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COTILLION
COTILLION
After two weeks of etiquette and dance lessons, the 2014 National Wizarding Cotillion is finally here! After lunch, participating students gather dress bags and overnight bags and head out to New York City. They'll be staying at the historic Exalted Enchanter Hotel, which today is filled with rich debutantes from schools all over the country. Headmistress Bloom assures her students that they are just as good (if not better) than these kids, and tells them to hurry and get ready. In the lobby, Jefferson Key accidentally ends up deep in conversation with a dragon dung fertilizer tycoon, who is so impressed that they end up offering Jeffy a summer job.
Gooseberry's musicians are admitted early so they can set up and already be playing when presentations begin. The ensemble's musical pièce de résistance is a solo performed by Iliya Krum during dinner, which is so beautifully played that the giant ballroom briefly goes silent as everyone listens. Afterwards, attendants are seen congratulating Mrs. Bloom on the talent of her students. Guess who just won the music program more funding.
» before the event: You'll have a few hours to get ready. Do you need all that time, or do you want to try sneaking into the city for a bit?
» presentations: Two by two, the wizard debutantes of the 2014 season are presented. Please complete the presentation form and post it here for a High Society Approval Rating.
» the dance: The debutantes will need to complete one highly choreographed group waltz before they're allowed to loosen up. But after that, it's unlimited access to the refreshments table!
» new york city: For any scenes taking place in the city, outside of the cotillion.
» the hotel: For any scenes taking place in the hotel, outside of the cotillion.
» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS
Gooseberry's musicians are admitted early so they can set up and already be playing when presentations begin. The ensemble's musical pièce de résistance is a solo performed by Iliya Krum during dinner, which is so beautifully played that the giant ballroom briefly goes silent as everyone listens. Afterwards, attendants are seen congratulating Mrs. Bloom on the talent of her students. Guess who just won the music program more funding.
HOW THIS WORKS
- Students will leave campus right after lunch, and will arrive at the hotel in time to get dressed for the dance, and there will be a 3 hour window where they can sneak off to see the city if they want to. Presentations start at 4:00 PM, dinner is at 5:00 PM, the dance is at 6:00 PM.
- Dress Code: One person in black, one in white (or pastel). Clothes must be modest, so keep that cleavage covered. Dresses should be floor length, but tea length is acceptable. Suits should have jackets and ties, and a vest ideally but they won't kick you out if you don't.
- For presentations, the pair will enter the ballroom together and link arms, bow or curtsy, and then walk down the length of the dance floor so that all the attendees can see them. Beforehand, couples are lined up outside of the ballroom and each given a notecard upon which they must write their full name, their school, where they come from, and noteworthy accomplishments or goals. This will be read aloud* for both members of a pair when they enter the ballroom. (*Unless it is offensive, trying too hard to be funny, or a flagrant lie. Subtle lies might pass.)
- Please fill out the following form and post it HERE to find out your character's High Society Approval Rating. If you score a 75% or higher, one of these intimidating patriarchs or matriarchs is going to feel you out for marrying their grandchild one day. You're going places, kid.
Full Name:
Their Date:
Location: Where do they hail from?
Accomplishments: You can cite special positions, academic success, good deeds, charity work or any other awards they've received in or out of school.
Goals: What high and lofty professional goals does your character have?
Mannerisms: How does your character hold themselves? Do they float through the room, or slip up their curtsy? Is their hair a little frizzy?
Connections & Pedigree: Is your character well connected and/or well bred by the standards of high society?
Anything else?:
- Please fill out the following form and post it HERE to find out your character's High Society Approval Rating. If you score a 75% or higher, one of these intimidating patriarchs or matriarchs is going to feel you out for marrying their grandchild one day. You're going places, kid.
- After that, everyone sits down for dinner, a five-course meal. Dates sit together, and the rubbing elbows begins. Pairs will be mixed with pairs from other schools. There are plenty of rich, judgemental adults to size up your characters from this point on. Afterwards, a constantly stocked refreshments table will be available for anyone who wants more canapés.
- The first dance is a formal waltz with your date, and after that, everything loosens up a bit. Socializing will take up the majority of the evening, and the upper crust students can expect this to be when the matchmaking goes into high gear. Students may slip out early at this point without fear of repercussions.
- Please read HERE for consequences for skipping or misbehaving at Cotillion.
- While parents may attend, any cameos from graduates must only be in logs posted separately to the comm, and siblings shouldn't really be in attendance. Parents have to pay their own way into the event, and will be expected to behave appropriately. Honestly, we would prefer not to have to deal with a "wacky parents scandalize high society" plot, because it would be a burden on the mods to wrangle it, and it steals time and attention away from other storylines.
- Much to Mr. Merrill's chagrin, no one's checking IDs when they hand out glasses of champagne and wine. On the sly, Mr. Calderon-Boot just warns no one to overdo it.
- Students will be staying overnight at the Exalted Enchanter, a wizarding hotel in the vein of The Plaza. Very old, very elegant, and with free WiFi in the rooms and lobby. While you can choose your roommates, it's strictly girls only or boys only. No mixed gender rooms. Cotillion didn't account for Gaysberry very well.
» before the event: You'll have a few hours to get ready. Do you need all that time, or do you want to try sneaking into the city for a bit?
» presentations: Two by two, the wizard debutantes of the 2014 season are presented. Please complete the presentation form and post it here for a High Society Approval Rating.
