False Charity

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Days: 14

A group of monks and priests, staying into our lands illegally, have been stirring up a riot. They're preaching rebellion against tyranny, supported by the most despicable and worthless of our people: beggars, debtors, and laborers. They bribe these unsavory individuals with free food, alms, and other such "charity". Their provocations to riot must be stopped before it spins out of control. The social parasites must be culled, and the heads of the perpetrators removed at once.

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Stability

Margin	Effect
0	The guards arrested several of the more outspoken followers of these priests' ideas. In response, a crowd gathered around the prison walls demanding their release. Attempt to disperse the crowd resulted in a massive street brawl.
1	The guards threatened to arrest the false priests if they didn't leave the country of their own accord. Predictably, the stubborn fanatics were more than willing to give up their freedom in order to continue spreading their filth.
2	The guards arrested the priests, and subjected them to prolonged torture in prison. After a period of silence, the broken and battered fanatics were hauled upon the scaffold to publicly repent before their execution. Perhaps their repentance wasn't entirely genuine, but their plans to riot are now in the past.
3	The guards arrested the most outspoken followers of the priests, and issued a public ultimatum. The priests were forced to choose between renouncing their beliefs, or having the deaths of their followers on their conscience. Backed into a corner, the fanatics "confessed" publicly that they were acting as spies for Galt – and then they were marched up to the gallows. The citizens who bore witness were convinced that they could never trust anyone except the Crown.

Culture

Margin	Effect
0	The local bards spread word of the impending upset, and gathered a crowd of loyal subjects to rough up anyone foolish enough to follow these priests. Passions grew too hot, and the situation spiraled out of control into a massive street fight.
1	The crowd surrounded the priests, called them names, and showered them with filth and dirt. However, they failed to shake the rioters' iron will. They continue their mutinous preaching, and every moment the possibility of a real riot draws closer.
2	Our loyal subjects found and battered the troublemakers who the bards had pointed out. The followers went home bruised and humiliated. Their spirit of defiance has been broken.
3	The crowd summoned by the bards blocked the priests' way, and demanded they leave the local lands alone. This proved more effective than insults and blows. The priests left to preach their message to other countries.

Espionage

Margin	Effect
0	The Minister's agents killed several of the priests' more outspoken followers, but their efforts backfired completely when they were immortalized as martyrs. More and more villagers unite under their rebellious banners. Nothing stands in the way of a full-scale riot.
1	The Minister's agents intimidated the priests, promising them a grim future if they continued to spread sedition. The priests, however, were unimpressed, and their ranks swell with new recruits. The threat grows by the day.
2	The Minister's assassins poisoned the food stores in the priests' lair. Their group was entirely eliminated, and the threat they posed no longer hangs over the barony.
3	The Minister's servants bribed one of the rebel followers, and sent him in to poison the food that the priests were distributing to the poor to secure their favor. Several vagabonds died in agony, and the angry mob lynched the foreigners in retaliation. Law has been restored, and the people now view foreign loudmouths and their ideas with wary suspicion.