Lucas LARP 2007

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Contents 1 About Lucas 2 Official Statement 3 Background 4 Relationships 5 Goals 6 Timeline 7 Lucas Round One 7.1 Round One Reveal 7.2 Round One Conceal 7.3 Round One Props 8 Lucas Round Two 8.1 Round Two Reveal 8.2 Round Two Conceal 8.3 Round Two Props 8.4 Round Two Additional Goals 9 Lucas Round Three 9.1 Round Three Reveal 9.2 Round Three Conceal 9.3 Round Three Props 9.4 Round Three Additional Goals

About Lucas

Name: Lucas Samiroon (Former: Prince Lucas Elianik)

Vocation: Slave

Age: 24

Starting Location: Slave Temple

Parents: Sadin Elianik, Lucretia IstaNydiam

Traits: sly watchfulness, squared jaw and shoulders

Clan/Race: Chimera, Firan

Official Statement

I'm Prince Lucas Elianik, currently enslaved by Lainath Samiroon. And I just want to say that if Governor Hralib was murdered as part of a plot to overthrow our oppressors, then I'm seriously out of the loop. More likely, this was the work of someone who doesn't give a damn about our people--like Inaya. Since the Fall of Anarinuell, she believes the Firan Gods abandoned us. She now leads us in worship of Obala in this Slave Temple all too enthusiastically. And because she does, the goats give her unprecedented freedom. She has permits for nearly anything. She could easily have access to Hralib if she wanted to kill him.

Background

He was once Prince Lucas Elianik, widely thought to be the next Ranivor. Now the Shamibelians mockingly call him "The Slave Prince" and abuse him for fun. Lucas doesn't take well to being a slave. He's willfully disobedient, and until last night, he felt very lucky that Lainath was his "master" because Lainath tends to be pretty lax with his slaves.

Unfortunately, last night, Hralib kept taunting Lainath about being too soft on the Firans. So by the time Hralib caught Lucas disobeying, he must have thought he had something to prove. He took a dagger and cut out Lucas' eye.

Lucas is in bad shape today. He's missing an eye and might be suffering from hypothermia. Add to that, he's worried that the rebellion is going to be uncovered by the Shamibelians and all his sacrifices will be for naught.

Relationships

• Akiva -- Lucas' wife.
• Lainath -- Lucas' master.
• Ladonna and Osirus -- Lainath's other slaves. Lucas and Akiva live with them.
• Zaridos and Savaren -- Fellow Elianik Princes
• Melani, Teonia, Torianos, and Inaya -- Other captured members of the Elianik family.
• Savanna -- An excellent armorer and former noblewoman that Lucas has been meeting secretly.

Goals

1. Reconcile with Akiva and reassure her that she's the only woman for you.
2. Lucas should blame the Fall of Anarinuell on Zaridos and Savaren
3. Lucas should serve his master Lainath well, so that Lainath calms down and doesn't sell off parts of his family, or hurt Akiva more.
4. Use Ladonna to communicate secretly with the other leaders of the rebellion

Timeline

• 08:00PM Lucas has an argument with Throgana
• 10:00PM Fidelia is sacrificed to kick off the Night of Obala's Pride
• 10:30PM Lucas slips away from the Night of Obala's Pride for an important meeting
• 10:45PM Lucas gets into a violent altercation
• 11:00PM Lainath has Akiva beaten and left in the stocks in the cold weather
• 11:15PM Lucas steals something
• 12:30AM Lucas gets caught by Lainath, who puts his eye out.
• 06:00AM Tatomir finds Hralib's dead body under the Great Marble Arch on Pevifa's Plantation (Formerly the Temple District)
• 08:00AM Brizo finds Throgana's dead body in the Slave Temple (Formerly the Embassy Building)

Lucas Round One

Round One Reveal

Everyone knows that when Anarinuell was first captured, Savaren refused to kneel in supplication and abase himself before the conquerors, saying they could kill him if they wanted to. Hralib killed his brother Rislan instead, to punish him for his insolence, right in front of his eyes. Savaren has never gotten over it.

Everyone knows that Hralib kept Savaren's wife, Princess Teonia as a slave, and violated her publicly. Savaren swore revenge. Maybe he finally got it.

