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Margo Hanson ([personal profile] not_a_goddamn_princess) wrote2021-10-22 01:59 pm

MASQUERADE PARTY, 33 Apocalypse Ave, Friday Evening

Party night. The best of nights. An ornate sign on 33 Apocalypse’s door invited all to knock and make themselves known.

The space inside was bigger than it looked from the outside, stretched and displaced by magic. The wallpaper was green and textured, hinting at the English countryside. On one side of the room sat a significant bar offering food and drinks, while the other gave ample space to sit. A large Jenga tower held prominence in a corner.

It was easy to miss it, though, in favor of the little streams of water that ran across furniture and floor. Tiny glass gondolas, animated by magic, made their way back and forth across each stream. The gondolas were real, though the water itself was an illusion. It called attention to the ceiling, doubly enchanted: both to draw all cigarette smoke to itself so it wouldn’t blow in anyone’s face, but also to mimic the starry sky above Venice.

You could watch the stars twinkle, or see the occasional cloud go by. Magical fireflies added to the illusion, dancing through the air like tiny lights. If you listened closely, you could hear the sea rolling in across an invisible beach. Even the air smelled faintly of it: the sea, warm food and good wine.

Welcome to Eliot and Margo’s pad, people. They’d make damn sure you had a good time.

[ocd up, come party!]
begmetwice: ([pos] winning)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] begmetwice 2021-10-22 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I won't tell if you won't," Irene assured her, finding that question utterly charming. "Sometimes at a masked party, it's bad form, but I don't think anyone around here's really in disguise."

Now, if it was the sort of party where they'd all dropped their keys into a fishbowl upon entrance, or something, that might be a different story.
special_rabbit: (here have a wrench)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] special_rabbit 2021-10-22 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
With a slight glance over toward where Sidon was looming over everyone even with his best attempt at a mask, Amaya huffed a faint laugh and shook her head. "I guess you're right there," she said, and so she went ahead and untied her mask to pass over to Irene. "If you wanted to have a closer look yourself," she said, and was almost immediately taking note of any spots on her skin that suddenly felt it now that they were free of their metal accessory with a few dabs of her finger as if to test their tenderness.
begmetwice: ([neu] appraising)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] begmetwice 2021-10-22 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, Sidon rather stood out, didn't he? Not that Irene herself was especially going for incognito tonight, but perhaps at a different party.

"Oh, it's lighter than I'd have thought," Irene remarked immediately, and the fact that it wasn't just pure flattery spoke to how she was genuinely impressed with Amaya's handiwork. She pushed her own mask up onto her forehead, just so she could fit Amaya's against her face experimentally. (Asking permission for such things was for other, non-Irene people.) "And it's not sharp or anything!"
special_rabbit: (special rabbit smile)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] special_rabbit 2021-10-22 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And Amaya found herself watching with a certain expectant but restrained eagerness to hear what Irene's verdict just might be, which she would insist was purely professional. After all, Irene had called herself a bit of an expert in this sort of thing, hadn't she? If this was something she planned on expanding into her repertoire, why, that kind of feedback was practically invaluable!

"Don't say that too loudly," she then said, after a moment of relief that the accessment was positive and with a faint grin. "I'd hate for people to get the wrong idea about which of products you were talking about!"
begmetwice: ([pos] smirk)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] begmetwice 2021-10-22 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, of course -- I'm sure normally that's the preferred thing, isn't it?" Irene replied, lowering the mask again to grin over at Amaya. "But it's probably best that your masks come with as little eye-poking potential as possible, right? Marvelous work, Amaya, I love it. I may need to buy one, myself."

One could never have too many sexy Venetian-style masks!
special_rabbit: (pointing it out)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] special_rabbit 2021-10-22 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That was kind of how Amaya felt about swords!

"And I'd love to make one for you," Amaya admitted, as she took a moment to sort of struggle just a bit in getting her mask back on and in place. "Over the weekend, I should have plenty more prototypes finished up if you wanted to go off of one of those, or, you know, there's always just building one up from scratch, if you've got an idea, we'll see if I can actually get it worked out to liking."