[Bordermarch] plans betrayed!

[Lathrop, Dave]

Nomis,

Your verbiage about the gods conspiring against me reminds me of the tale of the Butcher and the Weasel.
The butcher in this particular tale always kept a small bag of goat cheese hanging from the rafters of his butcher shop. The previous owner of the butcher shop was also a butcher who was accused of harboring a weasel in his shop. The law in the town where the butcher shop was located was clear and to the point, "Absolutely no weasels allowed!"
When the original butcher shop owner died of old age, the butcher who liked goat cheese bought the shop.
The goat cheese butcher worked many long hours to provide his family with money to purchase the things they needed, but there never seemed to be enough money. 
The butcher eventually got hungry, he reached to the rafters for what he thought was his bag of goat cheese, and to his surprise he discovered a small bit of dried pig's ear!

The loss of Captain Brule's first mate has rendered the crews moral to an all-time low. I've sent limes for Captain Brule to divvy out to his crew in hopes of restoring their faith in his leadership. A navy must be able to operate like a greased wheel, therefore, I cannot send our navy to attack just yet. I await word from Captain Brule as to whether the limes did the trick.

Nomis, be wary of the fluss on the rot, it's the canker that destroyed far better men than you.

HE Santiago 

 






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From: bordermarch-bounces+dave.lathrop=valero.com at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:bordermarch-bounces+dave.lathrop=valero.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of nomistk at bordermarch.org
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 9:10 PM
To: bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org
Cc: charles_brk at yahoo.com
Subject: [Bordermarch] plans betrayed!

Your Excelency, 

It seems that the gods conspire against your plans.  While on my way to escort the Baron Burbon and coke's emisary to meet with you 
for the final preperations, we were attacked.  The ship that attacked us was poorly piloted but was able to attack with surprize 
due to our not expecting an attack.  The first mate of the attacking ship fell from the rigging on to his own sword which seemed to 
enrage thier crew.  While this was funny to our crew they did not think so and attacked with a fury over our laughing.

I was just able to make my escape but the Baron's emisary was captured.  I reported back to Burbon and coke and he was enraged!  He 
has blamed you and swears that the deal is off.  He imprisoned me but then decided to release me to warn you that he is asking the 
King of the Goat lovers to gather an army and dispose of you and your barony.

My suggestion would be to unleash your navy on thier unsuspecting civilian population like you already have.  Thier fishermen will 
not be expecting further attacks.

At present I am trying to make my way across the rot fluss and will report in person shortly.

Nomis of Topaz Key
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