Le Masquerade

[tragic_mask]

[ooc: please go first to the Through the Door thread. Thanks.]

 ETA: As of this thread, all new threads in the masquerade are now after midnight [the links below are now re-linked to after-midnight sub-threads]. React at your leisure.

The ballroom itself is a burst of dazzling light. Hanging from the vaulted ceiling are two gold-wrought chandeliers, both of which glow brightly over the occasion, and tall lanterns shine throughout the room.

 

The grand staircase descends with a flourish and opens onto the main ballroom. A balcony, which providing a clear view of the goings-on below, runs all the way around the edge of the room. It can be reached via any of the four spiral staircases in each corner of the ballroom.

 

Below, the wooden dance floor flickers gently in the light from above, and musicians in the side room play soft, classical music. Meg Giry, the dance mistress for tonight, is on the floor with a microphone in hand.

 

A low, wooden bar in the corner provides hors d’oeuvres and drinks to revelers; small tables for two sprinkle the area.

Comments

[callmefelicia.livejournal.com]

"Why, thank you." He beams, accepting the drink. "Chose it myself."

[tea-and-honor.livejournal.com]

"Me too."

She informs him, and as she does her hair shades from black to exactly the same color as her fur, then back again.

The black looks better with her kimono.

[callmefelicia.livejournal.com]

He beams, delighted. "Wish I could do that."

[tea-and-honor.livejournal.com]

"Not something I can teach."

She admits, shrugging and then holding up one (very small, very fuzzy) hand,

"Its a species thing. I am a Fox."

[callmefelicia.livejournal.com]

"Neat! Like... a werehuman fox?"

[tea-and-honor.livejournal.com]

"No, dear."

She informs him (her?) even while going through all her listed forms (http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=tea_and_honor) and several dozen others in quick sucession before perching on the top of the bar as a nine-tailed Fox who can't weigh more than about five pounds,

"In so much as I have a true form, this would be it. I am Kitsune, a Fox spirit or Fox demon. Chaos."

[callmefelicia.livejournal.com]

Adam's face lights up, what can be seen of it under the mask.

"Oh, what fun!"

[tea-and-honor.livejournal.com]

"I try."

She says with a soft yip, hopping off the back of the bar and taking her half-Fox form.

She would like, again, it to be noted that she's got the secondary sexual characteristics of a Fox in this form, which is to say that she looks like a Fox walking on two feet with some minor modifications, not a Fox-girl. No breasts, not human hips.

Ako has issues with Furries.

[callmefelicia.livejournal.com]

He looks at her appraisingly, grinning. (And wouldn't be interested even if she did look like a Fox-girl, in case that needed pointing out.)

"Lookin' good!"

[tea-and-honor.livejournal.com]

Its all good. Sometimes she just grabs the keyboard from her player and rants. A lot.

"Of course, deary. What's the point of being a shifter if you can't look good?"

[callmefelicia.livejournal.com]

"Lucky for some!"

[tea-and-honor.livejournal.com]

She titters with polite amusement in agreement.