Jon can be James Bond. Let's not be Alex Rider.
As An Eagle Flies (A House Arryn Quest)
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Magoose
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I believe it's Arstan Arryn... or is it Alex Arryn? I can't remember.
Either way, your most likely not going to be that unless bad things happen.
I wouldn't object to being a member of CHERUB though.
Magoose
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Or just... you know... the Westrosi equivalent.
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Part 12: A Welcome
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Part 12: A Welcome.
You sat down next to Rhaella, whom quietly scooted over and allowed you to get served. The breakfast was quite small,but hearty. The eggs were a fine scrambled, with some freshly baked bread on the side, and a tiny slab of butter melting on top of it. For meat it was only two pieces of bacon, but they smelled scrumptious, of a hint of smoke and salt from the sizzling smell that arose from it.
You ate it quickly, trying to savor the food that was in front of you.
It was a moment after you were eating your bread that you noticed the Princess was still staring at you, her mind trying to think of the words to say something.
"Is everything okay?" You asked. The other children at the table were playing with their food, but not wasting it, allowing it to get more cold to eat.
Rhaella nodded. "Why did you not defend yourself from all the japes my brother and his friends threw at you?"
You rolled your eyes. "Because what they said is the truth. I fell over because I didn't know the door or the place, and made a fool of myself. There is no reason to deny any of that. I can only learn from it."
The princess was quite impressed with your answer, and slightly confused by it. "Oh."
For a moment you thought you saw a devious smile rise on her face. For a moment that was, before she took another bite of a piece of bacon. "What about training? Are you going to try and become a knight like Steffon? Or become a Lord like Tywin?"
"What does Aerys want to be?" You asked.
"He wants to be both. Thinks that he can ride in tourneys and rule the realm at the same time. He seems totally fixated on being the best." She replied.
"What's the problem with that? You think he can't do it?" You asked. It had been done before plenty of times before and since the Seven kingdoms were founded.
"Aerys can't focus on anything that doesn't involve people who can keep him focused. The Maester never disciplines him fully because he's afraid Aerys is going to claim he is being abused by him, and Duncan can't be there at all times to keep him focused." Rhaella replied.
"What about you?" You asked. "What do you want to be?"
"I want to be queen." Rhaella said with a smile, getting a smile from the Queen
It was than a large piece of egg landed right on the Princess' face, with Aerys and Steffon laughing. "Great shot." Steffon stated.
The Queen rolled her eyes, as if this was a near daily occurrence. "Aerys." She said his name with a growel. "Stop it."
Aerys did, and quickly he seemed to become more defensive, and quiet.
You went back to eating your food and ignoring everyone around you. As much as Rhaella pestered to you to keep talking.
As you finished eating, the doors behind you opened with force, and King Aegon, the Fifth of his name, quickly strode into the room.
He looked near the same as when you saw him at the docks, white hair, bright purple eyes, and black and red cloak. However, here he looked a little lost in thought, with something clear on his mind.
Everyone looked up and gave him their full attention.
The king than sat down at the head of the table, and cleared his throat. "I apologize for my delay, there was a matter that needed attending." A heartbeat passed. "Well I believe we should welcome Lord Arstan Arryn, the newest Ward of the Crown."
Everyone looked at you and gave a small, dignified wave. "Now, I need to remind all of you of the rules here, because someone." His glare was aimed at both Nymeria and Steffon. "Decided it was a good idea to steal a horse from the stable and ride her out on the streets of the city."
There was another pause. "Lord Arryn you are here as a Ward, that means in addition to living within the walls of the Red Keep, you shall also be training for your duties as Lord of the Eyrie."
The King than saw that a servant was bringing food but waved him off. "In a moment." He ordered.
The servant nodded, and the King continued. "There are rules here, such as not stealing crown property."
"How many times do we have to tell you, we were just borrowing the horse to practice riding." Steffon protested, much to cringe of Nymeria.
"Shut up." She demanded.
"I second that statement Lord Baratheon, as you are already well aware of your punishment." the king replied.
