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not_a_prize posting in srwu May. 1st, 2016 12:17 am)Kliiment! You've got some nerve coming here!
[Well folks there's an unexpected visitor to the Unity Group. Peola's would be groom and all around pompous jerk. One could only wonder what sort of trouble was ahead with his presence... something the Princess was not willing to deal with as she stormed forward to break his face-]
"Hup-up-up-up! Wait! WAIT!!!"
[The Magnolys blueblood is quickly holding out a scroll in front of him like a shield, cowering behind it from the Princess' wrath. Something which in fact made her freeze in place before she snatched it out of his hands, her eyes quickly flitting across the carefully scribed ink before looking at the now deeply breathing noble.]
All of this. All of. This. Its all true?
[Kliiment quickly dabs away at the sweat that had developed from the panic attack before nodding.]
"Every word down to the last letter. I already had its authenticity verified by a number of scholars... and before you ask... Yes. I spoke to his Highness about it before I came here. I also have... This."
[He pulls out a second scroll with a wax seal bearing the royal insignia. Something Peola quickly snaps before speed reading the contents.]
"There were already a few messages I ensured were passed on to what passes for leaders around here. But that one. Was for you specifically."
If this is some kind of power play Kliiment...
"Just using this to make sure my family is welcomed back to the Royal Court is enough for now. After all... the King would appreciate the chance to settle this... personal matter... along with obtaining that trinket your... charming companions seem to need direly. But if its any comfort to you Princess I have quit the field. I would rather not die an early death all things considered. I wish whomever the poor fool is your intended all the luck in the world. Hah!"
[As the arrogant Magl leaves, Peola looks between the two scrolls with some anxiety...]
[1]
[Magnolys. Peola's homeworld. It was something of a surprise that the search for pieces of the Discovery of Self would bring people all the way over here. Especially to the Princess herself. The capital city itself was a sprawling anachronism to say the least as it combined medieval and modern sensibilities with a crash of a dozen cultures. The journey to seek out the Discovery Artifact itself however at the King's insistence would take some preparation... so for a while - both the Unity Group party, along with the tech team that would safely extract it were guests of the Royal Family - with free run of every part of the city.]
[From the cosy, if rowdy lowtown taverns and noisy market places, to the intricate high class shops and amphitheaters, the sweeping statue filled temples and cathedrals, to the looming convent-libraries, wide sparring arenas for both men and machina, to the vast forges where the machines of Magnolys themselves were crafted together - mecha and ships alike.]
[Be it a guided tour from Peola, Ourania, Harunn, Monika or Salwah... or perhaps your own independent exploration. The doors of the city were open to you.]
[2]
[The journey to the resting place of the Artifact was a quiet one. Machines loaded up on what was essentially a massive floating barge, yhe Unity Group was not alone in this endeavor it as Unathi along with his personal guard accompany you all. But there was an air of uneasiness among the Royal Guard... some seemed to be breaking out into shakes or were anxiously observing the surroundings. The King himself seemed to be brooding as he looked out into the cloud covered distance. Sighing heavily the King regards you with a dire expression on his face.]
"...I must ask of you a favor of great import. Should anything.... anything... go wrong. I implore you to protect Peola at all costs and take her and anything left of my Guards to safety."
What exactly has got the king this worried?
[3]
[You've arrived close to the location of the Artifact... the many mecha accompanying you all spreading out and readying weapons. The area itself was the cold, desolate and mountainous north of the Planet... far beyond the steppes that a good number of the more martial clans of Magnolys, along with a number of Brotherhood Lodges made their homes in. Fog drifted through the area and the ground and the dark stone of the steep mountain faces were coated in snow and frost.]
[The further the party made their way... bones of terrifying beasts scattered the ground, as did a number of machines resembling that of the royal guard. The fog seemingly growing thicker, denying vision.... before the bright light of the sun broke through.... and... green. Lots of it. This place was once a battlefield a long time ago... many bones and devastated machines littered the vast expanse of the valley - plant life growing off of them and animals resting or nesting upon them. Though off in the distance...]
This is....
[There was a ship partly embedded into the ground... the more that the group moved to it... the more noticeable it became that there were far less wreckage and much more bones until there was no longer any sign of the Royal Guard at all. The remains of the creatures slowly forming a makeshift path and corridor leading to where the artifact undoubtedly was.... and where the corpse of a truly gigantic monster lay. There upon its skull was a battered Regalis. Its armor cracked and the gold luster of its frame long since faded. Yet covered by moss as it was and worn by the sands of time... the tight grip it retained on the spear that was lodged deeply between the eye sockets of the great beast spoke only of triumph. The way to the artifact long cleared by the late queen.]
[As the various crews made to recover the artifact from the ship, Peola sits by her father. The king cradling something in his hands... seemingly unsure.]
Father...
"I'm not sure if it would be wise to do so..."
...They may be Aunt Verana's last words...
"......"
[Peola notices your presence and is quickly moving over to you.]
I need your help.
