The Heir of the Dragon: A Rhaenyra Targaryen Quest
- Location
- Spain
And we still have to learn how to play music to properly serenade Alicent...
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen
Yeah, but it's not going to happen unless we do something amazing, and "holy shit, Rhaenyra just won a tournament as a mystery knight" is going to be pretty important as the groundwork for that. Riding off into the sunset with Alicent means that Rhaenyra is going to have to do something else equally public and impressive and literally under Viserys' nose, and... Well, even when you're "the mightiest knight on life," winning tournaments isn't a sure thing.
At the next tourney there may well be multiple Criston Coles worth of badassery for us to fight our way through to win. Not impossible, but by no means a certainty. Though to give this up for Alicent and "just have to do it again" has its own charms.
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- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Eyes on the prize people. There's a time for romance and a time for responsibility - and frankly this was already pretty romantic!
Eyes on the prize people. There's a time for romance and a time for responsibility - and frankly this was already pretty romantic!
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
What do we have to lose by angling for Manderly to knight Rhaenyra on the spot? I think he's likely to go for it. Among other things, we know he's bold and ambitious and already wants an alliance with Rhaenyra. And if he knights her, she will NEVER forget that, and he knows it.
I do respect the alternative, though.
And, yeah. I was worried that Rhaenyra's shoulder was outright dislocated there. It sounds like it's not, but she's going to need a lot of tender loving care and to not overwork that sports injury.
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Lord Dustin retelling the events of the Great Northern Tourney: You are not going to believe what happened
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Shapeless Phobos
Filthy Casual
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Ser Rhaenyra the Silver has a good ring to it, I think.
- Location
- Lake Wobegon
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
We have given him many tales to fill his winter hall with
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I don't think the crowds will boo.
One, Targaryens are weird aliens who are partially exempt from normal standards of behavior. Rhaenyra's most famous ancestor is well known for fucking both his sisters, and a princess becoming a knight is WAY less weird than that.
And two, the smallfolk of White Harbor just watched Rhaenyra trounce someone they really hate and were literally throwing rotten fruit at a few minutes ago.
We'd have to win a second tournament, and there will probably be multiple Criston Cole-level badasses for us to batter our way through. It is by no means a given that we will win the second tournament; we could have lost this one.
Oh, I think Rhaenyra will absolutely enter another tournament at some point, and Criston Cole or someone equally good will probably be there to break lances with.
But if she's established as a knight, then losing won't hurt the same way it would have this time.
MAN I was freaked out when I got to the part where Rhaenyra was "staring at the sky." I thought she'd been unhorsed.
I think the excuse checks out, yeah. I could totally see Brienne of Tarth doing something like that with her platonic childhood bestie only girl friend, and I'm pretty sure she's not even gay.
Well, we absolutely do need to keep doing Prowess/training actions now and then, we can't entirely ignore it, but yeah, it stops being a priority and our action economy eases up a bit.
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I want to unmask solely because these words by Cole are so fresh
Nothing more ironic than telling the girl you thought was just playing at being a warrior that she was born to wield a sword. Am I the only one who thought this is a great line to throw back in the future to Cole if he's being an asshat?
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Ser Rhaenyra the Silver has a good ring to it, I think.
I was also wondering on what cool epithets Rhaenyra could get from this!
Anyhow~
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
The Cole and Unwin Peake salt will be max if we do this right now, thusly it's the objectively better choice.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Good gods did they ever, sheesh.
CharlieKing
Pure of Heart, Dumb of Ass
- Pronouns
- They/Them
now that i've calmed down: how much were the tournemant winnings plus armor ransoms? we can probably do some interesting things with that!
off the top of my head
off the top of my head
- charity! hand out alms, fund some apprenticeships, pay for public works, maybe straight up chuck cash at a sept (increases opinion with the smallfolk. if we want to influence and encourage the more pragmatic/progressive portions of the Faith this is an approach.)
- fancy new armor 😉
- cool sword 😉
- wardrobe items like jewelry, dresses, accessories (a gift for Alicent maybe🥺)
- H O R S E
- investing! i am actually not sure what investment opportunities would be appropriate for Rhaenyra's station besides trade fleets. but if we want more influence in economics without isembard attached this is how to go about it.
- patronizing the arts - can strongly overlap with charity, but doesn't need to. again, not sure what woukd be appropriate for Rhaenyra's station.
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- Pronouns
- Reader
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Very nice. Suitably dramatic and with an appropriate finish to the tourney itself. Gonna be honest here, the whole eyes for only alicent thing as a lead up to the vote makes sense, but kind of weakens the overall finish in my opinion.
Very nice. Suitably dramatic and with an appropriate finish to the tourney itself. Gonna be honest here, the whole eyes for only alicent thing as a lead up to the vote makes sense, but kind of weakens the overall finish in my opinion.
Inverted Fallecy
Beware the Dialogue that Spews Forth!~
- Location
- Somewhere behind a Screen.~
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
- Pronouns
- Reader
We can probably meet a hedge knight or two along the way that would appreciate the funds for proper armor, in return for dawning the role of mystery knight. I for one like the idea of the silver falcon living on in the next tourney.
- Location
- United States
To clarify, we don't reveal ourselves if we pick romantic?
I really like the concept of competing in a bunch of different Tournaments to build up the mystery. However, we don't have the action economy for that and I don't want to make @Teen Spirit write a bunch of Tournaments that retread this same ground. And we beat Cole, so narratively I feel like we already beat the miniboss of the "become a knight" thing.
If we're going to face him again, something between us needs to have changed - and him learning our real identity seems right. It'd be kind of interesting to do another Tournament (the one at Highgarden maybe?) but this time under our real name, as a way to cement the status.
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Edit: Also, it doesn't seem right for a mystery knight, even a victorious one, to ride off with a highborn lady? It's all very romantic and is the sort of thing that happens in plays. But in practice, uh, nobody knows who this guy is, and they think he's lowborn, and they don't know where he's taking her. Somebody's gotta stop him.
I really like the concept of competing in a bunch of different Tournaments to build up the mystery. However, we don't have the action economy for that and I don't want to make @Teen Spirit write a bunch of Tournaments that retread this same ground. And we beat Cole, so narratively I feel like we already beat the miniboss of the "become a knight" thing.
If we're going to face him again, something between us needs to have changed - and him learning our real identity seems right. It'd be kind of interesting to do another Tournament (the one at Highgarden maybe?) but this time under our real name, as a way to cement the status.
[X] [Defiant] [To Become A Knight] Face Lord Manderly and reveal yourself to the crowd as Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Edit: Also, it doesn't seem right for a mystery knight, even a victorious one, to ride off with a highborn lady? It's all very romantic and is the sort of thing that happens in plays. But in practice, uh, nobody knows who this guy is, and they think he's lowborn, and they don't know where he's taking her. Somebody's gotta stop him.
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Astra Myst
Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
[X] [Defiant] [Romantic] Extend your hand to Alicent. "Will the lady grant me the honour to join me on a ride?"