[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

[vaudevil]

[He clicks his tongue with a sigh. His eyes glance up as he leans back against the rail.]

A shame. Really. We can't have a moment's peace without being thrust back into war again and me returning to my work. It's never going to end until we have it within our grasp.

Sadly, we are the pawns. Something so simple can be achieved yet it falls on the shoulders of the innovators to make the world better. I doubt even then we'll have true freedom.

[ghostling]

Even just a li'l time like this is enough for me. Ne'er e'en got this much back home.

[She side eyes him then casually swings her hips at him in an attempt to lightly shove him.]

Y'ain' allowed to be pessimistic, that's m'game.

[vaudevil]

[He can't help but smile broadly at that even though it's more of a smirk than a smile.]

Touche. I've been so busy working I lost track of time.

[He polishes off his wine glass and sets it down on the ledge. It could be the wine, or it could be the way she looks that's keeping his interest.]

So, what do you suggest that could lighten my mood? Not that I need much coaxing of course.

[ghostling]

[His smirk managed to get a smile out of her as well as an eyeroll.]

You're askin' the wrong person. M' miss miserable and lonely.