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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!]
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (friendship!)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2012-12-21 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Orlesians are something bad?

[ She tries a bite of her food. ]

Mmmm, this is good!
imlikeabird: ([ ✘ ] Is the answer because you're crazy)

[personal profile] imlikeabird 2012-12-22 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
They're terrible. Stinky cheese, bad accents, terrible parties.

[The last Orlesian party Hawke went to, the host tried to kill him.]

The worst even.
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (friendship!)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2012-12-22 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
In that case I'm glad Favrielle isn't one. I'm enjoying the party, and nothing seems particularly stinky.

[ Not that she has any idea what an Orlesian is still. She's learned not to nit-pick words she doesn't know. ]
imlikeabird: ([ ✘ ] Yes that is a banana in my pocket.)

[personal profile] imlikeabird 2012-12-24 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well that makes two of us.

[He lifts his glass in a toast.]
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (friendship!)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2012-12-24 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Kara blinks at him a moment before smiling uncertainly and raising her glass like he is. ]
imlikeabird: ([ ✘ ] His heart grew 10  inches that day)

[personal profile] imlikeabird 2012-12-27 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Hawke taps his glass against hers, before he lowers it and takes a sip.]

I'm Hawke, by the way.
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (friendship!)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2012-12-27 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
My name is Kara.

[ She takes a drink as well, copying him. ]
imlikeabird: ([ ✘ ] Let's talk about me.)

[personal profile] imlikeabird 2013-01-02 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Good to meet you. So, some party huh?
notdreaming: stare, neutral, sad (friendship!)

[personal profile] notdreaming 2013-01-02 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It's nice. It reminds me of the fancy parties back home.