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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6764341" data-attributes="member: 6777052">"Landlord, we will lodge here tonight. Your best bedchambers, please.""Certainly, gentlemen. Would you care to give me your names?""Coronal Rylnethaz Redshield and his vizier BoldItalic. We may be joined by Archpriest Clotbert.""Thank you, Coronal, that will be 8 Ducats. If you will attend a moment, my wife will show you to your rooms."Upstairs in the Crown and Unicorn, it was quieter than in the crowded common-room downstairs. They were given an oak-panelled bedchamber furnished with four box beds, pleasantly warm and with a good log fire burning in the grate. Candles stood ready on a side table, for it was after sunset and would soon be dark, and a chest for belongings stood open beside it. A door led along a short side-passage to a private day room with a plain oak table and six uphostered chairs.Rylnethaz pronounced the accommodation satisfactory and the innkeeper's wife left them. He unstrapped his pack, placed it in the chest and began to remove his armour. "Will our valuables be safe in here, do you think?" he asked BoldItalic, "There are halflings about, and it would be a shame to lose a crown before gaining a kingdom.""Hmm. A little magic should secure it well enough." He closed the lid briefly, wove an Arcane Lock spell on it, then opened it again. "It will now open for you and me, but no-one else," he explained. "I will remove the spell before we leave. I will also set alarms on the doors and windows. If an intruder tries to get in, an invisible bell will ring loud enough to wake us if we are sleeping and, probably, frighten away any would-be thief. You might wish, however, to sleep with your sword beside you, as I shall my staff. Just in case.""Well done, my noble vizier, I knew I could rely on you.""Your majesty is too kind."At that moment, Clotbert entered looking flushed and with his vestments on backwards. Rylnethaz pretended not to notice. "Ah, good, we are all here," he remarked, "Now we can put our heads together and make plans for establishing my kingdom.""There are traditionally only two ways of doing it," suggested BoldItalic, "You could raise an army and capture a city and the country around it, or you could marry a princess and inherit her father's kingdom.""I can do weddings," offered Clotbert helpfully, "Can you conjure up a princess?""Possibly, but I don't think it's as easy as that. She would have to be nobly rescued from the clutches of an evil dragon or some such, then fall madly in love with the Coronal. A lot could go wrong in that scenario. Love-philters might be arranged, but there is still the matter of the dragon. It would have to be a real one.""Maybe not, then, but raising an army and beseiging a city sounds awfully difficult too. Accidents could happen. People might get hurt," countered Clotbert.BoldItalic looked at Rylnethaz. "Perhaps it is time for the king to make a decision."</blockquote>

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