after-party ♔

[wynn]

♬ Jeux d'eau - Ravel

WHO || Wynn, any and all Knights not currently on missions (if you are uncertain if your character would be at the castle for this, ask! this is before failboat left for chicago)
WHAT || Squiring Ceremony Afterparty
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Ballroom
WHEN || June 1st, 2013, 6:00PM
HOW || Prose OR Actionspam

The "afterparty" is rumored to be the real main event of the night. A black-tie affair in the lavish, opulent ballroom, it is every new Knight's chance to mingle and meet some of their new brothers in arms. Of course, a couple hours are provided following the ceremony for everyone to change, do hair and makeup, and choose from the vast array of formal attire in the closets of the balcony "dressing rooms" located at the top of spiraled staircases on either side of the ballroom. A separate dressing room exists for men and women, and they include full bathrooms (with, thankfully, very modern plumbing).

The squires are usually among the last to arrive, and the ballroom is full to the brim with a fancy array of people, of all shapes, sizes and species.

Hope you aren't shy. They're all here to meet you.

Feel free to make your own open threads for people to come congratulate your newly pledged knight.

ooc; also if your Knight wants to get all gussied up, you can make a Disguise (Cha) check for how good they were at hair/makeup/stylin', etc! This goes for... any time.

Comments

[graveflowers]

[So basically he is Scottish.]

Someone has got to be a lightweight, I take my birthright seriously. What's it like there, besides grand and watery.

[oftheband]

Harder. Life there will turn a man to steel, if he wishes to survive. Not life life here, which seems to turn men into sponges.

[graveflowers]

But you said your sister was spoiled. [Fairly obvious she can't connect the two ideas.]

[oftheband]

Ay, that's because she got mixed up with the Royals.

[graveflowers]

Good to know the girlish fascination with royalty crosses all manner of worlds. Please elaborate.

[She blinks at him over the beer/water, taking another sip.]

[oftheband]

My sister was the sworn protector of the last ancient fairy magic of our land. It was them wanted her, not the other way around. Kingdom gets that magic on their side, nothing could stand in their way.

[graveflowers]

[]

Fairies are real?

[oftheband]

Ay, that surprises you?

[graveflowers]

Yeah, just a little. A scosh.

[oftheband]

Most of 'em are long dead, where I come from. But Wynn tells me some's alive and well in this world.

[graveflowers]

[FAIRIES. Please hold while she mentally freaks out. Wait 'til she finds out Unicorns are real. (And the national animal of Scotland.)]

I wanna meet a fairy. [SO WISTFUL.]

[oftheband]

Be careful what you wish for. Faeries are all bite.

[graveflowers]

[That isn't going to dissuade her. Because she's a weirdo.]

I still want to meet one.

[oftheband]

No accounting for taste.

[graveflowers]

Nope, none at all. [Can't hold her down, yo, she is a Christina Aguilera song.] But okay, continuing. Your sister was some sort of fairy magic princess?

[oftheband]

She wasn't a fairy herself. Human. Just a keeper of faerie artifacts passed down over time.

[graveflowers]

[She translates that to fairy magic artifact curator. So librarian. That's cool, she likes librarians.]

Huh. Cool. Is there a reason we're using the past tense? [Tact, what is that?]

[oftheband]

She's not here. Which means, just like I was sayin', maybe she ain't anywhere now.

[graveflowers]

She has to be somewhere. Matter doesn't just disappear. [It is meant to be comforting. Even if is sister is dead, she's not gone. Vi has been to the underworld, the dead are still there. Even if this world's afterlife is different... she doesn't care. That is how it works.] Besides, she's obviously still in your heart, she's not lost yet.

[oftheband]

Fat lot of good that does her.

[graveflowers]

[Snort.]

Well I've got nothing, bro. That was the extent of my helpfulness.

[oftheband]

The only helper I need comes in a mug.

[graveflowers]

Okay. [She makes a face, that is a bad coping mechanism. But she raises her glass like in a toast regardless.] Well, I need to go be somewhere else not drinking this because it is gross, no offense, but thanks for letting me try it. And um, nice to meet you. All that good manners and shit.

[oftheband]

[ he chuckles ] Go on, then.

[graveflowers]

Toodles, boo. [Fiore out. Snap snap snap.]