[MINGLE] Saints & Sinners Masquerade

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Corn field next to the inn
WHEN: 31 October, all day and night
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Please warn as appropriate in your subject lines
NOTES: Please make sure you have read and understand the event details! If you have questions, drop them here. RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED: Put your SCRUBS COLOR in your OTA subject line for folks doing bingo. Time your OTA for the harvest feast, the masquerade, or both. Costume matches and details for folks who did not get matched are here.

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This morning, our intrepid villagers awoke to a surprise of the nicer kind: A bundle of clothing left at the foot of their bed, tied with a bow. There is also a note: Put on your new outfit and join the festivities in the corn field next to the inn.

You may be thinking, what corn field next to the inn? The one that sprung up fully-mature overnight, of course.

In the middle of the field, villagers will find an autumn feast: Tables piled with harvest time food and drink, warm and rustic decorations, the day's sunshine fending off any chill in the air.

Tuck in and enjoy, villagers, but take note: Things often look different in the dark, and you might be one of them.

Comments

[tosavecocoon]

Vanille is grateful that the woman doesn't ask. At this point, she doesn't want to talk too much about her own misgivings, especially with a stranger. Not that she usually isn't a good judge of character, but she's still getting a feel for this place and how much she can actually admit to with her past. She doesn't really want to find out the hard way that someone knows what a l'Cie is after all.

"So I guess it's something done for fun?" she asks thoughtfully, lifting her hand to her chin for a moment. "Is there a certain celebration going on? Or do people just decide to have masquerades whenever they want?"

[fishingfortrouble]

"It can be either. Sometimes people simply feel like having a night of dressing up, although masquerades are usually less common that normal parties even then."

Possibly because of the fact that there's more effort that goes into them, if only on account of the fact that people need to find or otherwise come up with costumes. Not to mention the effort that can be involved in bringing one's costume to the particular venue that's been chosen for the party.

"In this case, however, I would imagine that it's because of the closeness to, well, consider it a sort of harvest festival. One that's evolved a good deal from its initial roots, yes. But it is about the season for that kind of thing all the same."

[tosavecocoon]

Vanille nods thoughtfully. She's heard a few things about this particular party, but she always likes to hear more. Sometimes other perspectives can help her make sense of what happens here. Or anywhere that isn't Gran Pulse. She can understand the concept of a harvest festival, though.

"It's not based on a harvest festival anymore?" she asks curiously. "I wonder why..." Glancing around doesn't get her any closer to that answer, though, so she decides to just turn it all into a social event.

"Thanks for answering my questions!" she chirps brightly. Maybe she'll have another friend by the end of the night.

[fishingfortrouble]

"Not as much, no. Although I'll admit that I'm not precisely the best of people to ask."

She is... very loosely aware of the history of Halloween, yes. But only in so much as that she's aware of the concept of All Hallows' Eve, even if the actual celebrations have rather distinctly taken a turn away from that particular holiday.

"As it currently stands, Halloween is largely about having an excuse to dress up and enjoy oneself at parties. Although typically there's more choice involved."

And somewhat fewer unexpected transformations besides, although she figures that probably goes without saying.

[tosavecocoon]

"Huh. Sounds like fun!" Vanille chirps. As usual, she appears to take everything at face value, not letting her ignorance or lack of knowledge get in the way of her enjoying things. She has a gift for pulling information from people, despite how oblivious she can seem. "Maybe sometime we can dress up on our own! Choose what you want to use." It can't be too hard, right?

"What sort of costume would you wear, if you had a choice?"

[fishingfortrouble]

Taking things at face value and not letting a lack of familiarity with things get in one's way are very much things that Phryne can understand. She doesn't always do so herself, in both cases, but she can certainly understand doing so all the same. Not to mention she's perfectly willing to keep explaining besides, should Vanille want. It's not like it's any great hardship, after all, and she certainly doesn't mind in the slightest besides.

"We'd need to have something to dress up in, but other that I don't see any reason why we couldn't."

It might take a little more work here than it might anywhere else, yes. But that doesn't mean that it's going to be particularly hard, either.

"And that depends on the occasion, of course. Although the last time I was at a party like this, I was Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile."

[tosavecocoon]

"I don't have much of a wardrobe yet," Vanille muses, wondering what kind of costumes she could even make at this point. "I wonder if I got enough wool from my llamas, would I be able to pretend I am one?" She giggles at the idea, lifting her hands to her mouth... and promptly hitting her mask. "Oops!"