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Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-04-22 07:39 pm

Masquerade Mingle

[The night has finally come--the Gravity Rush is nearly upon us! What normally serves as a large performance hall has been gutted, emptied of its boring furniture and rigged up into a fantastical mismatch of technology and old culture. No matter where you go tonight, you're encouraged to move around, dance, play games, whatever helps you sleep in late tomorrow morning.

If you aren't one for scurrying around a ballroom all night, there's always plenty of people-watching to do. After all, so many people are wearing extravagant costumes and elaborate masks. How can you even tell who is who? Get lost in a crowd of sequins, chatter with a sun and a moon, or try to beat the guy in the monster-mask at a game of cards. Meet your friends or make some new ones--this masquerade party has begun!]



[[ooc: All sections are up now, have fun! A related ooc post is HERE for any questions or plotting you'd like to do.]]
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Furiosa is pretty easy to spot as well, with her shaved head and the fact that she's missing most of her left arm. Otherwise, she's dressed formally in a white dress and a beaded wire fox mask.]

I've never had anything of the like. [Closest would maybe be the nights of entertainment when the Wives performed for Immortan Joe, but that was a horrid, private event and she cut herself short from the memory, and smiles softly at Ahsoka.] You look like you're having a good time.
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
It's my first time being a guest at something like this, so-- yeah! I am!

Do you want to dance?
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Do you -- oh, I guess?

[She laughs a little, finding the request a little sudden and unexpected, but she's not opposed to it. Really, this has been the first chance she's started to allow herself to let loose and enjoy life.] I haven't danced much, I don't know how good a partner I'll be.
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I've never danced at all! [She says it cheerily and carefree, like it doesn't bother her.]

So we can both be bad together!
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahsoka's enthusiasm is infectious, and Furiosa lets herself smile a little broader at the cheery attitude.]

Alright then. Let's go be bad at it! [She holds out her right hand for Ahsoka, wearing an intrigued sort of half-cocked grin.]
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahsoka takes Furiosa's hand, but there's a visible hesitance for a second as she isn't sure exactly to do, where to step or whether to lead. Then she decides to just copy what other people are doing and to hell with it if it looks bad. Jedi training lends her a kind of natural grace that doesn't have much trouble stepping in time with the music-- even if the steps are not quite right.]

See? How hard can it be!
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Certainly not rubber most complicated thing I've done.

[Furiosa makes her best attempt, but she doesn't have any comparable experience. She's a brute force fighter, not light on her feet or particularly graceful. She stumbles more than once, but there's a growing levity to her response to failure. In part it's Asoka, who she trusts, and who's cheery nature is hard to ignore.]

You do know how to have fun!
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well, who knows when our next opportunity to have fun will be! Back home was like that too-- you have to take advantage of the silly moments when you get them!
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
You do. Our world ... didn't allow for a lot of that.

[Which might explain why she's got two left feet.]
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
There's a lot of that going around here. In some ways, it seems like this place is a respite for a lot of people, even if it's still a prison.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's ... taken some getting used to.

[She's been here near a year and this is really her first time letting her guard down.]
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I hear you. Sometimes I wake up and I think I'm still at home.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Those days are the worst.

[They usually come after vivid dreaming, which can go either way; hope manifests in seeing the Wives, happy and prospering, the bottomfeeders living with water when they need it, want it. Then there are also nights she's revisited by Immortan Joe, by trials with the other Imperators, with the persisting tension each time she'd attempted escape. Either way, it was harder on those days to fall into what freedom they did have here.]

[But now, she's starting to get it. She attempts to lead Ahsoka into a twirl - which she'd witnessed someone else executing. It hadn't looked that hard ...]
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahsoka twirls happily, grinning like a cheshire cat to match her mask.]

Woo--! No chance of that tonight, though!
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Furiosa chuckles, twirl was a success!] No, tonight's going to be a good night, I can tell.
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahsoka leans in a little cheekily, grinning conspiratorially.]

Do you have any plans for dancing with anyone special?
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Furiosa looks down at Ahsoka, bemused, and chuckles.] Well, my date, when he's ready. Kitty was kind enough to set me up with someone.

[Because honestly it wouldn't have crossed her mind otherwise. But then, she returns the cheeky grin.] And you?
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Nosy as always, she perks up:] Oh? Who is it?

I'm not here on a date with anyone, if that's what you're asking. I'm still planning to return home, after all. [Jokingly:] Don't want to break any hearts, you know how it is.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-24 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Sam Winchester, do you know him? [She's still getting to know him, in between making the rounds to chat with friends, but he seems like a pretty decent guy so far.]

[Furiosa chuckles,] I don't think I do. [Romance was such a distant ideal, she finds it hard to envision it for herself.]

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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-24 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The really tall guy? I know him in passing...

[Ahsoka chuckles too.]

I was just joking anyway. I don't know the first thing about romance, really. It's never really been an option for me.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-25 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, the really tall guy. I don't really know him that well either, but I guess I'll know better by the end of tonight. [See she wasn't ditching him entirely, just moments here and there while she found her friends.]

Same. But you have the opportunity here, you should go break some hearts, you're young. [And hopefully not as hardened as Furiosa is.]
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[personal profile] resnipstance 2016-04-25 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. I'm... sorry, I should have clarified. It was never an option for me because of who I am and the life I lead, not because of where I was. So, my circumstances on that front are the same as they were back home.
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[personal profile] kill_switch 2016-04-26 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh ... [She sounds a little surprised, but she figures she shouldn't be; Ahsoka certainly wasn't human, why would she behave like them?]

Sorry to have assumed. I can't save I've met many non-humans before this place.