[ARCANA PLOT - ota]
[ooc: okay, so this comes with a few 'rules' because of the mechanics of how this is going to happen. In the previous thread Gustave disappeared from the Embassy resolving to go snatch each of the Suit artifacts (if you've missed the threads regarding each of them, there is one for each Suit, a Sword for the Spades that is in Victor's possession, a set of Coins for the Diamonds that is locked away in the Diamond library vault, a Chalice for the Hearts that Jordan has stashed with a friend of his in Town, and a Wand for the Clubs that has also been locked away by Tegan. Basically, the artifacts are 'anchors' for the Deck and one of the bits of magic used by the Deck founders when they split from the Arcana to do so. As also revealed in the other post, Asarlai plans to use them to force the Deck to merge once more with the Arcana, thus bringing everyone 'home'. Basically.
Anyway, below the post, I'll create four threads, one for each Castle. If you want your character to notice what he's doing as he's on his way to get each artifact, or try to stop him, or otherwise react...please do so under the applicable thread and please try not to repeat threads that might have already happened with someone else (for instance, if in a thread someone manages to wrestle an artifact away from Asarlai and he has to escape or whatever...please don't comment under that with another character trying to keep him from the artifact, since it's already happened). But if you feel the urge to hop into a thread with your character arriving on the scene too...that's cool. :)
I know this is a lot of caveat-ing I'm doing here, but just trying to help it go smoothly and still give everybody who wants one a chance to participate.
Don't worry, if he manages to get all four Artifacts, there will be a final chance to stop him. ;)]
Nothing is going the way he'd planned. Nothing at all! Of course, the whole thing had turned out to be more difficult than he'd counted on already but then there'd been Turis...and that had just made things worse.
And his beautiful Embassy...nothing but so much broken rock now. Shattered and toppled.
Well, he wasn't going to let things end like this. Wasn't going to let Vesna drag him back, unsuccessful. They'd all been broken for so long and he was going to put them back together.
They'd thank him, in the end.
And perhaps, then, he could close his eyes at night without seeing her.
Anyway, below the post, I'll create four threads, one for each Castle. If you want your character to notice what he's doing as he's on his way to get each artifact, or try to stop him, or otherwise react...please do so under the applicable thread and please try not to repeat threads that might have already happened with someone else (for instance, if in a thread someone manages to wrestle an artifact away from Asarlai and he has to escape or whatever...please don't comment under that with another character trying to keep him from the artifact, since it's already happened). But if you feel the urge to hop into a thread with your character arriving on the scene too...that's cool. :)
I know this is a lot of caveat-ing I'm doing here, but just trying to help it go smoothly and still give everybody who wants one a chance to participate.
Don't worry, if he manages to get all four Artifacts, there will be a final chance to stop him. ;)]
Nothing is going the way he'd planned. Nothing at all! Of course, the whole thing had turned out to be more difficult than he'd counted on already but then there'd been Turis...and that had just made things worse.
And his beautiful Embassy...nothing but so much broken rock now. Shattered and toppled.
Well, he wasn't going to let things end like this. Wasn't going to let Vesna drag him back, unsuccessful. They'd all been broken for so long and he was going to put them back together.
They'd thank him, in the end.
And perhaps, then, he could close his eyes at night without seeing her.