[Well folks there's an unexpected visitor to the Unity Group. Peola's would be groom and all around pompous jerk. One could only wonder what sort of trouble was ahead with his presence... something the Princess was not willing to deal with as she stormed forward to break his face-]
"Hup-up-up-up! Wait! WAIT!!!"
[The Magnolys blueblood is quickly holding out a scroll in front of him like a shield, cowering behind it from the Princess' wrath. Something which in fact made her freeze in place before she snatched it out of his hands, her eyes quickly flitting across the carefully scribed ink before looking at the now deeply breathing noble.]
All of this. All of. This. Its all true?
[Kliiment quickly dabs away at the sweat that had developed from the panic attack before nodding.]
"Every word down to the last letter. I already had its authenticity verified by a number of scholars... and before you ask... Yes. I spoke to his Highness about it before I came here. I also have... This."
[He pulls out a second scroll with a wax seal bearing the royal insignia. Something Peola quickly snaps before speed reading the contents.]
"There were already a few messages I ensured were passed on to what passes for leaders around here. But that one. Was for you specifically."
If this is some kind of power play Kliiment...
"Just using this to make sure my family is welcomed back to the Royal Court is enough for now. After all... the King would appreciate the chance to settle this... personal matter... along with obtaining that trinket your... charming companions seem to need direly. But if its any comfort to you Princess I have quit the field. I would rather not die an early death all things considered. I wish whomever the poor fool is your intended all the luck in the world. Hah!"
[As the arrogant Magl leaves, Peola looks between the two scrolls with some anxiety...]
[1]
[Magnolys. Peola's homeworld. It was something of a surprise that the search for pieces of the Discovery of Self would bring people all the way over here. Especially to the Princess herself. The capital city itself was a sprawling anachronism to say the least as it combined medieval and modern sensibilities with a crash of a dozen cultures. The journey to seek out the Discovery Artifact itself however at the King's insistence would take some preparation... so for a while - both the Unity Group party, along with the tech team that would safely extract it were guests of the Royal Family - with free run of every part of the city.]
[From the cosy, if rowdy lowtown taverns and noisy market places, to the intricate high class shops and amphitheaters, the sweeping statue filled temples and cathedrals, to the looming convent-libraries, wide sparring arenas for both men and machina, to the vast forges where the machines of Magnolys themselves were crafted together - mecha and ships alike.]
[Be it a guided tour from Peola, Ourania, Harunn, Monika or Salwah... or perhaps your own independent exploration. The doors of the city were open to you.]
[2]
[The journey to the resting place of the Artifact was a quiet one. Machines loaded up on what was essentially a massive floating barge, yhe Unity Group was not alone in this endeavor it as Unathi along with his personal guard accompany you all. But there was an air of uneasiness among the Royal Guard... some seemed to be breaking out into shakes or were anxiously observing the surroundings. The King himself seemed to be brooding as he looked out into the cloud covered distance. Sighing heavily the King regards you with a dire expression on his face.]
"...I must ask of you a favor of great import. Should anything.... anything... go wrong. I implore you to protect Peola at all costs and take her and anything left of my Guards to safety."
What exactly has got the king this worried?
[3]
[You've arrived close to the location of the Artifact... the many mecha accompanying you all spreading out and readying weapons. The area itself was the cold, desolate and mountainous north of the Planet... far beyond the steppes that a good number of the more martial clans of Magnolys, along with a number of Brotherhood Lodges made their homes in. Fog drifted through the area and the ground and the dark stone of the steep mountain faces were coated in snow and frost.]
[The further the party made their way... bones of terrifying beasts scattered the ground, as did a number of machines resembling that of the royal guard. The fog seemingly growing thicker, denying vision.... before the bright light of the sun broke through.... and... green. Lots of it. This place was once a battlefield a long time ago... many bones and devastated machines littered the vast expanse of the valley - plant life growing off of them and animals resting or nesting upon them. Though off in the distance...]
This is....
[There was a ship partly embedded into the ground... the more that the group moved to it... the more noticeable it became that there were far less wreckage and much more bones until there was no longer any sign of the Royal Guard at all. The remains of the creatures slowly forming a makeshift path and corridor leading to where the artifact undoubtedly was.... and where the corpse of a truly gigantic monster lay. There upon its skull was a battered Regalis. Its armor cracked and the gold luster of its frame long since faded. Yet covered by moss as it was and worn by the sands of time... the tight grip it retained on the spear that was lodged deeply between the eye sockets of the great beast spoke only of triumph. The way to the artifact long cleared by the late queen.]
[As the various crews made to recover the artifact from the ship, Peola sits by her father. The king cradling something in his hands... seemingly unsure.]
Father...
"I'm not sure if it would be wise to do so..."
...They may be Aunt Verana's last words...
"......"
[Peola notices your presence and is quickly moving over to you.]
I need your help.
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"Well... not so much fighting the Duchess herself. Queen Teresia definitely had a fight on her hands just getting into the palace. But Xenalia herself? Well... there's a lot of plays and songs about it. But sum of it was... the Queen saw a lot of herself in the Duchess... more what she could have became really."
[Remaining silent for a while she glanced at Peola with a bit of irritation.]
