[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

[got_it_memorized]

[He was more trying to get a closer look at that hat than directly sneaking up on this one, and takes half a step back, hands lifted as if to show he's unarmed. Girls are a little crazy, in his experience, and, well... if he ever snuck up on Larxene he'd be eating voltage in a proverbial heartbeat, so he wants to make sure there's no misunderstandings here. It seems he's not the only person in this place with unexpected abilities, after all.]

Wasn't trying to startle you. [He points at the hat, hands still lifted near his face.] I like the hat.

Detect Thoughts, huh? [That sounds... interesting.] You a mind-reader? [This could get awkward; Axel likes his inner monologue to stay that way.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

I can.. Takes concentration, though. And it doesn't let me focus on one person, so a big crowd's kinda loud in a metaphorical sense. *Like, say, this room.*

Thus why I'm not bothering now.

Thanks about the hat, by the way. My name's Pidonus. You?

[got_it_memorized]

Huh. [Well it's good to know she can't just invade his headspace at will.] Yeah, I can imagine the thoughts of a whole room would get kind of obnoxious. [They were loud enough with what they were saying--he didn't want to think about everything they weren't saying.

[He jabs his chest with one thumb. Well, he likes this part, at least. He can still be remembered by everyone he meets--hell, being remembered by people in another universe is pretty cool, actually.] Name's Axel; got it memorized?

[have_hat_will_travel]

I think I can remember that one.

[got_it_memorized]

Good, we'll get along fine then, Pidonus.

[He folds his arms and regards her curiously a moment.]

So is mind-reading common where you come from? [He's fairly familiar with any number of unusual abilities, but mind-reading is pretty unusual in his universe.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well, it's a common spell, but most people can't use it at will, no.

*Pidonus, of course, wasn't going to admit she could.*

[got_it_memorized]

A spell, huh? [Man, that would be convenient. He grins a bit then as she continues--ahh, but you already did admit it, in a manner of speaking. You said it took concentration, at least, and now he's intrigued.] Man, wish I had somethin' like that back home; it would'a come in pretty handy.

[have_hat_will_travel]

It can be, yeah.

But on the other hand, it's far from perfect.