after-party ♔ april

[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!)
WHAT || Squiring Ceremony Afterparty
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Ballroom
WHEN || April 1st, 2014, 6:00PM [backdated]
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.

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[bittersweeter]

[ SHE IS DISTINCTLY HUFFY for a second, like a cat puffing out, but instead of snapping, she just nods. that is the depth of her good mood. ]

Lila, actually. Lila Zacharov.

[daredtobelieve]

[Helen picks up on the huffiness and the reason behind it (wis 15). Her expression immediately shifts to one that's more apologetic.]

Lila. Of course. Forgive me, it's been along day. My name is Helen Magnus, but you have full permission to call me Helena at least once. How's that?

[bittersweeter]

Seems fair. [ her phone chirps and she glances down at it briefly, smile widening before she turns her attention back to helen. ] Although Helena and Helen are a lot closer than Lila and Lucy. Maybe... Hermia instead.

[daredtobelieve]

I have had my fair share of romantic trials and complications. Perhaps Hermia would be more fitting. [Her eyebrows raise slightly as she watches the girl smile in response to her phone.] I'm not keeping you, am I?

[bittersweeter]

Huh? Oh, no. This is my knightly intermission between afternoon and night boyfriend time and it's not done yet.

[daredtobelieve]

[Ah young love. She's endeared by it.]

How are you finding it? Striking the balance between work and your personal life, I mean.

[bittersweeter]

It's easy, he lives in Chicago so he doesn't get in the way. [ ah young love. ] And then when he visits, work... only sometimes gets in the way.

[daredtobelieve]

[Times have changed quite a bit since Helen was Lila's age. A few centuries actually. But she's a modern woman now, and she can appreciate how Lila seems to be making a long distance relationship works, despite all odds.]

Keeping your priorities in that order can be difficult, I've found. [Or maybe that's just her.]

[bittersweeter]

I'm not going to make him leave his job and he's not going to make me leave mine, so. We make it work. [ though, to be fair, she does ask him to move to london all the time. ] Just takes effort. And unlimited texting. And, like, so many frequent flyer miles.

[daredtobelieve]

Perhaps if I'd had those things at my disposal all those years ago, I might have found it a bit easier. [Wow, sound older Helen.]

[bittersweeter]

They didn't have airplanes where you were my age? [ she's willing to play the kid when it comes to stuff like this, ever so curious. ]

[daredtobelieve]

I'm afraid not. [Her expression is a tad mischievous. She remembers enough of her time before the Veil to know that her lifetime isn't normal at all. And she has no secrets here in the Knighthood. But that doesn't mean she can't have fun with it.] Just between us girls? I'm a bit older than I look.

[bittersweeter]

A bit? Kitty Hawk was in 1903. [ knowledge: random useless history 18 ]

[daredtobelieve]

Yes and it was quite the sight. [Helen Magnus is all up in your historical events.]

[bittersweeter]

That makes you over 110 years old. [ she makes a pointed show of glancing at helen's ears. no elf-y. ]

[daredtobelieve]

It would. [She will go ahead and tuck her hair behind her ear just to solidify that for the girl.] I'm human, though. It's usually everyone's first instinct- and for good reason.

[bittersweeter]

Because humans don't live to be plus a hundred and still looking... forty. [ she says this with a stern confidence.

even though she knows, intimately, that some humans actually do live that long looking not that old. #immortalboyfriend ]

[daredtobelieve]

Most don't. I'm a bit of a rare circumstance.

[bittersweeter]

[ her arms cross over her chest, leaning back some as if waiting for helen to elaborate. her phone chirps, but she ignores it. ]

[daredtobelieve]

The long and the short of it is that I was born in 1850 but my genetic make up was altered to extend my life indefinitely. Sort of an ongoing experiment.

[bittersweeter]

[ science. she is obviously enamored by this topic. finally science instead of magic.

fuck magic. ]

How?

[daredtobelieve]

My colleagues and I derived a serum from a sample of pure vampiric blood, a race long dead in my world by that time. We injected ourselves to see what might happen. Each of the five of us gained an ability, presumably latent in our make up.

[bittersweeter]

[ "to see what might happen". so basically they were all buckets of nuts and it worked out. it's funny though, because she recognizes the impulse -- all curse workers have it. that's how a lot of people do their first curse. just... checking. lila's work was somewhat more insidious, but sleepwalking definitely came from the school of thought that merged with "let's poke it with a stick!"

she's really good at poking it with a stick. or, you know. touching electricity. or alex's mystery power. what is the danger in that????

her eyebrows lift, but her expression is thoroughly impressed. ] And the vampire DNA just jumpstarted it?

[daredtobelieve]

That was our theory. Though, considering it was a five of five success rate, it may be more likely that it mutated our own DNA, forcing the change.

[bittersweeter]

Huh. [ it's a conversational tone, still curious, but she's struggling on what else to ask. she is not a geneticist, no matter how much she's actually looked that kind of thing up or how much she just instinctively knows from growing up in a world where the genetics of curse work were talking about 24/7. ] Cool.