squiring ♔ i am bound to live up to what light i have

[wynn]

♬ Troy - James Horner

WHO || Wynn, Matt Byrne, Indra Crestrage, Nyna Dilant, Liam Dunbar, Stefan Salvatore, Rocket, Amy Pond, Sylar, Dean Winchester, Regina Mills,  current Knights attending the ceremony
WHAT || October Squiring Ceremony [backdated]
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Great Hall
WHEN || October 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.   

While plenty of Knights try to get out of attendance once and awhile, Wynn personally ordered his Knights on Andres to cease their activities and flew them back for this ceremony, a step towards rebuilding in the wake of more tragedy.

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

[martire]

[Stefan's adaptable, plus side of living through the decades he has where constant change and fads were a huge thing. No expectations were built within him to guess at what would happen after the squiring, who a mentor of his might end up being. So far, Rose is giving off vibes that he sees as capable enough. With many dashes of colorful language, happenings, and surprise to come in the future! He's fairly confident in that!

In this moment, he's perfectly confident in his ability to keep any questionable sides of himself in check. Nothing vampire-y has infiltrated his thoughts yet today, so, woo, the best of Stefan is on display.]

Some sword and board sparring [a wave at his armor] or maybe some jujitsu? [Clarification and details, he expects those to come later, his guesses based off simple deduction rather than detailed knowledge.]

[littledhampir]

Mostly I just wail on a training dummy but you can do all that too. [Rose might look like your average, human female at first glance but a lot of the female warrior types around the castle embody the 'looks can be deceiving' thing.] They don't skimp on equipment around here and they don't take a hands off approach to training which doesn't suck.

[She cants her head to one side, considering something, eyes narrowed as she takes him in.]

I'd try to make you come running with me every morning but I don't know how you'd go with the whole, sunlight deal. [A beat.] The thing I've noticed about the Vampires here, no two seem to be the same. [Yep, she sure does know you're a Vampire and I don't even need to roll for that one because when you're Rose?! You just know.]