Synopsis
To stay alive, the plan was simple: be a lord the people loved but one too useless to threaten anyone. Hand out gifts, keep the head down, stay harmless.
Then things started going sideways.
"Please stay seated, my lord. Your steward will take care of it."
"You and no one else is my liege!"
"They're coming to destroy everything we've built — wipe them out!!!"
"For our lord's glory!!!"
"We march until he sits on the emperor's throne!!!!!"
Somehow, despite everything, none of it was going according to plan.
