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[royalsubject]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 5, bright and early in the morning
Where: Labyrinth!
What: A daring labyrinth

[you somehow land into this labyrinth with a hard thud, sending clouds of dust flying everywhere. what you're in now is a stone room that has a flickering torch placed on each wall. it smells a bit dingy in here, like what one might picture an actual labyrinth or dungeon to smell like.

there doesn't actually seem to be much worth investigating in this room, aside from a sign and three old, wooden doors before you. the sign reads:

"If you risk it all, you gain it all. If you risk nothing, you gain nothing."

somehow, very inexplicably so, you get the strange sense that the riskier you play, the better the prize.]

(( RULES — PRE-MINGLE — WHICH DOOR DO YOU CHOOSE? — POST-MINGLE — TREASURE ))

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Re: FLOWER ROOM

[kingspade]

[ That's mildly disturbing, but he'll let it pass since he's probably seen some strange thing with magic about. ]

How long will it be?

[ Maybe that's a rude thing to lead in with, but it's probable that things are on a limit. And he's glancing to the side to his queen. ]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[queenspade]

[ And his queen will immediately shut up and keep himself hidden behind the king at all costs. As sweet and wonderful smelling all of this is—he doesn't trust it. Call it because he's a natural pessimist but there's something off about all of this perfection and welcoming-ness.

Keeping sure to remain being hidden and his voice low he'll whisper to his king: ]

Don't get too comfortable.

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[royalsubject]

[the woman smiles gently. she feels a little bad that some people have shown up only to have to wait.

"It'll be but a couple minutes. I'm sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone so soon.. please, take a seat!"

she gestures towards the dining area for four.]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[kingspade]

I'd be more comfortable standing, if you don't mind.

[ He'll be heeding the warning of not getting too comfortable, but he is curious as to why a certain someone is hiding. ]

You were expecting us?

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[queenspade]

[ Upon hearing "us" earns the king a jab to the back as he tries to stay hidden. Maybe she could over-look the slip up and hadn't noticed him already, regardless he's not going to come out of hiding. The reason, he thought, should have been obvious enough.

Why expose that there's more than one of them here when things are sketchy like this. ]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[royalsubject]

[she giggles, interpreting the 'us' as a very silly joke. as she speaks, she begins wiping down the counters with a dish rag, busy at work with her back turn towards them.

"You and your stomach count as separate people? Haha! In any case, no, I have not been expecting you. I haven't had any guests in so long. It gets lonely, and I always think it's rude to turn anyone away. Especially when pie is thrown into the mix."]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[kingspade]

[ OH GOOD. She took it as something silly instead. Sorry queen for his slip. His royal slip. ]

It's quite possible with the way I eat! [ There's laughter here that he'll work to hide what he'd done. ] Why are you here all alone?

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[queenspade]

[ Royal slip up, har har. But he's grateful that she hadn't noticed him and quite honestly took his mess up as a joke. Though, to be fair, on some level he might have agreed with the mysterious lady.

Just in case they will need a way out, he'll start scooting back some as well as keeping an eye out for any exits down in this room here. ]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[royalsubject]

[it seems that the only exit from back there is the staircase again. and the only other exit aside from that is, oddly, the small window—large enough to narrowly fit a single person through if that's the kind of thing you're keeping check on.

the woman seems at ease, idly wiping down the counters, occasionally checking back at the oven's timer—she really doesn't want to keep you waiting, and she'd rather not waste any time...

"I wonder if I'll have enough pie then!" she laughs... then forces out a sigh. "Well, I've been alone since my family left me a couple hundred years ago. They were inspecting some... Oh, I don't know. They were inspecting something out there. Afraid I haven't seen them since."]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[kingspade]

Only time will tell.

[ The woman seems pleasant, even with how on edge his queen is. So, he'll keep up with the chatter for now. ]

You don't know what they were inspecting? Or where at all?

[ The hundreds of years is also distressing... ]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[queenspade]

[ Hundreds of years is more than distressing it's concerning.

The queen is definitely paying attention to their routes and well that window is not going to be an option. The best escape for them, if needed, will be on this narrow spiraling staircase and he sure does know how messy that'll be if they need to hurry up it. ]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[royalsubject]

[she shakes her head, and turns to face them—well, him—again. as she speaks this time, though her expression is very gentle, it somehow becomes evident that she's missing a tongue.

"Something about going out to take care of this... oh, it might have been a creature? I'm not one hundred percent certain, it's been so long..."]

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[kingspade]

[ oh. well. that sure is a thing... ]

A creature, hm? And what exactly are you to live this long?

Re: FLOWER ROOM

[queenspade]

[ That sure is a thing and a thing that he isn't going to be missing and instead will just be huddling closer to his king and gently tugging. Maybe it wouldn't be such a good idea to stick around here much longer..?

But at the same time he's....admittedly curious. ]