Rowaini Musketeers: One For All and All For One

[Rystil Arden]

*Tommy and Marie can think of little else. At Hyacinthe and Jacen's suggestion, they check with the servants who were near the coat room, but nobody saw anything more suspicious than nobles and servants dropping off their things on their arrival. Before long, after continuing primping and preening and lessons on ladylike behaviour, it will nearly be time to send Jacen off as Marie. To make the transition seamless, however, the Baron finally acquiesces to Tommy's plan, and Marie dresses in Jacen's clothes and practises walking without the bounce and sway in her hips and just generally emulating Jacen's posture and demeanour. It turns out to be pretty easy for the young lady to copy Jacen's boyish looks and idiosyncrasies, except for the fact that her curves are too pronounced to hide easily. In the end, they must not only bind her chest with cloth wrapped around tightly to keep her physique a bit more flat, but they must also give her slightly looser and baggier clothes than Jacen usually wears. In the end, though, Marie makes a pretty good Jacen, and she heads off with the Musketeers while Jacen stays to play the part of Marie at the manor for a little while longer before being sent off to the appointed location.*

(OOC: By the way, so that you don't bankrupt yourselves, I assume that for these days that just pass you moved out of Lanvariel's Blessing and into a cheaper inn? Anyway--I'll split the next two posts for the two groups)

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Oh, and before I forget, I haven't given XP, right? For the party, roleplaying, duels, etc, all Musketeers gain 1250 XP. Hyacinthe is playing with a PC class and so effectively has a negative level adjustment for calculating how much XP he earns only, but he also didn't do quite as much (certainly partially my fault--I'm working on ways to give him more things to do in general) so he gets 1075 XP)

 

[Velmont]

OOC: No problem with me. I was expecting that, having a bit less spotlight then the others. Also, in teh last month, I was parcticing a lot for a show that happen last week-end, I will probably try to make things move a bit more for all my games during the week-end, the first week-end I,ll have for a month.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Tristan, Gabriel, Hyacinthe, and Marie--)

"Wheeeee!" Marie exclaims exultantly, spinning about with her arms outstretched, before modulating her voice downward again in an attempt to imitate Jacen, "This is so cool! I get to be a Musketeer. Hey, Sir Tristan, Sir Gabriel, can I train swords with you?" she asks as they continue down the path towards the town.

 

[Fenris]

(OOC: Tristan, Gabriel, Hyacinthe, and Marie--)

"Wheeeee!" Marie exclaims exultantly, spinning about with her arms outstretched, before modulating her voice downward again in an attempt to imitate Jacen, "This is so cool! I get to be a Musketeer. Hey, Sir Tristan, Sir Gabriel, can I train swords with you?" she asks as they continue down the path towards the town.

"Of course Jacen. Evert Musketeer must know how to use a sword. But please, Tristan is sufficient, Jacen."

Tristan stops suddenly and slaps his head "Oh we forgot something that will be hard to disguise. Jacen goes through at least 6 prostitutes a night, and for the disguise to work........"

Tristan waits a heartbeat as waves of realizations crash over Marie and as her eyes grow larger and her skin whiter, Tristan finally can no longer hold it in and starts laughing. "I kid, I kid. It is merely a joke peu de fleur. It is not true at all." he says as the color returns to Marie. "But you must get used to more manly things, swords,wine, gambling, rough talk and women yes? We must treat you as Jacen, as a man at least for a time. It will be a fun time for you my dear." adds Tristan with a kind smile down at Marie. "And I know your heart's desire, or at least one" says Tristan with a grin "and we shall start sword play tomorrow."

 

[unleashed]

*Gabriel shakes his head and chuckles at Tristan’s jest.*

“Indeed, leave titles for formal occasions Jacen, but Tristan does have the right of things otherwise … though it wouldn’t do to tarnish his innocent boy image too much, Tristan,” he adds with a laugh, slapping the big man on the shoulder as he grins at Marie.

 

[Velmont]

"That's right, mistr... master Jacen." agree Hyacinthe. "Jacen is new to the Musketeer, he is young, I think your lack of knowledge about the musketeer could be put on that. Also, I might suggest that I might stay at the service of master Jacen for now, in that way, he would always have someone familiar around, in case you both need to go on separate business. As I m used to serve the three of you, I don't think anyone would see something unusual with that."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Of course Jacen. Evert Musketeer must know how to use a sword. But please, Tristan is sufficient, Jacen."

Tristan stops suddenly and slaps his head "Oh we forgot something that will be hard to disguise. Jacen goes through at least 6 prostitutes a night, and for the disguise to work........"

"Uh, right, Tristan, I...What?!" Marie's eyes widen in incredulity.

"I kid, I kid. It is merely a joke peu de fleur. It is not true at all."

"You're mean," Marie sticks out her tongue.

"But you must get used to more manly things, swords,wine, gambling, rough talk and women yes? We must treat you as Jacen, as a man at least for a time. It will be a fun time for you my dear." adds Tristan with a kind smile down at Marie. "And I know your heart's desire, or at least one" says Tristan with a grin "and we shall start sword play tomorrow."

"Women...I don't know how that's going to work. I'll try with the rest of it though. Yay for swordplay! I'm glad to see you're willing to flout my father's wishes. You guys rock! C'est formidable! Am I going to have to learn how to gamble too? What games should I know?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Meanwhile, with Jacen)

"Alright, 'Marie', are you ready? Tommy has to travel to the monastery to be ordained, so Guillaume and I will escort you to the plains, but we have to leave you to walk the last bit yourself so you 'come alone' and don't scare off the Pumpernickel or worse, make him destroy the Tear," Richard asks.

 

[Velmont]

"If you wish, Masters" tells Hyacinthe to Tristan and Gabriel "I can stay with mistress so I can give her some advice all the time. It is not unusual to see a musketeer with his laquais around him at anytime."