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fandomhigh2021-02-04 11:12 am
tellmehowstuffworks) wrote in fandomhigh2021-02-04 11:12 am
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Guiding the Powerful Yet Incompetent, Thursday, Third Period
"The king has decided to commission a series of tapestries depicting himself performing the legendary and heroic deeds of others," Yennefer said. "That money is getting spent despite all of your best efforts. The key words, however, for our current concern are 'of others.' He wants to take pictorial credit for the actions of some of his notable nobles' family members: one duke's great-grandfather who allegedly slew a dragon, another's father driving out the elves to clear new farmland for his people. If word of this gets out, or if heavens forbid the tapestries get made, it could cause...some friction. His Majesty's argument?"
Yennefer clicked a button on her remote, and the king said, "But they are my accomplishments! They're the accomplishments of my country, therefore they're mine!"
"I'm not sure that's how that works," Yennefer told him, and paused him again before he could reply. To her students, she said, "Your assignment is to convince him to at least come up with some whoppers that no one can prove he didn't do." Perhaps he could tell the story of the events in the tapestries to people in a way that involved people calling him 'sir' a lot with tears in their eyes.
Yennefer clicked a button on her remote, and the king said, "But they are my accomplishments! They're the accomplishments of my country, therefore they're mine!"
"I'm not sure that's how that works," Yennefer told him, and paused him again before he could reply. To her students, she said, "Your assignment is to convince him to at least come up with some whoppers that no one can prove he didn't do." Perhaps he could tell the story of the events in the tapestries to people in a way that involved people calling him 'sir' a lot with tears in their eyes.
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