"The rules are simple. Do not steal, do not wander out of the castle without an escort from one of the kings guard, do not try to sneak out of bed at night and do not, miss Grand Maester Jonnel's and Ser Duncan's lessons." He ordered. "The only way to get out of those lessons are sickness and injury.
"What happens if we miss one of the lessons your grace?" You asked.
The King gave a smile that honestly frightened you. "You'll find out." He said, his smile not leaving his face, and out of the corner of your eye you can see two of the kings guard exchanging a bag of coins.
The servant than set down a plate of food and Aegon smiled. "Scrambled eggs and bacon, my favorite."
A simple meal for a simple king… so the saying goes you think?
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Do you go to Maester Jonnel's lessons?:
[]Yes
[]No (Not going will have consequences)
Do you go to Ser Duncan's Lessons:
[]Yes
[]No
After the Lessons, what do you do:
(Choose 3 or 4 or 5 if you choose no on any of the options above)
[]Go to the Library: You want to read some books.
[]Request an Audience with the King: You want to speak to the King, in private hopefully. About duty, and knighthood… And why he came to you at the ship with a hundred men?
[]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
[]Spend time with Nymeria: The Dornish girl is quite interesting, you want to ask her about her home, and how different it is from the Vale.
[]Spend time with Steffon: So he's the troublemaker of this group…. Oh what the hells, time to join in and see if you can be his friend. It might do him some good.
[]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
[]Spend time with Aerys: The Prince is lacking discipline in his studies. Perhaps you can find out why, and maybe even help him.
[]Spend time with the Kingsguard: The greatest knights of the realm… maybe you can learn how to be as great as them.
[]Try to Wander the City of Kings Landing: You want to see what this city has to offer. If His Grace allows you to go to the city with one of the Kingsguard.
AN: For the next two, maybe three turns, we are going to be training, gaining skills and making friends before our first little adventure.
PLAN FORMAT PLEASE!
You sat down next to Rhaella, whom quietly scooted over and allowed you to get served. The breakfast was quite small,but hearty. The eggs were a fine scrambled, with some freshly baked bread on the side, and a tiny slab of butter melting on top of it. For meat it was only two pieces of bacon, but they smelled scrumptious, of a hint of smoke and salt from the sizzling smell that arose from it.
You ate it quickly, trying to savor the food that was in front of you.
It was a moment after you were eating your bread that you noticed the Princess was still staring at you, her mind trying to think of the words to say something.
"Is everything okay?" You asked. The other children at the table were playing with their food, but not wasting it, allowing it to get more cold to eat.
Rhaella nodded. "Why did you not defend yourself from all the japes my brother and his friends threw at you?"
You rolled your eyes. "Because what they said is the truth. I fell over because I didn't know the door or the place, and made a fool of myself. There is no reason to deny any of that. I can only learn from it."
The princess was quite impressed with your answer, and slightly confused by it. "Oh."
For a moment you thought you saw a devious smile rise on her face. For a moment that was, before she took another bite of a piece of bacon. "What about training? Are you going to try and become a knight like Steffon? Or become a Lord like Tywin?"
"What does Aerys want to be?" You asked.
"He wants to be both. Thinks that he can ride in tourneys and rule the realm at the same time. He seems totally fixated on being the best." She replied.
"What's the problem with that? You think he can't do it?" You asked. It had been done before plenty of times before and since the Seven kingdoms were founded.
"Aerys can't focus on anything that doesn't involve people who can keep him focused. The Maester never disciplines him fully because he's afraid Aerys is going to claim he is being abused by him, and Duncan can't be there at all times to keep him focused." Rhaella replied.
"What about you?" You asked. "What do you want to be?"
"I want to be queen." Rhaella said with a smile, getting a smile from the Queen
It was than a large piece of egg landed right on the Princess' face, with Aerys and Steffon laughing. "Great shot." Steffon stated.
The Queen rolled her eyes, as if this was a near daily occurrence. "Aerys." She said his name with a growel. "Stop it."
