The King strides into the Conseil, still wearing his armour.

Mes Seigneurs, I'm glad to see how you've stood up to face the threat of the Saint Empire preying on our lands. By fighting them, we fight for God.

Congratulations, Alain for your good work at Caernavon and you also, Hugues for your heroic conduct at Stauffen.

Sieur Lesueur's proposal is sound. In my opinion we should try and get both Angers and Caen in exchange for Caernavon and Stauffen. It will perhaps my cousin Guillaume's hand in joining us against the soon-to-be excommunicated Emperor.

Your mission, then, Alain will be to seize Dublin and use it as a trading item for Bordeaux. We would have then managed to kick the English out of France, leaving us to concentrate on fighting the Reich.

I will ask the Order men to join me in the North to defend Bruges or assault Antwerp, whichever makes the msot sense strategically, the reports from our scouts have nopt yet reached me (OOC : no look at the save yet).

Finally, while I do not like the idea of duels among the nobles of France, I think sieur de Rethel has committed a grave sin against the honour of the Prince, one that will surely be corrected by Sieur de Perronne. I would only ask that the duel not be to the death, as I know sieur de Rethel to have a deathwish for reasons I cannot entirely fathom. It is true thta he has incurred my displeasure but I hold him no grudge and his quick recovery is to his credit. Nevertheless, since then, he is but the shadow of the man he was before. I call upon your mercy Sieur de Peronne and yours as well Louis...

These were the words of a madman... Please take this into consideration.

As to unearthing the traitor among our midst, I fear that the actions of another Order man has worked against us... I was following the men from the companies that had tried to capture me at Reims, hoping they would lead me to the culprit, but Sieur de Neufville's intervention lay this plan to ruin...