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vatheon2012-02-11 09:46 pm
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Entry tags:
- !curse: 26 - fairy tales,
- !event,
- axel,
- chie satonaka,
- cielo,
- dark link,
- duke pantarei,
- equius zahhak,
- expatriate darkleer,
- gamzee makara,
- jane maxwell,
- karkat vantas,
- kuroudo akabane,
- ky kiske,
- lea,
- mitsuhide akechi,
- motochika chosokabe (samurai warriors),
- orphaner dualscar,
- red medic,
- rhi'a dragunel,
- shizuo heiwajima,
- shouma takakura,
- signless,
- squall leonhart,
- tavros nitram,
- vegeta,
- xerxes break,
- yuno gasai,
- zelda (ocarina of time)
bluh bluh huge ball
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:
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. ]
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. ]
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I suppose that's true. There aren't enough seatrolls for you to really populate the sea, is there? There must be vast parts of it where no one lives.
[Grin.]
Which is why you get to have conversations with the likes of me, right?
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[He's just going to roll his eyes] Lucky for me.
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[Again, ignoring the sarcasm.]
I think it's interesting to talk to everyone from different parts of the world. You can learn all sorts of interesting things. Like those things about your gills... I didn't know that before.
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There's probably a lot you don't knoww about sea dwwellers like me, and me in particular.
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[Signless curls his tail around his feet and sits up straighter, looking fearlessly up at Dualscar.]
Like what?
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[He pauses and thinks about that for a moment] I suppose you don't knoww that wwe can communicate wwithout talking, for example.
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[He perks up at that information.]
You can? How?
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[He pauses] I can't showw you wwithout my fins. Wwe can use them like a kind a wwordless language, to signal each other wwithout speaking, under wwater.
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[He trots forward a bit.]
Really? That's fascinating! So it's like a whole second language that only seadwellers learn?
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Yeah, that's right. A little like morse code, only a lot more complicated.
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[He can tell Dualscar is uncomfortable with the idea, so he doesn't elaborate.]
When you have your fins back, would you show me? I never realized your fins had any purpose besides decorative.
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And he's fine with changing the subject to be fully about him]
I suppose, but it wwouldn't mean anythin' to you. You'd probably think it looks silly, actually. It's just a lot a flappin' and displays.
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Did your lusus teach you how to speak it?
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Sort of. Not directly on account a it didn't havve facial fins.
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[Signless' ears twitch and his eyes brighten.]
You see, I didn't have a lusus, so I learned Alternian from wigglerhood. I find it fascinating, though, that other trolls learn both a language to communicate with their lusus, and Alternian, despite never hearing it from their guardian.
And now I find out seadwellers have another language on top of that! We really are incredible creatures, you know?
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I wouldn't go that far. There's still room for improvement, but that's true of every race and species.
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That might all be true now, but what happens when we meet a race stronger and more capable than ourselves? Rhetorically, let's say that we do. What then? Are we strong and united enough to make a stand against it?
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A course wwe are. [And he scowls] At least, wwe should be. If there wweren't people like you, tryin' to undermine that united strength by disruptin' evverything and making the lowwbloods rebel.
[And here we've stumbled over the exact reason why he hates you so much, Signless. Congratulations]
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But doesn't say something about us? It's not true unity, is it?
[He creeps a step closer.]
Imagine how powerful we could be if we truly were all equal and unified. Then we could take over the stars.
[Not that he wants that, mind you. Just hypothetically.]
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There's a reason Her Imperious Condescension is in charge. It's on account a her lusus, wwhich is because a her blood. And wwe are her closest cousins, so wwe are the next in line, naturally. And the indigos, the most powwerful land dwwellers, because they can do their fuckin' chucklevvoodoos and control those beloww them. It's like that all the wway dowwn the line to the most lowwly and short-livved a the rusts. It's natural and logical, and it's just the wway it has to be for a vviolent and competitivve race like ours!
You can say maybe there's other wways it could be if things wwere completely different. But that's just fantasy and not true. Maybe there's small wways it could be improvved and things could be better for lowwbloods on a day to day basis, fine, but wwhen it comes to our basic nature, this is howw it is.
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Why hasn't anyone tried to improve the day to day life of lowbloods? Why can't we be granted a little dignity, a little autonomy, the ability to be the masters of our fate? What are you so afraid of?
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[He shrugs] Isn't there dignity in acceptin' your place and wworkin' hard to be the best you can be at your owwn levvel?
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