I won't try and be cynical or ironic or take something from a post and twist it or throw in a pun.

Diplomacy when you have Blunty and Koenen killing our men in our city isn't likely to find much sympathy. And I'm not going to get into a who-did-what-first debate because I'm yet to see one posted on this board where the reply is \"oh yeah, forgot about that time, you're right, I did start it\".

Clearly Blunty's fascination with our find city continues to see her hanging around in our street corners and accosting our poor menfolk. I've saw how she handles rejection first hand and can only conclude that our men are not sufficiently addled with the finest whiskey the Wheatsheaf has to offer to succumb to her advances.

What Koenen finds so fascinating is a mystery to me. Unless he's trying to make amorous advances towards our men who reject Blunty? Dunno, is all very strange.

But if you have two captains of your fine city on a personal war against our city, and one of them has the responsibility of being in command of your city troops then you can't really be surprised that your call for sanity and reason is being met with scepticism.

What would impress me is if you were to call them both to heel to allow you to conduct talks sensibly and not against a backdrop of hostility. That would allow you to fulfil your duties with an air of authority and I for one would sit up and listen.

Clansman Grymauch, Paladin of Springdale

PS Think some cycnicism might have crept in there, it's the kilt you know, all that freedom means that you can't hide things, you tell it how you see it

Written by my hand on the 13th of Springflower, in the year 1128.