Squiring ♔ you cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it

[wynn]

♬ Troy - James Horner

WHO || Wynn, Wade Wilson, Scout, Faye Chamberlain, current Knights attending the ceremony
WHAT || May Squiring Ceremony
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Great Hall
WHEN || May 1st, 2012, 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, in theory. Numbers are thinner today than they were in the last month or so: a number of crises have the Knights spread across the world and so perhaps fewer than one 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 new squires were fitted to their armor after meeting with Wynn, and it's traditional for each to appear for the first time before the Knighthood wearing it. Each new member is assured that only a very small number of the Knights make use of their armor for other circumstances, but it does create an intimidating sense of unity as they stand shoulder to shoulder in rank and file to receive their newest pledges.

The squires are ushered in 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.

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

[burnsbright]

[Scout's recognized the sword and...okay, 17 Wisdom.]

[Scout conquers the urge to sideye the man besides her and speaks too quietly for her voice to carry far. She gets most of it right but slips up on "I shall never lie, and shall remain faithful to my pledged word", saying instead the Jedi Order's remarkably similar "I will practice honesty and honor my promises." It's a slip she won't notice until later; she's focused on the moment.

After everything, it hurts to say these things. It hurts to reveal again the essential part of her that she's had to hide to survive. It hurts to do that, knowing that this is as close as she'll ever come to ever seeing the Order she loves so dearly. It hurts.

So even though she controls her voice and face so neither crack, and she doesn't burst into tears, Scout's eyes are overbright and her expression is frozen.]