TAUNGOO ACTIONS FOR PART 2
DIPLOMACY
FRIENDSHIP Kazakhs, Tibet, Manchu, Song
DENOUNCING Cantons
NO ACTIVITY All else
EVENT
Option ****:
CITY CONTROL
RENAME Taungoo --> Pyapon
RENAME RIP Reformer --> RIP Catons
/u/EmeraldRange: Bago
/u/Pielover19: Mottama
/u/Megaashinx1: RIP Reformer/RIP Catons
/u/HeroWtihThe1000Faces: Pyapon/Taungoo
/u/funtubs: Hanthawaddy
No other cities to assign.
ACTION POINTS
10 AP total (10 base)
4 AP on Meritocracy (remaining Liberty Policy)
1 AP on settling our settler as shown here
4 AP on 1 Settler in Bago(5AP each - 1 from Liberty Discount)
1 AP on Farm on the Wheat tile in Hanthawaddy
TREASURY
18 initial gold
18 gold total
-7 gold on Plot 1
-7 gold on Plot 2
4 gold remaining
PLOTS
Plot 1: Logistics Fight
RP: Quan (/u/HeroWithThe1000Faces) was furious. Even more so than King eMerALd Kyawhtin because the logistical nightmare the Catons implanted happend when he was supposed to be on jurisdiction. Perhaps it was that day off. But worse than that was just how impossible it seemed. eMerALd said it the best:
Some foreign spy managed to lounge around the city without being detected and then change the orders so that it literally made no sense? I had told virtually everyone excitedly to meet him at the dock. Why would they end up going into the jungle in the opposite direction? They weren't stupid!
The conference room was dark when he hatched the plan. Emerald was trusting no one but the best of the best. If the cowardly Catons wanted to hide in the shadows and mess with HIS logistics, a taste HIS logistics they would get.
[REDACTED] Quan's recent mastery of Taichiquan gave him so much insight into the flow of logistics as much as his body flowed when he practiced. Most importantly he learned how to be secretive, which would be important for the plan.
Hong Kong was a sitting duck waiting to be logisticsed: it was far from the rest of the Catons and although they called themselves pirates they only had fishing boats. They even kept it in their harbour for several centuries without using it to actually fish. It's a wonder Hong Kong hasn't just completely split off yet.
Burma didn't have that much of navy, but then again neither did the "Pirates". But we didn't need any. Quan's mastery of city and regional planning meant that the small amount of boats that Thura (/u/Pielover) could provide. King Emerald had given him quite the dream tream to lead the plot:
Thura, the head of the navy, had the maritime expertise where Quan was fuzzy. He reminded us that the Catons, or anyone for that matter, didn't have a magical metal stick that could point to where they need to go. Most were relying on memory and directions from the Caton administration. A slight misdirection of the hand when the guy in the port pointed to Hong Kong could meant that they missed by several hundred miles. 0.5 degrees over that distance was enough to cause problems.
Dogo (/u/Megaashinx1) was the Head of Science, but he was coming along for a different reason. He had recently gone to Japan to fail to impress Daddy Aime into giving him Dianmai and knew the geography of the area. With him and a map, even in the unfamiliar landscape, Quan could efficiently and furtively redirect all the food sources away.
They may try to sail the short distance to the mainland, but which of the Caton's nonexistent soldiers will guard them when we sabotage their boats as they pick the oranges?
They may try to cross the river to get oranges to the west, but without any soldiers in sight, it would be easy to destroy those boats again. Considering the "Pirates"' history with making boats, it was unlikely anyone knew that a cup shaped piece of wood floats, much less that they could make seaworthy ships to escape.
Still, just as a precaution, We use some gold to bribe the existing shipbuilders to drill tiny holes that are small enough that only after a few hundred miles of sailing would the water seeping in be noticeable, by which it would be too late for the poor civilians
If they try to get food from the cattle to the south, we simply use their technique and misdirect them to the jungles where they will get lost more often than not. If they can do it, Quan, the master of logistics, could surely do the same. And even better, he could misdirect them to pick poisonous berries, which Dogo the Science Boy could easily identify.
The best part is that because of the misdirection of the food supply ships from the Caton mainland, we'd know where their food ends up. To feed on the enemy's ration is worth 10 times getting the same amount of rations for ourselves.
It was almost too easy to mess up the shaky logistics of the "Pirates" when they lacked any naval units, lacked a navigation system for such a long sea journey, and had pretty much put their Hong Kong settlement in a place easy to trap by land. The trio would be stealthy and efficient. Within a few years, the city would be no more.
After all, what is a city without food but some ruins. [END REDACT]
Invested: /u/HeroWithThe1000Faces + 80XP in Taichiquan, /u/Megaashinx1, /u/Pielover and 7 gold (Total 20 points)
Result: [REDACT RESULTS] Hong Kong is starved to nonexistence (i.e razed). If partial success, please depop. [END REDACT RESULTS]
Plot 2: Dismantlement
RP: > Kyawhtin (/u/EmeraldRange) angrily wrote a letter to the Cantonese denouncing their horrible actions. He might have gone to war even then, but it was totally impractical to do so.
He finished writing and noticed that he had spelt Cantonese wrong, but he was so angry that instead of fixing it, he made a new law saying that everyone in Burma had to call the Cantonese the Catonese. Not doing so would warrant you a possible spy used to calling one's own country Canton instead of Caton.
Kyawhtin ordered his most trusted men and himself to actively weed out people who said "Canton" and possible spies. He offered a prize money to anyone who could bring Ivor to him.
After the party was sent out to fight logistically, King Emerald Kyawhtin turned the last remaining of the five he trusted the most: Tom. Although Tom (/u/funtubs) had technically been in charge at the time of the mass hysteria, he was almost certain it wasn't Tom. And Tom, of course, was certain it wasn't Tom.
The other seven gold kyatthas were allocated to fund a sort of hunt for Catonese and other foreign spies. Tom, being the Treasurer, went through the accounting records to see any fishy business done by his accountants and bureaucrats. Every action in the government left far too much of a money trail.
King Emerald began his weeding out campaign, offering two kyatthas of gold to anyone who could bring him Ivor. His guards actively spent their time patrolling the borders on the look out for fleeing spies and re-entering spies. Anyone with the slightest suspicion of saying "Canton" was brought in for questioning. A spy network wasn't just Ivor, and who knows what other spy networks there were.
Even if all the spies had left, the scrutiny and general atmosphere should make any nefarious plots within Taungoo immensely difficult.
Invested: /u/EmeraldRange, /u/funtubs and 7 gold
Result: Dismantle all spy networks in Taungoo and antiplot
