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Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon.

Posted by NarratorFor group 0
Narrator
GM, 16 posts
Tue 4 Sep 2018
at 20:57
  • msg #1

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

(A thread for players wanting to RP out some of the background details.)
Branwen
player, 25 posts
The Problem Child
Tue 4 Sep 2018
at 22:51
  • msg #2

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

FOUR YEARS AGO

For a brief moment the castle staff was merely confused, which quickly gave way to a more focused concern as it became clear that Princess Branwen was not in the castle, possibly had not been in the castle for half a day or more, and nobody seemed to know where she was.  The last anyone reported seeing her had been at breakfast, where she’d been silent and sullen, a state generally attributed to the aftermath of a truly epic screaming match the evening before between herself and Corwin, or as Branwen had taken to calling him lately, “God-Emperor Daddy.”  He had either forbidden her to do something she wanted to do or required her to do something she didn’t; nobody really remembered which, or probably even cared – over the past two or three years, most of the family had likely stopped keeping track of the individual proximate causes of these events and only bothered to differentiate among them by their intensity and duration.  Like measuring earthquakes.

Just past the moment when the castle’s staff is just beginning to edge past concern and into the initial stages of actual alarm, the mild brain freeze of an incoming Trump contact nudges Marian’s mind.
Marian
player, 10 posts
Everyone's Big Sister
Wed 5 Sep 2018
at 19:05
  • msg #3

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

At the odd but familiar feeling, Marian carefully bookmarked and closed the book she was reading before straightening the bracelet on her wrist.   That done she focused her attention on the incoming call.  "Branwen....  Where have you gotten to?   The staff are in a tizz trying to find you and it'll not be long before they call mum and dad back to hunt for you and you know they'll not appreciate being called away from their duties!"
This message was last edited by the player at 20:13, Wed 05 Sept 2018.
Branwen
player, 33 posts
The Problem Child
Wed 5 Sep 2018
at 19:41
  • msg #4

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

In the Trump image, Branwen is dressed in a black leather jacket over a slim black T-shirt, her black hair loose around her shoulders, all of it silhouetted against a backdrop of a low gray stone half-wall beneath a featureless cloudy gray sky.  The whole image might have been writ in monochrome grayscale, if not for the blue of her eyes.  She regards her sister with a flatly, carefully neutral expression for a long moment before answering.  "I'm out," she says, and though her tone is calmly composed, Marian knows her sister well enough to recognize that it's a forced calm.  "They can stop looking, they won't find me."
Marian
player, 11 posts
Everyone's Big Sister
Wed 5 Sep 2018
at 20:28
  • msg #5

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

Marian noted the hard expression on her sister's features and knowing it for recalcitrance ignored it for the time being. "Please Branwen.  You know well enough that Father will move heaven and earth to find you if you don't return.  All he'll need to do is ask the Pattern to take him to you - or indeed ask it to bring you home.  And that's far from the only means he has of finding you."
Branwen
player, 34 posts
The Problem Child
Wed 5 Sep 2018
at 20:45
  • msg #6

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

"And then what?  He can try that, if he wants.  Maybe it will even work, and he'll drag me back, kicking and screaming.  And then maybe he'll do the same thing tomorrow when I leave again.  And the next day.  And the day after that."  She arches one black eyebrow.  "Or are you thinking he might handcuff me and lock me in a dungeon cell?"
Marian
player, 12 posts
Everyone's Big Sister
Wed 5 Sep 2018
at 21:20
  • msg #7

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

She shrugs, "Will he need to, Branwen?   There are only so many ways we cab leave our home and fewer still that you've mastered.  It wouldn't take much to stop you leaving - even if it punishes the rest of the family.   Don't you think it's time you stopped thinking about yourself and only yourself?"
Branwen
player, 35 posts
The Problem Child
Wed 5 Sep 2018
at 22:41
  • msg #8

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

A flash of anger sparks in her eyes before Branwen almost literally bites down on her tongue.  "Okay, you know what, I'm just going to let that slide, Marian, because I didn't call you to argue.  I just called so that you could tell Mom that I'm not dead or kidnapped or whatever, I'm just...  taking a break.  That's all, I'm just on break from God-Emperor Daddy and all his bullshit.  Just tell her that, okay?"
Marian
player, 13 posts
Everyone's Big Sister
Sat 8 Sep 2018
at 11:34
  • msg #9

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

"Fine.  I'll tell them.  But I very much doubt they'll accept my word."  Well, if she was going to be passing on a message she'd better have more than just words and so she considers the young woman, her surroundings, dress and indeed the fabric of the trump call - where it was being made from, whether it was being manipulated in any way and indeed how she could make her way to Branwen should the need arise.
Branwen
player, 41 posts
The Problem Child
Sat 8 Sep 2018
at 19:39
  • msg #10

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

Branwen just sighs, crosses her arms, and lets Marian have a quiet moment to probe at her details through the contact.  She doesn't actually roll her eyes, but it's definitely implied.  When she speaks, however, her tone is softer, without its previous edge of bitterness.  "You can make them understand, if you want to.  They just eat it up, whatever you say."
Marian
player, 15 posts
Everyone's Big Sister
Sat 8 Sep 2018
at 20:18
  • msg #11

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

Marian considers her sister, "That may be the case, but you're wanting me to vouch for your safety - and I don't know where you are, who you're with, why you've gone... nothing.   If something happened, it wouldn't matter how much they've lapped up.  It would be my head on the block so to speak."
Branwen
player, 43 posts
The Problem Child
Sat 8 Sep 2018
at 20:25
  • msg #12

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

"If you seriously don't know why I've gone, I'm not sure where you've been living the last, I don't know, six years.  And I'm not with anybody, I'm on my own.  Which is sort of the point."
Marian
player, 16 posts
Everyone's Big Sister
Sat 8 Sep 2018
at 20:38
  • msg #13

Flashback: Earlier days in Avalon

"Look... just because you don't agree with Father - doesn't mean you leave the family.  Leaving will affect everyone and do you really think heading off something 'by yourself' will solve all your problems?  Or will it set back your studies, your training... and break your relationships with your brothers and sisters?"
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