skeleton princess dialogue

First Time Talking

Ser Knight: May I ask-

Skeleton Princess: You know, I hope you understand if I’m a bit starry-eyed at being rescued like this. I’m marrow-mantic at heart, you know.

Ser Knight: …
No, really I have some questions.
…
[A] Skeleton Princess: Oh, fine.  (to normal questions, disp loss)

[B] Skeleton Princess: All these years, trapped.  Alone.  It can make one almost too... bonely.
Ser Knight:
That’s, uh, great.  Questions?
…
[A] Skeleton Princess: ...ask away.  (to normal questions, slightly less of a disp loss)

[B] Skeleton Princess: Well, when you’re locked in a frozen temple it helps to stay humerus!
Ser Knight:
That was awful.
Glad to see your time imprisoned hasn’t made you too sternum.
I couldn’t femur excited to have you with us.
[1a] Skeleton Princess: Come on, ser.  Show a little more backbone.
[2a] Skeleton Princess: I’ll admit, staying occupied was quite the undertaking!
[3a] Skeleton Princess: Gods, that one was just terrible. I love it!


[1a] Ser Knight:
Okay, fine, you got me.
I am not a very punny person.
Uh… uh… mrmm… ice to meet you?
[½] Skeleton Princess: Don’t worry, we’ll be working on that.  You had some questions?
[3] Skeleton Princess: At least you tried!  You have questions for me?


[2a] Ser Knight:
Hah!
Well, I’m glad you found a way to charnel that energy into something positive.
[1] Skeleton Princess: There, amusement in someone else.  That is a refreshing change of pace.
[2] Skeleton Princess: You know it.

Skeleton Princess: And now that you’re here, I can make up for lost time.
Ser Knight: What?
Skeleton Princess (Flirtatious): You’ll see.
Skeleton Princess (Neutral): About those questions, though....


[3a] Ser Knight:
Great.  It is my duty as a knight to serve in whatever ways I may.
I am pleased to hear it.
I meant what I said.  It’ll be nice tickling one another’s funny bones.
[1] Skeleton Princess (Amused): O-ho-ho-ho-ho!?  What’s that?
Skeleton Princess (Flirtatious): I’ll be strenuously testing that, later.  You can’t just say something like that and not expect…
Skeleton Princess (Neutral): ...anyways, you’ll find out.  You have some questions?

[2] Skeleton Princess: Keep that up and I’ll have to return the favor, hero.  There were some things you wanted to ask…?

[3] Skeleton Princess (Amused): If I know what you mean?
Skeleton Princess (Amused): …
Skeleton Princess (Amused): …
Skeleton Princess (Neutral): Oh, you were being literal.  Yes.  Yes it will.  For the moment, you have some questions for me?

(From here continue to the main questions that Ser can ask)






Later Times Talking

Ser Knight: My lady, about those questions...

Skeleton Princess: ...yes?

Narrator: She clasps both of her hands together and gives you a sweet look, so much as an animated skeleton can.

Ser Knight: May I ask them, now?

Skeleton Princess: You can have a lot more than some answers, (pumpkin // sweetie // honeybunches).

Ser Knight: ...


Ser Knight:
How did you end up captured anyway?
Skeleton Princess: “It was less ‘captured’ and more ‘shut in.’ After the kingdom was cursed I had a lot to get used to… and a lot of time to get used to it. ”
Ser: That must have been hard for you…
Ser: Well that’s better than the alternative in some respects I suppose.
Ser:  Huh, I’m almost disappointed there isn’t more to this.
Skel: Yes,  it was, but… could we talk about it later? I’m not really in a place to talk about that sort of thing, it’s a bit tomb much for me… h-heh.
Skel: Mmm, yes. Regardless lets change the subject shall we?
 Skel: That makes two of us, Ser.

Do you mind if I ask about you? I honestly don’t know much about you.
Skel: Sure, what do you want to know?
So what’s it like being a princess?
Skeleton Princess: Oh you know, tea parties, romancing suitors, settling matters of state, constantly dodging assassination attempts, the usual...