Aerys did, and quickly he seemed to become more defensive, and quiet.
You went back to eating your food and ignoring everyone around you. As much as Rhaella pestered to you to keep talking.
As you finished eating, the doors behind you opened with force, and King Aegon, the Fifth of his name, quickly strode into the room.
He looked near the same as when you saw him at the docks, white hair, bright purple eyes, and black and red cloak. However, here he looked a little lost in thought, with something clear on his mind.
Everyone looked up and gave him their full attention.
The king than sat down at the head of the table, and cleared his throat. "I apologize for my delay, there was a matter that needed attending." A heartbeat passed. "Well I believe we should welcome Lord Arstan Arryn, the newest Ward of the Crown."
Everyone looked at you and gave a small, dignified wave. "Now, I need to remind all of you of the rules here, because someone." His glare was aimed at both Nymeria and Steffon. "Decided it was a good idea to steal a horse from the stable and ride her out on the streets of the city."
There was another pause. "Lord Arryn you are here as a Ward, that means in addition to living within the walls of the Red Keep, you shall also be training for your duties as Lord of the Eyrie."
The King than saw that a servant was bringing food but waved him off. "In a moment." He ordered.
The servant nodded, and the King continued. "There are rules here, such as not stealing crown property."
"How many times do we have to tell you, we were just borrowing the horse to practice riding." Steffon protested, much to cringe of Nymeria.
"Shut up." She demanded.
"I second that statement Lord Baratheon, as you are already well aware of your punishment." the king replied.
"The rules are simple. Do not steal, do not wander out of the castle without an escort from one of the kings guard, do not try to sneak out of bed at night and do not, miss Grand Maester Jonnel's and Ser Duncan's lessons." He ordered. "The only way to get out of those lessons are sickness and injury.
"What happens if we miss one of the lessons your grace?" You asked.
The King gave a smile that honestly frightened you. "You'll find out." He said, his smile not leaving his face, and out of the corner of your eye you can see two of the kings guard exchanging a bag of coins.
The servant than set down a plate of food and Aegon smiled. "Scrambled eggs and bacon, my favorite."
A simple meal for a simple king… so the saying goes you think?
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Do you go to Maester Jonnel's lessons?:
[]Yes
[]No (Not going will have consequences)
Do you go to Ser Duncan's Lessons:
[]Yes
[]No
After the Lessons, what do you do:
(Choose 3 or 4 or 5 if you choose no on any of the options above)
[]Go to the Library: You want to read some books.
[]Request an Audience with the King: You want to speak to the King, in private hopefully. About duty, and knighthood… And why he came to you at the ship with a hundred men?
[]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
[]Spend time with Nymeria: The Dornish girl is quite interesting, you want to ask her about her home, and how different it is from the Vale.
[]Spend time with Steffon: So he's the troublemaker of this group…. Oh what the hells, time to join in and see if you can be his friend. It might do him some good.
[]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
[]Spend time with Aerys: The Prince is lacking discipline in his studies. Perhaps you can find out why, and maybe even help him.
[]Spend time with the Kingsguard: The greatest knights of the realm… maybe you can learn how to be as great as them.
[]Try to Wander the City of Kings Landing: You want to see what this city has to offer. If His Grace allows you to go to the city with one of the Kingsguard.
AN: For the next two, maybe three turns, we are going to be training, gaining skills and making friends before our first little adventure.
PLAN FORMAT PLEASE!
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AzraelvonGruber
probably should put something here...
- Location
- somewhere in France
[X]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
-Do you go to Maester Jonnel's lessons?:
[X] Yes
-Do you go to Ser Duncan's Lessons:
[X] Yes
We just came here and ... not the time to make a bad impression
-[X]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
-[X]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
-[X]Spend time with Aerys: The Prince is lacking discipline in his studies. Perhaps you can find out why, and maybe even help him.
