[DOW] Words are Wind, War is Winter.

[Darth Ataxia]

King Ataxia sat upon the throne in the grand hall of Winterfell. He and his Council had been listening to petitions and requests throughout the morning and it was close to midday meal. As the final petitioner left the hall, Ataxia stood up and stretched.

“Well gents, let’s eat shall we?” He said before taking a few short steps to a table with lunch laid out for him and his council. As they began eating, a courtier came into the hall.

“Sorry to disturb you my King, we’ve just received a diplomat from Carthage claiming to be here regarding our investment in our overseas bank. I thought it may be prudent to receive them now before the hunt this afternoon.”

Ataxia sighed and put down the turkey leg he had been gnawing on. Disturbing a meal was never great, but the bank negotiations had been ongoing for over half a year at this point and he and his Council had been relying on these funds to further prepare for winter.

“Show him in and let’s hope he brought a chest of gold with him.” Ataxia ordered. The courtier bowed and went toward the hall entrance to retrieve the diplomat. “Hobbes, please go get our Carthaginian friend some bread and salt.” Hobbes got up and exited to the kitchens. The doors to the great hall opened and the courtier reentered with the Carthaginian diplomat. He halted at the foot of the table and stood quietly, unbowed.

Hobbes reentered with a plate containing a loaf of bread and a small bowl of salt. He walked up to the diplomat and offered up the plate. “Welcome, to Winterfell friend.” 

The diplomat looked at the plate but made no move to partake. Hobbes glanced toward Ataxia with a raised eyebrow.

“We have considered Carthage friends for many years, please let us grant you the guest right.” Samani said

The diplomat took in a deep breath and grabbed the bread and took a bite of it before grabbing a pinch of salt and placing it on his tongue. Ataxia smiled and then sat down to resume eating. The other members of his council did the same.

“Please, take a seat and let us know what news you bring. I would hope there is a chest accompanying you.”

The diplomat grimaced. “I’m afraid not, your Majesty. I bring no chest, only a note from the honorable men of Carthage.” He reached into his tunic, pulled out a scroll, unrolled it, skimmed it and then looked up to Ataxia.

“Carthage disagrees that there was an agreement to pay eight billion gold dragons. ‘Despite the current leadership of Carthage and that of the Foundation Bank offering the amount with subsequent assurance of payment, we decline to pay you the previously agreed amount.’”

“That is unacceptable. The “honorable” men of Carthage decline to provide us payment, they decline to provide our dividends, they decline to stand by their word and intend to do what? Ataxia said 

“They want you to offer some amount less than what the shares are worth, your Majesty. From what the scroll reads, preferably something along the lines of two point six billion gold dragons.”

Revan spoke up. “They want us to throw away all of our gains and take back our original investment. That will allow them to pocket the work that our capital did for the bank.”

The diplomat rolled the scroll and placed it back in his tunic. “That is correct and since you’re on the other side of the ocean, they fully expect you to come to this agreement.”

“The issue, ser, is that we already had an agreement. Your organization gave your word. You can’t just back out on it and expect nothing of consequence to happen.” Ataxia said, rising from his seat. 

The diplomat reached into his tunic again. “Your majesty, we know that nothing will happen. The North moves slowly or not at all. We could get away with murder.” he said with a grin before whipping his hand out of his tunic and launching a dagger towards King Ataxia.

Ataxia jerked his head to the side in the nick of time. Instead of impaling itself in his head, it cut a long gash along his cheek. Blood spurted from the wound as Hobbes leapt up from his seat and grabbed a carving fork from the roast on the table. The diplomat turned and began to run towards the entrance of the hall but Hobbes was faster. Even as the guards lowered their spears and prepared to stop the would be assassin from leaving he caught up, pounced as if he were a tiger and tackled the man to the ground. Without so much as a pause to offer him mercy he stabbed the fork into the man’s neck. Blood spurted across the stone floor as the man’s life drained from the gaping wound in his throat. Hobbes stood up as the man continued his death throes. King Ataxia was holding a cloth to his cheek that was slowly turning red with blood.

“Call the banners. Have them meet us with all the men they can muster at White Harbor.” He said. “From there we set sail across the narrow sea to pay Carthage a visit.”

Introduction

After nearly eleven months of negotiation, stonewalling, and back tracking on agreements, House Stark has no further recourse but to declare war on Carthago for their handling, mismanagement, antipathy, and general hostility regarding the paying out of House Stark’s investment and shares in The Foundation Bank. All attempts to remedy this have been exhausted and House Stark has been more than patient throughout this ordeal. This matter could have been and was nearly resolved but for Carthago backing out on their word. We have been delayed at every juncture of improvement only to be set back to stage one. We thank TFP for attempting to patch things up and try to assist in ensuring a solution is reached but our patience is at an end and the bill has come due. By order of Darth Ataxia, the King in the North, House Stark and her banners declare war on Carthago until satisfaction is received. Detailed reasoning is laid out below in the linked Statement of Facts.

