[MINGLE] Auld Lang Sim

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Simulation, door between the SV inn and police station
WHEN: Sunset Dec 31 through sunrise Jan 1
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Please warn in your subject line as needed and move all adult content to a new post
NOTES: GENERAL PARTY DETAILS: Here & Here | PLANNING POST: Here | NEWBIES: You may arrive at the party, details here.

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As the sun dips toward the horizon, another day in the village put to bed, those walking past the tiny piece of woodland between the South Village inn and police station next door may notice something out of place: A door, golden and shimmering, seeming to hover in space and go nowhere. Indeed, a quick step to its other side reveals nothing at all but more forest. Dare to grasp the knob and swing it open, however—

A party, wild and opulent and grand, set in the front halls and gardens of a sprawling Victorian mansion, all cream and black and glittering gold. Tables groaning with festive food and drink, a lively band, and enthusiastic occupants seemingly unaware of the strangeness through which our intrepid villagers have arrived.

Step through, and you shall be transformed: Vigorously healthy, impeccably coiffed, a glittering star in your own right. To exit the way you came will see all of this gone again, and do take care: While news travels fast in the village, if you don't indulge soon, you may miss this extravagant respite — The music, the frivolity, the fireworks at midnight... Or all of it altogether, for it will fade away with the dawn.

Comments

[to_defend]

"Bull!"

Guess what, 7 didn't have to wait until your brewery was finished before getting drunk, thanks to current circumstances and a challenge places. It's been a gradual sort of drunkenness that's crept up on her and that she's not entirely aware of given her inexperience. She's just happy and excited by all of the new things.

She runs up to him and barely slows to a stop in time, slipping a little on the dance-floor and smiling ear to ear. "Hey! It's - they've got a lot of stuff here."

"Wait, what? Gaatlok, what's gaatlok?"

[ataashihunter]

He grins and then reaches out to steady her. "Hey there." He smiles and glances around, taking the whole place in. "How about you show me around to some of the stuff then hm?"

He nods to the firework. "Gaatlok is something the Qunari make, a powder that explodes like that, smells similar too."

[to_defend]

"Oh! Well, food is this way." That seemed to be one of the safest things to start with. She grabs his hand and takes lead pretty eagerly, if a little unsteady, but she's honing right in on it.

"That stuff can be dangerous, can't it? Or is this all just for show?"

[ataashihunter]

"Oh food." Bull grins and follows her, a hand on her back to steady her even as he follows her lead.

"Oh it can be. You can do a lot with an explosion. At the very least it scares people, but it can also bring down stone walls."

[to_defend]

"I've seen explosions before just ... never for entertainment." Always for death, and destruction.

She swings around by the table and throws her arm out in an extravagant reveal. "And - there you go!" She reaches over and grabs a half-shell with oyster Rockefeller. "Think they'll just be fireworks or are we going to have to watch our step later?"

[ataashihunter]

"Yeah this is not something Qunari would do. They'd consider it a waste of resources." He reaches over and takes an oyster. "I have no clue, but in this place you should always watch your step."

[to_defend]

"Entertainment is a waste of resources?" She's more likely to use resources for their intended purpose, but if only because she didn't feel there was the time for entertainment while she and the others fought for their lives. Even then, the others found ways to relax; 6 had his drawing, 3&4 the library.

"Or, just using explosives like that for entertainment?"

[ataashihunter]

"The former mostly. I mean we have off time and stuff, but nothing quite as extravagant as this. You don't need all this to have a good time." In fact he suspects that most of the people here would be more comfortable with something less extravagant.

[to_defend]

"It's the people that make a difference." She looks up at him and smiles. If it were just her in an extravagant mansion with fireworks and food and drink and elegantly dressed strangers, she wouldn't nearly be having this much fun.

Speaking of drinks and dancing, she's had just about enough of one in order to go do the other. "Have you danced yet?"

[ataashihunter]

"That is true. They do in pretty much any situation." He smiles warmly at her.

"Not with you I haven't." He grins and offers her his hand. "Care to help me fix that?"

[to_defend]

She smiles and takes his. "Always happy to help."

Hopefully she'd do alright; she's been learning a lot, and she's always been good with movement on the fly, and there was a certain similarity between dancing and fighting, she'd found. She wondered what kind of partner Iron Bull would be.

[ataashihunter]

He smiles and leads the way, wrapping an arm around her and moving through the steps. He isn't the best dancer, but he learns fast, it is one of the things Ben-Hassrath has to do. So soon enough he is more or less matching her movements, almost elegantly gliding around the dancefloor.