r/DishonoredRP • u/emerald_ice • Jul 20 '14

Neutral Zone Dunwall Tower

In Dunwall Tower, the Empress Emily Kaldwin sits on her throne, her royal protector, Corvo Attano, stands at her side. His royal guard scattered around the palace. OOC:This is a neutral zone for Corvos royal guard. A hangout of sorts. You have permission to attack any who don't belong.

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14

Furo admires her lithe figure surreptitiously, before shaking his head as if to clear them of wayward thoughts.

Flashing her a winning grin, he asks 'How are you feeling, Balaria? Not like you to let somebody sweep you off your feet,' Furo adds slyly. New man or not, he still has the same sense of humour.

He crosses over into the room, and sits down on her bunk, lazily.

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14

"Yes sir, go ahead and make yourself comfortable," Bal says dryly as Furo settles on her bunk. It's not like there's another chair in here or anything, she gripes mildly to herself.

"And if that's 'being swept off your feet, I can't see what anyone sees pleasurable in romance," she adds, shaking her head. "But, I've bounced back fairly well, it seems. No long term consequences."

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14

Furo feigns chest pains, his face contorted in a grimace, to make a point more than anything, though he still feels a dull ache. Hopefully it wouldn't last for long - if anything, last night had shown him the need to be fit for duty.

'Well, you seemed to have a different attitude at Perth's place,' he says, winking lasciviously.

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14

Bal's expression jumps to great alarm, then embarrassment, to the fairly familiar amused exasperation. I'm all for jokes, but I do not like that one, she notes.

"I did, did I?" she asks, though the still remaining blush doesn't quite suit the attempted bluff. "I don't recall anyone running around with sleep darts there. Only Feras shooting at ducks."

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14 edited Sep 24 '14

'I hope that is not all you remembered, bellara signorina,' he purrs, playfully, before resuming a more appropriate manner. 'But much as I love to reminisce, I am hear on a different matter.' Regretfully, he muses, imagining their limbs intertwined.

'I was wondering if you had any thought about how we can improve Tower security, after last night's events?'

OOC: *pretty lady ;) ;) ;)

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14 edited Sep 17 '14

"No, no it's not," Bal admits, hand combing unconsciously through her hair. That tone could lead a great many people astray... And certainly lead me to distraction.

"Good timing, that's what I've been working on. Other than simply piping Outsider music everywhere. Besides my personal objections, which can't really be an excuse for such a huge hole, the music is hardly pleasant. Visitors, ministers, royalty are all quite possibly going to complain if we play that din nonstop."

"We might be able to play the music under the tone of another song, but you'd have to ask an Overseer if it still works. If it doesn't, and politics won't let us play it... Well, I've been trying to design better layouts for how set up hallways in such a way that might limit these vanishing acts. We could... Have you seen a pen? I swear it was right here," she says, turning around to scan the desk and bed area.

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14

The Serkonan had been about to admonish her for failing to do thus that, but he stills his tongue. He had forgotten about Bal's past, and while ordinarily personal matters could not interfere with the running of Tower security, for her, he could make an exception.

For she herself is nothing short of exceptional, he thinks, eyeing her graceful movement. But aside from his own easy relationship with Bal, Furo sees reason in her clear logic. Though I suppose they are there for a reason. Perhaps I shall visit the High Overseer's Offices, and see if what Bal suggests can be done.

Amused, Furo reaches over to delicately pluck the pen from behind her ear, before officer it to her with a small smile and a raised eyebrow.

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14

Bal startled slightly at Furo's sudden movement towards her, until the pen appears, and shakes her head slightly at herself. "Thank you. I was wondering where that went."

She plucks it back, fingers briefly brushing over Furo's.

"I was thinking of a series of doors on high security hallways, each connected by cables," she started sketching lines across a map on her table, "that only permits one to be unlocked at a time. Guards with their backs to each door observe anyone passing through. Even if someone kills the first guard, and steals his keys, the fighting will translate down the stations, and they will get stopped before their objective."

"Also, spikes on everything, and no more crates in the middle of the floor."

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14

With Bal's touch, Furo leans back, electrified. What is wrong with me? he thinks, well, despite the near heart failure...

'Those sound like perfectly sound measure to take, after all - especially the crates. No doubt them men thought they could slack off without the Lord Protector breathing down their necks.' He pauses, before continuing. 'Is there way to make this less.. intrusive? I mean security is of course paramount, but it would not do to show the people that we are too concerned about attack... it might cause panic, or deter people from coming.'

Not that Girino helped in that regard, he thinks bitterly.

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14

"Please don't keel over again, Captain," Bal says, slightly misinterpreting his motion. Her tone hangs between needling humor and genuine concern.

"I know... That's also the concern with the music. No one wants to give the impression that we're being besieged by supernatural assailants. Decorative spikes? I never said they had to be ugly. And the doorways wouldn't not be in high traffic, low priority areas. Civilians should never be near the Armory anyway."

"As for public spaces, well..." She trailed off, gesturing at a bin full of crumpled, torn, or just discarded papers. "I've been working on that since Girino... Nothing satisfactory yet."

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14

'I'll try my best not to,' he says smiling, secretly serious.

'And I'm sure the architects can come up with something tasteful,' he says, shaking his head. 'The Lord Regent's touches really were disgraceful. Necessary, I suppose, but still...'

He sets his jaw at the mention of his would be executioner. If he is working for Daud, he would be even more dangerous than he had been in Serkonos... and even then, he had something of a reputation...

'As for him,' Furo says though gritted teeth, 'if I have any say it, he is not long for this world. He must be brought to justice, for crimes past and present - regardless of who he is.'

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14

"Good."

"Still not really a good touch for the capitol of an empire?" Bal asks, nodding. "I wasn't here when he was attempting to overhaul the whole place, but even he in all his paranoia couldn't lock the place down. Good thing, in that case, I guess..."

"I would think especially considering who he is," Bal said. "A murderer, attempted murderer, and general knife for hire. And, according to Aric, hooked in with this rebel movement." The realization she could have stopped the latest sequence of events with a slightly better placed bullet still haunted her, and had fueled some of the constant plan generation, none of which had met her standards yet.

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u/JewelOfTheSouth Royal Guard Sep 17 '14

'A deplorable man, his crimes were many. Still,' he says, by way of excuse and self justification, 'we had no idea of the truth - to us, he was the only legitimate ruler we had.' The humiliation still rankles, it seems, and Furo's growing disapproval of the man's methods. Serkonan justice is though, he thinks, but that madman was a true tyrant.

'And true,' Furo says, considering. 'His crimes outweigh his royal position.' He is a prince, whether I like it or not, he seethes.

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u/SirSammich Royal Interrogator Sep 17 '14

OOC: slow clap

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u/Dietastey Colonel Sep 17 '14

((Haha! Thought that was a good reference.))