Rhaella ? Because i like her. Tywin ? Because better to have him as a friend than the opposite. Aerys ? Maybe... MAYBE we can't "cure" his futur madness but we can contain it... MAYBE.
-Do you go to Maester Jonnel's lessons?:
[X] Yes
-Do you go to Ser Duncan's Lessons:
[X] Yes
We just came here and ... not the time to make a bad impression
-[X]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
-[X]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
-[X]Spend time with Aerys: The Prince is lacking discipline in his studies. Perhaps you can find out why, and maybe even help him.
Rhaella ? Because i like her. Tywin ? Because better to have him as a friend than the opposite. Aerys ? Maybe... MAYBE we can't "cure" his futur madness but we can contain it... MAYBE.
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Magoose
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Need to put a [] and an X in tha [].
[x]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
[X]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
Inverted Fallecy
Beware the Dialogue that Spews Forth!~
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- Somewhere behind a Screen.~
[x]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
- Location
- United States
Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
- Location
- California,USA
[X]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
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- Asia
[x]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
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- My room
[X]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
Had everything I wanted to vote for but coul;d be convinced to change out Rhallea for Steffon to try and get in on that FRIENDSHIP.
Had everything I wanted to vote for but coul;d be convinced to change out Rhallea for Steffon to try and get in on that FRIENDSHIP.
Nenshou Yuuki
I will fail you in every way
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- London
[x]Plan Meet and Greet
-[x] Yes
-[x] Yes
-[x]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
-[x]Spend time with Nymeria: The Dornish girl is quite interesting, you want to ask her about her home, and how different it is from the Vale.
-[x]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
Seems like a good idea to stick to the rules, at least for now, we'll see what the future offers. Solidifying our relationship with Rhaella is a good idea and hey, maybe we'll be able to marry her down the line. I'm interested in Nymeria and Dorne, I'd like to see if anything there has changed and befriending Tywin can never hurt, it'd be useful down the line.
-[x] Yes
-[x] Yes
-[x]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
-[x]Spend time with Nymeria: The Dornish girl is quite interesting, you want to ask her about her home, and how different it is from the Vale.
-[x]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
Seems like a good idea to stick to the rules, at least for now, we'll see what the future offers. Solidifying our relationship with Rhaella is a good idea and hey, maybe we'll be able to marry her down the line. I'm interested in Nymeria and Dorne, I'd like to see if anything there has changed and befriending Tywin can never hurt, it'd be useful down the line.
Kufufu
Adequate at best
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- What's it to ya?
Do remember that he isn't mad yet, he is just a bit scatterbrained.
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- My room
He only really went crazy when left in the dungeons of darkwoods or whatever their name was for two flippin years
Just save him when he gets Kingnapped and we should be groovy. If we don't somehow butterfly Summerhall away somehow.
Just save him when he gets Kingnapped and we should be groovy. If we don't somehow butterfly Summerhall away somehow.
Magoose
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Aerys is very much a person with impulse control issues. I really think that, given the proper time, training and encouragement, he could have just been a regular person with no real problems besides the occasional outburst.
Unfortunately, he's got inbreeding and the possibility of becoming king threatening his mental stability.
But we all know how we can help him become the man he was meant to be:
By the power of friendship
Darrklyn's actually, and it's quite weird how the Targaryen dynasty just didn't take that family's Valyrian steel sword when they put Duskendale to the sword.
Sure it's not as prestigious as Blackfyre or even Dark Sister, but Valyrian steel is Valyrian steel.
Probobily not going to happen.
What? Egg wants to hatch dragons, so he's going to try to hatch dragons.
- Location
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[X] Plan Wander City and Kingsguard
-[X]No to Jonnel
-[X]Yes
-[X]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
-[X]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
-[X]Spend time with the Kingsguard: The greatest knights of the realm… maybe you can learn how to be as great as them.
-[X]Try to Wander the City of Kings Landing: You want to see what this city has to offer. If His Grace allows you to go to the city with one of the Kingsguard.
-[X]No to Jonnel
-[X]Yes
-[X]Spend time with Rhaella: You want to spend time with the Princess, maybe try and become her friend.
