Bannos Vents Some Frustration

From FiranMUX

To set the scene - Bannos had already seen Ibania with Kemet in the Glassworks where Kemet behaved in a vaguely cheeky manner to Bannos. Given B's current state of mind what with Quentino and lovage tea he told Ibania's NPC guards to keep a close eye on her. I was just about to log off when Ibania paged me to say Kemet had suddenly taken hold of her and kissed her. The guards grabbed him and one went inside the estate to find me.......

Anarinuell: Istabannos Estate

    Crackling icicles hanging from the weeping willow branches that line
    the main road laying beyond the lockd black iron gates, and artistic
    looking drifts of snow on either side give the estate a "winter
    wonderland" look. Now that the leaves on the trees have fallen, the
    city walls can be seen in the distance to rise up above even the
    majestic Grand Manor before you. Built from a combination of red brick
    and marble, the Manor stands out clearly at the end of the road,
    rising out of the snow invitingly. The land has been divided up into a
    number of small farms, and smoke can be seen coming out of a number of
    the farm houses, obviously keeping the inhabitants warm.

Contents: Ibania Kemet Large Sculpture of Lady Bashona the Healer.

Bannos opens the door of the Grand Manor and walks out.

Ibania is standing, still looking rather stunned. One hand is lightly placed covering her lips.

Kemet is being held pretty much by the scruff of his noble neck by the gaurds, looking at them sidelong with a peevish expression.

Bannos emerges from the inner gateway to his estate accompanied by two guards in cockatrice red. His expression could best be described as stormy, that of the guards would be more akin to murderous. He walks slowly towards the scene, his initial pace of speed slowing as he sees his soldiers would appear to have it well under control. With a scornful glance towards the held noble he then smiles as he looks at Ibania. "I know I told you to enjoy yourself Ibby but..>" His tone is lite taking any sting from the words. "Why don't you tell me what happened?" {Firan}

Ibania finds her voice, well, mostly. "H-he, er, Lord Kemet escorted me home, and then, um. He kissed me." {Excellent Firan}

Bannos says, "I see, and did Lord Kemet ask for your permission, or perhaps I should actually say did you ask him to kiss you Ibby?" {Firan}

Kemet clears his throat somewhat, looking at Bannos meekly, and the gaurds with the agitation of any man being held by someone beneath their station.

Ibania gulps. "H-he'd teased about uhm, taking a romantic walk, but I didn't think uhm." {Firan}

Bannos smiles and nods comfortingly to his daughter. "I see Ibania, I assume by that it's a no then." he turns and looks at Kemet, glancing him up and down. "Tell me, is there some reason why Gold Dragon nobles seem intent upon commiting acts of intense stupidity verging on the suicidal lately. Some sort of religious or cultural thing perhaps? Or is it just that the more dense members of your clan are having some competition as to who can do the most insane act and die in the shortest timespan?" {Excellent Firan}

Kemet replies with a humble voice, "Forgive me, Your Honor. I did not intend to give any offense. My manners were poor this evening." {Excellent Firan}

Bannos chuckles "Ahh, assaulting a member of a royal family is, not intending to give offence. I wonder what it is you would have done had you intended to do so. As for poor manners, well they might explain some but not all. Let me see if I have this quite straight for my own mind then. With no invitation, no request at all, you chose to both lay hands upon my daughter and put those, what was it? Offending poorly mannered lips upon my daughter. I think you might want to add judgement to the list of things you have in scant supply this eve. Do correct me if I have it wrong because this is simply fascinating to me, I'd rather thought people had learned not to to misbehave with a clan leaders family after Judano's rather pointed and thrusting example of what happens but perhaps the more idiotic members of the city need another demonstration." {Excellent Firan}

Kemet bows his head to Bannos and responds, "Again, I am sorry, Your Honor. Whatever you feel appropriate punishment." He purses his lips somewhat. Wasn't a half bad kiss. {Excellent Firan}

Firans head home after a long day's work to talk to their friends and neighbors about their lots in life.

Bannos says, "Ohh thats good. Well I suppose we can get up to my judgement green whilst we wait for the headsman to find his axe then." Not a trace of humor hangs about his tone as he speaks. "I assume you won't wish to watch Ibania." {Excellent Firan}

Kemet chokes on something, looking at Bannos with rather surprised eyes.

Ibania is quite white now, "B-but, he didn't, surely you wouldn't, it wasn't, Daddy!" {Excellent Firan}

Bannos turns his hand and looks idly at his nails, speaking with an almost disinterested voice "You did say whatever was appropriate didn't you?" He then turns his head to look at Ibania, face unseen by Kemet's for a moment. {Excellent Firan}

Ibania senses "Bannos winks at you."

Ibania sags a bit, chewing on her lip, her eyes crinkling slightly at the corners. And then remembers. "J-judgement Green! Daddy! Did you see what Nydiam commissioned?" {Firan}

Kemet argues with a stumbling voice, "Y-Yes, but I h I h hardly think-k THAT is appropriate, Your Honor....I do m I make jewels, you see....and the paperwork I have is ....I mean, surely you understand the recitifica..." He shoots the gaurd holding him another snooty glare and turns back to Bannos with as meek a look as possible. {Firan}

Bannos raises an eyebrow at Ibania. "Yes, and as I said we will talk about that at dinner. As I don't like sentencing someone in a bad mood I think that that...object is best left for another time." With a long drawn in breath he looks back at the prisoner. "Ohh I'm sorry, are you contradicting yourself. Firstly it is whatever I think appropriate and now you wish to have some say in the matter. Well I rather think my daughter might have wanted some say in the matter afore you chose to force yourself on her." He looks at the guards. "Not that it is any of your fault of course, in fact I think maybe he truly has a death wish having chosen to assault her in front of you. Perhaps it is a failing in the clan, i'll have to speak to Judano about this. Ahh well never let it be said that I would stand in the way of someone with an intense religious desire to meet their God." {Excellent Firan}

