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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2018362" data-attributes="member: 6533">Hmm, well, were it my group there would be one basic decision:is this an immediate problem for us?or an insitutional one?The immediate problem probably involves waiting for a better opportunity to free the slaves while actively setting up plans for places to put the slaves once they are free and setting up local alliances for aid and behind coverage.If its an institutional one then you probably have the rest of a or a good portion of your campaign mapped out.  It seems to me that the biggest solution would be to make slavery, or at least the mistreatment of slaves, highly unprofitable for the actual slave owners and buyers.  As it is they get taxed heavily, it would seem that there must be some way to exploit the local market to make it shift in the direction you like.  Perhaps by creating an alternate work model and selling it to or impressing it upon the slave owners.  Alternately, you might try to take over the kingdom, but that seems slightly ridiculous as the direct political solution might still result in you having to murder the slavers.Though, to be honest, I don't think there is a solution to this that won't result in blood.  I do think there are solutions that will make the difference between "they came at us while we were doing good. We defended ourselves and some of them died," and "we killed them for their sins."Two notes:Certainly increase your alliance with the organized crime organization.  Traditionally, organized crime has found great profit in acting as a go between for landlords and tennants.  Changing the local area to make that model possible could be a major incentive for an alliance.If these slavers are still actively raiding, you might want to catch them in the act.  Admittedly you can't get the local government to then crack down, but if you captured them while they were raiding you would be in a better position to negotiate directly with them as it would be highly unlikely that they could then ask their government for help and would instead look to a more discrete solution.  Negotiation might involve paying these guys off, and thus also finding the means to, but while I don't like paying slavers the fact is that if you word the deal right and back it up with cash and threat you can probably do more good than you would if you burned them out.</blockquote>

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