[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

[hostage]

Can I be honest? I'm bored out of my mind.

[Well, not so much anymore, since he has something nice to look at.]

[payback]

[Don't stare too much! She'll get self-conscious, and then she'll get invisible.]

Really! Well, maybe you should go talk to some of the guests, huh?

[hostage]

Ain't that what I'm doing?

[Like, aside from checking her out. He's doing a lot of that, too.]

[payback]

[DON'T GO THERE JESSE. Don't do it! There are at least three concealed knives on her person (never leave home without 'em) and she's allergic to even a single iota of commitment. Casual sex counts.]

Well yeah. But there's a whole roomful of people. I think they're supposed to be the attraction just as much as, you know, being here. [She waves around.]

[hostage]

[IT'S NOT A PARTY UNLESS JESSE GETS LAID. A man has to try.]

How come you ain't hanging back with the rest of 'em?

[payback]

I was. I'm going outside now. I want to explore. [A beat -] You can come along if you want.

[hostage]

Only if you want me to.

[payback]

[That. Gets him a dry look. A touch amused, but she's guessing he has an angle and isn't going to entertain that part of things.]

Why don't you? If you're bored. The party will still be there if you decide the gardens are boring too.

[hostage]

Right on.

[Even if it's just walking around, Jesse's glad she doesn't mind his company. He was fully prepared to be told to fuck off. Now he gets to keep following after her - and the view is nice from here.]

[payback]

[Oh my goodness Jesse, contain yourself. She's going to really notice, and then it's going to get awkward.

Still, at the moment, most of the awkwardness on her mind is that the conversation died a little. Digging for a topic of conversation as she wanders through the shrubberies and gravel paths, with Jesse tailing -]

I guess it's dumb to think of finding something important anywhere out here. It's the past, or whatever.

[hostage]

[He would have to be sober to exercise any more restraint. And he's not. How unfortunate.]

Is it supposed to be important? I was just thinking it's real pretty.

[payback]

Yeah, well, I want to find something important. I guess maybe I'm predisposed to it by being trapped in these weird games set up by mysterious people?

[hostage]

What do you mean?

[payback]

Well, I feel like some of the worlds I've passed through were like that. One of them was actually a game, they said it right out when you got there.

[hostage]

That's messed up.

[Although he could totally buy that this is a game. Sonic's here and everything.]

But I mean like what're you even looking for?

[payback]

I have no idea really. [The endless problem of her life.]

[hostage]

If this is a game, too, you think there's special equipment? Like stuff that'll boost our stats? Maybe we should look for chests...

[payback]

Yeah, that's what I want. Like a quest. [She shrugs shortly.] Though, we kinda have that already. That's why I like it here.

[hostage]

Yo, we should just grab as much as we can carry before we get outta this place.

[payback]

Um, what?

[hostage]

Loot!

[payback]

That.

Is a completely terrible idea.

[hostage]

What? Why?

[payback]

It's the past! You're stealing from the past! If I have learned anything since I got here it's that messing with time is a bad idea.

[hostage]

Do you see all the shit here? These guys are so loaded, they won't even notice they're missing a few solid gold... whatevers.