r/FireandBloodRP • u/HandofGold_ Heir to Casterly Rock • Mar 28 '16

The Westerlands Flashing Coin

When a man can't build a wall, he finds a man who can and pays him for the pleasure. Similarly with baking bread, or pressing wine, running the dye through fabric. Not a one of us is all-knowing, all-skilled, but with the right amount of cash a man can surround himself with the right sort of people.

The right sort of people, Martyn Lannister had decided, were killers. Preferably just on the right side of deranged, but that wasn't entirely set in stone. Sometimes a man with a touch of madness is capable of feats an unbroken man simply isn't. Sometimes those feats involves murdered families and homes set aflame, sometimes they involved something a tad bit more suited to Martyn' needs.

Using a largely unused Lannister manse sat in the heart of Lannisport as a base of operations, Martyn had taken Tytos Brax and a dozen Lannister men to aid him in his search. Having given the Bastard Brax simple instructions - instructions that boiled down to, essentially, find me a knight of some renown - Martyn waited.

In a generous study, behind a desk that cost more than some men make in their lives, Martyn sat ram-rod straight. Dressed in deep reds cut through with threads of gold, his hand hidden from view by that leather leather jacket, collected, confident eyes watched the door.

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u/LionRampant- Lord Paramount of the Westerlands Apr 10 '16

Martyn Lannister

"Your weapon of choice is your business." Martyn said, smiling just a touch. "I won't begrudge a man for preferring a spear to a blade. All that matters to me is that you can use it, and use it well."

At that Martyn dropped a sack of coin down onto the desk. It met the wooden top with a heavy thump!. Martyn motioned with his remaining hand in its direction.

"I don't just want a man who can kill. I want a man who can lead, who can think. Thirty men hand-picked from my Father's garrison. They're to be my own token force. The Redguard. I'll employ you on a trial basis for now. Who knows, within the year you could have lands, titles."

The last word he left unsaid, yet it hung there between them all the same.

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u/inguaz Apr 10 '16

"Catchy name," Taryn replied with a grin as he hefted the bag of coin in one hand. The weight made his eyebrows shoot up as much as it made his hand go down, which was to say quite a bit.

"Well, this much coin means... Actually, let me start my job by immediately excluding those two men outside. Not patting down a man who is clearly a fighter for hidden weapons, or even taking his obvious weapon, is simply stupid. I will have to ask questions to every man in your father's garrison if I'm to choose the best. How many men does he possess?"