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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!]
wherethestoryis: (Smile)

[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2012-12-21 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lois knows very well that Bruce is not enjoying himself as much as he appears to.

In her opinion, this is at this point a little silly. Most of his family is here, there aren't fifty million supervillains just waiting to gatecrash the party, and he doesn't have many years' history of being an airheaded Lothario.

She makes her way over to him before too long, and taps him on the arm.]
Decided to forgo the spirit of costuming, Bruce?
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-02 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Can you believe it, I've never much been one for costumes. Too vain, I think.

[He lifts a hand reflexively to brush his knuckles across his jaw. Because god, why would this gorgeous face require any sort of mask. Gosh.]

You know, Clark asked me to refrain from the company of married women at this little party.

[His smile, though, is wolfish.]
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[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2013-01-03 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
Can't say I blame you. I've never been a fan of masks hiding pretty faces either.

[She throws a warm look over her shoulder in Clark's direction as she says it.

Her own smile turns wicked.]


I hope you won't disappoint me by listening.
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-08 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh you.]

Of course not. I go mysteriously deaf when I hear things that aren't to my liking. Shall we?

[He holds out an arm for her.]
wherethestoryis: (Laugh)

[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2013-01-08 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good strategy. Works wonders with Perry.

[She grins and takes his arm.]

It would be my pleasure.
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-08 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[And when they get to the dancefloor he'll spin her out onto it like a total pro. He and Lois have sparred enough that he can read her movements with absolute precision. She's one of the fastest learning civilians he's ever taught hand-to-hand, and she's elegant in the execution of dancing and fighting both.]

So? How've you been? I keep meaning to wrestle you from Kent for a coffee date, but work keeps me away.
wherethestoryis: (Quiet)

[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2013-01-09 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It is lovely that, unlike with Clark at his most glasses-persona-like, Bruce gets to be graceful. Besides, it gives her a chance to show off, and endorphins definitely contribute to that.

She wonders if many dancers would make good martial artists. It doesn't seem unlikely.]


And I keep meaning to drag you away for an hour, but it is the curse of being a workaholic. [Clark, too.]

Still, for me it's been... more quiet than I'm used to. I keep expecting a hostile alien invasion.
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-09 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He tugs her in for a brief moment-- all part of the dance.]

I'll pass on hostile aliens, Ms. Lane. I haven't been able to amass the necessary funding to build a panic room yet.

[Not that he'd use one for its intended purpose.

...

Ever.]
wherethestoryis: (Raised eyebrow)

[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2013-01-09 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Lois lets him tug her in with a grin. Almost anyone else would doubtless see it as merely flirtatious. Bruce, however, knows her well enough to see the mocking gleam.

And then an eyebrow goes up.]


Yet, Bruce?

[Riiight.]
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-09 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sees your mockery and raises you faint teasing, girlfriend.]

Yet, Lois. Everyone knows I value my own personal safety.

[And this is exactly why he loves talking with Lois. No one else can do doubletalk with quite the same panache as she can. She's one of the rare few 'civilians' that he's ever comfortable being completely himself around.]
wherethestoryis: (Entertained)

[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2013-01-10 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[For that matter, Lois loves talking to Bruce for similar reasons. She actually has very few really close friends--and ones she can relax around about Clark, and that side of their bizarre lives?

Her smile is sardonic.]


I suppose that's the sort of thing you'd learn to value in Gotham.
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-10 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we can't all live in Metropolis.

[Yes he is definitely teasing her as he spins her out across the floor.]
wherethestoryis: (Small smile)

[personal profile] wherethestoryis 2013-01-15 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lois definitely chose a dress for its look during dancing. The skirt looks best in motion.]

I'd certainly prefer having Wayne Enterprises in Metropolis over LexCorp, but some things there just isn't room for two of.

[Ultra-rich business moguls or territorial tier-one superheroes, take your pick.]
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[personal profile] cowled 2013-01-15 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[A slight smile, because although there are times when he's looked after Metropolis, it's definitely one of his least favourite places to temp.]

Well, never say never.

[Since there was that one time he bought Lex out entirely.]