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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!]
agentdork: (☆ n)

[personal profile] agentdork 2012-12-29 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Partners, way back.

[ In the loosest sense of the word, since they'd worked with other people, but on their own missions together, they'd done well. York tilts his head at Arthur's question, though. ]

North, yeah. Kara's from another one.
build: (some are black)

[personal profile] build 2012-12-29 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her brow arched in curiosity at that, nodding as she reached for another glass of whatever it was she was drinking. ]

It almost seems as if no one comes from a world like ours, Arthur. [ which only had her shrugging her shoulder slightly as she took another small sip, letting a small smile curl at her lips. ] We must be the boring world, huh York?

aloadeddie: (he wonnnn't build)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2012-12-29 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
You think our world is boring? [Arthur looks at Ariadne, vaguely amused. Boring is not a word he'd use to describe the situation they're coming from.]
agentdork: (☆ I look awesome in black thx)

[personal profile] agentdork 2012-12-29 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd take boring.

[ He's serious, too. Boring means his friends not dying, boring means leading a normal life with a white picket fence, with normal people and not worrying about death and dying and the military. ]

I'd really take boring.
build: (collections of books and documents)

[personal profile] build 2012-12-29 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her nose crinkles slightly as she nods in understanding to yorks words, offering him an almost sympathetic smile. (given what he has told her, she sort of assumes he would like boring a bit more) ]

You'd like our world, York. [ a quick glance over towards arthur, and her smile is growing slightly more. ] Not much happens there unless you make it happen.
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[personal profile] aloadeddie 2012-12-29 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arthur glances at Ariadne, then to York.] If you're lucky. It's always about whether you're one of the lucky ones, or not.
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[personal profile] agentdork 2012-12-29 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That prompts a grin, crooked as it is, and he swirls his drink in his cup. He's always been lucky. ]

Back home I was.
build: (and wide like the roads around Fort Laud)

[personal profile] build 2012-12-29 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her brow arched in curiosity at that, her attention turning up towards york fully now. ] Your friend mentioned something about AI's back home, how was that for you?

[ which has her now wondering if that might be something as to why he was a possible shade here now.

(look, arthur, she is trying to get information for you) ]

aloadeddie: (u mad ariadne?)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-01-02 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[She thinks she's being so subtle. Arthur bites back a smile and glances over at the food table instead, though his ears are definitely open to any information that might be relevant to the situation at hand.]
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[personal profile] agentdork 2013-01-02 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ His lips curve in a faint smile, amused. ]

It was-- something. Both he and I got AIs, back when all of this went down. Neither of us showed up here with 'em, though, unfortunately.
build: (the neighborhoods surround the soft flor)

[personal profile] build 2013-01-02 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ glancing over towards arthur, she just rolled her eyes with a smile, shaking her head. (no one gave her classes on how to be subtle, okay?) ]

Why unfortunately?
aloadeddie: (standing around)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-01-03 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
What, like a helper robot?
agentdork: (☆ j)

[personal profile] agentdork 2013-01-03 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs openly at that, shaking his head. ]

Sort...of? Though some of 'em might get kinda pissy about that. They're like-- little...computer people, just mini. And on a chip.
build: (the lake and the beach)

[personal profile] build 2013-01-03 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ glancing over at arthur, her just furrows, not sure what to make of the whole idea of a chip in a person. (seriously, how does that work for a projection?) ]

How'd you get recruited for something like that, York? [ there's a clear tinge of curiosity in her words at that, as she turns back to look up at york with a smile, taking a long sip of her drink as she does. ]
aloadeddie: (yep still suave)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-01-03 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[His hands are in his pockets now, his curiosity a little less obvious than hers, but still there.] Some kinda military program?
agentdork: (☆ k)

[personal profile] agentdork 2013-01-03 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
Some kind.

[ He murmurs it in agreement, shrugging. That, he's not so eager to give much info on. ]

Most of that doesn't matter so much, anymore.
build: (affection the gifted architect)

[personal profile] build 2013-01-11 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
We're apparently living on the back of some turtle - everything matters, right?

[ she shrugs slightly, her nose crinkling at it all as she offers york a small smile. ]

Still say it's more fascinating than just being a random college student who wonders why she was brought here.

[ a lie - she has some damn clue, but she isn't about to tell that to everyone, okay? ]
aloadeddie: (the fuck you say?)

[personal profile] aloadeddie 2013-01-11 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Our world does seem pretty mundane by the standards of some of the people here. [Arthur points that out, as though to include himself in her assessment of "ordinary X wondering why they're here".]
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[personal profile] agentdork 2013-01-12 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, mundane isn't bad. Mundane can be pretty damn nice when you see what all the other people have to work with.

[ you know, magic, aliens, WHOLE PLANETS BEING DESTROYED.

He'll take mundane. ]