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===Backstory=== | ===Backstory=== | ||
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Reg Margin was an inhabitant of the salted peasant fields beyond {{sal}} and behind Bretton Woods. Being marshy badlands, nothing much grows there and, like many of the local peasantry, Reg supplemented his meagre scratchings poaching game from the royal hunting grounds in the dark woods of Bretton. | Reg Margin was an inhabitant of the salted peasant fields beyond {{sal}} and behind Bretton Woods. Being marshy badlands, nothing much grows there and, like many of the local peasantry, Reg supplemented his meagre scratchings poaching game from the royal hunting grounds in the dark woods of Bretton. | ||
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Reg snatched the figure by the scruff of the neck and was about to do him in when the figure started babbling in a foreign tongue, apparently pleading for mercy. | Reg snatched the figure by the scruff of the neck and was about to do him in when the figure started babbling in a foreign tongue, apparently pleading for mercy. | ||
“What did you say?” asked the great, clotlike giant. | |||
The figure’s eyes widen and he says, with great reverence and in flawless high {{sal}}se, | The figure’s eyes widen and he says, with great reverence and in flawless high {{sal}}se, | ||
“But you are of the {{sal}}! One of the great [[lanchmani]], the legendary traders of the Northern lands! I am so greatly honoured to have been caught by so great a man! As is Lanchmani protocol I [[Give up|give myself up]] to thee! I humbly [[novate]] myself to you!” | |||
Of course Reg isn’t of the [[Lanchmani]] at all, but is one of the indentured peasants who are blessed if they are offered clear the royal sewage, but he allows the figure’s misapprehension to go uncorrected. | Of course Reg isn’t of the [[Lanchmani]] at all, but is one of the indentured peasants who are blessed if they are offered clear the royal sewage, but he allows the figure’s misapprehension to go uncorrected. | ||
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Vlad in the meantime ingratiates himself to the king, with fantastic but delusional presentations about the ''forward'' wealth of the kingdom, entitling him to a yet greater share of its present wealth, and warning him of great dangers in Romania, and encouraging the king to send his army into the Carpathians, where they are beset by brigands and vandals. One day Reg stumbles across the Synthæse. | Vlad in the meantime ingratiates himself to the king, with fantastic but delusional presentations about the ''forward'' wealth of the kingdom, entitling him to a yet greater share of its present wealth, and warning him of great dangers in Romania, and encouraging the king to send his army into the Carpathians, where they are beset by brigands and vandals. One day Reg stumbles across the Synthæse. | ||
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