On my way out of Trinsic to travel home i came across a group of people at the west "gate" which is really a bridge not a gate at all, anyway in this group i spotted the chef Stewan who is in our books and under our protection, i decided it was time for him to pay up a few more coins.
So i went away got disguised and then returned to town, i watched the group thinking up an angle on how to seperate him, when i remembered that he had just recently bought a new shipment of ribs, that was my angle thats what i needed food!
I asked him nicely if he would cook me some ribs, and told him that i preferred them cooked in an oven rather than on a camp fire so we both set off to the cooks in trinsic, where he started to prepare the food for me.
I decided the protection money he would pay, would be the amount he would charge me for the food, simply so i could mock him a little too, so i enquired on the cost of such.. extravagant food, and obviously asked if i may taste the food before i hand over the payment again, for mocking purposes.
So we waited for the meat to cook, and just as he had put it out to cool, disaster struck, A GUARD! this was going to be a problem, but luckily she was just checking in on her way home to rest, she also saw nothing suspicious, and left me to it. Had i of simply demanded money off him without asking him to cook the food, then the chances are she would have walked in whilst i was threatening him, and that would not have been good.
Luckily though it wasn't, i tasted the food and it was rather good however i did not let him know this i don't want him thinking he is good at something just before i take his money off him.
As i demanded the gold he told me that the brigands had put them under his protection, trying to get me to back off, so i revealed to him that i was there to collect his protection money he seemed shocked, so i simply gave him no choice.
What choice did he have but to hand over the gold?
More gold for the coffers and a peasant reminded what protection means, and costs.