Luxuriating in a – necessarily large – wooden bath, I got a good view of my enormous body. Well, at least as far as the vast stomach. From there, my lower half was completely out of view. Maybe Carlos felt at home like this and I wasn't judging him from the point of beauty or shame. My dismay at the body I was in was a practical one. As it was, I couldn't possibly help these people in battle. And I was so used to my own, fairly fit shape that for me, this was like being an imprisoning shell. I had an idea of who I was that was at odds with this person. It would take some serious work but I was determined to get in shape, not least for the sake of the battles to come. At least he was tall, taller than me, at about 6' 4" I'd guess. That was promising for the long term, if I could get the body into fighting condition.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaExCr0wjaF
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While I didn't want to make any important decisions about my character sheet until I had tested if I could improve my stats, I took some time to properly study the kingdom menus.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkQRVKEXJ6
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Currently building: granary level 2420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ00cYFYoPw
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Grain yield: 0 due in 17 days420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIU7YmIeD9e
Vegetable yield: 35 food units due in 21 days420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhhAQaAmHhX
Wool yield: 3 bales due in 34 days420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qgyKljh3y
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Timber yield: 17 planks daily420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHJj9ZlcgWp
Iron yield: 2 ingots daily420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr2km7YviTj
Quarry yield: 6 blocks daily420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15eakaebw7
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Research: steel pickaxes420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSXMTuJsZ8
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Resources:420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiPmQXTUDB
Wheat: 19 food units420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zYkkc7CWq
Vegetables: 32 food units420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy9eTuhI0Z
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Stone: 33 blocks420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyRJVzPY6x
Cloth: 0 bolts
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All of these points of information could be opened for more detail, so I focused on the 'currently building' tab. There, I could see a graphic of a partly constructed wooden tower. The granary, presumably. In a timer that was counting down, there were two days and several hours left on a bar that was about half filled with green. I had other options, currently greyed out: farm buildings, level 2; hunting lodge, level 2; sawmill level 2; watermill; mine level 3; quarry level 2; smithy level 2; library level 2.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfsu2YIX7j0
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There was an obvious contradiction between the fact the kingdom was working on a new granary and there was no grain yield. Presumably, this was a legacy of losing the recent battle and the farmland. I should almost certainly swap the construction project to something else. Long term, it was often a good idea in strategy games to invest in research, which might be what the library was good for. But I had a real worry about the food situation. So without making any changes, and after shifting my hulky figure to swirl some warm water around, I looked at the Military sub-menu.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3txsGkD3Sy
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Military420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgdLIeq9M18
Light infantry: 32420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndrUml9fhK
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Archers: 18420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMh9jEeoFmg
Light cavalry: 24420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNCvWuzcwq
Heavy cavalry: 3420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFi9Ak029UT
Ballista: 1420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIzRWa5Dzj
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Hospital: 17420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzK0gzzBLm5
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Military upkeep cost: 42 gold, 5 silver420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJhMMkr9ke
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Currently training: 2 heavy cavalry420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOls71dF9H
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Buildings: keep level 2; curtain walls level 1; towers level 1; town walls level 1420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvPEuLdov7A
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Currently building: tower machicolations, 3 days
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I had no idea how big the armies in this world were, but with just a hundred troops the situation here was certainly dire. I suddenly had a dark thought. What if we were overrun? Slaughtered. What would happen to me? Would I get home? Respawn? Or just die, forever?420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSNZqb0U8T
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Although they were fundamentally important questions, there was nothing I could do to find answers to them, so I returned my focus to the menus. Each of these entries had options to drill down into more specific information, such as about the stats on the troops, but I just skimmed through them, wanting to understand the big picture items first.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJ86FBLWWR
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People420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTsYqi1U2p
Citizens: 485420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Elh3axkHr
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Specialist roles420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nn3rFwThp
General: Lord Arval, Paladin Level 7420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpgJjQScl3D
Royal Wizard: Carlena, Sorceress Level 9420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGD0RKymgu4
Steward: Chancellor Parrin, Scout Level 9420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2WfDcdJEi
Ambassador: Figus, Bard Level 3
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Looking at the Citizens menu I saw a more detailed breakdown: Soldiers 110; Farmers 38; Builders 40; Shepherds 34; Hunters 48; Miners 84; Clothmakers 23; Bakers 23; Brewers 16; Carpenters 21; Stonemasons 14; Smiths 4; Researchers 4; Idle 26. It was strange how few were the numbers here. Was this because I had found myself at an early stage of whatever game-like system this world was based on? Or was there some other explanation?420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsRJAhekru2
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This was interesting. For a start, the king had been lying to Chancellor Parrin for some reason. Far from being a Level 5 Scout, the thin man was 9. Then I found I could open up their character sheets and I did so for Lord Arval.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlR5VGBhI8
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Lord Arval: Paladin Level 7420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJW34eozbdd
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XP 19,663 (28,800)420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoYL7cKHpG
Str 17 (18), Dex 12, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 9, Cha 9.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0Sk0cHGwg
Shield of Defence +1, Trueblade +2, Ring of Strength +1, Potion of Haste, Potion of Healing.
