Dear diary. Some time ago my Charali friend told me she had plans to host a charity event at her bar, The Half-Pint over at Milford. In support of the victims of the flood. It sounded like a fun thing (not the flood, but the event), so I agreed to hold a quiz. I don’t know what she expected, but if you ask the fool to hold a quiz, I guess you have to abide the fact that it’s not quite a normal quiz.
Rules were simple:
- Donate some money to join in the quiz.
- Don’t guess on the Jester’s question until she decided it was your turn to guess. Most right guesses wins a mug and free beer for a month.
- The Jester decides the order of guessing and picks the right answer.
- The Jester can be bribed. And flattered. Preferably at the same time.
- The Jester is always honest and fair and pretty.
Simple, yes obvious, rules really. Futher questions were to be directed to Mrs Buttons. People were in high spirits and came up with some really fun answers!
Question 1: “What do I have in my pocket?” Some great answers here, from Baron Orban suggesting I held all of Lithmore’s hearts in there (bonus points for flattery) to Elizabethany suggesting Mrs Buttons was in there eating candy (cute). Considering I just gotten a lot of donations, Isobel Nettesheim correctly guessed “coin”. Boring but unfortunately correct. That towering dark-skinned fellow also guessed “coin”, but too late – after that he made sure to bribe me into putting him first in line). Lady le Storm got a bonus point for suggesting I’d have a mouse in there. Where else to put a mouse than in one’s pocket! I like how that woman thinks.
Question 2: “What happens when you walk into the book store on Miller’s lane and shouts really high?” Many guesses put poor Miss Milbry in various akward situations here. The truth is of course that books just start falling off the shelves seemingly randomly. Trust me, I’ve tried. Elizabethany got that one.
Question 3: “What is the Jesterly use of armour?” Here suggestions went all the way from protecting oneself from rotten tomatoes to using it as a musical instrument. Baron Orban nicked it as reading it as “arm-our”, and offering a hug. Hugs we like. But also Isobel got a bonus for the suggestion of cooking.
Great answers, but of course, the really, really correct answer for the use of armour is to ride on it. Just find a huge lump of a man in full armour and ask to ride on his shoulder. You wouldn’t believe how comfortable armour is to ride on if you are my size. For some reason big burly men tend to find it kinda nice to have a girl riding on their shoulders too. Win-win situation. Reeves should carry jesters around all the time. The crime rate of this city would drop through the floor in a week.
Question 4: “If you stand out in the snow with your pants down, what happens?” Baron Orban took this one in one word. “Snowballs”. That’s all there is to it.
Question 5: “What was the Jester doing first time she met the king?” Legend and Elizabethany would have me dangling in the chandeliers of the castle (others suggested I was reading books or sleeping on the throne). Elizabethany got the point for that one, but the true answer was really a bit different. No I won’t tell it. Muahaha, you keep guessing dear Diary!
Next time I should go swing from the chandeliers. No risk of being run-over by tall folk then. Or maybe the King might allow me to ride on his armour?
Question 6: “What is Mrs Buttons first name?” Saved the hardest one for last. Lots of groaning and thinking before people came up with answers to this one. Baron Orban thought my puppet to actually be a man (accused us of an inappropriately close relationship!), and that ‘Mrs’ was actually the first name. Isolde named my puppet after herself. But as Lady Lien le Storm so brilliantly deduced, Mrs Button’s maiden name is of course “Ing” – “Miss Ing Buttons”.
This all lead to the remaining contestants each having two points (I didn’t plan for that, honest), so we had people guess on the total donations earned during the quiz. The best guesser and thus final winner was Baron op Orban. I think he felt a little bad for it though since winning didn’t really matter much to him. Isolde really wanted to nick that one. Ah well, it’s all for fun and charity!
Total bribery and charity earnings for the evening was 2540 silver, a bottle of stolen whiskey, a red flower and a towel. Not too shabby!
OOC: RP logs are here.
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