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The Royal Antechamber
May. 12th, 2013 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quu"Yer didn't think yer could just walk in?? Nae, 'citizen,' yer have to wait wi' the rest o' them."
The sarcastic guard in his exceedingly tall, white, round-topped ceremonial helmet points to the rest o' them: the variety of citizens in the antechamber. A fair cross-section of the denizens of Glazingstoke were represented: merchants in velvet, dancers in silk, churls in sack, criminals in chains, even one or two nobles in elaborate costuming. (The King abhorred lateness and arriving even a moment late to the morning ceremony was grounds to keep even the highest princess in the land out here in the peanut gallery.)
To be fair it is a very nice antechamber in which everyone is being made to wait. Scattered across the large, well-lit room are several benches (for the lowly,) couches (for the less lowly,) and a handful of gilt chairs intended to cup the the buttocks of the great and glorious. Large windows look out upon the courtyard garden. At a table by the windows there is a fancy-looking dispenser filled with water and lemon slices, though as a cost-saving measure there are no cups.
There are 2 guards stationed at each of the three doors in the room: the exit to the north wing, the exit to the main hall, and the doors to the throne room itself. Whether male or female, they are all rather bulky, with hands like huge, steely hams. One of them carries a wicked-looking staff instead of the traditional long spear. It would not be advisable to fuck with them no matter how silly their feathered and flowered uniforms look.
The crowd mills and waits for the hour of audience.
This is an open post that people can just fuck around in as the scenario suits. Try to tag other actual players, but NPCs may also be available to whine at.
This is a good time to think of
1. Your character's "how you got here" background
2. Something your character wants to discuss with or demand of the King of Glazingstoke
Your character can be anything you want except 1) a guard, 2) the King, or 3) related to the King. Everything else is fair game, from "worst criminal in all of Glazingstoke" to "the most useless farmer that ever pulled up a potato too soon" to "I'm just a tourist lol."
The sarcastic guard in his exceedingly tall, white, round-topped ceremonial helmet points to the rest o' them: the variety of citizens in the antechamber. A fair cross-section of the denizens of Glazingstoke were represented: merchants in velvet, dancers in silk, churls in sack, criminals in chains, even one or two nobles in elaborate costuming. (The King abhorred lateness and arriving even a moment late to the morning ceremony was grounds to keep even the highest princess in the land out here in the peanut gallery.)
To be fair it is a very nice antechamber in which everyone is being made to wait. Scattered across the large, well-lit room are several benches (for the lowly,) couches (for the less lowly,) and a handful of gilt chairs intended to cup the the buttocks of the great and glorious. Large windows look out upon the courtyard garden. At a table by the windows there is a fancy-looking dispenser filled with water and lemon slices, though as a cost-saving measure there are no cups.
There are 2 guards stationed at each of the three doors in the room: the exit to the north wing, the exit to the main hall, and the doors to the throne room itself. Whether male or female, they are all rather bulky, with hands like huge, steely hams. One of them carries a wicked-looking staff instead of the traditional long spear. It would not be advisable to fuck with them no matter how silly their feathered and flowered uniforms look.
The crowd mills and waits for the hour of audience.
This is an open post that people can just fuck around in as the scenario suits. Try to tag other actual players, but NPCs may also be available to whine at.
This is a good time to think of
1. Your character's "how you got here" background
2. Something your character wants to discuss with or demand of the King of Glazingstoke
Your character can be anything you want except 1) a guard, 2) the King, or 3) related to the King. Everything else is fair game, from "worst criminal in all of Glazingstoke" to "the most useless farmer that ever pulled up a potato too soon" to "I'm just a tourist lol."
