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gooseberryhigh2017-12-17 09:45 am
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Entry tags:
- ! ic/ooc,
- ariadne flint,
- austin mcnamara,
- cameron carney,
- chloe shepherd,
- dinah dixon,
- estella morales-tran,
- fern mufferaw,
- hieronymus lee,
- iliya krum,
- jefferson key,
- lilika ignacz,
- london holloway,
- micah st. clair,
- riley stamper,
- rosemary stoker,
- ruby oberholtzer,
- sylvester stoker,
- todd skynner,
- ursula de luca,
- webster knox
WINTER MASQUERADE
WINTER MASQUERADE
The privacy curtains are erected in the Atrium as soon as lunch ends, and it's all hands on deck as Event Committee get ready to transform the Atrium. Students having dinner are given only 30 minutes before they're ushered out past the privacy curtains again, so the cafeteria can be claimed for a "special surprise." At 7 PM sharp, the Atrium opens, and the Anonymity Charm activates.
House-elves will take cloaks and coats when students arrive, and usher them past festive red curtains into a light-filled carnival. Yards of colourful fabric drape out from the center of the ceiling and fall all the way down to the floor, creating the illusion of a circus big top. Blinking holiday lights cover the walls, twisted into familiar designs: candy canes, evergreens, dreidels, green and red candles, etc. At different corners stand four tall trees decorated in honour of the four houses: one in plum and gold with fuzzy bear decorations, one in olive and copper with glass trout, one in azure and white with feathery jays, and one in orange and black with felt foxes. A mystery gift exchange is taking place by the trees, so come claim your present!
The dance floor is outlined with twinkling lights that magically strobe along with the music. Cheer captain Madison Ives has organized a dance spectacle opener with the help of the other cheer captains, and student band The Heretics are set to perform tonight!
The refreshments tables lining one wall features fair foods such as bagged popcorn (mixed with green and red M&M's), hot pretzels, candy apples, funnel cakes, corn dogs, french fries, cotton candy, and endless varieties of fizzy soda. (A few special treats have been set aside for vegan students. Prospero recommends the falafel on a stick.) Communal tables and chairs have been adorned with red-and-white-striped fabric, to give them a candy cane circus feel.
Step through the doors into the cafeteria and you'll discover a stage has been set up with anonymous karaoke. Have you been too afraid to sing in front of your classmates? Now, if you perform badly, no one will know who you are, so get up there! This room is also popular for the carousel-themed photo op, where you and a masked stranger can pose in front of seasonally appropriate mounts in the shape of a reindeer, a polar bear, a two-seat swan with holly and red ribbon around its neck, and a plastic Santa Claus inviting you to sit in his lap. Only once you've stepped up to the carousel mounts will you see the sprig of mistletoe hanging overhead. Event Committee volunteer photographers will take your picture, to be publicly posted later so you can guess who was posing with you!
If you want a quiet moment, then the balcony is the place to go. The decorations out here are just as bright and glittery, but the little benches have comfortable red and green cushions, and there's bluebell flame lamps providing warmth and light on this chilly December night. From here, you can see the sleigh rides running just outside the lodge, within the sphere of the Anonymity Charm. These romantic magical sleighs seat up to three, and circle the lodge on a set track that takes you past trees also decorated with brilliant lights.
Staff is present and also wearing masks, but they aren't using the Anonymity Charm, to make it easier for students to get help if there's any trouble. Anyone who's using anonymity to harass others will be given only one (1) warning before they're ejected from the dance. The same applies to a handful of MACUSA agents, in identical black masks and black robes, but they appear more interested in patrolling the dance than talking to anyone.
Just before midnight, Mr. Oakes presents an awe-inspiring fireworks show right above the lake. You can walk outside for the full view, but the backdrops will be taken down so you also watch from the tall windows of the Atrium. The last fireworks light up the sky at the stroke of midnight, when the Anonymity Charm ends.
