The Four Lands - The Colony

[Leif]

As Hennets comment the young Viscount speaks up: [sblock=The Viscout says "To do so would be foolish in the extreme, your benefactors would have not choice but to side with the church thus exposing you all to great danger. You do not have the strenght or the resources to directly challange the church should you be foolish and do so then when the Church sends it's Knights with fire and flame you will be alone" Taking a drink from his cup he continues "Great Resources have been dedicated to this undertaking, and you yourslef have invested even more in order to make it a success. But you forget yourself gentlmen, the opportunity has been offered to you, you have not earned it other than by your reputation. The colony can not prosper without the Benefactors, it will not have those type of resources dare i say in your lifetime, so tread very carefully when it comes to the concerns and sensiablities of the Benefactors."[/sblock]

Hennett says: "I humbly and sincerely ask your forgivness, M'Lord. Yes, you are right, I was forgetting myself."

 

[Nightbreeze]

[sblock]Ugh...let me see. They invested 260 and wanted to mantain a 18% voting power base. As there are now 2179 silver shares, and they have only 260, their voting power base is down to 12%. If they want to go up to 18% again, I would have to release them 160 silver shares, making their total 420 shares, and making them the second larger silver shareholder. That is a higher investment than they originaly thought, but it won't get higher than this for quite a lot of time.[/sblock]

 

[Lou]

Alton Kanri, Human Cloistered Cleric/Battle Sorcerer of the Light

OOC: Neurotic has never answered my post#419 (repeated at post#460). It seems the academy will be independent of the Company, even without a reply from Neurotic, as there are no shares attributed to Alton for the investment.

JA-Are we continuing on with the meeting, or are you waiting for some players to check in?

 

[Nightbreeze]

ooc: Lou, there is no problem for me to issue you the shares. As soon as you decide, I can do that.

I am going to watch Italy-Spain now

 

[J. Alexander]

The meeting will go on were kinda doing both right now...and i know it is a little confusing.

Nightbreeze
[sblock]The unhappy bank is willing to increase it's investment by 1/2 the difference from their current position to 18. They are willing to do this in the form of a liine of credit to be drawn against...with only 1/3 being usable the first year in exchange for the full 18percent shares.[/sblock]

 

[Nightbreeze]

[sblock=JA]I am not saying them this, but hey, they are no longer in dominant position. If they want to invest, in order to protect their voting percent, it is up to them. I tell them that silver shares can only be purchased. I regret the fact that they don't feel secure enought to invest more, but if at any point they feel confindent, the option to buy silver shares is still open, only for them.

God, we are suffering against those damn spaniards.[/sblock]

 

[Nightbreeze]

Ederin goes to the window, opens it, and looks for a target for a flamestrike. "An inquisitor would to especially fine" he mutters.

edit: don't mind this, I was pissed for ooc reasons. Damn spaniards.

 

[J. Alexander]

Shopping

As the company begins it's dinner a knock occurs at the door. when it is opened at young man enters in a nicely tailord suit and says "I have a missive for My Lord Ederin and hands Ederin a cream covered envelope made from heavy parchement.

For Ederin
[sblock]It is with deep regret that I must inform you that the council has decided to suspend all funding for your company outside of the intial loan for which funds have been set aside. A careful review of the information has made us uncomfortable in the long term prospect of secruing our position and interests due to the fact that a formal business plan was not detailed in our original discussion. As this decision is somewhat of a suprise to us as well we will honor any overdrafts within the next two days and apply them to your loan amount so as not to creat additionaly harships to your company. A complet accounting will be distpacthed within one week with the total loan amount due.

Respectfully,

Silas Brighltaw
Director

OCC: dont worry about it okay, something like this was designed to happen cant have everything go to easy ...your is just the charcter that stood up and took it on the chin for the party...but very good role playing.......[/sblock]

 

[Nightbreeze]

Ederin sighs and says "Well, I regret to inform you that Brightlaw has lost the courage to invest more. Well, at this point we didn't really depend on their commitment, but as they were the first to believe in the company, I regret their decision. However, I'll keep the door open for them. Besides" he muses, watching out of the window "This thing has gotten really big in no time, hasn't it? To say the truth, although I wished and hoped, I thought that only after the demonstration of a success we will get big. But hey, if already we are big, the demonstration and its effects will be bigger still, don't you think?" and he sends down a glass of red wine.


[sblock] By no mean, don't worry about my feelings I am perfectly fine with a failure, and I expect to face even worse hardships. After all, I don't think that you expected from the party to try to build something so BIG. The power that we are trying to build goes well beyond our level, so it is only natural that bad things will happen. It will be up to us to face the challenges, and if (and when) we screw up something, damn it, we will screw up big. I don't think that in any other PbF game here on enworld a project like this was ever tried.

Anyway, I am unsure on their intentions. Do they mean to retire their investment in silver shares? Normally it couldn't be done, but as their investment was born by an misunderstanding, I think I am obliged to respect their wish. As there are plenty of coins still not invested, I will destroy their 260 shares and give them back 260.000sp.

Hmm...this leaves a void in source of power at the SSH. I wished to allow only one major bank in it, in order to make the bank commit seriously in and out of the Company council (the same way I am hardly going to admit another grand duke in the SSH, as there already is Sunbridge). Well, we will see what happens.[/sblock]

 

[Neurotic]

Randal Lucius Stormweaver

Sorry for not replying earlier. I'm home babysittin' with very slow connection and little time...

Yes, I'd make academy friendly but independant of the company...

Nightbreeze, I don't see you included 100 000 from Randal in the company, please make it 10% gold 90% silver...did I miss a post where you refuse it for some reayson or is it overlooked...I may increase this as Alton covers part of the library with his investment.

With Alton's investment in the library we can have very good library with some rare and/or obscure books obtained (whatever is available in any and all ports we stop)...