Well, it was a cabaret -- possibly the first -- so there was various stuff, but one of the big, popular draws was the shadow theatre, and I think some of the posters, frex the black one with the white lilies (lots of green stem going up the right hand side), are specifically for the shadows.
Hm, two out of four (the food and the crack), though I should have guessed WIPs since I must have put it in your head myself with the reference to doorknob syndrome. Or, wait, is that a specific WIP?
Um, the ghost story is a sort of classic big-event-brings-out-hidden-tensions thing (i.e. lots of work). I'm also not actually sure how much it counts as a ghost story.
Futureish, perhaps a couple of years on; rising hostilities on one of the borders, both Uther and Arthur, plus Merlin, ride out with the army, leaving Morgana-plus-Gwen to mind defences and diplomacy (backwards, in heels) back at the castle. Morgana has possibly quietly got involved with one of the knights, semiseriously, seminot, almost-deniably. I think she's making herself safe, collecting small alliances, now that she's worked out just demanding things from not-daddy won't work. Though she may still not really understand the word 'fallible'.
So -- back to Arthur. The army encamps near the border, in a good strategic spot. Arthur goes off with a small party to scout around, leaving Merlin because this is a mission that requires STEALTH. He gets back very late in the day, perhaps he's been delayed running into enemy men, or hiding back from a largeish force headed towards Camelot's borders -- so he's a bit worried when he does get back. But everything seems fine. Or maybe a little odd. Something off in the way his father talks to him. Something almost nice. Merlin's already asleep, so Arthur can't ask him if anything *cough*unusual*cough* might have happened, and Arthur's pretty exhausted himself -- he's probably just tired, he things. He'll ask Merlin in the morning.
And in the morning, in the very wee sma's, he's woken up by Morgana -- she drove rode all night -- who thinks something awful has happened.
Cue angst, woez, stoic Pendragon suffering, REPRESSED MUTUAL ADORATION and a minor power struggle. (Gwen knows she'll be picking up the pieces; the only difficulty is, which pieces to pick?)
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Hm, two out of four (the food and the crack), though I should have guessed WIPs since I must have put it in your head myself with the reference to doorknob syndrome. Or, wait, is that a specific WIP?
Um, the ghost story is a sort of classic big-event-brings-out-hidden-tensions thing (i.e. lots of work). I'm also not actually sure how much it counts as a ghost story.
Futureish, perhaps a couple of years on; rising hostilities on one of the borders, both Uther and Arthur, plus Merlin, ride out with the army, leaving Morgana-plus-Gwen to mind defences and diplomacy (backwards, in heels) back at the castle. Morgana has possibly quietly got involved with one of the knights, semiseriously, seminot, almost-deniably. I think she's making herself safe, collecting small alliances, now that she's worked out just demanding things from not-daddy won't work. Though she may still not really understand the word 'fallible'.
So -- back to Arthur. The army encamps near the border, in a good strategic spot. Arthur goes off with a small party to scout around, leaving Merlin because this is a mission that requires STEALTH. He gets back very late in the day, perhaps he's been delayed running into enemy men, or hiding back from a largeish force headed towards Camelot's borders -- so he's a bit worried when he does get back. But everything seems fine. Or maybe a little odd. Something off in the way his father talks to him. Something almost nice. Merlin's already asleep, so Arthur can't ask him if anything *cough*unusual*cough* might have happened, and Arthur's pretty exhausted himself -- he's probably just tired, he things. He'll ask Merlin in the morning.
And in the morning, in the very wee sma's, he's woken up by Morgana -- she
droverode all night -- who thinks something awful has happened.Cue angst, woez, stoic Pendragon suffering, REPRESSED MUTUAL ADORATION and a minor power struggle. (Gwen knows she'll be picking up the pieces; the only difficulty is, which pieces to pick?)