It's time for an after party!

[perpend]

[About an hour after the trial and subsequent execution, Cabanela makes a decision.

They need to do something, keep the morale up, however little it may be.

Under each occupied room door people will find the following note written:


In difficult times such as this, it is important to carry on.
Don't give into despair; we must preservere.
If you don't want to be alone this evening, meet me in the dining hall.
-Cabanela

[Upon entering the dinning hall, you will find Cabanela sitting at one of the tables; he has lit two candles that are placed at the center of the table, but there's nothing else to note.

You'll have to supply your own food, since he doesn't have much of an appetite.]

Comments

[blazeit]

What kinda raising do you have to get to be royal, anyway? Do you like... memorize country capitals... some crap about history?

[ Oh, Bakugou. Good thing he doesn't want to be prime minister, just a superhero. ]

[decrees]

Ah, no, not exactly. History was not a necessity, though I have always been fascinated by it.

[It helps when your mom was literally a hero.]

Etiquette and swordplay were the primary skills my sister was taught, though my education included more information on how to properly rule. My mother was the first monarch, so much of my training was trial and error.

[She was also kind of a bad mother, but you know what, she tried really hard.]

[blazeit]

[ shetriedgoldstar.jpg ... At least she didn't let her child be 90% free range, they might've ended up like Bakugou. ]

Hey, a leader who knows how to beat the shit outta others is a leader I can get behind. [ Bakugou no... ] Man, I didn't even realize that rulers learned that kinda thing. Swordfighting's kinda oldfashioned, I guess, but it still sounds cool as fuck.

[decrees]

[WELL WE CERTAINLY WOULDN'T WANT THAT NOW WOULD WE, nah you're cool, it's fine]

It's either that or guns and my aim is horrible.

[He's like, impressively bad.]

Most people in Albion carry both, though hammers are nearly as common as swords.

[Because swinging around a giant warhammer isn't weird at all.]

[blazeit]

[ Bakugou wears grenadier....things on his arms as weapons, so his standards here are probably not useful, which is why his reaction is as follows: ]

Holy shit.

[ ... ]

That is so. Fucking. Awesome.

[decrees]

Ah...

[...you'd love Reaver, then.]

I didn't think you would find that so fascinating.

[blazeit]

[ Dammit Reaver... okay no, it's better like this, Bakugou would be more upset about all of this if he thought Reaver were cool. ]

Smashing shit up with a hammer... Man, you could wreck so much stuff with that. [ ... Well, at least he's not saying "people", just "stuff". ] Besides, swords are everywhere in history and movies and whatever, literally anything else sounds cooler.

[decrees]

Swords are one of the more common weapons. I specifically had hammers commissioned when I fought against the trolls because I believed they would be more effective against larger monsters. It's been quite some time since I last used one, however.

[HE SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS KILLING EVERY SINGLE LAST TROLL IN ALBION WITH HAMMERS, it was all sorts of dumb.]

[blazeit]

[ It was all sorts of *AWESOME ]

Okay, so. If a giant fucking warhammer comes out of that vending machine thing somehow, you gotta show me right away.

[ p r i o r i t i e s ]

[decrees]

Ah, I suppose that is possible, given the items we've received from home and the weapons the machine has dropped.

[Huh. If a giant fucking warhammer comes out of that vending machine thing somehow, he will totally show you right away.]

[blazeit]

[ And on that day... a new dream was born. A preadolescent dream to see a genuine huge ass warhammer. It's good to have things to want to live for, right? ... Right... ]

Well, hey. At least there's one silver lining to this otherwise shitty day.

[ The silver lining is an instrument of destruction... ]

[decrees]

[...this is actually really cute... If he gets his troll-smashing warhammer out of the machine, he will bring it straight to you, okay.]

Yes, at least there's that.

[It's... not anywhere near enough to make up for what's happened, but it's something.

...Though...]

Albion used to have a wider variety of weapons that even civilians used to keep themselves safe. My mother had a cleaver she used for some time.

[LET'S AGGRESSIVELY IGNORE EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED AND TALK ABOUT WEAPONS]

[blazeit]

[ Talking about things used to kill people to distract from the whole "people got killed" thing #logic ]

Your kingdom sounds hard fucking core. Man, if it didn't sound like it should probably break approximately ten gazillion rules on how the universe works, I'd wanna visit.

[ He'd be disappointed that not literally every single person there is a weapon wielding monster slayer. ]

[decrees]

[WELL YES.............. look maybe that wasn't the best idea]

Considering we're all here - wherever here is - I'd assume those rules have already been broken.

[come to albion, it'll be shitty

actually please don't come, you'll die along with everyone else]