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OPEN / "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
who: Cameron Waltz and you!
what: "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
when: Today!
where: Riverside Community Centre.
warnings: None predicted.
Open invitation on the network!
The community center is normally a modest building, albeit one with a spectacular riverfront view. Tonight, it's putting on the ritz. Multicolored lanterns hang on either side of the sidewalk leading up to the front of the building, and music of all kinds, depending on what time it is, pours out of the open doors and into the street. Local vendors have set up small carts to show off their wares and offer small trinkets and fresh food for sale, displaying their local pride.
Inside, things have been completely redecorated for the event. It's a modern open concept gallery, with blank walls for artwork and written word, empty pedestals to display objects, and plenty of tables with chairs. Some pieces are already on display, from paintings to exotic foods. Small crowds gather around people telling stories or showing off their special skills and talents.
That music plays live from the small main stage overlooking a dance floor, both of which can be cleared for demonstrations of everything from dance to martial arts. Anything physical that requires that little bit of extra room.
Musicians are free to write their names for a time-slot on the stage, and can choose to be accompanied by the onsite pianist and guitarist, bring their own instruments or backup, or perform solo.
All throughout the room are food and drink stations, where staff serves wine, beer, limited spirits, and soft drinks. The exotic foods are on display here, from which the guests can help themselves. If you can imagine it, someone has managed to cook it.
At the far end of the building is an outdoor patio overlooking the river, with seating and torches to light the area through the night. Most displays of magic take place out there, where practitioners can go all-out casting their most extravagant spells.
The crowd ebbs and flows, gathering to socialize during lulls and splitting off to see new events and installations as they come in. Other than opening and closing statements by Cameron Waltz, there's very little structure.
Casual and relaxed, the focus is on learning, generating conversation, and meeting new people. It's an organized free-for-all, a mini festival dedicated to the celebration of the cultures and backgrounds of everyone in Riverview. And in a city made up of a thousand universes worth of people, there's more than enough to see.
[Characters can bring pieces with them as they arrive, and simply set themselves up around the room. Contributions aren't limited to art, anything goes! Feel free to play random observer/staff/performer NPCs. The party goes until midnight, have fun!]
what: "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
when: Today!
where: Riverside Community Centre.
warnings: None predicted.
The community center is normally a modest building, albeit one with a spectacular riverfront view. Tonight, it's putting on the ritz. Multicolored lanterns hang on either side of the sidewalk leading up to the front of the building, and music of all kinds, depending on what time it is, pours out of the open doors and into the street. Local vendors have set up small carts to show off their wares and offer small trinkets and fresh food for sale, displaying their local pride.
Inside, things have been completely redecorated for the event. It's a modern open concept gallery, with blank walls for artwork and written word, empty pedestals to display objects, and plenty of tables with chairs. Some pieces are already on display, from paintings to exotic foods. Small crowds gather around people telling stories or showing off their special skills and talents.
That music plays live from the small main stage overlooking a dance floor, both of which can be cleared for demonstrations of everything from dance to martial arts. Anything physical that requires that little bit of extra room.
Musicians are free to write their names for a time-slot on the stage, and can choose to be accompanied by the onsite pianist and guitarist, bring their own instruments or backup, or perform solo.
All throughout the room are food and drink stations, where staff serves wine, beer, limited spirits, and soft drinks. The exotic foods are on display here, from which the guests can help themselves. If you can imagine it, someone has managed to cook it.
At the far end of the building is an outdoor patio overlooking the river, with seating and torches to light the area through the night. Most displays of magic take place out there, where practitioners can go all-out casting their most extravagant spells.
The crowd ebbs and flows, gathering to socialize during lulls and splitting off to see new events and installations as they come in. Other than opening and closing statements by Cameron Waltz, there's very little structure.
Casual and relaxed, the focus is on learning, generating conversation, and meeting new people. It's an organized free-for-all, a mini festival dedicated to the celebration of the cultures and backgrounds of everyone in Riverview. And in a city made up of a thousand universes worth of people, there's more than enough to see.
[Characters can bring pieces with them as they arrive, and simply set themselves up around the room. Contributions aren't limited to art, anything goes! Feel free to play random observer/staff/performer NPCs. The party goes until midnight, have fun!]
i'm sorry for simon templar, a life
There's yet another display of magic in mid-exhibition, and Simon finds himself distracted. It seems to be a show of defensive abilities--armors, glowing shields. It's fascinating and somewhat terrifying, if he looks at what they're doing as real. It's so much more comfortable to pretend it's a special effects display. So much more comfortable, and getting progressively harder to do.
When he finds Hawke, it's just in time to see her summon her own armor. He's glad he wasn't taking a drink--nothing more inelegant than choking on liquor when you're trying to make a good first impression. He takes a sip of his cocktail to clear his head before he steps into her orbit.
"It certainly got my attention. I was going to compliment you on your work inside, but perhaps I'd be better served in asking about the nature of the rest of your spells."
never be sorry
"Well, feel free to flatter me in any number of ways," she says with a little laugh, letting her armor dissipate. "I'm certainly open to answering questions about either." She's more used to having to explain her magic, but she refuses to let herself gravitate towards that only. After deciding to take the leap and show off her artwork, she's not going to chicken out about it now.
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It seems like a good place to start. A server starts to walk past, laden with glasses of champagne, and Simon motions for them to pause so he can takes one glass and raise his eyebrow at Hawke, an unspoken offering of another.
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The server kindly takes her empty glass before departing. As she disappears, Hawke continues, "The grumpy blond one to be exact."
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"I keep hearing that it's not terribly uncommon to find people from one's own world here. I've yet to have the pleasure myself."
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He says it casually, as though he's not still reeling from all of this. He hides it well, possibly too well, but more than once in the past couple of days he's had to retreat to somewhere quiet to just breathe and keep from panicking. "Yourself?"
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Also she realizes she's been prattling on and has no idea who this guy even is. "I'm Hawke, by the way."
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"Does that happen often here? I imagine being in comparatively close and limited quarters makes things resonate more broadly here."
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"So far I've seen nothing overly, spectacularly bad, outside the stupid cultists. Luckily they were dealt with."