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12/27/10(Mon)02:47 No.13304955Okay, listen. I've got kind of a tricky issue here, and I was wondering if you guys could help.
See, the old king? Everybody loved him, except, you know, the people that he was king of. So me, getting a wild hair up my ass, decided that I really wanted to just sit around and collect taxes all day. So I overthrew him. ...And kind of accidentally the whole castle at the same time.
But, see, I might be greedy, and maybe a touch lazy, but I realized, hey, I ain't gonna get as much taxes if folks are starving, right? So I'm working to re-up the kingdom, you know? Make it look all nice and shit. The issue, though, is that since everybody was pretty much starving to death under King Good Foreign Relations, I don't got jack good for soldiers. So I gotta... ahem... entice adventurers to come into the kingdom and take out all the nasties that have popped up.
Anyway, here's my problem. I need a new castle, one that'll make adventurers think that I'm Stupid Evil, not Lawful Evil. That way, they come and clear shit out and I don't have to pay them for them doing good deeds. But at the same time, I don't want the dudes and dudettes that I rule over to be scared of me. Shit, I do that, the next bastard is gonna come up and axe me.
You got anything for a guy who wants good PR with his own folks, but bad short-term PR with other nations, with an eye towards improving it once his nation's infrastructure is stabilized? |