Subject: ((I live near Dover.))
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Posted on: 2015-06-12 10:22:00 UTC

((You may recall there are these big white things what bluebirds fly over, at least according to songs which know the square root of precisely dick about Kentish ornithology. They're not exactly an insurmountable problem, is what I'm saying here. =] ))

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There be villages, yes, around the Bay of Tarr. A boatbuildin' place with a small bay for where the fishermen do lie. The Wrights of Koe were famed once, before the fall o' Harpwire, an' would do well ter be remembered anew. Koewryght an' Rheewryght, fishing villages as made 'emselves into shipbuildin' ports, in the ol' days afore the fresh an' stinkin' dark of Marizu. If yer Ridin' is to look after its own, Baron Huinesoron, then there must be summat fer those folk to do. An' I has a plan, if'n yer'll be lettin' a mere commoner say it-

But soft, what be this? Why, if I be any judge, it do be fine shield o' Borrdish make, bearin' a beggar's arms. A Knight's arms. Sic Transeunt Nobiles, milord Baron. Be seated an' listen.

Yer have said, an' 'tis fair as yer words ever are, that the grain o' Sittorese must fill Plortish bellies. This has been voted into law, and the likes o' me mayst not go agin it. But there be more'n good land in this place, milord Baron. There do be more.

In days passed, the Kingdom's fine castles were built o' stone an' wood, as are they now. But that stone came from the south, near the joinin' o' the mountains. Sittorese stone was worked by masters and quarried for years, an' it were sent abroad until the Marizu sank the stone-bearing vessels.

But they need not do so any more.

We do 'ave, in form o' the airship-port at Skypcht, a means o' gettin' good coin for Plortish masonry once more - and a safe means with it. This return to old tradin' ways will bring in goodly funds for them as control the tradin an' the sky-fleets, thus allowing fer more improvements to the shipyards around Koewright an' Rheewryght, perhaps even buildin' a market town at Eksoeva fer goods an' chattels ter aid the farmers. Plortish stone may fly, milord Baron. Plortish iron and Plortish wool and Plortish gems already do. It will require investment, but what does not, milord? Speccerlate ter accoomerlate, as they do say.

Build a harbour, Eagle's Shade. Build it an' claim it an' take from it, as yer planned to do with milady's fair City. Only this time, there will not be that much in yer way... oh no, there will not. What say you?

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