The Prince's Ball

The Prince's Ball is an area in the Distant Woods unlocked when you use a grimstone mask and choose to become the stepmother. In this zone you have 30 minutes to cause Cinderella social embarrassment, where each turn in the zone usage consumes 1 minute.

Your first adventure in any of these locations sets the stage:

Once upon a time, you scored an invitation to the Prince's yearly gala ball.

You don't particularly like the Prince, or the people that will be there. Most members of the aristocracy and the wealthy elite are, in your experience, extremely tedious. Blah blah, fox hunting. Blah blah, cocktail gowns. Blah blah, polo matches.

But you do like money. And you defintely^[sic] like power. And you've spent your entire life clawing your way up the social ladder, starting from the gutter at the very bottom, and this is your opportunity to make some real progress. Your goal is to be living in a mansion with servants waiting on your every beck and call -- and before you get too old to enjoy it. And from there, you'll be able to set up your daughters with husbands and mansions of their own -- because, let's face it, their personalities don't compare well even to their faces, so they certainly aren't going to manage it for themselves.

And everything was going fine, until your idiot stepdaughter Cinderella showed up. She breezed in even later than fashionable, and stole the show (and the Prince's full attention) with that dress and those ridiculous shoes! Where did she even get that outfit, anyway?

Well, you'll wonder about that later. Right now, you have one mission: destroy any pretense of upward social mobility that exists in that empty blonde coconut that Cindy calls a head. But you're going to have to be tricky about it. You can't just haul off and bust her one in the chops. Can't do anything that might reflect poorly on yourself.

You crack your knuckles and prepare to show your stepdaughter the true meaning of the phrase "social sabotage".