Board 1 - Stables
Jun. 17th, 2026 03:57 pmIn the end, too many of you volunteer to pass as a single group of servants, whatever the chosen cover story. Thus you split up and make your ways to the Palace grounds independently.
Your group is coming from the East, rising Sun behind your backs, as you sneak through the ditches between empty horse pastures. Soon you find yourselves at the stables that house the divine horses. You haven’t seen any – you’re actually very interested in seeing these horses that can outshine the Sun. Ersisas has a gray draft horse gelding, named Kul for the Moon, who can get somewhat luminous in dim light due to his color. You wonder whether the effect will be similar.
But before you can get anywhere near the divine horses, you need to convincingly pretend to be stablehands. Thus you climb up to the hay storage to drop some hay bales down to the stable proper. Vakhas Tiria thought the stable head might hide the sets of keys he sometimes needed to use to get to the Palace proper under some bales of hay. If not, well, these horses are divine; as their caretakers, you can surely talk your way inside.
The hay storage is dusty and there are a bunch of small bales up here. You find one corner that looks like someone might've stashed things under the bales.
Nothing to do but move that hay down. Time to get started!
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Your group is coming from the East, rising Sun behind your backs, as you sneak through the ditches between empty horse pastures. Soon you find yourselves at the stables that house the divine horses. You haven’t seen any – you’re actually very interested in seeing these horses that can outshine the Sun. Ersisas has a gray draft horse gelding, named Kul for the Moon, who can get somewhat luminous in dim light due to his color. You wonder whether the effect will be similar.
But before you can get anywhere near the divine horses, you need to convincingly pretend to be stablehands. Thus you climb up to the hay storage to drop some hay bales down to the stable proper. Vakhas Tiria thought the stable head might hide the sets of keys he sometimes needed to use to get to the Palace proper under some bales of hay. If not, well, these horses are divine; as their caretakers, you can surely talk your way inside.
The hay storage is dusty and there are a bunch of small bales up here. You find one corner that looks like someone might've stashed things under the bales.
Nothing to do but move that hay down. Time to get started!
Post works to your AO3 collection and log them in the team spreadsheet!