squiring ♔ delay in justice is injustice

[wynn]

♬ Troy - James Horner

WHO || Wynn, Thea Queen, Alec McDowell, Felicity Smoak, Oliver Queen, Paige Lyons, current Knights attending the ceremony
WHAT || November Squiring Ceremony [backdated]
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Great Hall
WHEN || November 1st, 2014, 6:00PM
HOW || Actionspam

The impressively large Great Hall of the castle could easily pass as a royal throne room, with its length and the red carpet leading up to a set of steps. However, there is no throne set at the top of them, and the Hall is wide enough to accommodate hundreds of Knights. And indeed, several hundred Knights stand in ranks on either side of the wide stretch of red, each wearing the traditional set of ceremonial armor in their possession.

The newest squires have been fitted to his armor after meeting with Wynn as always. It's traditional for them to appear for the first time before the Knighthood wearing it and they are assured that only a very small number of the Knights make use of their armor for other circumstances. It does, however, create an intimidating sense of unity as they stand shoulder to shoulder in rank and file to receive their newest pledges.

They enter together, with a flair of orchestral music that fills the hall with as much pomp as possible. It's a lot like that last scene in A New Hope. Yeah, you thought I was going to get through an entire post being all serious, didn't you.

At the top of the steps, Wynn waits, wearing a sword on his belt that canny eyes† might recognize as familiar. Mark has, after all, brought it back with him from Andres - the famed sword, Excalibur.

It's one hell of a long walk past all those staring, curious eyes. Luckily, it's a long musical number.

For additional dice rolling fun (optional):

† Roll or randomize a d20. Those who roll a 15 or above can spot the sword for being the exact same sword that was suspended in the statue above the Round Table, when they met with Wynn in the Prologue.
† Roll a d20 dexterity check. If your character rolls a 2 or 3, at some point during their walk they're bound to stumble. A critical fail will lead to an epic faceplant ... or worse.

Comments

The Pledge

[wynn]

[Each line is spoken separately as a call and respond.]

"I swear to defend the Knighthood."

"I swear that I shall protect all weaknesses and shall constitute myself the defender of them."

"I shall not recoil before mine Enemy."

"I shall make war against injustice, without cessation and without mercy."

"I shall never lie, and shall remain faithful to my pledged word."

"I shall be generous, and listen to and respect all."

[And finally, in ringing tones:]

"I shall be everywhere and always the champion of the right and the good against injustice and evil."

[optional rolling; roll a D20 Wisdom check in order to see if your Knight can remember the phrases properly or not so much. Remember that a 10 is an average person's capacity to do so. :) ]

[ourhero]

[With his ballin' wisdom check of 6, Oliver is not exactly the most eloquent when echoing back the oath. Fortunately (??), Stephen Amell is not the best actor so this can be explained away easily enough. When it's his turn to recite the pledge, Oliver is scanning the crowd like he knows somebody (read: not paying attention to this shit basically). So when Wynn like clears his throat or whatever to get his attention, Oliver proceeds to repeat a similar rendition of said oath, but he definitely stands there looking like he's trying to remember his next line if he left the pilot light on back in the apartment overseas or not in between every three or four words.]

[withasouvenir]

[ she'd had time to practice, but she still sucks. :D at least she is better than ollie with her 9. :D she mostly makes it the fuck up. it sounds vaguely as it should. there is some stuff dropped, it's probably converted to early twenties modern person speak. ]

[somepagesturn]

[Paige takes this shit s-so seriously and recites it with pride and dignity, despite her stumble earlier. (wis 19)]

[monticora]

[ Who's that bro with the wisdom check of 12? That would be Alec. Luckily he's not a complete embarrassment for his Transgenic brothers and sisters. There's a few things flubbed, but it's not a disaster. He takes comfort in the fact that he's hardly the worst one reciting. ]

[fistpump]

[Felicity probably studied this the day before, worried she's accidentally say the wrong thing or something inappropriate. That's something she expects to happen today. However, her wis check of 23 enures that she manages this just fine.]