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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!]
knife_bender: easystreet (pos: using small words for you)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-10-22 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey," Diego greeted with a cool guy nod. "You clean up well, I'm surprised."
grenadesandohana: (pos: dipping head smile)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-10-22 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you," Steve said, grinning. "You're not completely terrible to look at either."
knife_bender: (pos: approved)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-10-22 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"The mask helps," Diego said. "Where's your more sullen half?"
grenadesandohana: (neu: i do too have shirts with collars)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-10-22 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Steve huffed a laugh. "He's a cat."
knife_bender: (pos: approved)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-10-22 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Diego snorted. "Good. Apparently he saw me as a cat and I'm positive he made fun of me."
grenadesandohana: (pos: grinning)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-10-22 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"That seems like him," Steve said, laughing. "He spent my entire shift on Monday pushing things off my desk."
knife_bender: easystreet (pos: doe eyed)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-10-22 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, cat," Diego said. "You better hope he coughs up less hairballs than I did."
grenadesandohana: (Default)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-10-22 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm having a sudden horrifying vision of what he's doing now that I ditched out for a party," Steve admitted.
knife_bender: (pos: approved)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-10-22 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hope you didn't leave out anything you're attached to," he said. "It's good you came here though. Like Annie tells me, it's good to get to know new people."
grenadesandohana: (neu: thinky think think)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-10-23 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
"This is apparently more normal than conducting a background check," Steve said, "which I'm told is creepy and invasive."

At great length, with a lot of waving arms.
knife_bender: (neu: u sure about that)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] knife_bender 2021-10-23 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Can't you just meet them here, and do a background check later?" That's what he would do. Get names and birthdates. It was actually kind of hard to bring up the birthdate thing organically, believe it or not.
grenadesandohana: (Default)

Re: Mingle!

[personal profile] grenadesandohana 2021-10-23 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's a good idea," Steve said, nodding.

Was it, though, Steve?