Everyone knows that Torianos hated Hralib more than all the other Shamibelians, because the Governor of Anarinuell separated him from his wife Melani by selling him to another master. He may have hoped that by killing Hralib, Melani would be bought by his own master so they could be reunited.

Everyone knows that Aldrin was enraged when Hralib gave up Fidelia to Tatomir to be sacrificed at the Night of Obala's pride, and just before her throat was slit, called to her that she would be avenged.

Everyone knows that Brizo has been working in slavery as a brewer. Hralib preferred his vintage, and bought several bottles of wine from him the Night of Obala's pride.

Inaya has been furious since the Fall of Anarinuell, and believes that the Firan Gods abandoned the people. As such, she is one of the main converts of Obala, and leads the Slave Temple. As such, she's given unprecedented freedom, as a slave, and could easily have access to Hralib if she wanted it.

Everyone knows that Elianiks are famous for brawling. Neither Savaren, Lucas, nor Zaridos would need any excuse to go at it with each other.

Sure it pissed him off that Hralib gave Throgana the Ranivor's medallion to wear like a piece of jewelry. But taking it from her would be rather pointless while they're all enslaved, wouldn't it? Lucas is more worried about it now than ever, that it's missing.

Savaren is a reckless, feckless, leader. If he hadn't been late to the battlefield, as usual, when Zaridos asked for reinforcements, the city of Anarinuell would never have fallen to the goats.

Round One Conceal

The walls of Anarinuell should be strong enough to hold back any invaders. There are walls within walls. Any decent military leader with half a brain should have been able to hold the city against a siege, for years even. But Lucas and Rislan couldn't even manage that, and Lucas is just sick over it.

Lucas is a leader of the Firan Resistance. Ladonna is the Mata Hari of the resistance movement, and carries messages between the Firans in coded songs. The rebellion intended to kill Hralib to sew confusion just before the Firans launched a counter-invasion against Anarinuell. Perhaps Ladonna had the opportunity and just jumped the ballista?

Last night, Lucas snuck away from the Night of Obala's Pride for a meeting of the rebellion, in Zin's Temple. Jalil, Torianos, Zaridos, and Savaren went with him. Once there, the Princes all got into a terrible fight.

Zaridos, in particular, seemed to be in a violent mood. He was wearing some ring, that Jalil noticed, and made him take off. Jalil said, "Give me that effing ring" and then Jalil stalked off with it. If it was Tatomir's Ring of Hate, and Jalil wore it, it might have made him murderously violent--and the ring did end up on Hralib's person by morning.

<emo>Lucas was horrified that Hralib was burning all the scrolls in the Great Library. He feared that his Elianik family history would be lost, just like what happened to the Sennets. He said that no Shamibelian deserved to die more than Hralib, because he killed more than people, he killed history. </emo>

Lucas stole the keys to the stocks on the Night of Obala's Pride. He had to. It was freezing cold that night and he didn't want Akiva to die.

But before Lucas came to free her from the stocks, he visited the Great Library to see if he could save some historical scrolls from the messy, ashing, fires that Hralib kept continually burning there. A Prince has to have his priorities.

Some of the documents Lucas rescued from the Great Library indicate that Tatomir had an enormous motive to kill Hralib.

Round One Props

• Incriminating documents about Tatomir
• Eye patch (wear it)
• cipher

Lucas Round Two

Round Two Reveal

Akiva told Lucas that Vitara Fissha can't stand Hashi, thinks he's a worthless husband, and wishes fervently that he would die. Why would she kill Hralib and thus ensure him inheriting his father's slaves . . . unless she knew they'd be blamed for the murder and killed off before Hashi could inherit a thing.

Lucas doubts Jalil had anything to do with Hralib's murder. Jalil actually cautioned the Firans against killing Hralib, because he knew about the Shamibelian law that if a master is murdered and the killer is not caught, all of his slaves are considered conspirators and put to death. Both Jalil and Emma are Hralib's slaves, and he did not want to risk his daughter's life that way.

Lucas noticed that Tabitha was watching Hralib the entire party, and that when she saw him slip out with Throgana, she followed.

Hralib forbid Lainath from marrying any of his step-daughters, because he is a quarterbreed, and Lainath is particularly violent against those who discriminate against him.

