epidemiology | PLAYER PLOT ★ STORM THE CASTLE

THE CASTLE ( NOV 7 )

Our resident warrior princess, Kidagakash Nedakh, has formulated a plan to investigate the castle and speak with the royals. (The OOC plotting post can be found here.) Now, it's time to put it into action.

The castle itself is huge. From the outside, you can see a beautiful garden, a pond, and a statue commemorating Odette. You can also see several guards, some more invested in their job than others. A few are stony-faced, menacing men with looks that could kill. A couple just look like they'd appreciate a pretty girl or interesting guy to liven up their boring day.

On the inside, all the halls look different, yet the same — different pieces of art, different wall fixtures, but everything else is identical. There's many portraits of the king and his late wife on the walls, sparkling chandeliers, and servants scurrying around. Odette's pale, smiling face and cascading blonde locks look somewhat familiar, but that might just be because of all the statues of her likeness around the city.

The castle has pretty much every room you'd expect a castle to have. A library, a wine cellar, a dining hall, etc. Within them, characters can expect to find various things of interest — there are many books, fancy stationery, even some valuable coins if you look hard enough. There's also many letters to be found detailing the situation in Chantes; of course, there's also plenty of letters on far less official business. Some of them have quite steamy imagery.

There are plenty of servants milling about inside the castle and out in the gardens. In the dining hall and their chambers are several of Chantes' most important nobles. And then, of course, there's you.

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( it's true that if Kida can get information straight from the source, it'd likely be more direct than slipping around a castle looking through errant papers. still, considering the sheer number of them that had been willing to risk investigating, hopefully they could come up with more than a few errant tidbits.

though at the moment, it wasn't looking good. he sifts through papers and notes and it mostly looks like studies on books that have already been tucked away again and a drawing of what seems to be a chicken under a tree? wonder what that's about...

he's not so distracted that he doesn't see the magic, though. he's not an immense fan of magic, considering how he's seen it used, but he tries not to make an assumption without proper knowledge. )

Anything in particular you're looking for?

Hm ... lessee ... [ Loki's fingers flicker, feather light, among the fluttering pages. ] Isn't that the question of the hour?

We're all looking for something. [ but he pauses and looks up, glancing over his shoulder at him. ] There's a divine sort of thing going on, isn't there? The whole sun thing, the sacrifices, the monotheism ...

Let's go with that.

Think they've got a book on that?

( it sounds like a joke (maybe it is a little), but he's mostly serious. he's seen all sorts of books, and ridiculous ones at that. can you guess the sort of books that end up in the evil queen's library? Graham doesn't have to, because he's seen them. )

Might not be in here, if they have one.

( personal quarters, a study, something like that. might be a better bet. )

Well, we can't exactly google it.

So, most likely. If someone's worshipping it, usually there's records, especially if it's significant. There are oral traditions too but ...[ Loki's waving his fingers like he's dismissing it, not because it's absurd, but it would be a bit to explain. it hits a bit close to home, between written myth and oral ones. he's been at the mercy of both. ]

If it's not here, then someone else is interested, and that's curious in its own right. What's not here is just as telling as what is.

[ he finds a page, dragging a dark nailed finger along some text to read. ]

Hmm ...

( the concept of deities wasn't a pressing one in Misthaven. even after being taken on by Regina, the huntsman hadn't run into many. Storybrooke was different, Graham supposed his curse identity was vaguely catholic, but that wasn't a distinction that remained anymore. he has a vague understanding of religion, enough that he doesn't need to press for more information.

just goes back to his own rifling, finding nothing particular of note. the hmm draws his attention slightly, though he doesn't look up from some papers spread over the desk. looked like an attempt at improving penmanship. same letters over and over. )

Find something?

[ Loki snaps the book shut and hands it to him. ]

Myths from another time. It seems that Chantes wasn't always the picture of monotheism.

[ says the polytheistic deity.

Snorri's Edda had been the source of the only surviving written document of the Norse epochs far after Christianity had become the main religion of Iceland. it left the perception of stories a little skewed of what they were before. and this? it seemed like something of the same. he doesn't know the dates, he can't pinpoint it, but he wonders just how much of the myth and legend had been written after the conception of Ydite. ]

Religions change, cities change, I suppose this place did too.

There is not much time cannot change.

( even speaking as a man that has been cursed not to age for twenty-eight years, he knows how cruel time can be. how life can bend and flow with the progression of time. it doesn't surprise him that this place is the same. it's not easy to say how long a world is existed, on first arrival; harder yet when it is lacking a consistent and clear transcription of events. )

I'm not sure how that helps, but it can't hurt either.

[ Loki, despite being a chaotic deity, a god of change, he turns his head to him and looks dubious. ]

There are some things that people would rather see the same. They get caught in familiarity, and are the same thing over and over and over again. That's why there are rebellions, to keep that sort of thing in check.

[ perhaps he got a little bit too impassioned about that one. he rethinks himself there, poking out his lower lip in a mock pout. there's a closed eye and a sigh. ]

We'd be able to check this Ydite thing. If there's something before him, well, that may mean that this Ydite doesn't exist at all. Or is a bit more "hands off" when it comes to the whole blotting out the sun thing.

( as a guy that was literally stuck in the same day for about thirty years, he definitely has little fondness for cylical motions. still, while Loki isn't exactly wrong, it's safe to say he isn't entirely right either. )

And sometimes they fight for change as well.

( he's seen it happen before, no matter how easy it was for humans to get content with a pattern. the huntsman had been more wild than anything, he followed nature and lived day to day. Graham hasn't found the medium between the man he was and who the curse told him to be yet, but either way, he'd seen enough of time to know things could change all too easily, whether they were desired or not.

he considers the idea, and it doesn't seem entirely unplausible. for him most gods are made up, though perhaps he's wise not to mention that. )

Interesting. I didn't know they'd blamed the disappearance of the sun on their god.

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