A little wager
Gamblers in [city] are offering you a wager on the horse races. Fortunately, theyve forgotten that they pay taxes. Would you like to accept the bet?
Requires: Gambling house in [city]
I feel the Gods are with me
50% chance of +60
, 50% chance of -40
.
Prudence is a virtue
Nothing happens.
Yes, and rig the bet
80% chance of +60
, 10% chance of -40
, 10% of +1
for 10 turns.
Yes, and rig the bet properly
Requires: Council of Esus
100% chance of +60
.
Limited Liability.
Sir, a Gambling house in [city] seek permission to expand their operations into a stock exchange. They have a strange idea that merchants might want to buy and sell each others businesses.
Requires: Gambling house in [city], tech: trade.
Excellent; Im pleased with their ingenuity.
Gambling house in [city] gives +10%
, +1
(Great Merchant)
No, this smacks of villainy. Their invisible hand is clearly an agent of Esus!
+1
in all cities for 5 turns.
National Debt Sequence
Guilt
Sir, a Gambling house in [city] seek permission to expand their operations into a bond market. They say theyll able to offer us a huge amount of money in exchange for some fancy certificates.
Requires: Gambling house in [city], tech: currency.
Free money? Of course!
+100
, causes event interest payments next turn.
No, money must be earned; this is sinful.
Nothing happens.
Interest Payments
Those thieving liars in [city]s bond market are claiming we have to pay interest for those certificates!
Requires: first option chosen on The National Debt
What? Outrageous; we wont pay.
+5% inflation, National Debt wont reoccur.
Fine. Give to Mammon what belongs to Mammon...
-4
in Gambling house in [city], National Debt may reoccur, Balancing the books may occur.
Balancing the books
It seems we may be able to get out our interest payments; we buy back those certificates, and then are free! Unfortunitly, those greedy blood-sucking parasities of [city] wont offer us a fair price.
Requires: second option chosen on Interest Payments.
Buy them back; we never should have got involved in the first place
-200 gold, +4
in Gambling house in [city], National Debt may reoccur,
We cant afford all of that, but we need to keep the debt collectors from the door somehow
-100
, +2
in Gambling house in [city], National Debt may reoccur, Balancing the books may reoccur.
We cant afford that
National Debt may reoccur, Balancing the books may reoccur.
Seize them!
+10% inflation, +4 gold in Gambling house, National Debt wont reoccur.
Make them more... amenable to a fair trade
Requires Council of Esus
-100
, +4
in Gambling house in [city], National Debt wont reoccur.