-[X]Spend time with Tywin: The boy is as serious and studious as you… maybe he'll be a great friend.
-[X]Spend time with the Kingsguard: The greatest knights of the realm… maybe you can learn how to be as great as them.
-[X]Try to Wander the City of Kings Landing: You want to see what this city has to offer. If His Grace allows you to go to the city with one of the Kingsguard.
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Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
[x]Plan : Arstan is a good boy !
Fine by me. Tywin... he may be less emotionally stunted here but he'll still have some degree of ice water in his veins. That actually works out for us because he'll be taking this mostly seriously, understanding a fraction of the weight on our combined shoulders. I'm not sure where his ambitions will take him now that putting a bandage over his family's badly wounded pride is superfluous.
Aerys is the other end of things. Volatile and flitting back and forth from every possible extreme. We won't, can't, get complacent around him and (even if he will likely try to use a live blade on us during training one day) we can not afford to get too entrenched in our ways. If the boy is mad, he is no madder than the world he lives in and which we have to live in too. Compare him to any crowd of people in King's Landing.
Rhaella... she is a person in a more classical sense of the word. Less a force of nature. I don't think she is innocent any more than her brother but at least she seems more capable of human interactions. She'll probably be a player just like all the rest as she aims to be queen though.
So we have a tripod of those things we will absolutely have to become comfortable with. Cold reason, the wavering fires of whim and want, and... the hardest of our priorities... still dealing with people as people at the end of the day.
The 'madness' didn't just appear one day. It was just fairly quiescent until someone kicked over its cage.
A good or great person can carry a lot of baggage all the way from birth.
Or is just distracted by one ahistorical war or another.
Fine by me. Tywin... he may be less emotionally stunted here but he'll still have some degree of ice water in his veins. That actually works out for us because he'll be taking this mostly seriously, understanding a fraction of the weight on our combined shoulders. I'm not sure where his ambitions will take him now that putting a bandage over his family's badly wounded pride is superfluous.
Aerys is the other end of things. Volatile and flitting back and forth from every possible extreme. We won't, can't, get complacent around him and (even if he will likely try to use a live blade on us during training one day) we can not afford to get too entrenched in our ways. If the boy is mad, he is no madder than the world he lives in and which we have to live in too. Compare him to any crowd of people in King's Landing.
Rhaella... she is a person in a more classical sense of the word. Less a force of nature. I don't think she is innocent any more than her brother but at least she seems more capable of human interactions. She'll probably be a player just like all the rest as she aims to be queen though.
So we have a tripod of those things we will absolutely have to become comfortable with. Cold reason, the wavering fires of whim and want, and... the hardest of our priorities... still dealing with people as people at the end of the day.
He reminds me of a bipolar (among other things) relative I had. Its something they always had in them and circumstances just put them off kilter enough that it came out. Then things went into a vicious cycle with their imagined issues creating real issues that validated in their own mind more imaginary issues... and things went downhill from there.
The 'madness' didn't just appear one day. It was just fairly quiescent until someone kicked over its cage.
A good or great person can carry a lot of baggage all the way from birth.
We'll have to see if anybody else is late to the party. Or if Egg SUCCEEDS.
Or is just distracted by one ahistorical war or another.
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Magoose
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Tywin will always have ambition... they may now be more... practical, forward-thinking. Dare I say... revolutionary.
For the state of Westeros that is.
Well, the one thing we can be certain about Aerys is that he is completely random and can spend weeks focusing on one thing, gaining near mastery of it, only to drop it for another thing because he got bored.
Which thankfully, could actually make Aerys a good man/king if he can get all sorts of training and keep his head on his shoulders, his head in the clouds, and some solid boots on the ground.
Won't it be fun with our personality bouncing off of theirs?
The thing about Aerys is, when he gets focused, he really gets focused, which would do him well if he had someone to point him in the right direction to keep his focus.
Dragons? Magic? Ahistorical War?
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!