User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Spring 2015/@comment-7345250-20150325230403

Flashfire: "I'm on it!"


 * Flashfire races out the door without a moment's hesitation.

Parlys: "Yahaha! It's funny that you should bring that up."

Pinkie Pie: "Really? I didn't think it was that funny."

Parlys: "The commanders and the magi are so absorbed in their own affairs that it is uncommon for any ordinary changeling to gain their notice. Our next sight is the only surefire way to catch the eye of the elite. Oh, look! There's Queen Chrysalis herself."


 * The view in the crystal ball distorts and shifts until is bears the image of a great, bowl-shaped structure. In the cavern around it are seated a multitude of changelings, some more austere than others. In the center of the most forbidding section, the changeling queen stands out as the only one leaning on the edge of her seat.


 * Four changelings stand at the center of the slimy basin, all saluting their queen.

Parlys: "Gladiatorial entertainment has been a cornerstone of the system from time immemorial. Those four worms down their have been wriggling their way up for years, I imagine. Only the most impressive gladiators ever make their way to the loftier positions... and even they are not exempt from being conscripted and sent back to square one before they meet any real success."

Rainbow Dash: "So... changelings are pretty much dirt unless they can survive the arena and woo some old tart above them?"

Parlys: "And do much more besides! Just gaining entry to the arena poses a wholly new slew of struggles. Also, catching an 'old tart's' attention isn't always a good thing."

Rainbow Dash: "...Bummer."