A new king has come, and with him comes new quotes.
Long live the king
Reid gets to one knee, takes the opportunity to use the
floor as a surface as he circles Random's name and sketches a
crown above it... in pencil... before looking up and joining in
with "Long live King," checking paper... "Random!"
Why does the audience take so much time. We are hungry!
[Reid does quick math, notices that Robin's player is the
only one not to respond so far, and sighs impatiently knowing
that we'll never make it to breakfast if she doesn't swear her
allegiance...]
A really regal king
Random: "That'll do. I accept your allegiance
and thanks for the several offers to do violence in my name.
Now on your feet, 'Random Says' is over and you all won..."
He looks at the sea of faces, stopping on the slightly
disappointed expression on Vialle's face. "Sorry, I
can't help being flip. It's been a pretty enormous week for me,
y'know?
"Right. There's supposed to be a big family breakfast
back in the wing where you're all supposed to decide that I'm a
real person and a King and that you'll adopt, at worst, a wait
and see attitude. You tell me all the stuff I don't know
but should and I tell you what I did on my Chaos vacation.
Then we figure out how to break the 'King Random' story and then
we do something important.
How to start a kingship
For what it is worth, I suggest a strong beginning."
Vere shrugs slightly.
Reid's thoughts turn to, "But who could we publicly execute
on short notice?"
(this is followed by a nice poem
by Madeline)
Reid might surprise us
Amazingly high waters will suspect that the "long-unused
equipment in the castle basement" has already been restored
to working condition.
Jerod has self-insight
"Hey, I can only piss off so many people at once.
Give me time."
Vialle certainly shocked the youngers. A
few hours after Random's return
Vialle, seated comfortably now in the chair that Jerod
brought for her, says: "We've made a lot of irregular
arrangements to keep the city going since the Sundering. Now that
the army is returning home, everyone will want a sense of
normalcy. I wouldn't worry about upsetting the nobles and Court
too much with these reforms, dear. I doubt they'll have much
lasting influence."
This page was updated 28 maj 2002.