» the dance: The debutantes will need to complete one highly choreographed group waltz before they're allowed to loosen up. But after that, it's unlimited access to the refreshments table!
» new york city: For any scenes taking place in the city, outside of the cotillion.
» the hotel: For any scenes taking place in the hotel, outside of the cotillion.
» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & CONCERNS
THE HOTEL
Clem & Charlie
But tonight is not that night, and instead of second-guessing her every move around her boyfriend whom she loves very much, she's absolutely languishing in ridiculous luxury with a super-cool girl she barely knows at all. About five seconds after setting foot into the hotel room, she'd stripped off her borrowed dress and tossed it on the floor. Now she's wearing one of the hotel bathrobes, which she knows she cannot steal, but is maybe in love with? She's gonna have to break up with Sy.
After poking around every closet and drawer in the room, Clem retreats to the bathroom to do something about her ridiculous updo. Ten minutes later, she's still pulling bobby pins out of her hair.
"Oh my god," she groans loudly, shaking her head like a dog. Several more bobby pins fall out of her hair. "I think I have bobby pins up my butt. I did not use this many when I was doing my hair."
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
There's pizza and paper plates sitting on their dresser, and a bluetooth speaker currently blasting Welcome To New York from Ennis's iPod, although anyone is welcome to change it. Someone more sober than Ennis has put up a muffling charm out of respect for their neighbors.
Ennis bops to the music as he connects his HDMI cord from the computer to the TV. He struggles a bit to turn the plug the right way-- right side up, upside down, right side up again until it's finally in-- but once he's got it he whips around and beams proudly at the other fish as a duplicate of his laptop screen appears on the television.
"What do you want to do??" he asks them. "I've got moooovies, I've got gaaaames, I've got interneeeet..."
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
Because you might wind up like Yancey.
Who takes two pieces of pizza, one in each hand, and, over the thrum of Welcome To New York, sings the pizza bagel bites song. (While dancing. With pizza.) "Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time!" And then, because he's drunk, he goes a little off the rails: "When pizza's on a pizza," he puts one slice on top of the other. "You can eat two pizzas at the same time!"
That's...not how the song goes, Yancey. Oh, whatever. He's doing it. He folds the double decker (that's what he's calling it, in his head) in half and shoves a giant bite in his mouth. "Youtube!" Yancey suggests, mouth full of pepperoni.
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
"I got it, I GOT IT!!" he cries, spinning back around and using his lightning-fast fingers to type "upitibe" into the search bar, which Chrome kindly corrects to Youtube. His recommended videos are filled with Sims Let's Plays and doll faceup timelapses.
But he ignores all of that... For this. Ennis finger guns at Yancey and begins dancing badly.
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
This a little bit feels like he's herding cats. (Fish?) "You guys. We should..."
He was going to say be quiet. But then. Oh then.
He blinks at the tv screen, not entirely unsure Ennis isn't summoning a demon right now. "What." That's it, that's all he can say.
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
She was still sort of drunk and her head already hurt, maybe because she had kind of been knocking back champagne for half the night and ignoring all calls to drink water. Like a fucking hypocrite.
"Okay, there's too much happening here. Choose too loud or too weird, you don't get both," she says, and she moves to grab what she's pretty sure is making the sound, but fair warning, Rosy doesn't understand technology and she is very probably going to break something.
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
And then that comes on the television screen.
She was not drunk enough for this. She would never be drunk enough for this.
"No. Youtube," she decrees, her best EC dictator voice made dull by that last drink. "Someone get me out of this dress. I just want to eat..."
Small demons on the screen finished the sentence for her.
Re: Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
He slides off the foot of the bed and onto the floor, struggling to untie the knot at his neck. He could tie one in his sleep but now maybe it's been charmed to something?
"I ca...............n't help you. I'm here forever. In my tie."
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
Her laughter turns into a whine. "Ursulaaa," she says, "We miss it!" She stumbles towards Ursula to help her out of the dress, but it's not clear whether or not she'll be able to do anything productive. Ursula is never escaping her dress.
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
He walks around Ursula and takes a look at the back of her dress, taking another bite of pizza as he observes, "Mon Calamari, you've got about ten hundred buttons here." He gestures (but doesn't touch!!! he's being good!!) with a greasy pizza finger. "You'd need all of us working all night on this."
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
"We also probably don't need an audience, aren't you guys watching... pizza things?" She wrinkles her nose at the screen. Aggressively weird things made exactly zero sense to her. "Someone grab me one of the robes and the rest of you just, like, go watch and eat and, I dunno, be pizza."
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
"Freeeee her," he eerily intones as he, too, tries to help with the buttons on her back. The playlist shifts from slow pizza to an East Hills commercial. Which circle of Hell is this?
Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
"I'm going to Internet," he says. He then proceeds to henpeck some random words and click through videos, letting them play for about two seconds before clicking on to the next one. Eventually he halts on a twelve second long video of a CG cat meowing in front of some salsa dancers (?????) that he stares at, agape, as it plays to completion. "What on earth. Is this, y'know, normal no-maj entertainment?"
Re: Big Fish Drunken Pizza Party!!!
Chloe gives up on helping, because Rosy is helping now and Rosy is very smart and in charge. Instead, she makes a beeline back for the bed, squeezing in with Ennis and Yancey. She brought her own laptop - of course, because there's wifi - but she never got it from her room after their journey to the bar. Now, that seems like an insurmountable distance away. Instead of making the trek, she situates herself so she can see the laptop and the television screen. "Ummmm, like. Weird nerd no-maj entertainment."