MASQUERADE PARTY, 33 Apocalypse Ave, Friday Evening

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

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!]

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Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

Margo took his hand and gave it a firm shake. “High Queen Margo the Destroyer, but you can call me Margo,” she said, like she wasn’t milking that title for all it was worth. “And I don’t think we have, no. I’d have remembered.” Probably.

Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[chef_chocobro]

"As would have I," Ignis allowed, finding himself slipping almost instantly to the role he'd been trained in since he was a child when around royal company. "You cut a very memorable figure, Margo, not to mention a title like that. May I ask what kingdom it is you lay claim to? The odds of it ringing a bell are miniscule, I understand, but if I'm in the presence of a queen, it would be nice to know more about her reign."

Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

“Fillory, but I won’t get mad if you don’t know what it is,” Margo said. “Nobody here has even read the books.”

Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[chef_chocobro]

"There are books?" Ignis asked, with an interested tilt of his head.

He wasn't as much the reader as Gladio was, sure, but he did always take an interest in other cultures, especially so if he may be interacting with the rulers of those cultures every now and again.

Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

“Fillory and Further,” Margo said. “They read like children’s books, but they’re very real.”

Which had been a surprise to everyone.

Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[chef_chocobro]

Ignis gave a faint, thoughtful sort of hum as he considered this, maybe made a note to look into these books, the curiosity starting to gain a little more purchase in his interest. "A whole 'truth in legends' sort of thing, I suppose?"

Or perhaps that was simply his own read on it, now that he seemed to have a vested interest in trying to figure out what the meaning of some of these possible futures that seemed rather fond of prophesy and fairy tales that he'd been introduced to thanks to this place.

Re: Arrive and Say Hi

[not_a_goddamn_princess]

“Or a ‘creepy author wrote down everything his actually magical foster kids went through’, but sure,” Margo said idly. “So don’t believe everything you read.”