Divide and Conquer.

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Think of success as an enemy fort, and you are just one man.

You have to overthrow it but as quietly as you can.

No siege in the night is how you get made, you cannot vault the balustrades,

like Errol Flynn rescuing a handmaid, unless of course you want to get paid....


In a flurry of arrows straight to the face.


Research your castle, find a way in. Put up a corkboard full of needles and pins.

Do your homework, get intel, and pick off the grunts.

Make the current fort owner think of you as some meddlesome little man who keeps upsetting his plans.

Get your own rebel crew, convert some opposition. Take down the defences with daily attrition.

Some conquests take years, even into the decades.

Some conquests don't happen. And some even fail.


And thank you for helping me. Now here's the thing; 

I've spotted a weak wall just off the west-wing......

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