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Very interesting. I had to close my eyes for a moment, ducking down to soak my hair, but the character sheet was still there when I came back up out of the water. Firstly, I noted that Lord Arval had an XP bar. He could level up. That was encouraging for me, because it suggested that stats might evolve too. Secondly: magic items. Everybody loves magic items, but again I was particularly excited to see they could be used to change stats, as in Lord Arval's Strength.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrMUzIzr1M
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Time to check the others.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyKN8p4tdt
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Carlena, Sorceress Level 9420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd78q34u91V
HP 34420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQlZD0FkwM
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XP 72,102 (86,400)420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoI3kI00c7W
Str 5, Dex 11, Con 9, Int 17, Wis 7, Cha 8.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwXDjmdHh5
Broach of Protection from Magical Missiles; Wand of Channelling; Potion of Transformation.
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Chancellor Parrin, Scout Level 9420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIZKxu8EuC
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Str 9, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 6, Cha 9420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdmUDy7HOs
Dagger +1; Leather Jerkin +1; Ring of Silent Movement.
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Figus, Bard Level 3420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAoA3MkfomO
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Ambassador feats: Speak Language; Swift Travel
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Pretty decent, or so it seemed. But everything was relative. What special roles did our opponents have? Maybe Chancellor Parrin would know.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOAwQwBJZ5T
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By this time my bath was only lukewarm and so, with some difficulty, I stood up. Water dripping from me, I took a towel and when as dry as I could manage, a robe that a servant had brought me that looked clean enough. Outside the door of the bathroom was a young servant, who ducked his head when I left rather than make eye contact. After I was past him, he ran into the bathroom, to tidy up perhaps.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeCwU706xv
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Lying in a comfortable four-poster bed, in clean sheets, I considered that I was blessed. Almost certainly, there were gods in this world. And if one of them had played a role in bringing me here, well, fair dues to him, her, or it. I sent a silent prayer of gratitude. This is what I needed. Not the trappings of being a king but the challenge. A kingdom under threat and an RPG system to wield to the best of my ability. I really wanted to get stuck into my own character sheet, but most of my decisions would have to wait until I had more information. And I was too tired to explore the menus much further.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZRqeNy6J8w
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There were two tasks, however, that shouldn't wait until morning. I called up Greyland/Economy/Currently Building. There I switched the granary out and from the other options, dragged in hunting lodge, level 2. We were losing about 7 food units a day, with reserves of just 56. Obviously, I needed to resolve that, before planning on building something more strategic.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGwon4OOaa
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The other assignment I wanted to make was for the Smithy, which was not producing anything. The sub-menu, however, was complex, full of possible items like horse shoes, swords, shields and arrow heads that all looked extremely useful. There were tools I could create too, including hoes, which I was tempted by, as these would surely help my food output. Or were they limited to use in the kind of fields we had recently lost?420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhmzWFOGbQ
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Wondering why my predecessor had left such an important building idle, I had a thought and checked the research queue. There was only four hours left on the countdown for steel pickaxes. Maybe he had planned on completing that research and then getting the smith to work on producing them. If so, it wasn't a bad idea, all we really had going for us were the mountains around the town. If we could use sources of iron to build up tradeable reserves of iron and steel, that might be another way to solve the food crisis. So that decision could also wait until morning.420Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFFj7XWIqe
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My head filling again with images of the town planning interface, I was asleep before I knew it.
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