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It is not difficult to decide after hearing Agreste explain the effects of announcing your title. You need to take advantage of it. You have a role to play, a performance not just for the present audience but for future ones too. What words shall you use to bend souls to your cause? What words can soothe the frightened and hopeless? What words can ward off the raging and avaricious? You need to be able to make your message succinct and pointed because of the flaws inherent in Avalon's messaging system. There is no doubt in your mind that your message will be cut short.
You try casting your mind back to famous speeches from Japan's past and find none in your memory. In a literary language bereft of verbal rhetoric, you have to cast your mind to foreign countries and other people to seek some seed of eloquence. Ah, crap, that's a pretty empty arsenal. You'll have to craft a message using your innate knowledge and charisma.
The messages on the first night of your arrival in Avalon is probably the model you need to base the first part of your message on. You remember that it is the most informative message you receive.
'This is 'Escanor', if I'm a King or Knight, who cares? Do you know how to get out of this place!? I am so damn tired...'
That message out of all you received communicates the core of what Escanor wanted to let others know and the clarity of her feelings. It also illuminated the personality constructing the message too.
There's also another aspect of this entire situation. Agreste is part of the audience you aim to impress. All this time, you've been building a personality profile of the Herald and firming up a few aspects about him. This creature scorns passivity. You still remember wasting time idly waiting in the Gatehouse to entice his curiosity and interact with you; it failed miserably. Every word out of his mouth only emphasizes his belief that a ruler of Camelot who does nothing is not worth his attention. He wants the ruler of Camelot to act and if you die in the process, it means that you were unworthy. His principles and beliefs mean only the strongest and luckiest win his attention and perhaps his favor.
That doesn't sit right with you.
You arrived in a land filled with wonders and mysteries alongside horror and dangers where seemingly benign choices can end in death. How many people have survived Avalon? From what little you've heard, damn few.
The Herald calls them 'walking graves'.
Trapped in Avalon, forgotten by family and friends, no way out... It is a terrible situation; you wouldn't wish it on anyone, including that bitch, Gareth. You decide that this is the core of your message.
You reach out to the floating telephone and grab the cold metal handset to begin.
"I am King Lot of Lothian, Orkney, and Camelot! What is my aim? To return home. Seek us out! We'll do what we can to give aid! That is my word as King."
