forum Kingdom RP// Open

Started March 30, 2018 by VenusBlake

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Jamie had been halfway to the outskirts when he realized he no longer had the necklace. He turned back, an annoyed expression on his face, and stormed back towards Wren's house. He must have dropped it while running. He had gotten it from the visiting dutchess, a prestigious woman with a snotty attitude. He didn't know the man who had wanted him to steal it, but he was paying a lot so Jamie didn't pay it any mind. It was creepy anyway, and he was only doing it for the gold.

When Jamie reached Wern's house, he was shocked to see guards crawling the area.
"One of the dutchess's possetions has gone missing. If you have any knowledge on where this item may be, tell the guards immediately-"
The guard stopped speaking, and Jamie turned towards him. The guard look him over, and then looked at another guard. "Search Luella," he said, loud enough for everyone to hear. Jamie glared at him, but knew they wouldn't find anything. He didn't have the necklace.

As Wren walked through the trees to her temporary abode, she pondered the necklace, worried at what Jamie had possibly entangled himself in.
She stopped, guards were circling her house. Why would they be there? They had Jamie, too. Were they after the necklace?
She slid into the shadows of the trees. Normally, she didn't have any problems with guards patrolling, it was common here.
But they were searching Luella, just outside her home. This couldn't be a coincidence…

The guards searched Jamie as thouroghly as they could, and seemed surprised when they couldn't find anything.
"What, want me to strip too?" Jamie teased, looking directly at the guard who ordered the search. "Really, there are other ways to get a guy in bed with you."
The guard flushed a bright red, which amused Jamie to no end.
"I know you had something to do with this, Luella. We saw you running around the back of the castle."
Without missing a beat, Jamie replied, "I just got back from the far side of the mountain. I was gone almost a month if you didn't notice-which of course you did, considering the clear affection I'm receiving from your men right now. Can you blame a guy for wanting to get a feel of his kingdom?"
The guard glared at Jamie and started to say something when he was interrupted by a snapping sound coming from the woods.

Jamie took the chance to slip away when all of the guards were distracted. He started to run towards his home, knowing that if the guards decided to search there, which they probably would, he would have time to hide anything he, his sisters, or his father may have that could get one of them arrested.

Wren threw another rock, causing a deer to bolt. Stick snapping, it bolted.
As the guards turned toward the sound, Wren saw Jamie dash the opposite direction, coming right her way.
As he dashed by, she grabbed his arm, pulled him close and clapped a hand over his mouth.
"We need to talk. Now."

He nodded his head and took Wren's hand off his mouth. He grabbed her hand and started to run deeper into the woods, to a spot where the guards would be out of earshot.

After they had run a distance, they stopped.
"If those guards know what's good for them, they had better not touch my inks and quills." She muttered straightening her habit and brushing silver strands of hair out of her face. She turned to Jamie, "Who did you steal that necklace from? Do you have any idea what that necklace is depicting?!?!"

//still open?

//Thayer my character! They’re a maid and also closeted, so most people would use She/her pronouns. Hope you feel better soon!

Jamie's eyes widened. "So you do have it! I got it from the visiting dutchess. I didn't know the guy who wanted me to steal it, so I assume he wasn't from here, and he just described the necklace, I don't know what it's depicting. I don't even know why anyone would wear it."

She sighed, reaching into a pocket in the folds of her habit. Looking down on the necklace, Wren spoke, "There was a story my mother told me when I was a child, and that was a good 30 years ago…
"Long ago, before the kingdoms formed small clans and tribes warred against each other. Chaos reined and there was no order in the world. From this imbalance, Klaeko the Consumer arose. A man broken by loss who wanted the fighting to stop. But from his twisted view, that meant everything must end. Performing Forbidden Magiks, he transformed himself into a beast far worse than anything in this world. Many fell before 5 clans rose determined to stop him. They used Magik to weaken him and banished him to a prison in the darkest depths of the stars and afterwards Magik was banned so nothing like that would happen again."
She looked up at Jamie.
"Throughout history, there have been cultists (mostly warlocks), Children of Klaeko they call themselves, who have wanted to revive him in hopes of ending this world. It was thought for the longest time that this cult had died out and all evidence of them had been destroyed."
"Clearly history has this wrong."
She held up the necklace. "This necklace, is what one of three leaders would wear."
(Whew, that was long.)

Jamie stared at Wren, trying to understand. "So…. the dutchess is one of the leaders?" He asked, confusion laced in his expression. "Why would the man want it then?"

Wren shrugged, "Either one of them is a cultist and the other happens to be into antiques, or both are cultists and the man who hired you wants the necklace so that he would be in charge."

//@ScarletAndHerSides wants to know what u call a duchess’s daughter