Valentine's Day }{ Open post

[asap]

WHO || Characters in the log [open or closed]
WHAT || VALENTINE'S DAY
WHERE || ALL AROUND THE CASTLE
WHEN || 2/14
HOW || DO WHAT YOU WANT

It's Valentine's Day! All around people are happily snuggling up with their loved one or drowning their feelings in booze and/or ice cream. Give out cards or chocolate or commiserate with other single people! Whoo Valentine's Day!

Comments

[nepotism]

Wynn took an interest back when he first took over the country because of the circumstances, I guess. He worked as an Advisor to the King, but apparently wanted the throne for himself, and tried to seduce the Queen. She wasn't interested, and he killed her for it and framed her son, then convinced the King to try to smuggle the kid out of the country - but when he did, Dimitris was waiting with the guards to accuse the King of treason. They killed the Prince on the spot, and the King was beheaded before the populace, and guess who started to call for a change in government? It seemed Sarandis already had all the nobles in his pocket, and he became "Prime Minister" of the place, with a Parliament full of people who thought just like him. It wasn't very long before all the Shadowkind in the country were forced out of the rich districts one way or another. And then some of them started disappearing. [ he shakes his head ] I heard they've figured out some of what he has to have been doing with them all this time. Really terrible experiments, nightmare fuel stuff. I guess he's a high ranking member of some cult that thinks Shadowkind should be mindless slaves to the master race of humans. Real psycho.

[uncurse]

All right, but we've seen this before. Some authoritarian leader goes all Final Solution - where the hell's the U.N.? [ emma stop applying real world logic to magic. just let it go. ]

[nepotism]

That's the problem with cults and conspiracies - it can be really difficult to link things back to one individual member. Dimitris' smart and he makes it hard to prove any of this stuff was on his say so. Hell, all the labs Kat's team found were in America. There's some kind of bizarre record label front for it all.

[uncurse]

[ well, last emma checked, the u.s. at least didn't need solid, actionable intelligence on anything to wage a war on it, but she'll just let that one go. whatever the reason, the u.n.'s not doing it. ]

Let me guess. Popstar-on-trial's label is the one. Are they sure he's innocent? That's a lot of strings.

[nepotism]

They seem pretty convinced. I guess all he's done is try to help them, and he was hoping to get the girl's memories back or something, because she somehow went through the Veil and back again.

[uncurse]

Through the - That doesn't happen.

[nepotism]

It might help that her mother was a straight up goddess.

[uncurse]

Well, I don't think her mother was doing her any favors when she let her die.

[nepotism]

I'm not sure how much she let anything happen. The gods have limited power in this world - they can't really directly intervene, so to speak. That's what makes clerics here such a premium.