The Samhain Ball - Come as You Aren't

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A woman strides through the Nexus, garbed in royal finery of a distinctly Elizabethan style. In the crook of her arm, she carries an ebony scepter shod and capped in silver. There may be something familiar about her confident bearing, her angular features, her mismatched eyes. When she pauses to speak, the cadence of her words might spark recognition--is this Schön?!

"People of the Nexus, friends, in the world from which I hail we stand on the cusp of a special day, a harvest-fest when the walls between worlds grow thin, when masks and costumes are worn to frighten away the wicked spirits--or to invite them in on more congenial terms. So on this day, I invite you, each and every one of you, to join me in a revel to bid farewell to Summer, and welcome with fire and song the coming dark! Join me, won't you?" Letting her gaze sweep the crowd, she raps the heel of her scepter once against something solid, vanishing in a flash and leaving a sparkling trail for the curious to follow.

A cool wind herds dry, crackling leaves through the gathering gloom. On the cusp between the parklands and the residential district, darkness and cloudy skies have been slowly coalescing for days around a stately house of Gothic style, ivy-encrusted and showing its age somewhat. A square tower stands vigil over the entryway, tall windows overlooking the flagstone drive looping around a fountain gone dry. The house’s angular wings stretch to either side, the windows dark save for occasional glints and gleams of colored lights bobbing within. A glow does creep over the line of the roof, however, and the faint throb of distant music hint at something happening behind the house. The door stands open, a silent invitation to every brave soul who passes by.

((Happy Halloween! Enjoy the festivities. All LOLs are optional. Threadhopping is encouraged. Backtagging is forever, so don’t worry about missing out: we’ll still be here when you get back from your more mundane ghosties and goblins.))

Playlist
Visualosity
The Entrance
The Ballroom
The Banquet
The Bonfire
The Corn Maze
Dark Corners
Costume Icon Requests
The Photo Booth

Comments

[drehnifusbahi]

He notices that, and while the concept of cat-folk isn't entirely unfamiliar... well, she's clearly not a Khajiit. But asking 'what are you?' would just be rude, so he keeps his curiosity to himself.

"Very impressive," he says when he hears the full list, and he means it. But out of all the options presented, it's the maze that really catches his interest - though perhaps that's not so surprising. "I may have to take a look at the maze sooner rather than later, then." It isn't even about the promised reward, so much as the challenge.

[magnetite_plz]

"Nekomata has seen it eat a hillbilly zomzom and a butler already! Good choice, good choice. The rest of the attractions will be here for a long while, but the corn maze can only be defeated once myaa! Best to do it before someone else manages to."

The people she mentioned are totally fine and there's no real harm. But she's doing her job, which is to be dramatic. "There's no cheating and lighting the maze on fire, nyaa. Other players might be inside, so be courteous!"

[drehnifusbahi]

He has no idea what a 'hillbilly zomzom' might be, but he does at least understand that two people and/or beings and/or creatures entered the maze and have yet to come back out. Which is... a bit worrisome, even knowing how extremely unlikely it is that they'd come to real harm in the Nexus.

"But of course," he replies. He wouldn't have set it on fire, regardless - as she said, that would be cheating. But he didn't hear any such limitation on less destructive magics. So perhaps use of a Clairvoyance spell might not be frowned upon, if he uses it sparingly and only to get himself back on the right path if needed...