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5/29/2025, 9:53:44 PM
The sack of a town is never a fair sight.

Though you yourself have never been in a great siege, you've seen enough of the smaller ones to know it is a grisly, if profitable business, and knowing Viscount Alessandro's intent to keep the "good will" of the populace, you'd do well to avoid such a deed.

Wasting no time, you immediately have your men dispatch a rider south and begin planting camp to "watch out for hostile forces". In truth, you've simply need to keep them busy. Calling for captain Gautier, the leader of your second skirmish troop and a Montcherian - the Lilean people from whom your family descends. Knowing him to be a well-disciplined man, you tell him to lead on half of your forces to descend upon Largo and take their riches.

Under his command, Gautier rode upon the town. His first targets, of course, is the Podestá's manor - bursting through the doors, his men catch what little guards had been there attempting to sneak the valuables outside and easily cut them down - though the Podestá himself is nowhere to be seen.

Though they had perhaps hoped their forces would be able to hold you out, the defeat of the garrison had thrown the town into disarray. Civilians, hanging on to whatever could, fled in panic as your horsemen rode on, bursting into the homes of the folk to take anything of value. Those who resisted were killed without mercy, and only the tight fist of the captain did stop the sack from turning into a bloody festival of rape and burning. Many more of the folk of Largo, in an attempt to escape, jump into the sea, swimming around the area where the guardtowers met the end of the beach.

Nevertheless, the sack is a quick as it is efficient - though not without losses. At least four further skimishers were lost to desperate attacks from the odd villager with a gun or spear attacking an unsuspecting soldier rummaging through their house. In the end, however, your men only take a little over two hours to go over the town, small as it was.

Riches laid out on the ground, your officers congregate in the town square, and prepare for the duty of dividing the plunder.

When the time finally came to count the bounty you had received, it pleased you well to hear that you had acquired just over 4500 Spadas - or just over 4200 Imperii, if your memory served you right, were left to distribute amidst your high officers. It was not all in money, of course - indeed, most of the wealth was found in products such as rolls of fabric, barrels of fine wine, jewelries and other trade goods - but you had little doubt they would fetch such a price.