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Sit
down, my friend and let me tell you about this terrible
misfortune that has befallen me. You know there is nothing
better than a cup of beer after a hot day. And, my friend,
I am learning the hard way it would be best to stop
with one.
Two
weeks ago, on a very hot day, I stopped by the Senet
House to have a few beers on my way home from Pharaoh's
Court. It was a very hot day, I was tired and I drank
very many beers that day. And you know how I can talk
when I am .. enjoying myself. There were a great many
important men there that day, playing senet and drinking
beer, but none drank as much as me, I am afraid.
It seems that I was boasting about my capabilities
as governor, bragging that I was favored by Pharaoh
because of my many successes and achievements. Oh, how
I did talk! Whatever another had done, I had done it
better. There was one particular man there who kept
asking me questions and presenting imaginary problems
to solve and you better believe it, I had an answer
for everything! By the end of the evening, when my son
finally got me to leave, I hardly recognized myself,
from all the loud talk and of course, the beer.
Several
days later this same man visited me. He came to
make arrangements for my new assignment. It seems in
my drunken stupor I made a bet with an Official of the
Court that I would be able to found a city so very quickly,
that it would be ready in one year's time to respond
to any requests for any commodity, no matter whether
produced in the city or imported!
Oh,
my friend it is true. My son verified I had made
this awful bet, and I am to receive a handsome sum of
money above my yearly income, should I be successful.
And there is more, for I said I would never drink another
beer in this lifetime or in the next if I failed. This
Official was accompanied by another man and a mysterious
woman. My son says they travel around to all the Senet
houses and provoke people into making these bets. There
will be many more people set on these tasks and the
fastest one will be chosen for some very high post in
Pharaoh's court. Oh, but it is a sweet deal for them,
they get many cities founded in unpopulated areas and
trade established for the glory of Egypt.
So,
pour me one more cup of beer, my dear friend. I
have to soon leave -- I have one year to build a city
ready for a storm of requests that will surely come.
Good
luck!
Hints:
- Message
announcing "Granite price increase by 1 Db"
is reminder for required December save and is not
part of game play.
- timing
of compliance with requests is at your discretion;
as long as your Kingdom Rating is 100 in your submittal
and no requests are pending (and all other Completion
Criteria is met) your result is valid.
- requests
are not weighted; each commodity has the same affect
on the Kingdom Rating based on your response.
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