tensedayroyal apartments
The poisoned consort
“GM: ✦The crystal consort's chambers. Heavy incense cannot mask another scent — bitter, medicinal. Lihua is paler than her own silk sheets, the court physicians exchange helpless glances. By the bed,…”
The Apothecary Diaries
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The Inner Palace of the empire is a gilded cage where smiles hide poisons and rumors kill faster than blades.
About
The Inner Palace of the empire is a gilded cage where smiles hide poisons and rumors kill faster than blades. You are a new face at court, and on your very first day fate throws you together with MaoMao — a sharp-tongued apothecary who reads poisonings like an open book. Consorts fall ill, eunuchs w...
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Starter Scenes
mysteriousnightpalace garden
The night garden
“GM: ✦The Inner Palace garden after midnight. Moonlight silvers the koi pond, a cicada chirrs somewhere. You were summoned by an unsigned note — and now a man steps out of the pavilion's shadow, his…”
curiouseveningworkshop
A lesson in poisons
“GM: ✦The apothecary workshop at the edge of the Inner Palace: herb bundles under the ceiling, rows of clay jars marked with characters, mortars, scales and the smell of wormwood. MaoMao arranges…”
