nascensibility: today, I mean, just for today, maybe not tomorrow (I'm not gonna raise the dead)
𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑛 𝑂'πΆπ‘œπ‘›π‘›π‘’π‘™π‘™ ([personal profile] nascensibility) wrote in [community profile] entrancelogs2017-12-30 05:21 pm

[NYE Party] happy new year and lots of fun

Who: EVERYONE, but especially you!
Where: Wonderland Ballroom
When: New Year's Eve
Rating: PG - PG13 (will change if applicable)
Summary: New Year's Eve Party
The Story:

[ Previously in the month all residents received an invitation to a formal event: a black tie affair to ring in the New Year. The ballroom and adjacent areas are decked out for the party starting at eight o'clock sharp, meticulously planned and executed, glittering dΓ©cor to match the no doubt glittering attire as music pours into the halls from the dance floor.

Bars flank each side, service for all manner of alcohol unless a minor requests something, and the primary setting stage features an enormous clock for the countdown.
]




[ Where will you be when the clock strikes midnight? ]

keephersafe: (105)

ayyyy freyaaaa :3

[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't mean to catch her attention the way that he does. He doesn't mean to be standing so close to the door when she passes by, but it's the music that keeps drawing him out of the flickering shadows of the corridor to the slip of light falling through the slightly open door.

The moment he catches the woman's eye he draws back, his own eyes a little wide, sinking backwards and pressing his back to the wall opposite the door.

'Damn it, R, you need to be more careful.'
]
deathlessness: (for the storm is coming very fast)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-23 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her head tips to the side curiously when she sees him slinking away from the party, wondering why he's moving away from the action rather than towards it. She's had enough alcohol at this point that she's more impulsive than cautious, and she nudges the door open to get a better look.]

Are you going to come in?
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
['Shit.'

For a moment he looks stunned, like a rabbit in the headlights as she addresses him. He certainly isn't dressed for a party - slacks, a white shirt and a red tie, with a dark hooded top for good measure - and even without the zombie hallmarks he'd stick out like a sore thumb.

R might not have many social graces, but he knows enough to be able to see when he isn't going to fit in.
]

I, um... no. I was just... listening.
deathlessness: (follow the white hare)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-23 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Freya doesn't particularly care one way or another what he's wearing - dress code is for people who care about that sort of thing - but she can understand people being concerned about it, so she just nods. That's fair enough.]

For the music? Or were you eavesdropping?

[Her tone is slightly teasing, but there's no judgement. She's nosy as fuck and will eavesdrop on anyone.]
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The music.

[Music is safe to talk about. That's good. He bobs his head idly to the sound as it drifts out towards him.]

... I like jazz.

[And there has been a fine selection being played tonight. Perhaps he'll thank Evelyn for it, if he ever sees her.]
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-23 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She smiles a bit at that, because it's good to know that people still appreciate jazz, even here.]

I do too. I lived in New Orleans before I came here, right in the French Quarter.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
['New Orleans'. The name tingles in the back of his mind like an itch he can't quite reach. It's been happening more often, lately, and he isn't sure yet what it might mean.

A tiny smile tilts his lips up.
]

Favourite song..?
deathlessness: (the fox of flowers hides her eyes)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-23 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to pick one?

[That is an unfair proposition, R. But still, she'll give it some thought because it's a good question all the same.]

We'll Be Together Again, Billie Holiday. Though anything Billie Holiday, really.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nod... nod nod. Good choice. He had that one on vinyl, back at the airport.]

I like... Sinatra. [A wry smile.]

Played... 'Come Fly With Me' for a girl... once. On a plane. She... thought it was funny.
deathlessness: (but you're bound to stay)

[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-23 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[And that makes her laugh because it is a little funny.]

It is. But it's charming too.

[It's clever and cute and that's always a good step to take when you're dealing with girls.]

I like Sinatra too, though. He was also very charming.
keephersafe: (78)

[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Is he funny? He guesses he's funny right now. She laughs and his smile grows less timid, his back less fully pressed against the wall.]

Collected records. [He tells her with a slight shrug of one shoulder.] Used to lis-... listen to them. All the time.
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-23 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods as she takes a sip of her drink, shifting to relax against the door as he relaxes.]

My brother is very particular about his music, but we do have a few vinyl versions of live performances back home. He listens to them when he manages to find some quiet time to himself.

[The downside of superhearing is that you can hear when a vinyl record is wearing out and when the sound begins to garble. Elijah is far too much of a perfectionist to not upgrade to a digital quality performance.]
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-23 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
['Find the people who aren't afraid, and start there.' Someone had said that to him, and the words had stuck. Is this woman unafraid? He can't be sure if it's just that she can't see him properly, but as someone who enjoys conversation for conversation's sake, he'll take what he can get.]

Jazz, too? [Okay, so he doesn't often find people he can talk about music with.]
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-24 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods. It's a little of both, really - she does enjoying having someone to shoot the shit with, and she's seen scarier things than a fairly sentient zombie. Plus, with her magic she knows she'd be able to defend herself if the need arose.]

Jazz too. He's ... very old and he lived in the Quarter when the more famous artists were getting their starts. He heard a lot of the performances first hand.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-26 11:42 am (UTC)(link)

[If there's one sure way to engage this particular fairly sentient zombie in conversation, it's by talking about music. Especially if that music happens to be jazz.

Most of R's assumptions on what it was like to be Living, before the New Hunger, are based around the atmosphere that music produces. Something simpler and happier, without that constant gnawing emptiness in the pit of his stomach.
]

What was living there... like?
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-26 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Complicated, but not for reasons we didn't bring on ourselves.

[Her family is made up of Not Nice People, and they made themselves quite a few enemies.]

But the city itself? There's a small fascination with the dead, but the people bring so much vibrance to it that it straddles the line very well. It's really the perfect place for a family like mine.

[Considering most of them are, you know, undead.]
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-01-28 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
... Like yours?

[He looks at her curiously now, having moved far enough into the shaft of light filtering out of the door to be seen fairly clearly. Though there's certainly a light behind the pewter-grey eyes that continue asking the question long after the words have left his lips, there is something very decidedly 'not right' about this individual.

She may not mind that. He's several people who don't.
]
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-01-30 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods, and she doesn't seem surprised, but more curious at what particular brand of undead he happens to be.]

My siblings are the first vampires of our world. My mother was the one who created the immortality spell.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-02-03 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Immortality... [The word comes out with a careful tread over each syllable - not one he has ever said out loud before (that he remembers) - and he looks more curious now than he did before.]

Y.. you can't die?

[How did he know what it meant? Still some synapses firing in there, after all.]
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-02-06 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.]

I'm not immortal. Not anymore, anyway. I'm still human.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-02-08 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Squint.

A lot of the concepts he comes across here are so hard to get his head around, but it's all good for him. He's never going to complain about things making his brain work.
]

How... how come?
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-02-09 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I was bound to a very powerful witch who cast an immortality spell on herself. Whatever happened to her, happened to me, so while she was immortal, I was immortal too. But once she died, I was free to live my own mortal life.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-02-10 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[More often than not, R comes up against concepts in general conversation that he has trouble wrapping his head around. This is one of those times.

He's trying.
]

... You didn't die?

[So he managed to connect a dot or two, there.]
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[personal profile] deathlessness 2018-02-12 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[This is the strange part.]

I suppose I got lucky that I didn't rapidly age or something along those lines, but magic is funny that way.
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[personal profile] keephersafe 2018-02-13 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd know... b-better than me.

[Says the walking corpse, but if you asked him just how it is that he's walking around without a pulse, he couldn't tell you.

Probably not magic, though.
]

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