Dear Brothers of FREE,
We salute you as our brothers and have declared a holiday in your honor!
We accept your revision, and are excited to be entering into this treaty with you.
We have prepared a formal version of the treaty for a more formal signature, if that’s acceptable to you? The seal of The Council has already been stamped upon it, and we look forward to having it returned with your seal as well.
However, we already have our first challenge to this deal! The Council has just made contact with team Saber! This new discovery has not caused any wavering in our commitment to the alliance with you, but it does present an opportunity. In their initial communication, Saber expressed a desire to trade with us to obtain Iron Working and Ceremonial Burial in exchange for Warrior Code, the Wheel, and probably some gold.
While the deal we’re on the verge of signing with you already covers those techs – we still think it would be a good move for us to do this deal with Saber. We’d be happy to give you both of the techs from Saber for free… as that saves us each one tech on our respective sides of the MAAP.
Also, since the tech we’d be saving is a bit more expensive, we’d even be willing to give you 60% of any gold we manage to negotiate out of Saber (it’s not likely to be very much).
We think this would be win-win that’s very positive for our alliance, and even though we haven’t officially signed documents with you - we’ve decided to wait on starting serious negotiations with Saber to see if you’ll agree to it.
(Saber also wants a deal to get to Republic apparently, but on the surface, we don’t see how that would be helpful for our alliance – so we’ll probably just stall for now, and likely decline later... unless you have other thoughts?)
Please respond quickly with how you’d like to proceed on the tech deal with Saber, and with your official seal on the alliance deal.
To Peace and Glory Together,
- Speaking with the voice of The Council, General_W