[open] welcome to the masquerade

[implying]

Date & Time: Friday the 7th, 4pm to midnight.
Location: Palace of Versailles, France, 1772.
Characters: anyone! Even characters not yet accepted as of when this log goes up. 8)
Summary: It's just some fancy masquerade dance with spiked punch.
Warnings: here be pictures, slow connections beware.


Welcome to Versailles.

The decorations are arranged, the food is prepared and laid out, the music has been rehearsed, and... most people have their costumes and masks ready. At precisely 1600, the Transporter machine activates, and a full room of people and all of their decorations, food, musical instruments, and costumes are sent back to 1772. The Palace of Versailles is in the height of its splendor, the weather is perfect and cloudless, and the gardens are in full bloom for the spring.

➣ Explore the Palace

Holy shit look at this, you have the chance to get your grubby little fingers all over history before it even becomes properly history. Do you know how many famous butts sat in all these plush velvet chairs? Or are going to sit in these plush velvet chairs? And they were all probably just talking the hell out of French, too. Wow. Go invade some bedrooms, poke your head into the kitchens (but no more than that, or territorial cooking elves might take offense), just. Touch everything. Everything. Just know that where ever you are, there's no escaping that beautiful music your fellow Transports are inflicting on you, that shit's just echoing all over the place tonight.

➣ Admire the Gardens

Jeez look at this, these people just had way too much money. But you get to benefit from it! You can basically just get yourself lost for hours here, so try not to starve or anything. Meet all the statues, go streaking through the fountains (please don't, no one wants to see that), get lost and desperately burst through cute little trees in your increasingly frantic attempts to find the exit. There's all sorts of fun you can have!

Just don't wander too close to the edge of the grounds, or you'll encounter (run into?) the invisible forcefield set up to keep wandering guests from utterly ruining history. That's probably a good way to get yourself a bloody nose.

➣ Enjoy the Banquet

There's tables and tables of this finger-licking good finery here, and it's all for you. And can you believe how fancy it is? Oh my god, those sausages have adorable little spears through them. And those spoons gently cradling their cheesy goodness? Yeah. They're made of crackers. And don't even get me started on these desserts. This is amazing. You've never eaten this good. And naturally, each drink (some of which are spiked, you're welcome) has adorable little frozen flowers in the ice cubes. Who even comes up with this stuff? Elves, that's who.

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Sollux Captor | Banquet | Homestuck

[biwinning]

[He doesn't even want to be here. But Feferi was working to help this "project" and he had to go. Okay, maybe he didn't. Maybe he really DID want to go, but... maybe he also didn't. He wants to see Feferi in her nice dress, and he wants to wear the suit Kanaya made for him, and he wants to see Equius... maybe.

His dislike for the person running the show is just what he's still getting emotionally stuck on.

Sollux arrives to the masquerade with Feferi, but quickly drifts off on his own as she starts handing out masks to glare at the Banquet tables. He could easily just blow this place up and ruin the party for everyone. But he's not going to. Because he's too much of a nice guy to do that. Fuck this. Fuck everything.

At the very least, he's going to start stealing food.]

[fintastic]

[ Once Feferi is doing... all the things that a Feferi is wont to do, she comes back to the banquet and seeks Sollux out, attaching herself to his arm without a word. ]

So? Are you enjoying youself?

[biwinning]

[Arms crossed. Grump-grump.]

No. It'th horrible.

[fintastic]

Sollux Captor, don't lie to me!

[ She rests her head against his shoulder and just leans in closer, despite any and all grumping. ]

Come on. Dance with me?

[biwinning]

We've been over that I can't dance.

[The grump is strong in this one.]

[fintastic]

Pretty please? Don't make me make the face.

[biwinning]

...

[Make the face, Feferi.]

[fintastic]

[ Okay

Here it comes

Here it...

Look at her, look at those big watery eyes and that little pout! ]

[biwinning]

...

Okay, fuck, fine.

[fintastic]

[ Aaaand she's smiling again, as she grabs for his wrists to pull him onto the dancefloor. ]

I knew you would see it my way!

[biwinning]

Yeah, yeah-

[Half smiling, just a little, as he's pulled.]

[fintastic]

[ She tugs his arms around her waist once they've reached the edge of the dance crowd. She'll be gentle and engage in some mildly awkward swaying in a slow circle. ]

See now? This isn't so bad.

[biwinning]

[Slow swaying is a thing he can handle.]

Not yet.

[payback]

[Rin's here, for curiosity and the idle feeling of - why not? She circulates through the crowds, dressed up pretty in green, enjoying the feeling of anonymity and the activity of other people.

When she sees Sollux she freezes up for a second, though. A deer-in-the-headlights expression can be made out even under her mask - well, it's not like it covers her whole face, so that's easy. She has no idea whether to say anything to him or not. The impulse to sidle away and hide in the crowds is for a moment overwhelming.

Even though the spread looks delicious.]

[biwinning]

[Sollux only half notices. He's aware, but he's also too frustrated and grumpy to really find it in him to be angry at Rin specifically. This is a wide-spread, general disliking of everything he's come into contact with. Rin is included, but at the same time, despite his scowling, he arches an eyebrow at her behind his mask. Come on, even if he didn't notice her, he would have eventually with how she's staring.]

What?

[payback]

Nothing! [God, she's freaking out. Help, what should she do?

THIS IS SO PATHETIC.]

I'm leaving now! I wasn't looking at you!

[biwinning]

You totally were, I thaw you thtaring! Jutht becauthe I don't have pupils doesn't mean I can't thee!

[payback]

I know you can see! I'm leaving now! [She scurries for it. D:]

[biwinning]

Oh for fucksth thake, for once in your life can you NOT be a coward??

[payback]

[Well, that brings her back. Angrily, at least:]

I am not a coward! You don't know anything about me!

[biwinning]

I know that you can't talk to me without running away!

[payback]

I can so and I have done it before! But I don't see why I should hang around inflicting my company on someone who doesn't want it!

[biwinning]

WHO THAID I DIDN'T WANT IT!

[payback]

I didn't think you did! You're always mad and yelling at me!

[biwinning]

That'th how I am with everyone!