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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3284476" data-attributes="member: 11146">The city Guard is competent.  After enduring two sieges in 60 years, not only is the entire city surrounded by a 70-foot high wall that is 12 feet thick at its base and wide enough on top for a catwalk manned by archers, but the Guard is affiliated with both the Edaesmyd Crown Navy and Army.  [sblock=Brakkus]Continued...To wit, an Admiral heads the city Guard, and the Guard itself is comprised of lay watch officers and military personnel both.  The Guard is a large organization (they have to be, in order to effectively watch over not only the large city populace, but also the docks, the bridge outside the city, and the perimeter wall) and, as is true with most any large organization, some officials are corrupt.  The current commander is Captain Johns, the grandson of one of Teggest's finest war heroes who was himself Captain of the Guard.  Captain Johns, the first son of a middling noble family, is popular with the folk of the city and the lower ranking members of the Guard.  Within the Guard, however, while Captain Johns is recognized by his surrounding officers as a good-hearted man of the people and a competent tactician, he is less well-regarded as a bureaucrat.  Captain Johns isn't a politician but is nonetheless head of a heavily political organization.  He is widely regarded as a figurehead whose will can unwittingly be bent to the desires of those more astute in the study of politics.  Whether this is true remains to be seen.  Some of the middle-weight officers in the Guard are corrupt and can be bought or persuaded.  Most of the lower enlisted pikemen are interested only in staying out of trouble and will doggedly follow the letter of the law, ignoring its spirit.  Off-duty, this changes.  Off-duty pikemen could certainly be bribed.  It's hard to eek out a living in Teggest and they'd take whatever help they could get.  Trying to pay off a pikeman without the benefit of knowing him first or a bit of fore-planning, however, might be difficult.  They're like bulldogs...on duty, and on the fly, it's hard to get them to budge.  If you have more time to finesse a relationship with one of them, however, then the door opens.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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