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8/28/2020 9:21:16 PM
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Through Dreams, Darkly (Prelude)

It's a pleasant late afternoon in the city. Scattered clouds drift across a sunny sky and a calm breeze from the sea tinges the air with salt. People fill the streets happily going about their lives, enjoying the relative peace in these war torn lands. But the mood swiftly changes as the sun begins to set behind the mountains. Long shadows creep across the city and a familiar cold wind descends from the west. With dread, people look to the distant peaks, and a growing dark cloud. The cloud begins to approach, preceded by the sounds of flapping wings and high pitched shrieks carried upon the wind. Citizens flee for shelter from a cauldron of thousands upon thousands of large, black bats, wingspans as wide as a man is tall, red eyes glowing dimly in the fading light, collective shrieks drowning out all other sounds. They fill the city streets and alleyways mere feet above the panicking crowd. Yet as quickly as they appeared, they depart, leaving confusion and hundreds of letters drifting in the air in their wake. The old parchment is folded closed, with a violet wax seal depicting a heart pierced by three blades. Breaking the seal, the letter reads: [quote][i]Lady Nil of Autumn Kindly requests the Pleasure of your Company at a Grand Masquerade Ball For the Diversion and Entertainment of the People of Offtopic To be held at her Mansion in the Volariden Mountains this coming Thursday on All Hallow's Eve Festivities to begin at Seven in the Evening Masks or Costumes requested![/i][/quote] Looking again to the shadowy mountains, where the Witch Queen's mansion has sat silent and undisturbed since her defeat last winter, the light of a fire flickers in the darkness... [spoiler]This is just a prelude, not the RP itself, but feel free to react, prepare, investigate the invitations in your batcave, or adjust your fedora and sniff it to determine what I had for dinner last night! Anyway, I've been working on this for... far too long honestly. It's actually a conglomeration of several ideas I've had shelved, some from before the Apocalypse last year. Things haven't been the greatest and I haven't had the time or energy to invest in much lately, but enough of that! I'll drop the thing next week.[/spoiler]
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  • [i]Shamrock-74 arrives home after a long journey. After witnessing the event he only has one thing to say.[/i] <“I say the same effect could be accomplished with a 50-meter mech suit and a leaf blower.”>

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  • Hi, so quick Bumpdate! I feel like I've set the wrong expectations and I don't want anyone to be disappointed when they get there... so I'm just going to point out that my character has been dead since last Christmas and Halloween is over a month away... Halloween also doesn't fall on a Thursday this year, it did last year though! That's less obvious, but it's a little detail I slipped in to try to add to the mystery... But uh...yeah, Spoilers: [spoiler]There may or may not actually be a big fancy ball...[/spoiler]

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    • *Scintillate attempts to read the paper* [quote][i]Laddie Nile of Ayoutumnu Kindling requests the Plea sure of your Company at a Grand Mass queso Ball For the Diversion and Entertainment of the People of Offtopic To be held at her Man psion in the Vol a ridden Mountains this coming Thursday on All Hello's Eve Fest-ivītes to begin at Seven in the Evening Masks or Customs requested![/i][/quote] “What does this mean?"

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    • I’m assuming there’s gonna be combat? I might send a visage of Sylver, which is the highest in my line of characters, but if there’s gonna be combat I shouldn’t as he’d be overpowered if he decides to incarnate, which he wouldn’t have much reason not to.

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    • BaMp!

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    • [i]I pick the invitation up, and look at it with a magnifying glass, hoping I don't get cursed.[/i] "Well. This seems fun. Might as well pop by and hope I don't die. Hey! That rhymed! Anyway. Other Jack? Put this in my calendar please." [i]My spirit of intellect swirls out of his skull.[/i] "What now Jacky Boy? Oh. Uhhh... you know this is the Witch Queen right?" "Well. Guess I'll have to try to not die then." "What're ya going as?" "I have a feeling the horrible vampire imitation will do." "Ooh...you gonna die pal. Good Luck!" [i]The Spirit's swirly orange form flies back into his skull. I walk over, and look in my closety, and yank out a cheap frilled suit, with fake fangs, and a matching faux gold cane.[/i] "Better call the mortician if Jack thinks I'm gonna die." [i]I pick the invitation up again, and examine it closer.[/i]

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    • Hot damn. I only noticed this because I had you unmuted on Ikeriabelle, and proceeded to unmute you here. Perfect writing as always. 👍

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      do we get a +1 ?

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      • Interesting, to be invited to a party, let alone a costume party, and people laughed at me for keeping my 2nd grade costume of the Batman. You know the one. It's the blue and gray one, made of a plastic sheet for the front and a plastic mask that's held on by a cheap elastic band, with the little slit in the mouth that you want to stick your tongue through, but cut your tongue up on it, yet you still keep doing it. *Tries on costume* "Crap, I'm making Batman look like a 450 pound sumo wrestler." Now granted I'm not that big, but wearing a costume made for a 7 year old, when I'm a full grown adult. So now what, I'll figure something out.

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      • Picked up the note and instantly recognizes the seal. I haven’t received a correspondence from her in quite some time, this should be interesting. It says here I need a costume, heh I guess I should get the wrinkles out of my birthday suit. As I set the note down a familiar smell fills the room, the smell of molasses cookies....

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      • A ball, wonderful! I'm already dressed as Vivec and everything.

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        • I tried to write up a little thing with Selicy here, but I’ve had some pretty severe writer’s block lately and couldn’t actually manage to type anything. -.- Hopefully it passes by the time the actual RP rolls around, but for now here’s a bump!

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          • [quote]This is just a prelude, not the RP itself, but feel free to react, prepare, investigate the invitations in your batcave, or adjust your fedora and sniff it to determine what I had for dinner last night![/quote] It was pork chops, wasn’t it? With a brimming glass of spiders to wash it all down! [spoiler]Fades Away [/spoiler]

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            • Geo picks up the letter, and sighs. “Well, let’s see if I can still use my old loophole in the costume department.”

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            • “An invitation... well. I guess it wouldn’t hurt. Maybe we’ll get to meet some people we know again huh, Crimson?” The metal being speaks to the blade holstered on his back. It pulsed softly with a strange red glow. “Glad we both agree.” He finished.

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            • If Golden Owl could kindly post a GIF of Admiral Akbar saying, "It's a trap!" that would be appreciated.

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            • [quote][b]Lee finds an invitationon his office desk[/b][/quote] Schweet, guess I'll check it out

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            • [i]I take a letter to my bar, the sign reads closed for renovations. I read it while smoking a cigar and watching a zombie building a shelf.[/i] “Sure... a dance sounds... fun. Plenty of fun when Nil’s around. Better bring my fancy arm, maybe the mask from the old days...”

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            • Blaze grabs one of the letters and reads it as he renters his ship. “Huh. Thought people said she was dead. Fox?” “Yeah?” “Want to go to a masquerade ball? One that will most likely go wrong because it’s a masquerade ball held by a vampire on Halloween?” “...when do we go mask shopping?”

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            • Edited by ACROCANTHUS: 8/28/2020 10:03:00 PM
              Oh boy, I can't wait! Parties like this are to die for!

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            • [i]I read the letter[/i] Masquerade?? Does that mean I have to dress up...? “It’s up to you, but if it were me choosing I’d dress up!” [i]Muse replies.[/i] Fine, I’ll look through my trunk and see what I have...

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            • *Josephine hazardously decides to accept, checks her closet, and marks her calendar.*

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