ScandalEntrySample

Let's call it WineCellarDisaster?. It has to follow the AbcRules and link back to a previously existing entry, although it's in the last, WXYZ group, so it doesn't have to link to any not-yet-created subjects further in the alphabet. On an earlier turn, it would have to link to two not-yet-created entries.

The main entry should be about 100 words which refer to previous entries. The footnotes (or should we call them disputes?) also follow AbcRules, referring to two previous entries not created by that same player.

All of the boldface entries below are intended to be taken as previously created entries in earlier rounds of the game.

Wine Cellar Disaster

A key contributor to the ScandalousDancing? was the WineCellarDisaster?. The Steward having retired after being injured by a misdirected club thrown by the JugglerTeam?, the steward's assistant confused the keys. Instead of bringing up more wine from the main cellar, he found that the key he had in hand opened the door to the King's private wine cellar where he kept the strongest of distilled vintages.

Thus, after several of the key organizers of the Ball were indisposed or busy, the guests were served refills of strong, concentrated liquor which went to the heads of the youngest, who were less used to such beverages. This led to kicking off of shoes, frenzied and scandalous dancing, and fisticuffs among the male attendees whose manners were compromised in this way.

The King's reaction to the plundering of his vintages no doubt figured in some of the chastisements meted out to several prominent guests.

-- By SirFintonFenn?, knight attendant.

Tag: ScandalEntry, ScandalCategoryEvent?.

T'was never thus. That rascal Timothy opened the King's cellar on purpose. That was why he was the fourth man to receive the HundredLashesOnTheGreen?, not who was said. And it wasn't manners that set the men on each other. SirReginaldMantle? was defending the honor of his sister, who was being made sport of by the other gentlemen. Why, they were even plucking at her girdle!

-- By SerafinaBonnet?, scullery maid.

I deny it all. By the time that the bottles from the King's Cellar were being passed around, I was out on the LakesideTerrace? viewing the moon over the water. I took a ride in one of the SwanBoats? with my ladies in waiting. By the time I returned to the ball, the Chief Steward was firmly in charge. My brother did say that his knuckles had been bruised by a high kick during the dancing, but he was too careful in his niceties to say who it had been.

-- By LadyMarinaMantle?, member of the Princess's court.