Coronation Ceremony & Gifts
Jun. 9th, 2015 08:28 pmThe gentle but insistent tink-tink-tink of a silver spoon against a teacup carries through the crowd, followed by a clear, confident voice as Lioncourt addresses the gathered guests.
"Ladies, gentlemen, and other various but no less incomparable sentients, the main event of the party will begin shortly. If you have a coronation present for the Lady Lioncourt and have not yet placed on the central table, please do so now: everyone is likewise encouraged to take a seat on one of the benches if they wish to observe the ceremony."
"Ladies, gentlemen, and other various but no less incomparable sentients, the main event of the party will begin shortly. If you have a coronation present for the Lady Lioncourt and have not yet placed on the central table, please do so now: everyone is likewise encouraged to take a seat on one of the benches if they wish to observe the ceremony."
The Gift Table
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Date: 2015-06-10 03:26 am (UTC)(She gave Lioncourt the list of ingredients with a note about their other gift on it earlier)
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Date: 2015-06-10 03:31 am (UTC)_"Okawaru has given our friend here a gift. It seems appropriate for me to do the same, in order to spread magical knowledge."
The Vampire Ice Elementalist picks up the spellbook and places it on the table, in accordance with Sif Muna's wishes. On the cover is written: "Sif Muna's Guide on Earthen Creation".
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Date: 2015-06-11 01:04 am (UTC)It's a list of the vampires currently trying to overthrow her, and their current and (projected) final plans.
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Date: 2015-06-11 05:19 am (UTC)The Spriggan Artificer follow suit and places the deck on the table, along with a note: "Magical deck - do not draw from except in emergency"
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Date: 2015-06-11 11:07 pm (UTC)A box from Miles.
A box containing a blank Book from Ahrotahn, with instructions on the Art and a vial of the proper ink. The instructions are in the form of a thick packet of xeroxed printouts, bundled together with twine.
A technology packet from Tyche.
A pair of unidentified leather gloves from Okawaru.
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Date: 2015-06-14 12:15 am (UTC)Inkspot and Meletiti Entelecheiai
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Date: 2015-06-10 03:29 am (UTC)Also, this particular trained eye cheats at knowing things.
A man in a red suit walks up to her and bows. "Hello. I suppose I should introduce myself first, or we will end up thoroughly mutually paranoid of each other. I am Aisilian Rok'suchi, but you likely know me as Meletiti Entelecheiai."
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From:Ahrotahn
Date: 2015-06-10 03:29 am (UTC)Raezenoth, Anda, and Linsa
Date: 2015-06-10 10:15 pm (UTC)Oh, look. There are other mortals sitting on this bench, too. He should probably attempt to be polite.
He looks at them, expressionlessly. "Hello."
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Date: 2015-06-10 10:21 pm (UTC)Linsa smiles, "Hi there, it's nice to meet you."
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From:Royce Bracket
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Date: 2015-06-11 12:25 pm (UTC)"I am amused at the number of us who believe that labcoats are suitable party wear," he says with a slight grin.
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From:Tyche and Kit
Date: 2015-06-11 10:52 pm (UTC)Ze pushes off, and goes to investigate.
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From:Coronation Ceremony
Date: 2015-06-13 12:59 am (UTC)She alights next to the gift table, setting the crown amid the many multiversal presents there. Then, she turns to face the crowd.
"Today, I have recieved many gifts, but only one of them is of my world. It is the most dangerously double-edged of them all. I speak, of course, of this crown: The crown of Shadescast, a lost and troubled kingdom - if we are being polite. Since we have children in attendance, I will not list the crimes of my predecessors in any detail, but I will be frank: my kingdom has been built upon suffering and pain."
She paces around the table slowly, the life gone from her skin, leaving her pale, almost pallid.
"When I considered my coronation, there was a single question I had to ask: Who had the authority to crown me ruler of all vampires? Certainly not the vampiric nobility that gave me the positon, whose mismanagement has driven the reputation of vampires everywhere into the ground and led to horrors wherever their power touched. If not by their authority, then by whose? Not by the authority of my subjects, the lesser vampires and the human slaves and servants: they are hostage, bound beneath my mantle of power, and will say 'yes' regardless of what is in their hearts. By the authority of a human from another nation of my world? They would as likely attempt to kill me as crown me, and would know nothing of my realm. One of my staff? I might as well crown myself."
She nods, sudden resolve coming to her face.
"Therefore... I must look elsewhere, beyond the borders of my world."
She turns to look at the dark-haired woman with falling stars in her void-black eyes.
"Could Astra crown me, the woman who lifted the curse that kept me in darkness for seventy years? No: She is from Outside, and by her own admission should have no authority here in reality."
She turns to the red-haired woman, in her elegant gown.
"Could Cordelia crown me, the woman who saved my life and the life of my world from the hands of my power-mad predecessor? No: She is of the nobility, and her temporal authority can hardly stretch as far as another universe."
She nods to the dark-haired man sitting nearby.
"Could Leaf crown me, the man who is, perhaps, the greatest force for good in this multiverse, if only due to sheer stubborn determination? No: I would rule in one world, not many, and should not intertwine myself quite so closely with the troubles of those who are not my subjects."
Lioncourt looks down towards the ground, one hand on her chin.
"I thought and thought. Who could best pronounce me queen? No-one from my own world could be sufficient to the task, but I had exhausted everyone I had met from other worlds."
She smiles slowly.
"That is, I thought I had. There was one other person that I knew: an unassuming, humble sort. Someone of so little authority or consequence that they did not even have a name."
"And I thought: If I am to govern for the poor, the sick, the broken, all those within my kingdom who are hurt and suffering, then I should be crowned by one of no consequence."
She takes the unornamented porcelain crown from its silken pillow, and extends it towards a certain blue-grey kobold, her head still bowed.
"Kobold with no name, who others call Lurker, will you crown me Queen?"
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