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fandomhigh2021-01-07 10:04 am
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Guiding the Powerful Yet Incompetent, Thursday, Third Period
Upon arriving in the Danger Shop for today's class, the students would find themselves in a well-appointed solar in a medievalesque castle, along with Yennefer, who was lounging in a chair drinking wine, and a rather large red-haired man, who some of them might or might not recognize from their history lessons, also lounging in a chair drinking wine. Yennefer might or might not have jabbed at the buttons on the controls until she got something between 'typical boorish noble' and 'a certain orange-haired tin despot,' was all she was saying.
"It is a rainy day in a lovely kingdom," Yennefer said, "and you are an advisor to a terrible king." She gestured with the wineglass toward Henry VIII. "That's him. The king. Now, your role as an advisor is to advise, to offer guidance...but sometimes the person you're guiding is a fool who has terrible ideas all of the time. For the good of yourself, everyone around you, and of course the peasants, you still must try to curb these impulses. Constantly. For example, today, we are visiting a noble in our kingdom, let's say a duke, for the commemoration of...some grand battle, probably against the elves or something. That ceremony is going on as we speak, but the king has opted at the last minute not to attend...for his health, you believe you have successfully convinced everyone, but probably so his outfit doesn't get messed up by the rain. Instead, he is here, in the duke's castle, awaiting their return and the beginning of the feast, and a new problem has arisen: the king has decided he quite likes these tapestries," here Yennefer gestured again with the wineglass to the hangings on the walls, "and he wants to take them with him. As a gift. Which the duke did not offer him. He has not yet summoned a servant to order the tapestries packed up, so you have a few minutes to avoid this grave offense to a powerful noble. Talk His Majesty out of it."
"It is a rainy day in a lovely kingdom," Yennefer said, "and you are an advisor to a terrible king." She gestured with the wineglass toward Henry VIII. "That's him. The king. Now, your role as an advisor is to advise, to offer guidance...but sometimes the person you're guiding is a fool who has terrible ideas all of the time. For the good of yourself, everyone around you, and of course the peasants, you still must try to curb these impulses. Constantly. For example, today, we are visiting a noble in our kingdom, let's say a duke, for the commemoration of...some grand battle, probably against the elves or something. That ceremony is going on as we speak, but the king has opted at the last minute not to attend...for his health, you believe you have successfully convinced everyone, but probably so his outfit doesn't get messed up by the rain. Instead, he is here, in the duke's castle, awaiting their return and the beginning of the feast, and a new problem has arisen: the king has decided he quite likes these tapestries," here Yennefer gestured again with the wineglass to the hangings on the walls, "and he wants to take them with him. As a gift. Which the duke did not offer him. He has not yet summoned a servant to order the tapestries packed up, so you have a few minutes to avoid this grave offense to a powerful noble. Talk His Majesty out of it."
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"Might I suggest, Your Majesty, that you simply tell the Duke how much you admire the tapestries? He might feel compelled to gift them to you."
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"Are you certain? Perhaps if you hinted very strongly without a hint of subtlety." She was getting the impression subtlety was not this king's strong suit in any case.