after-party ♔ october

[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 || October 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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liam dunbar | ota

[ex_boning176]

[Liam got a disguise check of 18 (he has no character sheet/mods yet, so that is pretty damn good ok), but it's probably just on account of the fact that he's a bb freshman shawty who is currently all dressed up like he is going to prom or something, and therefore cute as a button by default.

So far this whole thing has been quite an experience, but he hasn't really met anyone his age. And while he's been to parties before, parties like this are definitely outside of the norm for him. Which is why he's kind of just lounging for the most part, sipping chugging his randomass bottle of soda like it's completely normal to drink it that way.

Nothing suspicious going on over here, nope. ]

[bittersweeter]

[ oh teenage boy. fun times. lila looks like a fucking vision with her bright blonde curls bouncing with the beat of her very high heels as she stalks across the room to drop neatly down into the seat next to liam with her glass of bright pink lemonade. (it's vodka.) she crosses her legs and leans forward. ]

Hi. You're new, aren't you?

[ run away bb puppy. flee the kitten. ]

[ex_boning176]

[Forgive the wide-eyed fifteen year old, who actually turns his head after a hot second of straight up staring like he's checking to make sure she isn't talking to the guy sitting behind him.

Nope--all him.

He lowers the bottle he'd been chugging from when he turns back to look at her again, still a little like wide-eyed babu but at least he has established that she is striking up a conversation with him so that's progress ok.]

Yeah.

[Oh my God. Speak, Liam. Talking shouldn't be this hard.]

Today's my first day. [/)_u]

[bittersweeter]

[ scream he is the cutest thing. aurelius, you have been usurped. sux 2 b u. ]

I guess congratulations are in order then. [ she holds out her bare hand, smiling sweetly, mismatched eyes cheerful. ] I'm Lila. What's your name?

[ex_boning176]

Liam. [For the record, he totally doesn't almost spill his juice box "soda" all over himself when he reaches over to shake her hand or anything. There might have been little liquor droplets in his lap now tho.]

Thanks.

[That awkward moment before awkward silence sets in. But he realizes and counters with--]

Do you go here too? [As if this shit is school or something. Look he didn't know how many people were just randomly here for the party or how any of this worked or what.]

[killingtodeath]

Hey, new guy. [Stiles greets Liam like he's any random squire because he... doesn't have a single clue who he is.] Anyone teach you the secret handshake yet?

[Is he kidding? Did Stiles make one up on the plane ride home? Bluff check 25 says its very possible.]

[ex_boning176]

Stiles? [Liam clearly recognizes him though. And because he has no character sheet/mods, ain't nothing but a nat 20 going to let him see past the lies. Aaaand he rolled a 1, so.]

Wait--there's a secret handshake?

[killingtodeath]

Oh, yeah totally. [Stiles puts a hand to Liam's back and guides him over to a quiet corner of the ballroom so they can speak privately~]

I can't believe they haven't showed you yet. Thank me later. Okay give me your hand.

[He proceeds to go through some weird hand motions, making it up as he goes. I rolled a dex check to decide how complicated this shit gets and it's 14? So not terrible?? But Stiles is the worst for this probably.]

[ex_boning176]

[Sadly, Liam's crit failing his sense motive check means he is buying this bullshit hook, line, and sinker. He is taking this s-so seriously rn and he is totally going to try and give someone the secret handshake later and look hella dumb.

But it also means he was distracted enough to not ask Stiles what he was doing here or, you know, anything else that might actually be important and/or worth knowing. But once he gets the handshake down and actually feels accomplished he is just going to come out with a--]

Why are you being nice to me?

[Let's be real, Stiles had always been kind of a jerk to him, even when he was professing to be "helping" him--calling him a runt, kidnapping (well, aiding and abetting) him, and generally doubting Liam's usefulness to the group.]

[bitchywolf]

[Erica looks awesome (dis 19). She walks over to one of the new people and gives him a quick half-smile.] Why are you drinking that thing like you're gonna die if you didn't finish it five minutes ago? [She's teasing you. It's Erica for 'hi'.]

[ex_boning176]

[Apparently he was attracting all the pretty blonde girls. Not that this was a bad thing he just wasn't used to the female attention. So he just kind of stares like a deer in headlights again, before snapping the fuck out of it when he realizes she actually asked him a question.]

Oh, this? [No, the other bottle you were chugging on, bro.]

It's, uh ... it's for my low blood sugar. [Bluff: 6 lmao.]

[bitchywolf]

[She knows she has beautiful everything, ok. /flips hair. well, she would if it weren't in a pretty style rn.] Y...es. That exact one. [Maybe she was asking about the bottle not here that he wasn't chugging on; yoU DON'T KNOW. rofl. She also tries not to let out a laugh about that but she got a will save of 7 so.]

Uh-huh. I see. [sense motive 18.]

[ex_boning176]

[Yeah, he's totally full of shit and she probably knows it. But he offers an awkward--]

I'm Liam. [Since that conversation sort of stalled. And it served to change the subject too. :D]

[msattentionspan]

[Faith's sporting a jacket with her disguise 23 tonight, mostly to cover up the still healing bullet wounds. She still looks hot. She's actually kinda impressed that she already got set up with someone to lead into knighthood or whatever. Thankfully it's someone that isn't older than her -- that wouldn't have worked out so well.

