Empire Maker

You know whats the easiest thing in the world to fix? Made up problems! Seriously folks if you're a struggling government and your people don't like you? Just make up some problems and fix them! Now of course this solution requires you to lay some groundwork in advance (like paying bandits or other ruffians to cause issues), but once you "fix" these made up problems, the real problems don't look so hard to the general populace AND they will pitch in and help because "Hey he fixed those other issues didn't he?" Its genius!

All of this was to say that over the next several months as being the Prince's "Advisor" things worked out beautifully.  I became the not so secret power behind the throne (everyone in his fiefdom knew to come to me over going to him, it was a rare time to be recognized for something not horrible).  It was thrilling though tiresome.  I'll admit staging all of this crap to get to have an opportunity to kill Morley was killing me!  I was used to rushing in against impossible odds and getting out alive, all this patient political power play with the hope of getting what I really wanted was extremely difficult on my patience.

I mean sure it was nice being respected and feared, but with that came a bunch of whiny babies who wanted my attention at all hours of the day.  I'd be eating a quiet meal and a bunch of chattering jack asses would ruin it to ask me for assistance! I honestly think the Prince welcomed me taking over because it meant he got more time to have sex with women and do nothing and I had to solve all of his problems for him! Which is what I wanted but still! Little ungrateful jerk, I'm glad what happened to him happened to him even if I didn't cause it at all (but thats a story for another later entry).

All of that was to say six months after I dealt with just about every problem I set up in that hamlet to cause issues I was really getting tired of fixing actual problems I had not created. Because problems you didn't create suck to actually solve, especially when they are economic or someone mad at someone else because of none murder reasons.  I swear its just easier to kill everyone than talk to them, thats actually my ideal governement, everyone dead in the whole world and just me ruling nothing.