battle ready armor

He wasn't even supposed to talk. He was just supposed to stand around and look handsome. And maybe cut people down if they got too close to dear Queen Ania. Eric thought himself pretty darn good at both of those things.

And then all of a sudden he was Lord Commander. Head military cheese. The guy who had to think and not just smile and win the hearts of the purest maidens. His immediate sense of dread, the realization that all of a sudden he was responsible for making decisions and with those decisions came death for failure, weighed heavily enough to have him kneel.

“You honour me greatly, your Grace,” Eric went through the noble motions, before straightening back up and trying to think as fast as his little brain to could take him to think something up.

“As we stand, we have the...uh... advantage. Because...” Shit, shit, shit, think something up. Anything. Literally make up a story if it works. “You hold the ballro- er, throne. Capturing the throne is a critical symbol for Prince-...ess William, and we know he-...she will attack here.”

That was... plainly obvious stuff as far as Eric was concerned. But at least he was speaking, and so long as they were listening they couldn't chop his head off. “Their advantage is mobility. We can't just capture their meeting hall, since they can just move it. Before we lay down force, we need information and to be one step ahead. So long as we know their next move, we can ambush them and slay them in one single attack.”

There. That was his idea. Alice, or anyone else, could infiltrate and gather their next move. After that, it was a matter of Eric putting his blade to William's throat. Or whatever this LARP equivalent was. Ania was kinda scary, so maybe it was still cutting William's throat.

Aurélie Fée Perrault (and Adrian Hexe Grimm)

My, my, it seems that this may just be the losing side, Aurélie thought from her chair. How annoying. Though it really was only a game, the prospect of being so connected to such a dismal failure sat ill with the golden haired aristocrat. Though she had entertained thoughts of betrayal at first, further contemplation made her wonder about how it might affect her image in public eye after the entire fiasco was over with. Any amount of tarnish was absolutely unacceptable. And in any case, knowing that Alice Mordrake was allied with this side, it seemed like efforts to turncoat would be very ill advised indeed.

"Though I favor Miss Modrake's course of action, I must add that information can occasionally be bought as well," Aurélie spoke up at last, sitting up primly. "Surely not everybody in the opposing faction is so virtuous. Certainly not everybody could possibly be so tight lipped around their friends. Information will spread in some way and I assure you that we will have the funds to find it."

A softly feline smile made its way to her lips. "This will of course not be as centered on the enemy's future actions as Miss Modrake's information will be. However, it would be good for determining the internal dynamics of our enemy, as well as how others think of them. A way to break their coalition apart, a way to possibly locate new allies. My sister and I together should be able to execute this."

"We can hope for the best case scenario," the golden haired young lady said with a nod of acknowledgement to Eric Tenebre. "But if that does not come to pass, perhaps a longer term plan is necessary."

And with that, Aurélie held her peace to see what the others might say.

Yang Ji Hye

Ji Hye ducked a little in embarrassment as attention suddenly went to their part of the room. Sure, post of the people were looking at Eric but she was right there next to him. Truthfully, she was feeling pretty worried that everybody would notice how shaky her arms were and she wasn't sure she could hold on to the armor any long because her hands were awfully sweaty now, too.

Maybe I should put this down? the Korean girl wondered. But she didn't want Eric to think that she was weak. Er. Well, she kind of was, but she just didn't want to draw more attention to that. Then again, if she dropped everything because she lost her grip, then people would know that she was weak and clumsy. Ji Hye bit her lip uncertainly in thought, both arms starting to lose the feeling in them.

She was glad when that blonde haired girl suddenly spoke up for the first time. With all of the attention momentarily directed away from her and Eric, Ji Hye could finally make the decision to put the armor pieces out of the way on the ground. She tried to do so quietly and had partial sucess with that. If anybody got near them, she'd just have to go and block them herself.

Nikki laughed out loud after the Lord Commander spoke, but tried to cover it up with an awkward cough. She felt a little silly about her statement about the weird people. She was here to fight, and the people she was working with didn't matter did they? Who was she kidding- of course they did. She'd have to find some one at least a little sane.

She looked around the room and spotted a girl with pink hair, who didn't seem to be talking to anyone, or acting too weird. She figured it would be polite to introduce herself, so she walked over. "Hello" she said in her most sophisticated tone "I'm Lady Nikki, a fellow worker for the queen. I thought it would be nice to meet some other people here." She didn't feel like offering a handshake, it didn't seem fitting.

She was half tempted to ask the girl if she knew what was going on, and who half these people were, but she kept her mouth shut. She didn't want to say anything offensive to the Queen, and be kicked out. Not that she had anything bad to say about the Queen, her workers, however-well why did it matter? 'Everybody is different and that's fine. Thank goodness we are though' she thought to herself.

Flayace looked over at a girl as she tried to hide a laugh, which she didn't think fooled anyone. She looked over at the girl who clearly said hi to her. Flayace wondered why this girl had chosen this exact time to introduce herself. "Hello." She sad quietly, knowing that it wasn't the time to be greeting people. "Well." She waited until everyone was done talking. "When should we head out your highness? If you still want to do those things, as you requested that I come with you." She paused and stood up straighter. "If I may, I would like to leave to prepare for our journey your highness."