Travel to treat with your liege

[zijistark]

Again, more interactive-immediate character interaction style.

You've got a decision to travel to your liege's court and treat with him (about "something"). The interaction, I imagine, would have many possible twists and random dialogue turns, sometimes leaving you with a glad, loyal heart, others with a spurned, underappreciated one.

[Variable support opens up a lot more opportunities here for vassal-liege relationship building over time. I imagine the "treat with liege" event chain could become very, very complex w/ relationship-building.]

This gives you a chance to air grievances directly, pledge definite troops to your liege's defensive or offensive campaigns (effectively taking one from the, IMHO, very under-executed Pledge Mod) in the form of a retinue that expires after a certain period of time (compensated by a special building in your capital that extracts roughly equivalent levy capabilities from you but allows your liege to gather pledges from loyalists and take action with them)-- in exchange for a promise, simply share dinner and stories of common battles, be ridiculed for wasting his time, the liege may bring up a wedding to his daughter, etc.

While lieges can't easily treat with their vassals except in group settings (e.g., AF2), vassals can certainly treat with their lieges.