I screwed up!

I was having a great time, listening to all the tales as we traveled to Canterbury, when I was asked to give a story by the host. I asked just for something to eat and drink. Next thing I know, I was telling everyone how greedy I am and how I'm such a hypocrite. I don't know what came over me! My reputation will be ruined, no one will ever buy a pardon again, and I'll be forced to live on the alms of a Friar!

At the inn, preparing to go

I'm waiting here, at the Tabard, where I think I recognize some of the pilgrims here. There's the Summoner (whose skin treatments still don't seem to work since I last saw him), and I think I recognize that parson and his brother (I may have given a sermon at their community). I heard about some kind of story contest on the way down, maybe I'll have a chance to give my latest speech.

A pilgrammage to Canterbury

For a long time now, I've been planning a trip to Canterbury. It seems I finally have freed up some room in my busy schedule to go in April, just when it starts to rain. First, I going to go to an inn named the Tabard, where I plan to meet up with about thirty other people. By the way, I finished the sermon. After they set out, they meet this old man who, after a dialogue, tells them that they can find Death underneath a nearby tree. Instead of Death, they find a pile of gold coins. They, having decided to keep the coins, send one of the three into town to buy some food and drink. While the third is away, the other two hatch a plan to kill the third so they would each get more. As they were plotting, the other drunkard creates his own plan to poison the wine of the other two. When he returns to the two others, they kill him. Tired, they then drink from the poisoned wine, and then die themselves.

My official theme

I've come up with the perfect quote for all my sermons. I looked into some Latin (I know a Summoner who knows some) and found a perfect saying: "Radix malorum est cupiditus". "The root of all evil is greed". It fits perfectly with my sermons. Speaking of sermons, I'm in the middle of working on one. I start with several references to people who were punished for greed, and then halfway through I start telling a story. It's about three drunkards who hear about a man who was "killed by the thief named Death" and set out to find and kill this "Death". That's all I have now, but I have an idea of how to tie it in with greed.

Some ideas for inducing guilt

I think I might be able to even further my techniques for guilt-tripping. Here are a few:

1.  It looks like many people have a hidden feeling of avarice. I think that if i give sermons on the horrors and evils of greed, I'd make the most money.
2. I've seen a lot of people put faith in the bones of saints. I know those are expensive (and therefore I wouldn't make much money off of them) but the ignorant people don't need to know that this bone of Saint "Pollus" is really just a bone of the piece of chicken I had last night.
3. I noticed that when I throw in a lot of biblical references, it really makes the crowd emotional. I think that it would be a good idea to start each sermon with a slew of them that relate to my topic.

Just gave my first sermon

I have just given my first sermon, and already am seeing the cash flow in. It seems that the parson here is very poor, and that he doesn't even make in a month as much I did from this one sermon.

Officially a pardoner.

I just received an official writ from the Archbishop of England to give pardons. I will now be able to travel from parish to parish to give sermons and "inspire" people to get pardons- at a meager cost. I hope this trade will be profitable and allow me to accumulate wealth. I already have some good ideas for a sermon about greed, and I am looking to give my first speech in a few days.