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bitchprinceThe weather was fair in the early summer; there was a light breeze that ruffled through the leaves of the trees that kept most of the citadel obscured from view, the skies were blue and the sun burned gently within them. Just outside of Camelot, a small group of traders were readying themselves to approach the gates.
Just one last check of their wares, and they'd be headed in to find their places, set up their stands and find their buyers.
Within, Prince Arthur made his rounds with purpose, and King Uther entertained the Lady Catrina. The people bustled along the streets and squares of the lower town, and the knights gathered near the training field to ready themselves for an afternoon spent having the piss kicked out of them by their liege.
No one particularly expected any strange visitors to show up. But at Camelot, that was rarely a guarantee for anything.
[[ ocdcoming up! and for three people plus NPCs, whee! ]]
Just one last check of their wares, and they'd be headed in to find their places, set up their stands and find their buyers.
Within, Prince Arthur made his rounds with purpose, and King Uther entertained the Lady Catrina. The people bustled along the streets and squares of the lower town, and the knights gathered near the training field to ready themselves for an afternoon spent having the piss kicked out of them by their liege.
No one particularly expected any strange visitors to show up. But at Camelot, that was rarely a guarantee for anything.
[[ ocd
Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-25 02:45 pm (UTC)For some reason, a hay cart stood conveniently forgotten at the edge of the trader's camp, but such things happened about as often in Camelot as strange visitors did.
[[ for two and npcs, whee ]]
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-25 09:54 pm (UTC). . . or throw them way back in time.
"Jesus frikkin' #(*$_@!" she sputtered, swaying a little on her feet. "Portalocity would dump us right in the middle of the Renaissance Faire."
Shut up. Give her her moment of denial.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:14 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:17 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:19 am (UTC)"Do you think it's a devil?" asked another.
"Sounds just like a spooked dairy maid t' me!"
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:27 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:30 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:42 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:43 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 02:46 am (UTC)One curious trader had finally had enough, and his footsteps came ever closer.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:03 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:05 am (UTC)"Should be glad no one said 'bless you.' Geez."
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:10 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:59 am (UTC)Which didn't stop her from interjecting fairly smoothly, "We got a little lost. Where the h -- where are we, exactly?"
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 04:09 am (UTC)They dressed funny. It was possible. They were hot, that's what he cared about.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 03:57 pm (UTC)Really, the fact that she'd processed that detail so fast was the only reason Katchoo didn't haul off on the guy and try to give him the Parker Girl Facial special.
"Oh, that's just great, that figures, that . . ."
Let's just say for the next minute or so that Katchoo rambled, it wasn't fit to be textually reproduced.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 04:10 pm (UTC)He seemed less interested in their fate, somehow.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 04:25 pm (UTC)She was trying to be upset with Portalocity when she said, "Two years, they can't get anybody to Camelot, and now we end up here by mistake?" but it came out just this side of an eeeeee!
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 04:31 pm (UTC)Fine, guy wanted to think she was mad? She'd give him mad.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 04:33 pm (UTC)Suspicious trader was now suspicious.
"...That best not be some form of sorcery. You know how the King feels about that."
He was starting to contemplate ways to extract himself from this situation.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 04:51 pm (UTC)"Of course not. It's..." Smart enough to remember not to get suspected of being a witch, but smart enough to come up with a convincing lie? Er... "...just a saying where we come from. It means, like... we're too far from home to send a letter back complaining about the bad directions they gave us. But we know where we are now, thank you, so we should get going!"
The smile might have jumped the line over into desperate now, and there was some tugging on Katchoo's arm too. Some really hard tugging.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-26 09:14 pm (UTC)"Yeah," Katchoo added hastily, kicking herself for letting her guard down after so long in Fandom, but tapping into that Parker Girl training now. Just had to play up a little bit of an accent here, keep looking completely lost. "Sorry to confuse you with our foreign-ness. But thanks for the pointers! We can figure out our way from here."
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-27 01:06 am (UTC)She tugged Katchoo away from the hay cart towards the top of a gentle rise in the grass, both to get them out of earshot (if she could still hear muttering about crazy half-dressed foreign lasses, they were still too close) and so they could get their bearings and actually figure out where they should--
"...Holy wow."
Castle. Big, giant, five times the size of Fandom castle.
Re: Just Outside of Camelot
Date: 2010-08-27 01:22 am (UTC)"Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat sure as hell ain't Disneyland, Francie. Un. Frikkin'. Real. Guess we ought to go and see if we can scare up a couple of Fandom alums."
You know, assuming Portalocity had dumped them in the right Camelot.
Main Square
Date: 2010-08-25 02:47 pm (UTC)Right now, the sea of people parted gracefully, their heads bowing low as a familiar blond figure stalked past, flanked by two guards in mail and the Camelot colours.
Anyone trying to get too close would quickly be dragged down into a kneeling or bowing position before they could get anywhere near. After all, it was Prince Arthur.
Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-25 02:48 pm (UTC)Someone with very big ears, and some medicine to deliver.
[[ plz wait for merlin to ping in! ]]
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-26 12:40 am (UTC)Shut up.
Over here, in the shadows to make sure he didn't
get a tandraw any attention to himself.Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 01:30 am (UTC)Or the crowds could part and the second most familiar head of yellow hair in the world could flash in front of them.
"Ar--"
Francine clapped her hand over her mouth. And then one over Katchoo's just in case. All we'd need is you getting thrown in the dungeon for improperly addressing the prince... she could hear Arthur saying, months and months ago.
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 01:33 am (UTC)Or maybe just look like a spaz.
"Francine! Katchoo!"
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 01:42 am (UTC). . . because he did look like a spaz, and god, was she glad to see that particular bit of spazitude.
"Francie!" she hissed through her teeth (and Francine's hand, so how intelligible any of this was could be debated), maybe already starting to tug her that way. "It's Merlin!"
She wasn't waving back, but -- okay, she was. Just more low-key about it.
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 01:51 am (UTC)"Merlin!" There went the hand over Katchoo's mouth, now to be used for waving, since the other one was busy holding a huge duffel bag.
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 01:55 am (UTC)"I missed you guys!"
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 02:00 am (UTC)"Okay, okay, geez!" she exclaimed, not complaining at all, actually. "Missed you too, Ears!"
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 02:12 am (UTC)Spazzy sandwich of hilarity, here we come!
"Portalocity sucks!" She might just as well have added the yay!
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 02:15 am (UTC)Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 02:50 am (UTC)That shoulder was probably not Katchoo's, her being the shortest of the three. Or, spazziness and hilarity factored in, it could have been.
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 03:29 am (UTC)You didn't need those ribs, did you, Merlin?
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 05:55 am (UTC)"You guys managed to come at an... er... interesting time."
To say the least.
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 10:05 pm (UTC)"Interesting how?"
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-27 10:34 pm (UTC)TROUSERS. ON THE WOMENFOLK.
Re: Just Off The Main Square
Date: 2010-08-28 02:00 am (UTC)"Ooh, like the dresses Morgana wears?"
OOC
Date: 2010-08-25 02:49 pm (UTC)Re: OOC
Date: 2010-08-26 01:57 am (UTC)Fantastic FourQuartetClusterf*ck are together again!*