» Setting Up
» Before the Dance
» Beginning of the Dance
» Refreshments
» Mystery Gift Exchange
» Anonymous Karaoke
» Carousel Photos
» Balcony
» Sleigh Rides
» End of the Night
» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!
House-elves will take cloaks and coats when students arrive, and usher them past festive red curtains into a light-filled carnival. Yards of colourful fabric drape out from the center of the ceiling and fall all the way down to the floor, creating the illusion of a circus big top. Blinking holiday lights cover the walls, twisted into familiar designs: candy canes, evergreens, dreidels, green and red candles, etc. At different corners stand four tall trees decorated in honour of the four houses: one in plum and gold with fuzzy bear decorations, one in olive and copper with glass trout, one in azure and white with feathery jays, and one in orange and black with felt foxes. A mystery gift exchange is taking place by the trees, so come claim your present!
The dance floor is outlined with twinkling lights that magically strobe along with the music. Cheer captain Madison Ives has organized a dance spectacle opener with the help of the other cheer captains, and student band The Heretics are set to perform tonight!
The refreshments tables lining one wall features fair foods such as bagged popcorn (mixed with green and red M&M's), hot pretzels, candy apples, funnel cakes, corn dogs, french fries, cotton candy, and endless varieties of fizzy soda. (A few special treats have been set aside for vegan students. Prospero recommends the falafel on a stick.) Communal tables and chairs have been adorned with red-and-white-striped fabric, to give them a candy cane circus feel.
Step through the doors into the cafeteria and you'll discover a stage has been set up with anonymous karaoke. Have you been too afraid to sing in front of your classmates? Now, if you perform badly, no one will know who you are, so get up there! This room is also popular for the carousel-themed photo op, where you and a masked stranger can pose in front of seasonally appropriate mounts in the shape of a reindeer, a polar bear, a two-seat swan with holly and red ribbon around its neck, and a plastic Santa Claus inviting you to sit in his lap. Only once you've stepped up to the carousel mounts will you see the sprig of mistletoe hanging overhead. Event Committee volunteer photographers will take your picture, to be publicly posted later so you can guess who was posing with you!
If you want a quiet moment, then the balcony is the place to go. The decorations out here are just as bright and glittery, but the little benches have comfortable red and green cushions, and there's bluebell flame lamps providing warmth and light on this chilly December night. From here, you can see the sleigh rides running just outside the lodge, within the sphere of the Anonymity Charm. These romantic magical sleighs seat up to three, and circle the lodge on a set track that takes you past trees also decorated with brilliant lights.
Staff is present and also wearing masks, but they aren't using the Anonymity Charm, to make it easier for students to get help if there's any trouble. Anyone who's using anonymity to harass others will be given only one (1) warning before they're ejected from the dance. The same applies to a handful of MACUSA agents, in identical black masks and black robes, but they appear more interested in patrolling the dance than talking to anyone.
Just before midnight, Mr. Oakes presents an awe-inspiring fireworks show right above the lake. You can walk outside for the full view, but the backdrops will be taken down so you also watch from the tall windows of the Atrium. The last fireworks light up the sky at the stroke of midnight, when the Anonymity Charm ends.
CLICK HERE FOR ANONYMITY CHARM RULES
- Decorating the Atrium begins around 3:15 PM, and the cafeteria is cleared at 6:30 PM.
- Cocktail dress code. That's party dresses and suits, but you won't be dinged for getting too fancy or dressing slightly more casually. No jeans or t-shirts, though!
- The dance starts at 7:00 PM, and runs until around 12:00 AM. These are also the hours of the Anonymity Charm: the charm activates just as the clock strikes 7:00 PM, and only within the confines of the lodge and the immediate surrounding area, and permanently deactivates at midnight. If students don't have a charmed mask of their own, a simple domino will be issued to them at the door.
- Anyone wearing a charmed mask becomes unrecognizable to those looking at them. You might have known a person by their voice, height, hair, skin, or lips, but now suddenly... you aren't certain. This could be anyone.
