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[thalassino]

Characters: Vatheon
Location: That Castle
Time: Evening, on Sunday
Style: Any
Status: OPEN. Threadjack, threadhop, spam away!

[ Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen of Vatheon— whatever your newfound stature may be, Prince, Princess, Knight, or Peasant, you will all receive a message on your SFC on the eve of Saturday regardless:

You are cordially invited to the castle for this evening's ball. In addition, you are all welcome to try and solve the riddle if it fancies you. It just may break the curse!

The invitation is unsigned, but its intentions are clear. Maybe you hadn't quite noticed the sizeable castle in the distance of the city that had sprung up, but this message would surely garner your attention toward it now.

Should you arrive at the castle, plenty of attractions await you:

Ballroom ❧ A very large and beautiful ballroom is lighted up, complete with a playing violin orchestra. While the curtains will be drawn during this event, there is a windowed view and exit on one side of the ballroom that leads to:

Smee's Rose Garden ❧ A broad and colorful spanse of a garden, complete with many paths and turns. Plenty of roses are arranged in great arches, which provide perfect little places should you need some privacy with your sweetheart. Anyone familiar will even tell you that the garden was purposefully designed for just that sort of thing.

The Riddle ❧ There is an inscription located on a noticeable plaque set in one of the garden's benches. It reads:

Two are necessary to break this curse
Riled up, upset, what kind of love?
Only this kiss will stop it from getting worse.
Look for a winged one is push comes to shove,
Look for a glance slightly dark,
Search for a pair in reluctant love.
One answers a call; that's your mark;
One longs for patria though adverse.

Dining Hall ❧ Connected to the ballroom is an extremely long hall that stretches as far as the eye can see, elegantly arranged as the dining area. Expensive and exquisite cuisine seem to be on the menu— try something new? Chances are you won't be eating from a selection such as this again anytime soon!

Dais ❧ There is a noticeable raised dais that is easily visible via any area within the ballroom. It's locked off from guests, though— what is it for...?

Do enjoy. ]

Comments

[red_medic]

Ach. Onze you find out how to not set off vhirlvinds und how to not burn down an entire room because of a vrong gesture... It gets managable.

[And yes, he doesn't get it. His grouchy wizard manners clearly dominate over any princely behavior. Unfortunately. It's just an unlucky combination.]

[zelda_hylia]

You have magic, now? Mine is awfully diminished. How are you liking it?

[Zelda can't imagine that someone would dislike having magic. That's just crazy talk!]

[red_medic]

[The RED actually chuckles at that and raises his hand again. The blue spark returns with a short flick of his wrist and a hardly notable twitch of his thumb lets the spark burst into a handy ball of blue flames.]

Vell, it helped uns beat zhat dragon. I am not going to complain.

[Medic balls his hand into a fist and the magical fire disappears again before he turns to the young woman.]

How about you. Has zhis curse been bozhering you a lot?

[zelda_hylia]

Unfortunately. I am fairly sure that I tried to lure men to their doom.

[Or worse, as Summoner had informed her. What if she had slept with them? That would be terrible!]

[red_medic]

Zheir doom...?

[He frowns at that, perking a single brow, but shifts to not stare at her too much.]

Und you do not remember anyzhing of it?

[zelda_hylia]

I would prefer it that way. I do remember it. I simply did not remember who I actually was when I was doing it.

[She sighs heavily.]

This curse is very strong.

[red_medic]

Strong, indeed. Und quite peculiar if you ask me.

[But then again, most curses are.]

Do you zhink ve can break it?

[zelda_hylia]

Under usual circumstances, I would be more concerned. However...

[She folds her hands and draws them close to her chest, smiling.]

This is a fairy tale, isn't it? We will break the curse.

[red_medic]

[At first he just looks at her in something akin to bewilderment. But then the man smiles.]

You are right. Zhere alvays ist ein happy end.

[Medic reaches over and places a reassuring hand on her shoulder, tilting his head a bit and he gives a short laugh.]

Zhey vill need to try harder if zhey vish to break uns!

[zelda_hylia]

Indeed!

[Zelda joins his laughter. He seems kind in this moment. Maybe she misunderstood the last time they spoke?

...no, she's still going to check what he was making when this curse is over.]