Lainath felt particularly humiliated in front of Hralib that he could not control his slave Akiva, and let her beg for Fidelia's life before the sacrifice. He took it out on Akiva by whipping and stocking her, but that might not have been enough to satisfy his rage.

Lainath is a good warrior--Hralib beat him a few times, but he was young and getting better all the time. He could have killed Hralib, especially if he took him unawares.

After all, Lainath was in a violent mood that night. He put out Lucas' eye and threatened to make Lucas into a gladiator slave and so that he'll die in the ring.

Lainath caught Lucas freeing Akiva from the stocks and tending to her wounds, but he hasn't told anyone because he doesn't want to be further humiliated in front of the other Shamibelians for not being able to adequately control his slave--might he be protecting her from murder charges as well, for fear of how they'll reflect upon him?

Lucas strongly recommends against eating Aylina's cooking. It's got a special ingredient.

Lucas doesn't trust any of Zaridos' "plans". It was his stupid plan to crush the Shamibelian Army outside Firalut that went so horribly awry, and cost the Firans their freedom. If Lucas were Zaridos, he probably would have committed suicide by now, Unot be damned.

Round Two Conceal

Akiva has been running a very lucrative underground permit forgery operation. After Lucas released Akiva on the Night of Obala's Pride--she ran off. She had ample opportunity to kill Hralib and be back before Lainath could do anything about it. His wife is hot-tempered, and Lucas worries that she did Hralib in. She's prone to grand gestures like that, especially after he lost his eye.

Lucas was wet and shivering when he let Akiva out of the stocks, because when the Princes got into an argument about strategy, Zaridos pushed him and Savaren in the pool of Zin.

The pool at the Temple of Zin was clear and sparking, with a little layer of ice on the top the Night of Obala's Pride, but now it's filthy with ash and there's a two-man-size-hole in the ice. They suspect Hralib was drowned there, and that the water simply froze on him after he was already dead.

Lucas know that the reason Savaren had a bloody nose is because the Firan Princes were brawling over a strategy disagreement and he got punched in the face.

Orsatos was embezzling funds from Hralib and sneaking stenis their way to help pay for their rebellion. If Hralib had found out, he'd have killed Orsatos, so maybe Orsatos killed him first.

Hralib was considering buying Savanna and making her an armorer for the entire Shamibelian army. He's been meeting with her secretly to personally encouraged her in this, because he was sure she could work inferiorities into the metal and compromise their armor. It's possible that Hralib learned about their plan and had to die.

Lucas does not consider Savanna a real noblewoman. She is, after all, a genuinely common laborer. Her mother was the same; Savanna has many virtues as a crafter, but not as a noble. Lucas wants to sleep with her, which he regards much more as noble privilege than anything resembling an affair.

Lucas was at the Great Library from 11:30PM to 12:00AM, saving scrolls from the fire. He saw Hralib and Throgana come in, and hid behind a book case while they had sex. They were very much alive, drinking a bottle of Brizo's wine. Hralib had his armor with him and his keyring at the time.

Lucas slipped out the back door and saw Empyrean laying in wait.

Round Two Props

Round Two Additional Goals

1. Take noble privilege upon Savanna.

Lucas Round Three

Round Three Reveal

Akiva told Lucas that her friend Aylina killed one of Hralib's sons and turned him into stew meat, which she fed him the Night of Obala's Pride.

Round Three Conceal

Lucas is pretty sure that if he and Rislan had been able to bear up under siege, the City of Anarinuell would be free right now. They could have bought time for Savaren and Zaridos to regroup their armies and ride to the rescue. But it didn't happen that way.

The Shamibelians sent him a message saying that if the surrendered the city, they would call a truce and let he and his family rule the city as its Ranivor, as a client state to the Shamibelian Empire. All they asked for were the lives of the Clan Council and a slave tribute.

Lucas told Taleo that there was no hope, and persuaded him to surrender.

Unfortunately, the Shamibelians, led by Hralib, broke their word.

This is Lucas's greatest shame in life and he cannot risk it getting out. Some Shamibelians have to know this, and the idea of this getting out is one of Lucas's greatest fears. If anyone seems to be threatening to reveal him, they will have to die, even if it comes to the expense of his own life; he failed his family and his people once by betraying them to the Shamibelians, and he will not do so again.

Round Three Props

Round Three Additional Goals