# A Partnership with the Horse Clans

Valmora · Year 412 of the Lantern Calendar · a dilemma from [Be a CEO](https://mantar.io/beaceo)

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**The dilemma.** The Tal clan of the steppe offers to share its grazing grounds and remounts with your caravans, in exchange for iron at a fair price. Every house in Aldheim says the clans cannot be trusted, and the court frowns on the idea.

## Options and what happens

- **Seal the pact by the clan's custom (600 cr in iron).** (bold: d20 + adviser skill against 13)
  - Succeeds: Clan riders now meet your wagons at every ford. Nobody robs a caravan the Tal call kin.
  - Fails: A rival clan raids the Tal that winter and your iron goes to war. The court says it warned you.
- **Refuse, and tell the court you refused.** (certain): The court approves. The Tal ride away and do not offer again.
- **Leave the offer unanswered.** (certain): Silence is an answer too. The clans take it as an insult.

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