Is there an official report concerning the amount of gold being sent as a tithe? I assume we can alter it ourselves and Felix can make up for it out of his own pocket down the line.

'Defense of the Church', remember? I think we can get them to count the tithes we distribute directly to the patriarchs in with the rest of it. Or anyway, Felix can talk them into it.

It's pretty close to historic rates. Three to five times the expected Elene treasury all fits in the back of a single truck and still allows that truck to accelerate in a way that no horse-drawn cart can hope to match.

The gold is accompanied by an explanatory letter, but Felix (or anyone else) can easily write his own letter to replace it with.

I hope they packed the gold in plain brown wrappers...

I'm just waiting on Nate to tell us we have a whole lot more spending potential than previously thought. Can I go ahead and assume we're filled in?

Sorry,Nate's still in shock.

Are those lines the whole text, or just the executive summary?

That would be the summary.

I wonder if there's a takeout kebab place that delivers to the basilica. They'd do land office business right about now.

I don't think the Elenes have anyplace that does delivery yet...

We should invent delivery. Though we'd have to invent the telephone first, and convince enough people to buy one that the delivery model is sustainable.

Just put that on Felix's 50 Mile long to-do list. ;-)

Felix is but one man with ambition great enough he can't achieve it all in one measly lifetime.

We could do delivery based on messengers and previous orders, I suppose. Before we shove the poor Elenes backwards through the industrial revolution.

Introduce Elenes to the wonders of convection ovens and pressure cookers, win their love through pulled manticore.