Taxes and Turmoil

We may have to collect a tax to fill our coffers.

Choices and Outcomes

Decision	Choose	Effect
Option 1	Your money or your life!	It feels like we are robbing our own people, which doesn’t sit well with us (or them…), but it had to be done. Our coffers have been filled, but blood has been spilled.
Option 2	Ask for a reasonable amount	We hope a smaller tax will be better accepted by our people, even if it doesn’t fully resolve our issues. While our actions didn’t create unrest, we lost our Crew’s respect.
Option 3	Taxes are not the answer	Taxing people is the kind of thing the Crown would do. As a great pirate once said, “they rob the poor under the cover of law, we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.” If we need Coin, we’ll take it from rich merchants and corrupt aristocrats.

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