Statement of Facts

Herein lies a timeline with supporting screenshots. To the best of our knowledge and research everything is accurate. Should one of the picture links fail to work due to a permission error, please let us know.

Claims (casus bellis)

1. CTO knowingly backed out on the agreement between CTO and HS regarding the 8 billion paid over 8 months that was agreed to on February 8, 2023, using their newfound political capital and membership from the TDR absorption to attempt to leverage a lower price than what was agreed to.
2.  CTO has willfully conducted business off the books and therefore misallocated funds. OR
3. CTO has purposefully stolen the money in the Foundation, possibly prior to the disbandment of OWR, with no intention of returning it to the Stakeholders and Shareholders.
4. CTO, through Krampus, has mismanaged The Foundation generally through lack of staff, not updating documents, policies, or channels, not providing systems for Stakeholders to safely and adequately withdraw their investments, and not providing a system for Stakeholders or their representatives to remove a CEO who is not operating in the best practices for the benefit of the business. 
5. CTO has refused to allow other Stakeholders to view bank documents that they have a right to access or would show that CTO has been conducting business in a foul fashion under the excuse that HS was looking to divest from the bank, ignoring the fact that HS had not yet divested from the bank.
6. CTO has refused to pay dividends that were requested under the excuse that HS was looking to divest from the bank, ignoring the fact that HS had not yet divested from the bank and after paying dividends for several months after HS made it known they would be looking to cash out.
7. By simply dissolving OWR’s shares and adding their money to The Foundation itself, CTO de facto gave themselves an additional 8.4 billion dollars due to holding sole control of the funds.
8. CTO has continually treated HS as a shareholder throughout the process using the associated lower status to offer original share ppu rather than treating them as an equal stakeholder in the business.

TLDR:

House Stark declareS war on Carthago for backing out on an agreement to pay HS a sum of money for their stake in their shared business as well as few related secondary claims.

[Zygon]

[Darth Revan]

The fact that I had to dig up my forum account is a far worse CB. 

Winter is here. 

o/ HS

[darkblade]

 

[Unlimited]

Imagine going to war over bank drama hahahhaha

[-Nero-]

[dog dawg cat]

[KindaEpicMoah]

TL;DR Banks are idiotic 

[Krampus]

 

[CaesarGorandius]

[Velyni Vas]

THIS. IS. A. CB. 
 

Have fun friends! Kudos on the post and structure.

[Tactical Eclipse]

why didnt you just call us out in public? it seemed to work for coven quite well

[Tartarus]

Just now, Unlimited said:

Imagine going to war over bank drama hahahhaha

[Sketchy]

Just now, Tactical Eclipse said:

why didnt you just call us out in public? it seemed to work for coven quite well

Now I could be wrong, this is a long shot, a real wild theory you might say, but I think they just did that, literally in the post, right above.

Hope this helped.

[Unlimited]

https://web.toolsandstats.com/

[Tartarus]

Just now, Sketchy said:

Now I could be wrong, this is a long shot, a real wild theory you might say, but I think they just did that, literally in the post, right above.

Hope this helped.

They would be very offended if they could comprehend that

[Bobert]

kinda weird seeing two former allies fighting over my money ._.

[KindaEpicMoah]

Quote

This offer was reiterated in a direct message from the CEO to Darth Ataxia on May 18, 2018.

@Krampusconfirmed to be a time traveler? 

[His Holy Decagon]

Very well written, props on the CB!

(You got help from ChatGPT, didn't you?!?! Kidding)

[Ducc Zucc]

Nexsucks

[Darth Ataxia]

14 minutes ago, His Holy Decagon said:

Very well written, props on the CB!

(You got help from ChatGPT, didn't you?!?! Kidding)

I would never.

 

[Denison]

28 minutes ago, Tartarus said:

F for AZIZ

[SirBeansTheIII]

Man this just makes me believe that banks aren’t good thing to invest in

[Indger]

Good. Goodluck!

[Tiberius Aurion]

@Darth Ataxia

The spirit of GRRM definitely is in your heart. I profusely enjoyed reading this and did not expect to see guest right be violated and you to be attacked with a fork lol. 

Hopefully House Stark is able get everything resolved. Rome wishes you well in your fight. This was a very well written DoW.