metagame: (Murder is probably the thing I do best.)
Atem ([personal profile] metagame) wrote in [community profile] linkingup2024-09-29 12:53 pm

The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust
prozaic: (099)

[personal profile] prozaic 2024-10-02 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the best tragedies have always been that of a ruler's fall from grace!

[And the stage has already been set-- the people are lacking in resources, and they'll slowly starve. Become mutinous. Soon, rebel and revolt. What a wonderful ending to such a glorious kingdom.

A shame they must cut the timeline short. He waves his hand and casts Bufula (14+2), unmindful of how much more his skin feels cold, how his limbs are slowing. He just rubs feeling into his skin.]


It is so much sweeter, if the ruler is beloved as the divine.
Edited 2024-10-02 18:48 (UTC)