[OOC] The Absent King

[Errant Son]

Been there done that. :p Being 12 and being on forums was a bad, but hilarious idea.

[Life in Stasis]

I think I was twice that age when I got banned here, so I had no excuse.

[Lyaer]

The keep some of ya'll are in now used to be a small fortress guarding Udny Pass, back when it was actually just a pass. The city grew up around it and it's been renovated several times in the intervening centuries. It's become the seat of power in Greenbank.

Or that's how I'm envisioning it. It's either situated in the middle of the city, or on a particularly defensible edge of it.

[Errant Son]

@JulienJaden Is Annara partaking in the new crash course in 'how to blow a cover 101'?

[JulienJaden]

@Errant Son Annara couldn't even blow up a balloon right now, so I think all covers are save from her. :P
Unless the cover was that she and Lothren are completely fine, nothing and nobody has been blown that day.

[Errant Son]

@JulienJaden well, I'd say I'd treat anyone with a large wound that somehow escaped the giant gaping hole in the world that used to be a country with suspicion.

ESPECIALLY elves... filthy fucking elves.

[JulienJaden]

@Errant Son Nobody said they escaped a hole. Maybe some maniac knight attacked their peaceful caravan and beat the shit out of them. Gotta say, compared to most knights who still have a face, elves seem pretty trustworthy to me right about now.

[Errant Son]

Ah yes, lets forget the refugees who can testify the elves MURDERED their people! Such an Eretol thing to do! You are all the same, bloody Eretol might be human but their heart is Elven I tell you!

[JulienJaden]

They can testify to exactly one (1) murder, just before a crazy mage sacrificed the murderer (who was an asshole anyway) to his evil gods and thus probably caused that giant hole to begin with. All the other human casualties only exist in Aretan propaganda, unless Sir Knight can't tell a dead cow from a dead man or woman.

[Life in Stasis]

Actually yeah let's not get carried away. Propaganda's super great but I never meant for the Ytharien to just be mass murderers (just as I never meant for the Knights to be genocidal killers). Deaths in any of the raids were rare and only happened in instances of extreme resistance.

[Culluket]

Yeah, I love conflict, but do lets keep the IC bickering to the IC area and not the OOC one.

[JulienJaden]

... It wasn't a serious conversation, just some jokes and banter.

[Life in Stasis]

I know I'm cursing myself by giving myself a deadline but I'll be posting in the morning. Hopefully I won't have to break my word, the reactions I need to write are pretty minimal.

[Errant Son]

... It wasn't a serious conversation, just some jokes and banter.

@JulienJaden

... yeah what he said. I totally wasn't serious about how much I hate elves.

Seriously though don't worry. We were joking.

[Life in Stasis]

Alright. I did, in fact, curse myself.

I have half of my post written up and finished. After getting through it though, I'm exhausted. I'll finish the second portion when I wake up this evening. I don't want to half-ass it.

[Errant Son]

Better whole-ass it.

[Life in Stasis]

Ugh, I always underestimate the post size.

Sorry, Culluket, for stealing your quote style for the letter portion of my post. But it looked good. Without being able to change fonts on this forum, seems to give the best appearance of the written word.

Addendum: As it wasn't clear, Tobias wasn't locked in the cell, but he's free to linger about the prison yard. Can throw some tomatoes at the guy in the stocks if he wants. Call him names, stick his fingers in his nose, what have you. Bit of fun while he waits for the Lady's men.

More addendum: Whole-assing when it matters is a principle I try to live by.

[JulienJaden]

Did the guards actually take our weapons or did they forget about those?

[Life in Stasis]

Good question.

I figured they no longer had weapons actually, but that was an error on my part. All of them ran in a hurry. Juna and Aust might still have theirs since they weren't incapacitated at any point. Annara could definitely still have hers if her weapons were secured. Forgot I was going to have Lothren mourn his lost arquebus.

So yes, unless you have objections, you can assume the guards disarmed the characters.

[JulienJaden]

Alright, I've got something up.

I didn't like godmodding Aust but since he has been Annara's replacement horsie for the past day, I hope that I was still acting within reason there.