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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Did he think she couldn't fight? Was that it? She makes it onto one knee, glaring up at his back, eyes like daggers.]
What was that for?!
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[Ban gave Pearl an idle little sneer before vanishing--landing behind the soldiers with what looked to be a single step. His four-sectioned staff wove a tapestry of slashes, threatening to murder a great number of soldiers all in an instant. He could have taken off heads--even extracted hearts despite that speed. Instead, right besides Pearl, he dropped a massive pile of buckles. In the next step, he was back besides Pearl, his weapon already stuffed back into the cloth of its holder.
The soldiers, stunned, watched as their armor fell into tatters, breastplates, leg-plates and the like falling to the ground as their buckles were all stolen at once.]
'Cause, when people know you can do this-- they expect you to do it all the time.
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The guards were scrambling to keep their armor up and on, looking like tattered messes. For a moment, Pearl is stunned before she looks up at Ban. This man, who seemed to be so sluggish before, just dealt with a hefty handful of men in an instant. Without even killing them with that deadly speed of his. Just. Stealing their buckles. As if it were nothing.
Pearl swallows thickly, feeling herself suddenly dwarfed in comparison to him.]
That... That was amazing....
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[When the expectation of his abilities came, Ban was left with a few idling thoughts. Holy Knights were meant to be strong so they could eliminate threats to their kingdoms. There was rarely talk of mercy among them. Meliodas was likely the only man Ban had ever met who truly loathed to kill people--or, even great beasts.
Ban would have rather have just killed someone if there was no choice, but he fell into principle when it came to Meliodas. There were a few good thoughts Meliodas had, which had rubbed off on Ban in a good way.
The scrambling chaos behind him continued. Those knights--they weren't used to having to choose between armor and weapons. With one swift gesture of his arm, Ban stole away all their weapons, adding them to the pile beside Pearl. Swords, spears and bows--]
--There're people who I'm not strong enough to spare. Get it?
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Granted, Pearl has shattered a Gem or two back in their war over a thousand years ago. But these were humans. Well, goblins as well, but they were all still creatures. Creatures in which Rose would have respected. Cared for. Pearl could never bring herself to kill an organic. Their deaths were... much different than a Gem's. There might be a situation where she might just have to end an organic's life one day, to save her or someone else's life, under the ranks of ALASTAIR.
What would Rose even think of all this?
She snaps out of it. Pearl looks to the pile of weapons and back up to Ban once more.]
Yes I... I understand.
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Mmmm. [Placing his hands on the window frame, Ban snaked his way back into the castle room Pearl found him in, reaching for his bag of loot. He caught Pearl in the corner of his gaze, understanding how she felt all too easily. She couldn't have worn her thoughts with any less subtlety.]
You're a good person~. That's why this kinda stuff bugs you so much.
'Sides-- [With his loot over his shoulder, Ban popped right back out of the castle.]
Wars gets ended by nice folks like you--not freaks like me! [Despite himself, there was a bit of snickering as he slipped that one out.]