. And that's what you expect to do now, mm? For a price? Those little gold pieces you need to have a little fun at some of the more preferred tourist locations for those less inclined towards history and more towards scratching certain itches?

[impathy]

When I am not rotting in dungeons, I have a certain lifestyle I aspire to maintain. You might be able to bed a woman by looks alone, but I need reliable income if I'm to keep whores in my bed.

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[herotypical]

Just how -- exactly -- does one master a coin?

[ do share with the class. ]

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[impathy]

Not one coin, sweet Buffy. Many coins. As many coins as a king requires.

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[herotypical]

You have a black belt in buying things. [ at least that's how she's understanding it. ] That's -- okay, that's kinda-enviable.

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[impathy]

It was a chain. [As the Hand anyway, he had no such badge as the Master of Coin.] Though if you're looking for gainful employment, I might find some use for you.

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[huntedby]

I am a ruler of one of those aid spires. And I am always interested in gaining more...assistance.

Though I am more inclined to speak specifics in person.

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[impathy]

Would that I was close to any one of these spires. Though I am curious as to the point of them. Weren't they intended to protect Caer Scima?

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[huntedby]

I could come to you, you know.

And yes, they were. Unfortunately they weren't completed by the time of the battle-only mine was near finished. Which allowed for retreat.

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[impathy]

You are kind to offer. But as your spires... incomplete or not, they seem to have been a waste. They might have served to provide a little more warning of an incoming attack. There was only ten of the bloody things in all directions.

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[tacticalturtleneck]

Are you like...the rich little guy? Because that's literally a stereotype that I've never seen in my life. This is like the first time someone opens up TVTropes and discovers a whole new world.

TVTropes is a shit website by the way.

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[impathy]

You seem to speak in all manners of shit, ser. But I am shorter than some and wealthier than most. Though as of yet, the monarchs have not seen fit to give all that is owed me.

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[tacticalturtleneck]

I'm not talking through my ass quite yet. I'll warn you when it happens though. But why don't you just like...steal more gold.

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[impathy]

And what would that gain me? A petty thief steals only enough to eat, but a skilled courtier can steal enough to keep other mouths empty.

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[herotypical]

[ archer!

buffy lowers her voice into a whisper over the lockets -- despite having made their conversation a private one. such skulduggery merely requires whispering. ] Woo him! Hire him! He knows things -- about gold and sieges. And he knows how to talk like he's not the most boring person in the world ever. [ unlike 99% of the rest of these old world folk. ]

Whatever the other Spire-lords are offering him? Double it.

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[tacticalturtleneck]

Hahaha. You like midgets!

[Don't mind him as he laughs.]

Hahaha, oh goooooooooood.

Seriously though, what am I supposed to do? Give him the other river fort?

[psalmed]

When seasons are only a span of three months it is hardly difficult to keep track, monsieur. But is it indeed getting warmer here?

[She hasn't really noticed, but summer is surely a better time to be here than winter.]

[impathy]

I could not tell you, my lady, as I've spent the past week underneath a very large rock. But I will not object to a swift winter.

[psalmed]

Is the rock an allegory?

[Or is there seriously a large rock.Tough to tell.]

I never had much to fear from winters in my country. Are they very different where you come from?