Regardless, she spots the half-pint of a kid and smirks. Heading over she stands in front of him.]

Hey, you're Liam, right? I'm Faith.

[ex_boning176]

[Well, Faith might not have been blonde, but no one can say that she wasn't banging--especially with that disguise check ok. Liam is just like stares at everyone who approaches him tonight with his mouth half open. Except Stiles. Sorry, Stiles.]

Hey.

[But wait, why was she introducing herself to him? Was she here to bust him? He straightens up in his seat a little suddenly, and like caps his drink right quick as if to ~hide the evidence~.]

You don't work at that bar down the hall, do you?

[msattentionspan]

[When he asks where she works she gives him a glance and hopefully this sense motive of 22 will pick up on what he's doing there...]

The bar? No... I'm going to help you become a real boy. [GRIN]

The whole knight gig comes with a personal trainer and I'd be yours.

[ex_boning176]

[Yeah that's more than enough because he can't even roll higher than a 20 for shit until I do his character sheet. But he's immediately at ease when he realizes she's not here looking for her alcohol. He was told someone would teach him.]

Are you a werewolf?

[Did anyone fill Faith in on that little tidbit? If not, surprise! It's a boy/bb wolf cub.]

[impetere]

[Cora is pretty much here for Liam. Also because it's her second squiring party ever and it would probably look bad if she just immediately started bailing, but it's mostly for Liam. She even put on a dress and looks semi comfortable in it (disguise 16). Probably because someone strong armed her into it.

That being said, she pretty much zones in on him the second she arrives at the party and if she picks up on the fact that he's chugging booze (which she doesn't - sense motive crit fail), she doesn't say anything.]

Hey.

[ex_boning176]

[Hooray, it's someone he knows. Well, "knows." But Cora being on the team that brought him in meant that she's a large part of why he was convinced to trust that this was the right decision in the first place.

Liam still lacked control, and being out there on his own was probably just as dangerous to him as it was to anyone he might have hurt if he ever lost his shit and shifted again. It wasn't unlikely given that he was still so affected by the full moon.]

Cora. Hey.

[He sits up a little straighter, like he needs to impress or something. She was the first female werewolf that he'd met, and she seemed to know what she was doing. He wanted her to think that he was just as capable--probably for the same reasons he felt the need to assert himself with Scott and his friends at times--he was used to being the best, not the runt of the pack.]

[impetere]

[She shakes her head, almost as though giving him a signal to stand down. He didn't have to make a good first impression. She was going to hang out over here regardless.]

They get easier. At least after the first one, not all of the attention is on you.

[ex_boning176]

Do they always make people do that ceremony thing?

[That was really the only part he found to be weird. The party part was actually kind of neat. It would have been a lot better if he had like one actual friend, but he'd met some interesting people.]

Oh, hey, check it out.

[He sets his bottle of not soda down so he can hop up and show Cora ... the secret handshake that Stiles taught him, which is probably pretty ridiculous because Stiles rolled a decent dex check when he made it up.

Yeah this is happening. But when he realizes she's not ... doing it back he just kind of stalls out and looks up at her like buh?]

No one showed you the secret handshake? [Oh you sweet summer child. Look he crit failed his sense motive ok he thought this was actually legit.]

[lurings]

[ the answer to the question: abigail, are you even trying? is a resounding no. she still looks cute, because it's impossible for her to look otherwise, LOOK AT HER, but showing up in jeans to a squiring party speaks of a distinct lack of fucks to give. she only even came so will and belle would stop worrying about her and because someone took pity on her and applied make up well enough to cover the yellowing bruise on her cheek.

but she's wallflowering and not looking where she is going, which is when she bumps into liam's chair. she sheepishly blurts out: ] Sorry. [ before she actually, you know, looks at him. holy cow he is a baby. and she's just barely nineteen, so she is also a baby. wynn, you need to stop. ] Hi, sorry.

[ex_boning176]

It's ok. [Except he totally rolled a 5 for his dex check so the jolt definitely splashed some of his own drink onto his lap thx. But she was a girl he didn't know so that kind of overrode it being not okay, I guess?? Even if he's probably embarrassed now.

He sets his drink down and proceeds to ... wipe at the wet spot like his hand will magically absorb it or something idek. But when that clearly doesn't work he looks back up at her like]

Hi.

[lurings]

[ he's like a baby deer.

when he looks up, she holds out a napkin, stained with a little bit of her lipgloss. ]

Here, this should work better.

[likeababyduck]

[Sweets is happy to do what he does best when it comes to the knights - help people deal with their issues. He's not really a fighter and he never has been, so helping people process the things they've been through or dealing with some of the stuff that brought them to the Knights doorstep in the first place.

Liam, however, is a unique case. He isn't sure if he can help him without medication, but he's certainly willing to give it a start. If it turns out he does need medication, then there are avenues he can take, but for right now, he's just there to talk.]

Hey. It's Liam, right? I'm Lance.

[And with that he'll just hold his hand out to shake his - the usual friendly greeting.]