Southern Glacia, Definitely Not Sherwood Forest, Monday

[blondecanary]

"So, it's a tax scam. With highway robbers," Dinah summed up after their crew of seven had re-assembled after a bit of snooping around. "The Province Queen's men collect food and money for the tithe, then on the way back to their estate,they get robbed by highwaymen. Then the Queen's right-hand men -- the Steward and chief Man-at-Arms-- make the

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[heromaniac]

Momoko growled. "Sounds like a weird variation of the protection racket. You pay for protection and then have to pay again when they can't protect themselves."

Kirt shook his head. "Are we sure that the Queen even knows this?"

Mark didn't look up from where he was checking his equipment. "I didn't get any information about the actual Queen except that it's not being stopped."

[blondecanary]

"So if she does know it, we need to embarrass her with it. If she doesn't, we need to make it so public that she has to come down on the perpetrators." Dinah frowned. "There might even be rumors that it's Karla doing this, from some of the side-eyes I was getting in the taverns."

Samantha looked thoughtful. "We need to catch them in the act."

"The next payment -- next *secondary* payment -- is supposed to leave this evening," Denys said, his voice quiet.

[heromaniac]

"So let's take it?" Ulrich reached over with a tree branch into Mark's pile of ropes, stirring them.

Mark gave a small annoyed growl and shoved at Ulrich's shoulder, pushing him over. "How will taking the tithes help anyone?"

[blondecanary]

"Boys." That was Samantha. They both straightened while trying not to laugh.

"If we take them and the money-- straight to the Queen... maybe with as much of an entourage from the villages as possible, so they can make their case that it wasn't them? That sound do-able?" Dinah paused. "Of course, that's assuming there aren't so many that we can't take them."