[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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Comments

Roxy | Open | All over the place

[tipsygnostalgia]

[Roxy had been looking forward to this ever since she'd heard about it- it was the first time she'd been to a party or any sort of social gathering, let alone one where she has a date, and she intended to make the most of it.

She's wearing a pretty swanky looking navy dress made for her by Kanaya, a black mask and a set of long evening gloves completing her look.

She's making her way from place to place hoping to run into people she knows, although most her time will be spent attempting to get people to come dance with her, or over at the buffet area filling up her drink.]

[biwinning]

[Hey, Roxy. What's up. Don't mind Sollux just sliding on up next to Roxy. He's kind of frowning, but more wants to hang out with her at the moment.]

[tipsygnostalgia]

[It doesn't take her long to notice him wander up to her, Roxy turning to greet him with a huge grin- and a hug.]

Hey Sollux! How are you doing?

[biwinning]

[Hugging is nice. Hugging is what he needs.]

Shitty. I think I'm gonna leave thoon. I don't even know why I bothered to come here.

[tipsygnostalgia]

Aww.. Come on. You came because it's fun! We can hang out for a bit if you want to?

[biwinning]

Alright, I gueth. ... Ith that alcohol?

[Points to her glass.]

[tipsygnostalgia]

Yeah! It's pretty nice too.

[Then a second later.]

Did you want some?

[painfeels]

[You'll probably find Painwheel all alone in some secluded corner. Or as secluded as one can get over here. She's not comfortable with this, at all.

Oh, there's Roxy.

She looks at her for a moment, wondering if she should walk over and say hi to her, while also not remembering that the other girl... has never seen her before.]

[tipsygnostalgia]

[Roxy had noticed her, but thought nothing of it. She didn't know who it was, as far as she knew, so saw no reason to go over and say hello.]

[painfeels]

[Doesn't really stop Painwheel from waving at her.

Hi Roxy! Hi.]

[tipsygnostalgia]

[Oh that person sure is waving at her? She looks around- making sure she wasn't waving at someone else, before curiously walking over.]

Hi...?

[painfeels]

Hey, Roxy.

[Wait, that's right.]

Oh, I guess you wouldn't know just like that. I'm, uh... Painwheel.

[tipsygnostalgia]

..Oh! [Now knowing who it is, she offers a bit of an embarrassed smile.]

Heh, sorry! I didn't know. We'd never actually seen each other until now, I just realized. Enjoying the party?

[fintastic]

Roxy!

[ As soon as Feferi spots her, she skips on over, a half-full cup of punch in her hand and nearly spilling over the edge from sloshing around so much. ]

Roxy, have you tried this? It's so good!

[tipsygnostalgia]

Hi Feferi!

[Roxy's all smiles right now, giving the troll a wave]

I haven't tried it yet, no! Is that the punch?

[fintastic]

No, it's a... a...

[ Feferi just cracks up laughing before she can even finish her sentence, and her cheeks are flushed pink. ]

Try some!

[tipsygnostalgia]

Oh.. uh.. sure?

[Fef you're acting weird. Roxy takes the glass from her though to try a sip and- yup she knows what's going on here.]

It's good! And I think you're a little tipsy!

[fintastic]

Me? No! I'm okay, really! Why would you say that?

[tipsygnostalgia]

Since there's alcohol in it! But really it's hard to tell since you're naturally just sort of all over the place anyways, Fef.

[speakveryclearly]

[LATER

JUST KIND OF APPEARS BY ROXY IN HER SILENT RAINBOW DRINKER WAY]

How did it go?

[tipsygnostalgia]

Holy shit I will not get used to you sneaking up on me like that!

[speakveryclearly]

Sorry. [Contrite dimming.]

But I do really want to know how it went.

[tipsygnostalgia]

Are you meaning the party in general, or the certain conversation I was going to have with a certain troll boy.

[speakveryclearly]

The latter.

/ignores the fact the convo wasnt finished yet

[tipsygnostalgia]

Well..

It's going to become an actual thing. Yeah.