Look about the room, evaluate the King's material state by the castle. Do so quietly. Also, make smalltalk.
You can tell that the castle is quite expensive, and well defended. You try to strike up small talk with a group of people.
Look about. Examine how the palace is laid out. Are there windows? Whst kind, big, small, narrow, etc? Essentially, examine everything about the room.
If room is found to not be up to Wizard standard, restrain self from torching place and compose myself before the king arrives.
Talk with no other guild leaders.
The place is rather large, being designed for holding large audiences. The tables and chairs have all been moved to the walls to allow free space in the center of the Court. It's not actually laid out like a court room, though, it's just a term the King likes to use for it.
The windows are large, but very high up, and you can tell even from this distance that they are reinforced. There aren't any runes on the walls like you're used to, but you can feel some sort of magical protection over the Castle, it's.... tolerable.
You slink away to a corner and refuse to be talked to.
Admire the castle's lavish furnishings to restore my Psyche.
Mingle with the Warrior representatives. Find out who they are and which gods they worship, and appraise their stats.
You take in the fine scenery, it helps to calm your mind. You try to talk to the Warriors, but you can't seem to find them anywhere, where have they gone?
Eye the assassins suspiciously. Anyone who kills for money after a string of crimes without a face to go with should not be trusted.
You give cold stares over at your rivals, you can't tell if they notice or not.
Eat food to regain vitality. Also, apologise to the captain of the guard for the commotion.
You eat some food, it's quite delicious. You give a sincere apology to the Captain of the Guard.
Regain some sanity, meet the king.
1,3,4. You drool on yourself.
Rant in my sleep, lowering his sanity a bit more.
You have strange dreams wherein you are shouting at Dansmithers in strange tongues.
Examine all the possible hiding spots and exits, careful to make sure one is close by. Then, meet with the King.
The dining tables against the walls are large enough to hide under, and have cloths covering them, the only exits are the one you came in, and the one on the far wall that you can't reach, and is used by the King to get to the raised section of the Court.
My ally waits patiently where he can easily see the best view of the majority of the city, can overhear any whispered conversations, and/or see the people occupying the room best, in order of top priority first. Probably near a big window.
The windows are rather ridiculously high up, and the only higher ground apart from standing on a table would be the raised section the King uses, and you can't reach that. Your ally try to be a creeper and listen into conversations.
You all hang out in the Dining Hall awaiting the King. After a while, he strolls up to his raised podium and sets down a rather large amount of paperwork, with an assistant by his side. Runes begin to float off of the papers in front of his eyes as he analyzes the information.
"All right, let's see who's here...
Cartographers' Guild, Yep.
Warriors'. where are the Warriors? I thought you said they were just here a minute ago? Tell me if they show up again, will you, Chester?
Fighters', it seems that their Leader had to dragged here after a fight with a Paladin? If you two don't find a better way to sort out your problems, I'll have a personal platoon of the Guard watching you, fighting in the streets doesn't exactly give us a very good image, now does it?
Oh, speaking of the Paladins, the same goes for you, however, it seems that one of you has started a fundraiser toward a new.... production factory? Or something? Anyway, I congratulate you on your cooperation with the Assassins on that, I'll keep that in mind."
The King looks up from his papers for a minute.
"All right, I'm not sure what has been going on with all of the fires on the South side, but somebody is really starting to get on my bad side. And I've been hearing rumors about some sort of love notes from miss Johnson of the Rouges? I don't know what's going on down there, but I expect it to stop. I want the Rouges Guild to find me some evidence that they weren't involved in the fires, or I'll hold them responsible for it. I'm also assigning a small section of the Guard to investigate, I expect full cooperation on the part of the resident Guilds there. Particularly from the Rouges.
The Assassins, you're here, again, I appreciate your combined effort with the Paladins. Other than that, you seem to be acting rather civil, which seems rather ironic. I'll grant the Assassin's Guild 1 Pardon.
Warlocks', Warlocks...."
He sets down the papers again.
"Since neither of them can hear me..."
An assassin comes up to a guard and hands him a scroll, which is passed up to the King.
"What's this, some sort of communication device? Humf, they seem to be passed out on the floor. Figures.
Moving on. The Sorcerers'.... Where is your Guild Leader?"
The Sorcerers' Second in Command replies, "We're not entirely sure on that."
"Very well, hopefully he shows up, I'd suggest you take notes, particularly since that block of houses being blown up was
his doing, no wonder you can't find him.
And finally, we have the Wizards. I don't have an ill report from you, well done. I'll grant the Wizard's Guild 1 Pardon."
The King begins to reassign his papers.
"Do we have an issues anyone would like to discuss before we continue? Any slight-of-mouth remarks you'd like to pass over to the Guard Captain? I'm sure she'd be happy to take them."
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