15th August 1574
"This proposition… To be honest, sir, I find it quite troublesome to see the source of your confidence in that matter. But since this is your wish, I'm willing to put it under vote at the later time. With that said, let's move on to the simpler topic. Would you mind explaining to us, in fairly simple words, what is that strange and loud contraption that you used to arrive in the capital?"
With the hard part of today's meeting out of the way, now it was time to actually bring some heavy guns on my own. Obviously, rather than storming this place with the few men that I brough with me, I was going to use this automated carriage of mine as nothing else but bargaining chip, aiming at harnessing some favours with the senators!