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three_carafes_of_wine [2017/12/08 18:50] entropyusthree_carafes_of_wine [2017/12/15 10:55] entropyus
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 ====== Three Carafes of Wine ====== ====== Three Carafes of Wine ======
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 +This scenario is my way of honoring the stories of Clark Ashton Smith. The world of Zothique is of his creation, even though I have here put an island of mine in it.
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 //Bizarre fantasy-drama set in an exotic island of a dying earth.// //Bizarre fantasy-drama set in an exotic island of a dying earth.//
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 Her masters found her to be rather witty, so she has performed various tasks of importance to the kings court. King himself hasn't paid attention to her, as his lavish vices are already much more elaborate than the plain harassdom of simple peasant girls. Nonetheless she has been able to avoid death from king's altering temper as well as from necromantic experiments conducted to random slaves by the vile Zalata. Generally this has been accomplished by her ability to keep her head down when something of note was happening. Her masters found her to be rather witty, so she has performed various tasks of importance to the kings court. King himself hasn't paid attention to her, as his lavish vices are already much more elaborate than the plain harassdom of simple peasant girls. Nonetheless she has been able to avoid death from king's altering temper as well as from necromantic experiments conducted to random slaves by the vile Zalata. Generally this has been accomplished by her ability to keep her head down when something of note was happening.
  
-This was true until that morn of course. King was in one of his foulest moods, beating servants and drugsters who tried to give him remedies and narcotics to ease his temper. A delegation of nobles was dispatched to the executioner as king deemed they were unpolite towards his dog.+This was true until that morn of course. King was in one of his foulest moods, beating servants and drugsters who tried to give him remedies and narcotics to ease his temper. A delegation of nobles was dispatched to the executioner as king deemed they were impolite towards his dog.
  
 This is when Thasador came in. Contrary to her usual, mundane chores the kitchen-master had sent her to the king with three large wine carafes of drugged wine to ease his temper. She did as she was told, with a nimbleness characteristic to her slender frame. This is when Thasador came in. Contrary to her usual, mundane chores the kitchen-master had sent her to the king with three large wine carafes of drugged wine to ease his temper. She did as she was told, with a nimbleness characteristic to her slender frame.
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-  * This scenario is my way of honoring the stories of Clark Ashton Smith. The world of Zothique is of his creation, even though I have here put an island of mine in it. 
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three_carafes_of_wine.txt · Last modified: 2024/03/06 08:41 by entropyus