squiring ♔ keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others

[wynn]

♬ Troy - James Horner

WHO || Wynn, Steve Rogers, Cybill Robinson, Caroline Forbes, Nick Hawley, current Knights attending the ceremony
WHAT || April Squiring Ceremony [backdated]
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Great Hall
WHEN || April 1st, 2015, 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 Walk

[wynn]

[Optionally play out your character's WALK OF DESTINY down the red carpet, and people in the crowd can judge them / encourage them / gawk ]

[procurer]

[ Armor. He's wearing actual armor. It's surprisingly more comfortable than he thought it would be. Not that he was going to start trading in his jeans and t-shirts for it on a permanent basis anytime soon.

He knows the room and the display is probably meant to be intimidating, but in truth, he's way more fascinated by his surroundings - not just the gear he's been fitted with, but what others might be sporting as well. It's a little distracting when it comes to be his turn to head up that long aisle to where Wynn waits, but he still manages it reasonably well. (Dex 14)

And hey, as he gets closer, the truly distracting part is the sight of that sword hanging on Wynn's belt because of course he remembers that (rolled a 19) as he'd spent a considerable amount of time staring at everything in there.

Too bad his arm is currently sheathed in chainmail. He really feels like pinching himself right now. ]