A Journey to the Castle!

[Dracos]

The guard frowned.  "Are you all together or something?"  He looked over the squad of weirdos who'd been pestering him for a while.

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[Halbarad]

So THAT's Helena the Hellraiser... same girl that ran me over earlier, Patricia thinks.

Stepping up to the guard, she clears her throat. "I've gotten some help," she says levelly. "NOW can I at least go through to talk to the king? If he decides he doesn't want me, fine - but at least give me the chance!"

[Dracos]

"Well," The guard hemmed.  "I guess that does make a party of heroes...."

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[Carthrat]

"Damn straight!" says Helena, nodding in agreement. "Like, a party! Us! All four of us! That's what we are."

Producing a cord from somewhere, she starts tying her silky white hair into a tail.

"So, do we just go in, or what?"

[Dracos]

"Yeah, head into the waiting area with the rest of them."

He gestured through the gates to a mediumish long line of groups of fighters, thieves, and scoundrels.

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[Halbarad]

Patricia groans, rolling her eyes. This is NOT what I had in mind about meeting interesting new people, she grouses mentally. But I guess I can put up with her if it gets me inside - there's no WAY she'll be picked to go do whatever it is the king wants.

[Anastasia]

Alex just tags along, mute but keeping an eye on the more lively white haired magess.

[Carthrat]

"We've gotta wait?" says Helena, irritably. "What a bore.

Hey, who are you two, anyway?"

[Anastasia]

"...Alex," the swordsman finally replies, tactiturn. Shifting his feet at the long wait, he settles in and waits to be processed.

[Halbarad]

"Patricia," the white mage replies, her irritation causing her to be much less talkative than usual.

[Olvelsper]

OOC: Sorry, sorry. Had to spend most of the morning helping my mom with her car problems.

"...sorry about all this." Craig quietly piped up for Helena to the other two, taking off his bandana so he looked more solemn for the poor cleric and the fighter. "My name's Craig, pleasure to meet y'all."

[Halbarad]

Patricia gives Craig a wan smile. "A pleasure to meet you," she says, giving the man a quick bow - curtseys don't exactly work in a robe.

At least HE knows how to be polite, she thinks.

[Olvelsper]

"Excuse me, but wasn't this only for people with these?" Craig asked, moving his back towards the rest of the line and only showing the cleric and fighter his light orb. "I was lead to believe the king only wanted people with this particular bauble, but if not..."

[Halbarad]

Patricia blinks in surprise. "The announcement just said heroes, but..." She fishes inside her robe, bringing out a pouch.

"If that IS what they're looking for, I have one too - I was going to use it to try to be one of the ones picked." She opens the mouth of the pouch, revealing an orb almost identical to Craig's.

[Olvelsper]

"Oh...well, this might complicate matters for me." Craig sighed as he quickly placed his orb back into its own leather pouch before letting it drop back into his traveling pack.