"Oh. So NOW you want to keep quiet!"
I thought you said that you wanted to tell the story since its your bar!
"I meant with my family history! This one's all yours."
[Rolling her eyes, Peola took another swig of her drink. Letting out a rather comical noise after and shivering. Her hair spitting out tiny sparks of ki in reaction to the drink.]
Okay... so... The Duchess and the First Monarch actually had the same reason for their attempts at unifying Magnolys. They both lost their loved ones. The Duchess lost her husband early on and waged a war to bring down all the other nations and rulers of the land...
The First Monarch... lost her first love to one of the Duchess' armies after he was recruited as a man at arms by one of her rivals. The difference was Xenalia made a choice to allow her bitterness to rule her, wanting to punish the land for what it took away while Queen Teresia after finding love once more wanted to make a kinder world.
When she looked into Xenalia's eyes... they both saw the loss they suffered reflected in the eyes of the other. It was what allowed the Queen to ease the Duchess into laying down her arms peacefully.
[The bartender laughed at that part though.]
" 'Course there's where it get's interesting! There's a bunch of divided accounts here and there. The old records have some language that the scholars are still debating over about what happened to the Duchess after. Some say that after the surrender the Queen took Xenalia as a General in her armies like she did with some of the people she beat. Others went and said Xenalia decided to exile herself to some distant part of Magnolys... but the interpretation everyone really loves was that she actually married the Duchess along with her other lover!"
"Course the only one's that'd know the truth is the Royal family. Didn't hear a peep none from your Pa princess. What do you say?"
[Peola coughs a little bit before downing the contents of her mug with a wheeze.]
Say what now?
"...See. That was the exact same thing your Pa did to avoid that question. You really do take after him!"
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She looks at Peola, head tilted to the side. "So. Is falling head over heels for Super-Villains a Nefless family tradition?" She asks. "Cause, I mean...yikes, that would explain a lot!"
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That's not funny Dido. If it was then Ana would be vowing vengeance on people and shaking her mechanical arm at people saying she'd get them next time, but you don't see her doing that do you?
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Dido blinks and nods to herself. "Oh! I never put that together...but yeah, you two make sense!"
She learns her elbows on the bar counter, addressing both the barkeep and nearby customers: "But never mind that. Who wants to hear about what Peola got up to on my home planet?"
She pauses for drama. "Who wishes to hear the stirring deeds of Peola, Suitor-Slayer?"
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Oh dear sun no.
[Peola on the other hand felt that she was faaaar too sober to deal with this and waved for another drink, downing it with almost indecent haste with little appreciation for the brewer's art.]
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"You've heard the rumors," Dido says. "Flocks of vultures swarming around the Magnolias Royal Court, suitors from noble families grabbing after Peola's hand in marriage–for the good of the kingdom, of course," she adds with venomous sarcasm. "Strange how the kingdom's good and their own gain go hand in hand, is it not?"
Dido pauses to let the customers boo and jeer a little.
"But Peola refused to give in to the manipulations of these gold-diggers! She escape to my homeworld, and offered her services to my people as a warrior of justice! She fought alongside us, defending the Earth Sphere from great monsters and invading empires, against demons and dimensional beings!" Dido smiles. "I'm not ashamed to say her courage won my admiration, and my loyalty!"
Her smile turns to a scowl. "But then four ambitious suitors sniffed out Peola's location! Xun the Braggart, Kiliment the Craven, Phannuel the Sleeze, and Cennetig the Geneseeker! They came to earth with Regalia, convinced that they could win Peola's hand by beating her in combat!"
Dido chops the air with her hand. "But Peola drew a line in the sand!! She swore to thrash these suitors so soundly they'd flee back to Magnolias and never exploit the helpless ever again!
First came Xun and Cennetig, who tried to–!"
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"–but my throat's gotten dry and scratchy," she wheezes dramatically, turning her empty mug upside down and shaking it. "If only I had something to sooth it! And we were just getting to the good part too..."
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"Come on then girl. Don't leave us in suspense."
"Xun the Braggart huh? Sounds a bit like him... he earned most of that bragging though."
"Pffhah! The boy was as dull as a stump! Easy on the eyes though. And I heard them brotherhood types do a lot of their training shirtless. Rowr."
...Ew. Didn't need that image.
[The barkeep laughed again as she mentally scarred Peola.]
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"Much better! As for Xun...he was not really a bad egg...but his strategy for winning Peola's heart was to strut around like the gaudiest Peacock ever...particularly when he appeared during our battle with the Megamen of Master Albert–!"
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She takes a few liberties with her retelling, though. First, she always seems to describe Peola as striking the final blows against bad guys and leading battalions more often than she actually did.
Second, she leaves out Peola's family troubles with Ourania and Serak.
"...so there Peola was, standing on the altar next to that slime-bastard Kilement! She hated the thought of being bound to this scum in noble's clothing...but according to her father, if she'd didn't marry, the people of Magnolys would lose faith in her and the Nefless family line!"
Dido fixes everyone in the tavern with a stare. "Tell me, people of Magnolys....is any of that true?" She asks rhetorically.