Masquerade Mingle

[thespaceopera]

[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.]]

Comments

[forcesensitive]

All the food I know is boring.

[But he chews on the idea as much as he chews on the not-cheese.]

If we could get the right ingredients, might work. Just cause I think roast tauntaun and bantha milk lattes are gross doesn't mean there's not someone out there who likes it.

[mistyday]

What the hell is a tauntaun?

[forcesensitive]

[Finn makes a face.]

Pack animal. Okay if you're starving, but I'll take the unflavored protein gel from the ship kitchens over it any day.

[mistyday]

[She laughs.]

Must be pretty bad then. That gel stuff is pretty damn disgusting.

[She wrinkles her nose.]

The taste isn't so bad but it's all slimy.

[forcesensitive]

[Slimy? Naw, it's...jelly. Well. Finn's probably not the best judge.]

All that ever mattered was that we got enough--and don't get me wrong, we got enough. But I didn't really know food was something you're supposed to enjoy.

[mistyday]

Where I'm from, we're all about enjoyin' food! We got some of the most famous cuisine in the world!

[forcesensitive]

[Oh man, wouldn't that be nice? Finn grins and leans up against the closest wall, still munching on some of the tidbits.]

Maybe the next place we land'll have something like it you could show me.

[mistyday]

I sure hope so. I mean, I like this party and all, but this planet gives me the creeps.

[forcesensitive]

Most planets aren't like this. And--judging by the green room over there, they don't want it to stay like this either. That's the first step.

[mistyday]

Yeah, that's true. At least they're tryin'. And I don't think it's them that did it anyway. Looks like it's been going for a long time.

[forcesensitive]

Oh yeah, you couldn't get a planet like this inside of a generation if you tried. The toxins, sure, but not the adapted flora and fauna.

[He knows enough about planets to see that much, at least.]

[mistyday]

You think they can fix it? Their terraformer things?

[forcesensitive]

[That's super above his pay grade, so Finn shrugs.]

I think they can find a solution. Whether that means fixing them or blowing them up and getting new ones depends on how things go.

[mistyday]

Blowing them up?! You think they'll have to do so much as that?

[forcesensitive]

[Dude he's a star war, blowing stuff up is normal.]

If they're what's causing the problem? They might have to.

[mistyday]

[She goes quiet for a minute at that.]

Well I sure hope they can fix it then. Blowin' up anything don't sound like too good an idea.

[forcesensitive]

[Finn shrugs.]

Sometimes it is, if that's what's causing a problem. Like if you need to make--oh, let's say you're making a ground path through the mountains. Sometimes you gotta blow a hole for a tunnel. Get rid of what's in your way so you can make a new path.

[mistyday]

Yeah but then you're killin' all the animals and plants that live on the mountain when you do that.

[forcesensitive]

Well, yeah. [Maybe not the best example. Finn thinks about it a little more.] But--okay, how about like, when you got a parasite, and if you don't pull it off it'll just keep sucking on your blood, but if you pull it off it'll die.

[mistyday]

I guess that makes sense. Like the terraformer's leechin' away all their lifeblood.

[forcesensitive]

Yeah, like that. But if we can figure a way to turn it around, then it'll be pumping the life back into it instead of leeching it out.

[mistyday]

Obi-Wan said I might be able to help, with one of the potions I made him.

[She frowns.]

Don't see what one little bottle's gonna do for an entire planet though.

[forcesensitive]

[Finn does, though.]

Like a purifying mixture? You'd only need a sample template to give to the terraformers, so they could make a bunch of it.

[mistyday]

But it's magic.

[She frowns.]

I don't think anyone but me can make it. Me or another witch.

[forcesensitive]

[That is so far above his pay grade that Finn shrugs.]

Maybe there's someone here who can? I never worked with terraformers.