TEST DRIVE MEME #5

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

Comments

[fiddles]

[There are only a couple of female emperors known to history. Empress, certainly. She gives a shrug.]

I dressed as a man for most of my life, that is how history remembered me.

[She takes another drink of wine. What does it matter if some Berserker knew her name? Her praetor wasn't here and their opinion of her was the only reason she hid her name to begin with.]

Nero.

[cagedinflesh]

[Quit looking down on Berserkers?! They are a fine class.]

Hm. [He's surprised to hear it, but it doesn't show at all.] I would never have guessed Nero was a woman. You did well.

[Both in hiding it, and being a fine example of a tyrant.]

[fiddles]

[A slight shrug as she continues drinking.]

Some women might have found it annoying but I rather liked the style of dress.

[Admittedly, the Roman people wouldn't have been fond of a woman ruling them so it made it a necessity but at least she enjoyed the act.]

[cagedinflesh]

The styles were not alltogether terribly different, if historians are correct. You fooled them so easily?

[fiddles]

Indeed.

[cagedinflesh]

[That sure was a simple answer. But it amuses him - he laughs.]

I suppose the people of your time were not exactly geniuses.

[fiddles]

I was simply ahead for my time.

[She loved her people, even after all these years... it wasn't their fault they never did understand her.]

[freedomofsoul]

Aren't we all. And even still, in the modern age.

[Servants? Hedonist types? Well, it's both, really.]

[fiddles]

Such is the way of things.

[Artists are always misunderstood... Hold on.]

What of you? I doubt I have to explain why my views may have chafed many.

[freedomofsoul]

What of me? Should it require explanation any more than yourself? I embrace the part of myself which is held in contempt by good society. I take pleasure in the obscene.

[fiddles]

Your name. That is all I ask.

[freedomofsoul]

Ah, I see.

[He takes a small pause, but, in the end, it's little difference. Though he's normally cautious, in this situation there's little to no point.]

Edward Hyde.

[fiddles]

I see. I see... yes. That's a name I recognize. Like mine, it does explain much.

[She had faced someone claiming to be from Wonderland but who was merely a spirit of children's literature. Saber had even heard rumors that the infamous Dracula had been summoned into the War as a Lancer. She hadn't faced the man himself but she wouldn't doubt it. Mr. Hyde certainly fit well with such colorful characters.

Saber took another drink.]

Pity we aren't in Rome. You seem like a man who would have enjoyed the pleasures of the coliseum.

[freedomofsoul]

I would have liked nothing more than to attend such an event. Although merely watching is very rarely satisfaction enough. I made do in Whitechapel. Underground rings, you know. Lacking, however, in the grandeur of the coliseum.

[fiddles]

[There's a faint smile. A memory of ordering a lion to be brought onto the streets. She had killed the beast herself.] Of course... the coliseum in Rome was instated after my rule but other amphitheaters did exist. The Amphitheatrum Neronis held many grand events. Some of which, naturally, I took part in.

[The Neronis wasn't her pride and joy but it had it's place in her heart.]

[freedomofsoul]

Ah, yes. You are more inclined towards theatre and music, are you not. It's a shame. The coliseum would have flourished under such a ruler.

[fiddles]

[The Flavians had wanted to show that they were far more austere and less hedonistic than Nero. That was the main reason behind that stone arena--but, ah. She gives a shrug.]

There were fights in the Neronis as well. Why...I even killed a lion that was supposed to be sent to it.

[freedomofsoul]

I remember that story. I would not have anticipated it to be entirely based in reality.

[Which means he's impressed.]

[fiddles]

Some of my legend is often stretched for effect but that one was based on a true event.

[Ah... she hears the cries of victory as she strangled the beast in front of an awestruck audience. It couldn't be they were yelling in terror because their emperor had let a wild loose in the streets of Rome for the sole purpose of killing it. No, of course not.]

[freedomofsoul]

[That would just be silly, of course they were in amazement.]

And others would be...?

[These are stories he will actually listen to. In fact, would be quite glad to listen.]

[fiddles]

[Obviously.]

Other parts of my legend, you mean?

[...oh where could she start.]

[freedomofsoul]

Naturally.

[Start from the beginning! Or whatever is the most depraved. Maybe start from the most depraved.]

[fiddles]

I will admit to committing matricide--my mother was a deplorable person. A clever woman but deplorable in personality.

[Whether or not Agrippina might have not earned that title, is in debate as the only word to her character belongs to Nero.]

[freedomofsoul]

Deplorable even to one seen as a tyrant? Surely she was then quite the woman.

[fiddles]

She was clever, I'll give the woman that much.