21.24 Enlisting newly mature city/guildsmen into legions.

Depending on the popularity and status of your guild or city, untrained but willing folks from the cities and the villages will reveal themselves to you as willing and waiting to be enlisted in either the military or the fieldworker legions of a particular city or guild. To enlist the youngster, take the fledgling individual to either a barracks or a special dormitory wherein you may ENLIST MAN. If you have more than one suitable candidate, type ENLIST followed by the number you have with you, then MEN (e.g. ENLIST 5 MEN). City enlistments are always to barracks, joining the soldiery. Guild enlistments can be into barracks (for guild armies) or into dormitories (for guild fieldworkers). In the city it is the High Constables and their aides responsible for enlistments, while in guilds it is the Guildmaster and their captains or field-leaders.

You may wish to bolster the size of your own military with men whose allegience has been sworn elsewhere. In order to do this you must capture the man and take him to your barracks. There, in the presence of the military of your guild or city, the man may be conscripted. To do this type CONSCRIPT followed by the man you wish to bring into the fold. Conscripting a man costs one thousand pieces of gold and once conscripted, the man will be ready to be enlisted into a legion.

Some have begun to pass the rumour that it is possible to drug the fairly inexperienced young men using furglewort - and to take advantage of their bewildered state to lead them into enlistment. DRUG <man> will attempt to use furglewort on some hapless fellow and then, if all goes well, you may attempt the conscription without the need for a large purse of gold as companion. It is also possible to use sheer wealth to BRIBE individuals or, via powers available to those sufficiently high-ranking in cities and guilds, offer broad-based 'enticements' to persuade whole villages to give over their young unto the generous source of said enticements...

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