The Big Five: The Goodmen

Welcome to the Goodmen, ladies and gents. You've all been individually recruited for one reason or another. Maybe you impressed one of our members. Maybe you received a good word from many people for some of the things you've done. Maybe you were a veteran like our founders. You found yourself unfit for service or decided that military life isn't for you. Any of those reasons and more are a damn fine reason to join us. I'm Rulf Herboch, Veteran Pikeman. I'll be showing you the ropes today and for the next few weeks before I let you start your duties. Yes, the lot of you will be called by your skill. I'm skilled with polearms. Spears, pikes, halberds, glaives, you name it. Hence the name Pikeman Herboch. You are granted such a name at the end of your training by yours truly. Now then, twenty push-ups. Go on, then. While you struggle or breeze through our exercises, I'm going to give you our three-part code. If you forget it after I speak it, that's another twenty. Good? Good.   First, don't ever break the law to suit your own needs. As said by his majesty, King Gentrovich III, we are merely an extension of The Bulwark. Second, and what I think to be the most important rule, treat citizens the way you would want to be treated. Unless a bugger is swinging around a dirk and slashing holes in the air, most people tend to be somewhat reasonable. The best way to get someone to work with you is to work with them. Treat them like they're a person with feelings. You have feelings. So do they. Third. Never get yourself in over your head. Mark me, I and no one other Goodmen will ever expect you to handle a dire situation all by yourself. You not only have us, you are also more than entitled to ask the Bulwark's men for assistance.   Now then, off your arses and give me a summary of what I just said.