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Favrielle nó Eglantine ([personal profile] flawedgoods) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2012-12-18 07:51 pm

[OPEN] Midwinter Masquerade

Characters: EVERYONE
Date: Forward-dated to Friday, December 21st
Location: Water Sector
Situation: Midwinter Masquerade!
Warnings/Rating: None in the entry, please tag your threads accordingly.

It's well into the evening of the Longest Night when guests begin to arrive at the Midwinter Masquerade. The building where it is held, a large and elegant building, sits in the Water sector at the edge of a canal, allowing attendees to arrive by foot, boat, and bicycle drawn carts.

Upon approaching the main entrance, guests are greeted by kedan servers who have been contracted for the event. Dressed in white and silver as Winter spirits and snowy creatures, they greet the guests, stow away their coats, cloaks, and other outerwear, and bid them Joy on the Longest Night.

The theme of their costumes becomes quickly apparent upon entering the main room, for Favrielle has put all of her designing genius toward transforming the it into a wintery palace. Pale white drapes hang over the walls of the room and beneath the ceiling, accented with silvery ribbons to simulate icicles. Indeed, most things in the hall are in whites and silvers. The tables are adorned in white table cloths, and matching napkins hold polished silverware within, tied shut with ribbon.

A set of musicians sit to the side of the dance floor, playing quietly as the guests arrive. The stringed instruments produce sweet sounds of a more classical style that adds to the formality of the occasion and sets the mood for the evening. Indeed, it does little more than that for the first part of the evening, by Favrielle's reckoning, is best spent enjoying the arrival of those in costume. After all, with so many masked it's as much an entertainment to see who is dressed in what, as it is to try and guess their identity.

The more observant or socially networked individual might also notice that while most guests are indeed foreigners, there are a few kedan in attendance as well. Invited by Favrielle herself, these kedan are for the most part friends and associates from their shared industry, as well as some few acquaintances she's made in the Fire sector's red light district. In the tradition of the Night Court however, it is not a night of business dealings, even those from the latter group.

As for the hostess herself, she enters only when it seems as if most other guests are present...


[ooc: Due to RL stuff this is going up early! This should give everyone more time to tag in. The pageant beginning will go up now, however the end will go up on the 21st as planned!]
youfallback: (L: This is where we have a heart-to-hear)

[personal profile] youfallback 2012-12-21 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well Carolina doesn't know that. She thinks the laughter and smiles are all real and she's on her way to claim her one dance for the night. The mask she could find well enough on her own, but the dress is all his idea, really. Her hair is neatly tucked back into a loose bun that goes well with the whole ensemble.

At the beginning of the next song, she moves across the floor to him. She doesn't outright touch him, but as she nears his side, she speaks,
] One dance, Bruce.
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-02 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Those were the terms we agreed upon, weren't they?

[He offers his arm to her, all smiles.]

You look beautiful, Carolina. I'm glad you came.
youfallback: (L: You did this for me?)

[personal profile] youfallback 2013-01-06 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She'll offer a smile right back, accepting his arm as she continues her direction out to the dance floor. She doesn't address the compliment as she situates herself into a traditional stance.] A deal's a deal.
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-08 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmm, so she has done this before.]

Any preference as to the dance?
youfallback: (L: HBIC and liking it.)

[personal profile] youfallback 2013-01-09 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a samba. [She can feel the rhythm pretty clearly underneath everything else piled on top and she adjusts her stance just slightly to fit the latin posture.]
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-09 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You're in luck, then, because I happen to be an expert in the samba.

[Actually he's an expert at... pretty much every kind of dance imaginable. But that's for entirely different reasons. He's always had a special place in his heart for Latin music, however. It's so much more expressive than styles you typically find among Gotham's upper echelons.]