[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

[ethnobotany]

It hasn't really been all that long since she and Jean-Luc sort of threw the Prime Directive out the metaphorical airlock so admitting this sort of thing is still not easy. She still fully expects a court martial when she gets home. "By Earth standards it was 2373. What about you?"

[fooloftheking]

"And they think I'm ancient history," he scoffs with a laugh, shaking his head. "And to you, all of them are. When I came here, it was 2016," he admits, pausing and considering how much to say. Then, he just can't help himself. "It was in the late eighteen hundreds when I was born."

[ethnobotany]

"It's a little different being from so far into everyone's future," she agrees, her lips curled a bit wryly. So much of history was lost during World War III anyway that sometimes she really doesn't know what people are talking about. They still have some pieces of history and certainly great works like Shakespeare weren't lost. But she has learned a lot since arriving here anyway.

His age, though, makes her think a little bit of Helen. And, of course, the Vulcans. So she isn't as shocked as he might expect. "You've seen more of history than most humans. Several non-Terran species live extended lives. Or it's extended to us humans." She won't ask about his heritage. That would be rude. It does make her wonder, though. After all, Guinan was on Earth at about that time, too.

[fooloftheking]

"Do we finally get flying cars and intermingling of species or is it still pulp fiction like so much from my youth still is?" So many advances, but not nearly as many as they imagined and wrote about.

"I have. Two lifetimes in time and in the man I've been," he admits, nodding. "Terrans earth, right? I like that. Some still from there manage it, just through probably less scientific means than most would think. In my case, a curse."

[ethnobotany]

"There's definitely an intermingling of species. You don't have to worry about that," Beverly answers with a wry twist of her lips. Her mind lands on Deanna, daughter of a human and a Betazoid, and then Odan, a Trill who had romanced Beverly once upon a time. And of course the well-known Ambassador Spock, son of a human and a Vulcan. There's an almost impressive amount of intermingling. "Humanity has come a long way since the 19th century. We still have a ways to go, but at least intermingling is something we can do."

She doesn't comment on the longevity, knowing that there are likely good points and bad ones to living that long. He'd give a Vulcan a run for their money, though. "Maybe one day you'll be able to see it all for yourself," she points out kindly. "Assuming you'd want to after all that time."

[fooloftheking]

"Why is that not surprising?" Chuckling at that, wry but amused. Or perhaps it's all about being cynical. Mankind found ways, but sometimes they all just came back to the most carnal of moments. A future beyond even his lifetime doesn't change that.

Though that comment, he can't help but to laugh. "I would, though I'm here now so who knows what I can expect from that. So far though, despite it setting us back in a lot of ways? I'm seeing interesting things here."