 In this story, the Scots invite the Pictish nobles to their banquet hall for a feast; the Scots however prearranged for the banquet seats to sit on top of a pit, and engineered the set-up in such a way that removing a pin would drop those seated into the pit underneath.Gerald's tale did not feature Kenneth MacAlpin or Drust.Gerald alleged this allowed the Scots to conquer the Picts, demonstrating for his reader how by perfidy "an inferior people can overcome a superior race".