Jaunt, Near End of Week 1

[keepcalmcookon]

[Ignis has thought about what to say for a bit now.]

I've been accepted into the household of the heir to the throne, Caelum. However, I have done so by convincing him that I am insane. What sort of threats should I keep an eye out for?

[Ignis. IGNIS. That pun was intentional.]

((OOC: Also yes using the same icon since spoilers))

Comments

[rustyhonesty]

... why would you convince anyone you're insane and why would anyone adopt an insane man.

[youandyoualone]

Novelty, one would expect.

Also, there is a good deal of difference between formally adopting someone and having them as part of one's household. I suspect this is more the latter than the former.

[rustyhonesty]

Well, the term adopt is pretty lose and I didn't think it would be the actual act of adopting rather than "I'm taking you home".

Which is still weird.

[youandyoualone]

I'm sure he felt pity for the poor madman--either that, or Ignis' insanity is to provide entertainment for the court.

[rustyhonesty]

I'll never understand royalty.

[Other than Historia, who is actually a good Queen.]

[keepcalmcookon]

Weird, yes, but advantageous for myself.

[rustyhonesty]

For yourself?

[keepcalmcookon]

More like he felt pity for me--but it was enough to buy me an in. All the better that he thinks I am harmless.

The latter, certainly.

[youandyoualone]

I wish you the best of luck at your continued deception. [But seriously, he sounds entirely sincere.]

[fruitknife]

...Well, I guess that's one way to get one of us in the door, but what the fuck.

[keepcalmcookon]

[A mental shrug?]

It was more his idea than mine, and I ran with it.

[fruitknife]

Just make sure nobody decides you're the dangerous kind of crazy. I could probably bail you out of a regular jail, but I ain't so sure about the kind in the same place as the people with all the power.

[keepcalmcookon]

I'm already taking precautions against that. I will only have one chance to act against those that might hurt Caelum before I must answer questions, and that requires me to be beside him.

[cameracoded]

Dude.

What the fuck?

[keepcalmcookon]

Eliot was right about Caelum being Noct, so I needed to be by his side any way possible.

[cameracoded]

Could you have just turned your eye off or something?? You gotta keep up with that for weeks now!

[keepcalmcookon]

It would've been too hard to be certain I'd run into him properly. ... If it gets too hard to keep up, we can arrange "running into" each other. It's easy enough if I'm mostly quiet.

[youandyoualone]

That is not a strategy I would have thought to employ, but it has potential. Are you asking of threats to the young heir or threats to yourself?

[keepcalmcookon]

Nor I, but it has worked so far. And threats to the heir, whom is an Infiltrated Noct.

[youandyoualone]

[Delaunay is quiet for a long time.]

If this comes to battle, as I hope it will not, make sure that mounts of all that surround you, not just the prince's, are sure-footed.

[His thoughts are laced with old pain and regret. There's another pause, if a shorter one, before he goes on to add:]

In general, stay by his side. If you can contrive in your madness to sleep at the foot of his bed, do that. I do not know if the Princess Weiss is likely to hire assassins, but she may, if she is truly serious about her usurpation.

There is, of course, the possibility of poison. The Arcana have blessed--or cursed--us with the ability to seemingly come back from the dead as Investigators. You should use that to your advantage. For any food that does not come out of a communal dish, contrive to eat it before Prince Caelum does.

[keepcalmcookon]

[Ignis is quiet as he takes all of that in. There's a lot of advice there, and he needs to think about it carefully.]

The mount advice might be hard to execute, considering horses do not exist on my world. I fight on foot, at any rate, and have pole arm training. Horses shouldn't be an issue.

[He drops into thought again. If the solution was to simply sleep at Caelum's bed, he'd do it in a heartbeat. But there's too many complications that could arise from those actions--and also Noct would probably ask what the hell he was thinking afterwards.]

... As much as I would like do to both of those, they would cause rumors and make people question Caelum's worthiness even more. I have items that can cure poison, so I am not worried about that--I just need to be in his vicinity to administer one. My main concern is to find some way to secure his bedroom while he is sleeping without making people question his suitability. If the heir to the throne can be coerced by an insane man to let him sleep at the foot of his bed, then how many people could manipulate him?

Otherwise, I would in a heartbeat, just to be certain.

[forcechanic]

Kidnappings, assassins, kidnapping, blackmail, kidnapping, marriage plots, kindapping...

[keepcalmcookon]

So the usual suspects, in other words.

[forcechanic]

Politics is always politics.

[keepcalmcookon]

Death, taxes, and politics. The three things one can always expect.