- This effectively means that you can't guess the identity of an individual by their physical traits. However, you might recognize them either from their speech patterns, or something they tell you. Also, the charm also doesn't affect your sense of touch, smell or taste. (But please don't lick anyone to figure out their identity.)
- It's easier to recognize people by their masks, but if you want your character to struggle with this as well, you may. (The same applies to clothing.) This means you might be at risk of losing track of your date if you come as a couple. This is up to individual players.
- Mr. Calderon-Boot has the power to take the charm away, though, so if you act in a truly horrendous manner or break a rule, you could still get caught. Not to mention that a lot of people will remember if the guy in the blue domino mask was being a total dick all night, and someone might later see it amongst your possessions.
- If you leave the dance, the charm deactivates until you return. If you remove your mask, the charm deactivates, but will reactivate once you put your mask back on. The effective area of the charm is the lodge and the area immediately surrounding the lodge, enough to cover the sleigh rides.
A playful boy. (open to multiple)
A playful boy & Lachlan
A playful boy & Lachlan
He takes a sip of punch, still grinning, and looks out on the floor. His eyes are merry under his raven mask when they turn back to Lachlan.
"You're looking rather angelic," he remarks, nodding at Lachlan's mask. "Lose your halo?"
A playful boy & Lachlan
A playful boy & Lachlan
He'd say something about Lucy -- it's not like he's been making much of an effort to keep himself a secret, really -- but there is some fun in not being completely himself.
A playful boy & Lachlan
A playful boy & Lachlan
"One that says you might dance with an interesting stranger, if you like." His smile is a little crooked. He would have said handsome, of course, but that word hardly means anything when you can't tell what anyone looks like.
A playful boy & Lachlan
A playful boy & Lachlan
He reaches for the boy's hand to lead him out onto the floor. His height makes it easy to cut through the crowd.
A playful boy & Lachlan
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
She bends her knees slightly and tries to peer beneath the beak of his mask, as if that might help identify him. “Say, you look appropriately evil. Wanna help?”
A playful boy & Lilika
He regards her attempt at peeking with raised eyebrows, then grins. This person is interesting. "They don't call it an unkindness of ravens for nothing. I'll do what I can."
A playful boy & Lilika
She offers this stranger her arm, hoping that they don't focus too much on her long, graceful fingers and neatly painted nails. "But it'll be fun! Good, clean non-murdery fun," she stretches her smile flat, hinting that maybe she's being deceptive (or play acting at it). "They don't call it a party of bluejays for nothing."
A playful boy & Lilika
"If you say so," he continues, taking his new friend's arm with ease. He certainly does not notice her hands -- he's only a details man in certain contexts of interest -- but in walking together he can't help but realize her height. This person is noticeably tall in their high heels. He even has to look up a bit when he gazes at them from the corner of an eye.
"I do love a spot of good clean fun," he says, with feigned naiveté. "Games of telephone. Braiding hair. Stalking innocents."
A playful boy & Lilika
"Oh, so you like slumber party games?" she asks, raising an eyebrow that just barely peeks out above her mask. And, yes, stalking innocents is a slumber party game in Lilika's world. "Wanna play truth or dare?"
A playful boy & Lilika
He's being teased, which is fine, but it also means he can't say no. He's very fun, you know. He's up for it. And what's wrong with a slumber party game or two at a school-sanctioned party with no alcohol to make it really interesting? His new friend will get to show off that creativity, at least.
A playful boy & Lilika
“Truth or dare, than?” she presses.
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
She zigzags their path as she thinks, careening into him and tugging away to force him into an odd sashay. She can think of lots of dares but worries his next pick might be a truth, so she plans ahead. “Are you carrying your journal?”
A playful boy & Lilika
His journal in the inner pocket of his suit, actually. It's become a habit, taking the book with him wherever he goes, even if he writes rarely.
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika
A playful boy & Lilika