Grand Day on Grandisle

[Kender Bard]

When the ship pulled into port, the group was greeted by what appeared to be a large group of well dressed men and women and a smattering of guards.

"Welcome to Grandisle," the most richly dressed woman in the crowd called out once Cascata and Thavan had come to the railing.

"Greetings, Queen Delilah!" Cascata called back with a wave. She'd liked the woman when she met her.

"After giving it some thought I've decided to invite you and your crew to a great feast tonight!" Delilah called out. "Please dismount and I would appreciate it if you left those weapons on your ship. I'll see everyone taken care of and we'll get a headcount!"

"You heard Her Majesty," Thavan called out. "Disarm and disembark!"

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Larissa sighed. "Disarm again?" She pulled the Sai from her boots, and left them in their room on their hammock. "Well at least we'll get some good food. Or at least, I hope it's good." She grumbled at the thought of the strange creature they might be served at this dinner.

[Devon]

Ryo and Rowen left their weapons as instructed and headed off of the ship. "A feast, man this trip has been one big party Ryo," Rowen said to his friend. "Yeah it has," Ryo replied. "Soon we'll be back in Reave working again."

Kalian left the weapons he had and disembarked as well. With a feast going on in Grandisle this would be a good chance for him to spend some more time with Cascata before the trip was over and they had to return to Ronduin.

[Kender Bard]

"You'd know better than me," Demon said as he disarmed and joined the rest of the crew in coming off the ship.

Delilah was deep in conversation with Cascata and a rather awkward-looking Thavan, and so one of the other nobles was happy to engage the crew themselves.

"I bet none of you packed any finery," she tittered. "Well that won't do, will it? I say we hold two balls, one for the nobility and one for these poor, rough sailors."

A man near her quirked his eyebrow. "And they would have to be very close to one another. Dare I say, scandelously close?"

"Oh yes!" the woman enthused, laughing. "Follow me, good people. We'll put you on the edge of our gilded world and leave the door cracked if you catch my drift. This way, this way, we'll need many baths drawn, I suspect!" She waved a handkerchief in the air and beckoned to the crew to follow her as she and a small group of others followed her towards one of the great, looming estates.

[Northen Light36]

Acqua pulled a slight face as she stepped a fraction closer to Talon, squirming slightly in discomfort. "Nobles," she mutters under her breath, sounding scornful. The fact that technically she is nobility seems to have been banished from her mind.

[Devon]

Ryo, Rowen, and Kalian followed after the Queen, each one taking her presence differently. Rowen glanced to Ryo and smirked, "She is kind of cute." Ryo shook his head and replied, " I don't know if you'd call her cheerful or just..quirky."

[Kender Bard]

Talon just gave a small laugh. "These seem a little more outgoing than most nobles I've ever seen," he admitted, following the group as the noble woman in question, Lady Seona, led the entire crew into her mansion and began to separate everyone into four groups - two sets of girls and two sets of boys. "I'm afraid I've only four baths that I can let you lot use," she told them all apologetically.

Queen Delilah was an interesting looking woman. She had lustrous black hair, though wore it in pigtails for some reason; it looked very childish on the woman and her slightly short stature only emphasized the image. She was tanned, like most of the island's residents, but seemed fragile in her build. Whenever she smiled, her light green eyes flashed with merriment.

[Northen Light36]

"That's all right," Acqua replies with a smile, suppressing a childish moment of unease at being seperated from her brother. Having to wait for a bath or sharing a bathing room was nothing new to any of the guild, although only the shiest bothered to care about the genders of those using the room. After all, both the Talen'sul and Humontis guilds had hotsprings used by both sexes, so being fussy about the bathing rooms didn't make much sense.

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Larissa huffed and folded her arms across her chest. "Being confined on a ship, makes me no less a civilized woman in proper standing." She didn't like the insinuations being made about her standing in life.
But nonetheless a bath would be nice. She moved to stand in the line.

[Northen Light36]

"But being rude does," Acqua hisses at Larissa. "I'm nobility, technically, and you don't see me throwing a sulking fit. These people have no idea of the class or rank of anyone except Cascata and Thavan. Stop sulking before you disgrace yourself and the guild."

Forces, was she glad she was part of the Talen'sul guild branch now, rather then the Ilyamen one. Amaro and Sashi kept in contact, of course, and Mat had the Ilyamen thieves keeping an eye on the mercs, so she'd heard about the new girl in the Ilyaman guild, but Forces, she'd never imagined the other female merc could be so irritating. Demon had her sympathy.

In the back of her mind, Acqua half-considered inviting the other woman to the Talen'sul guild. Amaro would explode. She was hard pressed not to laugh aloud at the thought.

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"That's still no reason to be rude." Larissa mumbled. She'd didn't really know Aqua, and frankly she didn't care. Between being stuck on the ship, attacked on the ship, not to mention the bad hangover, this trip was starting to make her cranky, and the last thing she wanted was to be referred to as some damn dirty sailor.

[Kender Bard]

As people were slowly taken to the rooms, the hostess made circles around all of the people, inquiring after them curiously.

She came near Acqua and Larissa and smiled at them both. "And how are we today?" she asked them.

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"Happy to be off that boat for a while. No more long trips at sea if I can help it. And you?" Larissa said as stretched her arms a bit.

[Northen Light36]

"Just fine, thank you," Acqua replies politely, smiling. "It's kind of you to allow us into your lovely home." She reaches up to scratch Pixie behind the ears, making the small cat purr loudly.

~Mother would be stunned,~ Pixie teases. ~You do have some manners hidden away after all.~

Acqua resists the urge to pinch her companion's ear and instead simply stops sratching.

[Kender Bard]

Lady Seona smiled brightly at the women. She had a fairly youthful face, which made her long, silver hair a bit peculiar, and it had all the marks of being one that smiled quite often. "Why thank you! And oh yes I don't know how you can stand being on a boat for so long. I find the thought of being on a flammable object in the middle of all that water to be frankly horrifying." She tittered quietly. "And so for that reason I almost never leave Grandisle. I will have to trust that our colleagues across the sea have treated you kindly. They have, yes?"