About this story
He goes to Ruritania for the coronation out of curiosity and turns out to be the image of the king — who is drugged the night before it. You play Rudolf, holding a throne you have no claim to, taking orders from a colonel who trusts nobody, and being received by the princess the king was meant to marry.
Who you’ll meet
Colonel Sapt, with Antoinette de Mauban at the window.
How it opens
April rain silvered the Park Lane windows beyond the breakfast table.
A coal fire stirred the curtain while untouched letters waited by Rose.
RoseWhen, pray, do you intend to begin doing something?
Comfort has made no complaint against me yet.
RoseComfort is a poor occupation for a man of twenty-nine.
Choose
Why labour merely to improve a tolerable life?
I await an opportunity worth the trouble.