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OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

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OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Rahvin » Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:23 am

The wooden shovel, wet in his hands from the steady drizzle, chafed the man’s hands as he worked at the damp earth. Taking a deep breath, he hauled himself out the hole to sit on the edge, cool dampness pressing against his skin through light trousers. Yes, he decided, the hole was definitely deep enough now. A look of sadness on his face, he pushed to his feet and walked the few short feet to the tree where the old man’s body lay stretched out beneath it.

He wasn’t a big man by any means; even in the old man’s wasted state, it took him some effort to lift the body. Even for his old age – closer to sixty, than fifty, the man figured – the deceased knight was still heavy. He’d lived a long life, the man decided, and how many men can say that? Still, the man frowned as he lowered the body of his mentor into the grave.

The man stood over the hole in the ground, staring down at the body of the man who’d changed his life so much. He supposed that he thought this would be different but, in the end, Ser Arlan had died the way he lived – as a hedge knight. The man had rode at his side, his squire for years, from keep to keep, taking service with this lord and lord, fighting in their battles and feasting in their halls until the war was done before moving on.

There had always been tourneys from time to time as well – how Ser Arlan had loved the tourneys! Of course the old man hadn’t ridden in a tilt himself, not since the tourney at Storm’s End where he’d rode against the Prince of Dragonstone himself years before. Ser Arlan always told him they had seven times passed against each other but, in the end, the old man had been unseated by the Prince. It is not every man who can boast that he broke seven lances against the finest knight in the Seven Kingdoms, he had said.

“That was how I’d always thought you’d die, old man,” the man said, frowning. “On the battlefield, not on the side of some muddy road.” That brought something else the old man had always said to mind: Another day done and who knows what the morrow will bring us, eh?

One morrow had brought the rains – the same blasted rain he wiped from his face now. The one after that had brought gusts of wind. The next, a chill – it was, after all, hardly yet spring. By the fourth day, the old man had been too weak to ride.

“And now you’re gone.” The man rubbed the back of his head, “I’d leave your sword but it would only rust in the ground.” Maybe the gods would give the knight a new one; he’d done so much he only deserved it.

He reached for the shovel again and glanced back to the knight’s body, “I wish you didn’t die, ser. You were a true knight and you never beat me when I didn’t deserve it.” Well, except that one time at Harrenhal; he hadn’t touched that stable girl, no matter what she’d said – he wasn’t like that at all. But he guessed it didn’t matter now.

The shovel scooped up some dirt and the man looked down one last time, “The gods keep you, uncle.”

It took Ser Robert of Pennytree nearly an hour in the rain to bury his uncle. By the time he’d finished, the sun was already coming up; the horses needed to be seen to, he realized. But then what? As he patted down Sweetfoot, his uncle’s old rounsey, he considered his option. He’d only ever known the life of a hedge knight; there was little else he could do.

They had been headed to the tournament at Ashford, perhaps he could – no, Robert decided quickly, that would never do. He was no tournament knight, he had never been able to manage even the simplest of tilts; he’d never make it there – no, Ashford would be for other champions. He could always go to Highgarden or Lannisport and find himself work as a guard. Surely someone would take him on; he had served with Ser Arlan for the Lannisters before, after all.

Satisfied with his decision, he packed up his little camp and led the horses down the road, towards the city of Highgarden.

Sometime later, he passed a small inn by the side of the road. A young boy, no more than eight years old with a clean shaven pate, pulled himself from the river where bathed. The bald boy wrapped himself in his simple clothes, watching as the strange hedge knight rode by without a word or so much as glancing in his way.

The boy frowned internally as he padded into the inn; he’d been hoping that one would stop – then he might have been able to get away from here, away from –

“Aegon!” the drunken call came. “Aegon! I need you!”

The boy sighed and went to the source of the call, “Yes, brother?”

The drunk’s eyes were bloodshot from several days of drinking, his clothes reeking of whatever types of drink he could manage to find. He closed his eyes and shook his head, “Aegon… I-I had a dream, brother…”

“A dream?” the boy sat beside his brother, suddenly interested. “Tell me, brother.”

“I had a dream of… two dragons, one red, one black…” He opened his eyes opened sleepily, “They stared at each other.” He smiled slightly, putting his head down on the table, “Funny… I could have sworn they were standing over Ashford Castle...” He was snoring almost before the words were done.

Aegon frowned; this did not bode well – his brother had dreams, true dreams, and that was the only time he’d ever mentioned dragons before. What did it mean? He tapped his fingers on the table and made a decision – he had to find some way to get to Ashford, with or without his drunken lout of a brother.


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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Derrick » Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:45 pm

*lays claim to the ooc*

This is my land now!
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Davelyn Sand » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:23 am

*scorches earth*
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Allard Terrick » Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:56 am

yo!
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Arwyn Forrester » Sun Aug 20, 2017 4:15 am

*bird is sad at the lack delicious seeds now that the earth is scorched*
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Desmond Terrick » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:04 am

*falls from the sky*

*offers seeds*
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Derrick » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:43 am

all the worlds seeds are now in the hands of a star?
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Gwenyth Snow » Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:39 pm

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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Derrick » Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:08 pm

*gasps*

Are you really that hungry gwen?!?

Are they not feeding you up north?
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Gwenyth Snow » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:02 pm

Southerners don't know how to hunt.
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Warryn Wydman » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:46 pm

I liiiiiiiiiiive
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Derrick » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:41 pm

Apparently not...

Though I just might not like my food pancaked...

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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Desmond Terrick » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:51 pm

Mmm... Pancakes....
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Rahvin » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:05 am

Fallen Star wrote:Mmm... Pancakes....


Pancakes?

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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Jasper » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:08 am

Bob Pancakes is life.
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Gwenyth Snow » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:17 am

*notices Jasper's avatar is Cersei*

*is very concerned*
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Maester Oswell » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:20 am

Bob pancakes
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Bob Burgers

Fight...
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Warryn Wydman » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:24 am

Gwenyth Snow wrote:*notices Jasper's avatar is Cersei*

*is very concerned*


Start making nice.
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Jasper » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:24 am

Gwenyth Snow wrote:*notices Jasper's avatar is Cersei*

*is very concerned*

:mrgreen:
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Desmond Terrick » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:26 am

Pfft.... What's Cersei going to do to us, desecrate our graves?
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Gwenyth Snow » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:34 am

Cersei wouldn't harm a little kid, right?

RIGHT?!

>_>
<_<
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Jasper » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:46 am

You know nothing, Gwenyth Snow.
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Derrick » Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:17 am

Fallen Star wrote:Pfft.... What's Cersei going to do to us, desecrate our graves?


Probably....

She likely rolls that way after all.

Can't trust those lannisters.
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Ulrich Reyne » Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:59 am

Now this is podracing.
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Re: OOC Chat Episode 0: An End, A Beginning

Post by Jasper » Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:45 am

First pregen approved yayyyyyyyyyy *kermit flail*
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