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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

[devwocean]

[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.

[withoutasign]

[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?

[devwocean]

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

[withoutasign]

[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!]

[devwocean]

[He snorts faintly and splashes back in the fountain]

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

[withoutasign]

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