[Argent, Asherias, Mirielle- URGENT: Tlonsiyyan deal, CC: Bashir]

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From:
Professor Jamileh Attar
Ibram's Fine Leathers and Cobbler, Attic.
corner of Qadira street / market square
(temporary correspondence address)


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To:
Asherias Myl, Argent Argyris, Mirielle Rosseau
Palatial Pyramid


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A/A/M,
I hope this letter finds you well.

I need to know ASAP the following:
- monetary budget for the deal itself
- water budget
- monetary budget for the negotiation gifts et cetera, buying them a 1st Edition Kusatma model would cement the deal surely, but it's 30,000.


.. that I am operating with for Plan B which is the Tlonsiyyan deal for, in (likely) this order of priority:

- fire-hazard protective equipment for obvious reasons - tarps, and other stuff.
- respirators and masks to prevent us from suffocating from toxic fumes
- crates of baublium for powering the mobile Shade as we go, we're gonna need a lot of it.
- grenades for our war-engineers and sappers
- other stuff

I also need to know a rough estimate of our numbers- troops, and the camp followers.

And by ASAP, I mean by the end of the day.

Best regards,
Jamileh Attar

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[big metal rod]

Vizier,

Your position does not technically afford you any legal authority to treat with our allies on behalf of Ephia's Well.  You have no official entitlement to these figures or sums.

Please ensure the Deputy Chief Scribe takes point here.  You are free to assist him. 

Warmly,
Argent Argyris

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Then either make yourselves more present, or make your Prelates more present, neither the War, nor the Opportunity, waits for you.

Mirielle will send you the bill for preventing thousands of people from dying to environmental problems.


Best regards,
Jamileh Attar

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[big metal rod]

Vizier,

I have already signed off on the release of the funds, raised at my discretion by not caving to the incessant whining of the League of White.  I am sorry to disappoint you, but I am not so wantonly incompetent nor corrupt as to put the dispensation of our war chest in the hands of anyone but the Legates. 

The Voice Tax will be preventing thousands of people from dying to environmental problems, which is of course the purpose of keeping it high.   

Please do not disgrace your position, title, the Sultan, and the Pyramid by wasting papyrus on extraneous demands and ultimatums.  An official of the government should behave with more dignity.

You are wiser than to stomp your feet and roll your eyes when the measure of your reach is defined, Jamileh.  You ensured the Deputy Chief Scribe was appraised, he raised the need to us, and now we have our acquisition.

You have done well.  Stop spoiling it and enjoy that.

Warmly,
Argent Argyris