3. So what made your kingdom into, well… an overgrown charnel house?

A: Skeleton Princess: “Rude! But not altogether Inaccurate, I suppose.”


Narrator: There’s a pause and a slight vibration in Skeleton Princess’s jaw, whatever forces motivate her body produce a distant creaking noise.

A: Skeleton Princess: “The simplest, and most honest answer is; I don’t know. One day we were a prosperous kingdom, then I remember a terrible sort of cold. The kind of cold that cuts right through you like a knife.  Then we were all just… dead.

Narrator: She shivers for a moment, as if struck by some kind of draft.

Skeleton Princess: It’s a terrible thing, to see those you’ve lived with all your life fall to a kind of madness and despair you can’t bring them back from. When we were alive I was always the one to lift others up, cracking jokes and telling stories, but now there’s no one left who remembers how to smile.

Narrator: A pall of silence hangs in the air for a moment. The princess catches herself and quickly tries to offer a reassuring smile.

Skeleton Princess: But that subject’s a bit too sternum,  let’s talk about something else.

Ser Knight: So do you happen to have any hobbies?
Skeleton Princess: I’m quite adept at card games of various sorts, was when I had skin and my long term isolation has allowed me ample time to practice everything from solitaire to building card tower. Oh and I was rather good with a nikkelharpa before age took its toll on mine.


Ser Knight:  So you have some talent in music?
Skeleton Princess: I should hope so yes; music was very important to my people before… all of this. I learned to play from the age of 3 summers on.

Ser Knight: Your instrument broke?
Skeleton Princess: Indeed, it’s a shame the last person I knew who could make a similar instrument went and immolated themselves into bonedust out on Pyre hill.

Ser Knight: I see (return to start)




Please, tell me more about your people.

Skeleton Princess: What’s there to tell? Used to be a normal kingdom with all the normal kingdom problems. Now it’s boulevard of bickering boneheads. Most of the people who can handle the curse left for greener pastures and the ones who can’t have turned this place into a regular abattoir. Oh and there’s the ”Tourists”, they’re why I locked myself up in the first place. Last thing I need is a necromancer picking through my brainpan to see what makes me click.

Do you know why there are Boneheads all over Corona?
Skeleton Princess: I’m not sure. But it seems almost like they’re searching for something.

What do you know about Skeleton Knight?

Skeleton Princess: “Absolutely nothing. I didn’t know all the knights in the realm before I went on the pushing up daisies diet. He’s kinda cute though, has nice cheekbones.”

(ALT) Skeleton Princess: Never met him, but knowing there’s at least one other skeleton that stayed behind with their mind intact is kind of encouraging.  I’d love to meet him!  Maybe I can pick his brain.  Metaphorically of course.

What do you know about this place?
(See spreadsheet with location-specific dialogue)

What should we be doing now?

(Disposition <60 ish? and/or already chosen this game turn)
Skeleton Princess:  “This place is downright stuffy, you’d think it was a funeral  with the way people carry on.  I want to go out, see the sites. Maybe find an up-to-date thesaurus and expand my arsenal of puns.”

(Disposition>=60 ish?)    Randomize between A/B/C
A] Skeleton Princess: “Well I don’t know about you but I’ve got a coffin with room for two.”

B] Skeleton Princess: “This looks like a good place.”
Narrator:

C] Skeleton Princess: “The armor comes off now!”
     Narrator: Skeleton Princess steps over to you, her bony fingers prying at your armor.  She seems very intent on getting you out of it.

Ser Knight: Ah... well...
1: “Uh I need to sharpen my shield.  [Refuse]”
2: “That sounds like a spooky good time.  [Continue]”


If Asked Anything: That’s all I wanted to know.
Dispo >=60 - Skeleton Princess: Any time, sweetie.  // I’m always happy to chat, Ser.
Dispo >=36 - Skeleton Princess: Any time, Ser.
Dispo Else - Skeleton Princess: Great.

If Asked Nothing: We’ll talk later.
Skeleton Princess: Don’t die! I’ve tried it, it stinks!