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Characters: Vatheon
Location: That Castle
Time: Evening, on Sunday
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[ 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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[That's just a ridiculous proposition and the look on Dualscar's face reflects that. But Signless did say it's hypothetical, so he sighs and thinks about it.]

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]

[Yeah, he figured as much. But Signless keeps his composure.]

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.]

Wwe're not equal! [He snarls the words] Wwe're just not, and no amount a fantasizing wwill make it so. You wwant a rustblood on the throne? Wwith upheavval in ten fuckin swweeps wwhen she dies an a new one has to vvie wwith all the legions a trolls of evvery colour to find the next successor?

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.

Then why are the highbloods so afraid of us? You're right, we don't live as long, and this is our burden, just as life almost unending is for you. But the highbloods do all they can to keep us down, to keep us suppressed and weak.

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?

[He snorts and rolls his eyes] The highbloods are NOT afraid of you. But there are a lot of you, and so it's important that you be controlled, for the stability a all of civvilization.

[He shrugs] Isn't there dignity in acceptin' your place and wworkin' hard to be the best you can be at your owwn levvel?

Listen to yourself. Isn't it telling that you say we have to be controlled, for the stability of civilization? Sounds like fear to me. Like someday the lowbloods will realize there's a lot more of us than there are of you, and then where will you be?

[Signless also shrugs.] If it's so dignified, you'd be willing to switch places, wouldn't you?

[He snorts and rolls his eyes again] Not fear. You're makin it out to be something it's not. You obvviously can't grasp the import a wwhat you tried to do, the disaster it could a caused if it'd been let to get out of control. But that doesn't mean I'm fuckin scared of you. The sheer numbers are wwhy wwe havve to keep things under control, yeah. Because apparently you're all too fuckin selfish.

Wwhy wwould I wwant to do that? [Growl] A course I wwouldn't swwitch places.

[It still sounds like fear to Signless, but he's tactful enough to drop the issue.]

Why not? Wouldn't there be just as much honor and dignity in working to the best of your abilities as a lowblood as there is in doing the same as a highblood?

I'm not stupid. There's dignity an honour, sure. But it's not pleasant compared to my life.

I'm not suggesting you are stupid. However, I have to wonder how much dignity and honor you would find in a life of slavery and servitude, pleasant or not. Would you let yourself be treated like a red or brownblooded slave, if it were the Condesce who was your master?

[If he had fins at the moment, they'd flatten. As it is, he stiffens at the mention of the Condesce, which hits a little too close to home for him. So far, she's treated him very nicely, but of course there was always the chance that he'd displease her and she'd begin treating him badly.]

I suppose I wwould, yes.

[Signless notices that change in demeanor; clearly, the Condesce is a sensitive subject for Dualscar. He keeps quiet about it, although the information is certainly filed away for later.]

What if it were someone else, with the same blood color? Would that make a difference?

[He bares his teeth a little, if possible more irritated by the idea of being enslaved to another sea dwweller than being placed in the more hypothetical scenarios Signless brought up earlier.]

A course it wwould. I wwouldn't just boww my head to another sea dwweller a the same blood. There's a difference betwween slavvery and military rank, a course, but they'd havve to beat me dowwn to make me a slavve.

So why are lowbloods simply supposed to accept what's given to them? Why aren't we given the chance to fight for our dignity?

[God, Signless. Why are you so stupid?] Because you're lowwbloods. It's not anyone's fault that you wwere born to that position, but it's still the wway it is!

So then the only difference between us, besides the fins on your face and the blood that flows in our veins, is the coincidence of our birth and where we landed on the hemospectrum?

[He pauses for a moment, feeling like Signless is trying to set him up for something]

Those are important differences, but yes, that's true. Wwe're all trolls. Wwhen it comes to us against another race, wwe're the same.

[That's pretty much exactly what he's trying to do, yes.]

So why is it that unity is only important when facing an outside threat? Why can't we always be unified, and work together instead of against each other?

That's exactly wwhat I wwant! Only there's people like you, tearing things apart and fosterin' discord.

[Signless gets to his feet and starts to slowly walk away.]

If that's what you truly want, then maybe you should consider the reasons discord springs up, and do something to change those. Otherwise, trolls like me will just keep coming along, and you'll never have the unity against outside forces that you claim you want.

[Yeah, think about that, Dualscar!]

[He snorts faintly and splashes back in the fountain]

The reasons are people like you bein' hatched, and not bein' culled early enough.

Nature abhors a vacuum, Dualscar. Maybe trolls like me keep being born because there's a need for us.

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