Tax Collection (RP)

Tax Collection was a short and aborted roleplaying session on the FRPG, the phpBB2 version. The full Hungarian-language logs can be read here.

Plot
In Talon, Copperport and Grandfolk, recruiters were present, sent on behalf of the Emperor of Neressa, promising high payment for mercenaries who are willing to act as the empire's enforcers, collecting taxes in the empire's eastern spheres of influence, near its borders with Etrand. Why? Because Halflings have moved onto lands claimed by the empire (proclaiming their own state, the Community of Antanath), without the Emperor's permission. The Emperor has sent envoys to them three times already, but they still refused to pay taxes, as they continue to plant and harvest their crops on fields claimed by the Empire, hunt in valleys claimed by the Empire and trade within the official customs frontier of the Empire. As the Empire is waging a war on the West, together with its ally Clan Drmiah, it cannot spare any soldiers - so instead, they decided to hire some mercenaries from Etrand instead, any temporarily subordinate them to some Neressan officers.

The plan was to camp at the Needle Rock, then go from village to village with carts, collecting the Emperor's rightful property in the form either coin or crops, finally planning to arrive into the heart of the small "country", Antanath.

Out of the people who agree to the job, two names are relevant: Scatama Salorium, who is looking for a job, and thinks this'll be a good one; and Stephánus Tavilrond, a Knight from the Order of the Blood Red Light who was instructed by his master Gaius Frostang to disguise himself as a mercenary and infiltrate their group, and then report everything he saw, to make sure the Neressans won't end up taxing Etrandish villages too.

The roleplaying session didn't go too far in the plot before being aborted - all that happened was Stephánus praying in the chapel in Fort Redlight, only to be interrupted by Frostang, who gave him the mission, prompting him to travel to the Needle Rock, where he ran into an old friend: Scatama Salorium.