I smirk and then forcible straighten my expression. I will break this game so bad it won't want to keep me. I'm wearing simple but warm fleece lined brown slacks and a white shirt with a cravat. As I stand, I pick up a knee length brown leather coat from the edge of the bed and slide my feet into knee high brown boots with a folded cuff at the top. I had short hair this time is a bright red colour and the skill associated with this Rayne was swordsmanship, so I buckle on a sword. I kind of wish I had a hat honestly.
I walk across the room and pull the door open. I am on the upper deck of the ship and Rayne's or rather since I'm him now my father's room and office is on the floor below. When I step out onto the upper landing my father's second Derek turned away from where he was looking out over the horizon and nodded at me. He was well built with deep blue hair. And wore a black vest with black slacks and a sword and pistol on his belt. Really did not look like a soft merchant at all, more like a guard but he was clostest to father to the point where Father insisted I call him uncle. While my Father was still alive at this point in the game and the merchant company was reasonably successful the slave trading faction has already started exerting pressure on the business.
If it were after my father's death my plan might not be very successful, however with two years before the main plot could come in and suck the intelligence from the world, I had options. Simplest solution was simply to make the slave trade a non-variable by the time the plot started. The story says it is possible to remove slave trading and while I could not follow the self-righteous slaughter by way of noble power the protagonist institutes, there is a method that is very doable for me.
In this world all the major faction groups came in pairs, aristocracy and commoners, slave traders and merchants, as well as the royal enforces and the sky pirates. It was the final pair of factions that I could make use of since both groups opposed the slave trade.
The sky pirates hated the trade because a large number of their members where escaped slaves. While they typically preyed on any merchant vessel they found, and the occasional aristocratic pleasure ship they were harshest on slave trade vessels. Though it was difficult for them to target the ships because there was no distinguishing feature between slave trader over merchant vessels.
I continue from the landing down to my fathers' room and knock on the door.
"Father can I come in?""Rayne? What is it?" my father opens the door and then gestures me inside. He doesn't have the same rich read hair that I do instead having a subtler brown colour. He is solidly built giving a clear indication that he had worked hard at more than just logistics to get his business to this point.
"Father, I heard that we are being pressured by the slave traders and that they are starting to get threatening" as I speak I walk over to the large desk in the middle of the room strewn with maps and other papers. The room was a larger version of mine. Dark wood with everything affixed to the walls and floor. The bed was screened off by a large curtain and the table was in the centre of the room surrounded by four stools also affixed to the floor. The only loose objects in the room were the papers and stationery strewn across the table.
"Where did you hear that? Never mind it's not something to worry about"
Huh, looks like there is some sort of perception filter on my behaviour. If Rayne was meant to be spoiled, then my calm approach should be really strange. Also, the system is strangely...
Host please choose
Yell
Cry
ComplainAh, there it is. Though it feels like it is getting more abrupt? Anyway, I am definitely not doing any of those. Please keep your low IQ options to yourself.
Host acting outside parameters. Continued non-compliance will result in a restriction of access to the system store.
Eh, go ahead I'm not using it anyway.
"I'm old enough to understand that it is a concern. The slavers are a strong faction and the rest of the merchants have not taken a hard line of non-cooperation like we have. I expect that you haven't been able to get support from our usual trading partners."
Father looks stunned for a minute and then slowly nods before half collapsing on one of the stools by the table. Huh, I honestly expected him to bluster about the situation and generally insist about not saying anything. He seems very real in the reaction of trust and accepting support. Should I say there is good character interactivity? Even if the plot is terrible and seems to result in mental deficiencies to force character compliance.
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Lets pretend I didn't read the original plot
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