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ᴀʟᴅᴇʀᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴀɴᴅᴀᴜ ([personal profile] alderwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2014-01-09 01:22 pm

open audience; the alderwood emperor

Characters: The Alderwood Emperor and anyone who seek to speak with him
Date: January 8th
Location: The Palace of Landed Sky
Situation: The expected holding of an audience for any that care to speak with the newly appointed Alderwood Emperor.
Warnings/Rating: N/A; to be updated if necessary

The hall is stark and black, lit with softly glowing lanterns that are strung up high beyond reach. Outside, the sun is at its zenith, and it filters down through the cloudy glass roof to warm the dark room.

The floor is marble, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ruby quartz. It catches the light, and casts strange patterns on the walls.

There is beauty to it, but the room has been repurposed to function moreso than form. Weapons racks line the walls and there are officers stationed at regular intervals to ensure the safety of their assets and, of course, the Emperor himself. It is but one sign of heightened security, another being that all attendees must be escorted in with the attendance of a pair of armed guards. The rein of Alderwood begins in caution and will not be made victim of as Ironwood's did in its end.

The Emperor himself is seated at a broad table and working his way through cleaning a variety of firearms that range from elegant handguns to heavy muskets. He works with swift precision, dismantling each in turn before proceeding with cleaning and reassembling, then he moves to the next. Like the weapons upon the racks, these vary in age from rudimentary to advanced technology reminiscent of the spectre weapons. He knows each of them as spoils of war gathered over the centuries and now he seeks to repurpose them. To use them against the enemy that had him fight in the first place.

He is dressed in his familiar military cut, having no mind or pleasure in anything of ornamentation or to further denote his rank, and greets each attendee with the curt statement: "Speak to your purpose."

[Actionspam or prose are both acceptable!

Characters will only be admitted into the hall one by one, so there won't be anyone present for anyone else's conversations, and there won't be any 'mingling' in the chamber itself.

By popular demand, we will continue to allow mingling for those waiting for an audience in an antechamber. There is a thread header below to allow for that!]


Audience | Canon Updates | Antechamber
15104: (orly?)

[personal profile] 15104 2014-01-12 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He perks up a little at his question being treated as acceptable.

"I haven't, but I guess I can get him over the, uh, computer things." He can't remember what the Kedan called them.

"How much forgiveness do you mean?" Because while Emperor-call-me-Evandau may be seemingly approachable, he's still the sole person in charge, and Russell is aware that punishments from the same offence can vary even across state lines, let alone words.

Evandau's fondling of weapons hasn't gone unnoticed either.

"Did this Mr Javert make a list of common punishments as well?"
Edited 2014-01-12 22:20 (UTC)
15104: (look up)

[personal profile] 15104 2014-01-14 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Having rules over how he wore his hair seemed a mite over the top. But a warnings system made sense, provided the people enforcing the laws were reasonable. He didn't know how the Kedan/foreigner situation stood. He'd heard things... But perhaps the Emperor wasn't the right person to ask for that kind of knowledge.

"Right. Thanks, that clears it up some."

He's not sure if he should bow or salute or just walk out. He settles for nodding his head, and waiting awkwardly for a dismissal. Would be great if he got arrested for rudeness after going to all these lengths.
15104: (eyebrow)

[personal profile] 15104 2014-01-15 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
He doesn't say anything in reply, just nods again and lets the guards escort him out. He's got a lead now with this Javert, and weird as it might sound to have a direct line to the Emperor, he can't deny that it's a little comforting too. The first sign of stability in this whole crazy thing.