A Rising Resistance and a Falling Empire

Alright! I hope we’ll meet again! I rise from my chair

@NyantaStarhunt  
(Garth on his way to become imperial personal escort, serious shit ramping up to go down in the capital and snek boy looking to talk to snek lady again.)

@Cerebrate  
(Ah yes the snek priestess~
 
garth soon makes his way to the castle being escourted to the throne room bu some royal guards

@NyantaStarhunt  
he walks up and kneels, every bit the soldier and veteran he had been when he left the service.

@Cerebrate  
the king looks up from his game of cards and smiles you must be garth. I am sorry if I do not remember you. I hear you served in my guards he motions for him to sit care for a game

@NyantaStarhunt  
the veteran takes a seat.
 
“I may not look it anymore but i actually served your father, took on the name bone whip as the orcs called me, three incursions cut off at their head, that is how i earned my star, and a posting as bodyguard to a feywing, not something handed to the garden variety adventurer.”

@Cerebrate  
thr king smiles and deals him a hand a ah yes my father… hear the stories and know he was a great man. I hope to be a good king like him

@NyantaStarhunt  
Garth: “over my travles i listened around, you seem to be doing quite fine, there is little need for grand gestures, even if this particular… event… will certainly be talked about when all is laid to rest.”

@Cerebrate  
this causes him to laugh i thought you meant me inviting you to a card game he smiles and deals out a game (basically gwent)
 
I want to know your honest opinion would you want to acompany me when i leave? I know you have your duties to the fewwing

@NyantaStarhunt  
Garth: “I leave Royal in very capable and very loyal hands, the only safer place he could find would be between his mother’s wings. And as i understand your… hunting trip, should only be made with the usual amount of guards, no one needs to know that a unit of service elites is accompanying you. an old veteran is much less conspicuous than a young master at arms.”

@Cerebrate  
A good old fashipn hunting trip. he sighs happily it eill be nice to have some company.

@NyantaStarhunt  
“I’ll honestly be quite glad for it.”

@Cerebrate  
he chuckles good to have a nice vacation isn’t it? I am glad to have you with me.
 
he plays a move

@NyantaStarhunt  
Garth counters, though it was clearly the only option he’d had.

@Cerebrate  
he hums sorry if I am seeming a little drab. Oh. Care to give me a sit rep on how goes the little event

@NyantaStarhunt  
“it’s beginning to come together, at a fairly disquieting pace, no doubt Royal will be expected to help them soon, he has every intention of freezing over everything in the underground and smashing the cultists to bit afterwards.”

@Cerebrate  
he slowly nods his head and plays a move putting you into a critcal state…he seems to play this game a lot
 
And how is the peoples moral… he seems almost disheartened as if he himself has done little to help

@NyantaStarhunt  
“the undercity is largely confused, as are the “rebels” they don’t understand why no one is happy to see them.”

lurking)

@Cerebrate  
the king falls silent for a moment THey are most likely confused as to why their religion has yet to spread as quickly as they believe it would have. they see the lower populace as accelerant to the fire, and they hold match.
 
We have done an excellent job of dosing the fire but i fear we may not be able to keep this up for ever

@NyantaStarhunt  
“ture enough, the attack on Liqu is fresh in many minds and little proof exists that it was not the empire that was responsible.”

@Cerebrate  
Thrn i suppose thst shall be our first stop. Too long hasit been since I have ventured to the other parts if my empire

@NyantaStarhunt  
“there are empires worse about that, i believe one had a “ruler” that never once even left the palace.”

@Cerebrate  
King: Bah. What is a king if he is not a man of the people

@NyantaStarhunt  
“sometimes, a religious figurehead, sometimes the puppet of chancellors with delusions of grandeur, and sometimes, a child that has learned all the wrong lessons from their father.”