The players are the personal guard to the king… Hype them up to the glamour and glory (along with maybe the idea of an easy paycheck) only to have them deal with the king’s dumbassery. “Guards! I fell in the royal toilet again and I’m stuck in the chute!” (all the toilets in the castle are on the one side of the building with their chutes pointed over the cliffside.) Good thing this is a constitutional monarchy.