Kemet asks with a startled expression, "But, Your Honor...I ... thought it good manners. Lady Ristana, my cousin, of course taught us a little differently...if I'd have known how disagreeable this would have been, you -know- I would never..." {Firan}

Bannos puts up a hand as if at a sudden thought. "Now there I was forgetting." he looks at the guard next to him. "It's been so long since i've had to deal with a treasonous assault. Now unless i'm mistaken it's castration and then an hour later execution." Looking back at Kemet he smiles, quite coldly. "Is there anyone you would want to speak to in that hour? A priest perhaps? Ahh, Lady Ristana, no I don't think it would be wise to ask for a lady to see you in such a way. I don't even want to see you in such a way but you did say whatever I thought was appropriate didn't you?" {Firan}

Kemet twists his mouth awkwardly, and then leans forward, whispering, "Okay, okay....Your Honor...I do want to live. I didn't mean how you MOST thought appropriately.....I merely did not want to give you the impression that I was unrepentant. I actually do wish to live, Your Honor." He looks up and exclaims, "After all, the weather's so wonderful right now!" Sarcasm, of course. {Excellent Firan}

Bannos says, "Ohh yes, it's perfect for an excution, the crimson blood upon the crisp white snow. I hadn't even thought of that until you raised it. Perhaps I should ask for a painting of the scene, maybe call it the results of idiotic folly or somesuch?" {Excellent Firan}

Bannos sighs "Ohh dear, and you are now claiming you want to live. Perhaps I should add insanity to your list of problems. You see, who but the insane would lay hands upon _my_ daughter in front of my house, on my land with my guards standing a few feet away and then say they want to live. Is the world going quite mad or are you just gathering all the worlds insanity into one idiotic place." He pauses a second "Ohh thats your mind in case I was a little too subtle for you." {Excellent Firan} Kemet clears his throat again - it's dry all of the sudden - and peers at Bannos enxiously from his uncomfortable expression. He recognizes a game of cat and mouse when he sees it. And, he recognizes the distinct hue in the distance of the Judgement Green.

Bannos ahhs "I see, either deafness or some form of slowness to your mind. Well thats alright I can wait whilst it turns over and eventually comes up with an answer." He turns to the guard "Whilst we're waiting why don't you make sure the royal executioner's axe is sharp." he smiles as he looks back to Kemet "After all, to use a blunt one would just be cruel." {Excellent Firan}

Kemet groans lightly, and looks up at Bannos with a somber expression. "Your Honor, it was just a kiss. I had no intention of doing anything more forward." {Excellent Firan}

The guard nods eagerly with a grin and a snapped salute before walking briskly towards the judgement green.

Bannos blinks, his voice now full of surprise. "Ohh I see, just a kiss, and you had no more intention towards her. So unless i'm mistaken that would mean you were playing with my daughters affections..." {Firan}

Kemet sinks inwardly and exclaims, "No, Your Honor! But I have no intention of going further than a kiss with a woman I'm not wed to!" {Excellent Firan}

Bannos says, "Ohh well of course that makes it alright then. You just walk about the avenues of the city attacking Ladies outside their homes and forcing yourself upon them. Well that must be one of the best defences i've ever heard. No wait, it would be the best defence i'd ever heard if of course the closest i'd come to a courtroom was being a frog in a pond several miles distant."" {Excellent Firan}

Kemet gives a most nervous grin, showing his pearly whites, and shrugs helplessly.

Bannos chuckles "Tell me Kemet, would it be fair to say you are currently sinking deeply and choosing not to say anything because you just know it will push you into this quagmire of your own making all the faster?" {Firan}

Kemet nods a bit dejectedly.

Bannos says, "Well then, this is what is going to happen. Firstly you are going to stop being an asinine wretch and behave with more propriety respect and consideration towards young ladies. You can double that for young ladies I am related to. Next you are going to make a sizeable donation to my daughters charity, by sizeable I mean a show of disgusting generosity. And lastly you are going to go away from here and give thanks every single day of your life that you did this when I was there to respond and not my wife. Because believe me, all those horrible threats I gave you are nothing compared to what she would do to you if she ever catches you doing something similar. Now is that clear or do you want to explore that Gold Dragon suicide compulsion whilst you have the chance?"" {Firan}

Kemet nods very hastily, saying with a very relived and grateful voice, "Thank you, Your Honor, I understand -completely-! I will do exactly as you have said." And thus, the worm doesn't wriggle from the hook - he guts himself while being yanked off. {Firan}

Bannos chuckles, the first hint of any jest behind his actions since he started them. "You can let him go now, and feel free to simply break some of his bones if you ever catch him in such a situation with my family again. Then call Shara. I'll only feel sorry for his stupidity, and I did deny her the chance to play with that shammi after all. I hear he was begging his guards not to let her near him you know." he looks at Kemet "You really don't want to test her. You see, i'm nice, Shara's practical, there is a big difference. Now go home and see if anyone can beat some sense into that addled mind of yours. Before someone beats some knives into it instead." {Firan}

Kemet bows deeply to Bannos, saying very genuinely, "Yes Your Honor, I am positive Lady Ristana will be most eager to commence. Good evening, Your Honor, and thank you for your graciousness and mercy." {Excellent Firan}

Bannos says, "Ohh and Kemet, don't grovel either. It just makes me think of worms and if you ever come up before me or Elianos again it's an all but automatic guilty verdict. Now run away." he sighs and shakes his head, gathering the guards around him before the laughter erupts from them all. {Firan}