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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You're right. We need to regroup. [Power in numbers. But she looks back up at the man, offering a small smile.]
I don't think I caught your name. I'm Pearl.
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Muneshige Tachibana. It's a pleasure, even under these circumstances.
[But it'd certainly be more of a pleasure without them, so he's quick to keep his attention where it counts. Better to get them out of there and back to the group that much faster.]
If I cut you a path, how fast are you up to moving through it?
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Yes, I can make my way through after you. Don't you worry. I've been through worse. [She says with a bittersweet smile. This was nothing compared to what she experienced in the past.]
Lead the way.
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[Which is 500% joking and his tone strongly suggests as much, because if she doesn't keep up he'll either slow down or turn this boat around, as necessary.
He moves his shield to cover directly in front of him, spends a three-count watching the guards for a suitable opening, and -]
Now!
[- takes the odd sword swipe or elbow strike at anyone who's too close to the sides for comfort as he charges forward, but mostly, he plows right into them shield-first and goes for the stun.]
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[She smiles wider as she prepares her stance, bending her knees and ready to go on his signal as she settles behind him a few feet.
And there it is! Pearl follows right behind him, watching as guards tumble away from his massive shield in a daze. The Gem could see that some of them were scrambling to get back up again, coming in from behind. Not on her watch.
She keeps herself running, but raises her spear high in the air, striking their helmets, and sending them to an unconscious heap to the ground.]
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Hopefully everyone else has been managing to behave themselves in the meantime.]
Around the corner, further down the hall - there still ought to be some of ours there.
[Unless they've also been driven back in the meantime, in which case...they'll have to run a bit further. They got this.]