At The Gates

Who: Jocelyn Makepeace (mentions of Arazia Santoro)
What: Narrative: why magic ceased to play games and tricks
Where: The Circus grounds/Morden's tent.

( she was caught, butterfly on backboard and admiring a world where no one’s shadows made sense )

Who: Morden Garrard and his party guests.
When: Backdated to Late on Thursday evening, continuing off into the embrace of eternity.
Where: The Circus, at an indeterminate place in London...and, more generally, in space and time.
What It's Morden's 444th birthday! Which means that good times are to be, as he throws the party to end all parties. As it turns out, it's also the party to end all civilisation as we know it! Expect loud noises, flashing lights, accidental damnation and other such nastiness as the most hedonistic shindig in England kicks up a notch.
Warnings: Well, nothing too bad at the moment. But anything goes, as the old song says, and things could (and hopefully will!) get bad fast.


( The party had started approximately fifteen minutes after sunrise when he'd poured his first glass of gin... )

Who: Viktorus Petraitis and Jocelyn Makepeace
Where: A very random and quiet London bookshop
When: An afternoon
What: Two wandering people wandering into each other; in progress log
( English was elusive sometimes )

WHO: Edward Belville & Jocelyn Makepeace.
WHAT: A welcome back and an invitation to tea, from the cheeky vampire-king to the mad little circus-girl.
WHEN: Last month upon his arrival, while the King's Men were setting up shop.
WHERE: The Circus.

( If the Circus is parent to her, then this is kindly uncle. )

WHO: Jocelyn Makepeace & the Corinthian.
WHAT: Dreamer versus nightmare on his home turf; illogical madness and a second birth for the Corinthian.
WHEN: Halloween night.
WHERE: His corner of the Dreaming.

( He sounded like the twisted and broken, the too-old and the not-yet-made; he sounded like salt far away from the sea. )

Who: Dominic Munroe & Joss Makepeace
What: Late-night run-in & reality warping
Where: London's back alleys. (Near a pub)
When: V recently!


( Both of them had been touched by the Circus, though one moreso than the other )

Who: Joss Makepeace & Vaughn Wagner
What: Architecture, churches and sanctuaries. Also a love-letter to London-in-the-summer.
Where: A long-forgotten church somewhere in the city.
When: Monday

( They spilled out through London seeking out those quiet places in that magic hour, the one where London sighed out tired hearts-breath, expanded herself, stretched and spread and allowed the locust-plague of office-folk to settle on all the parched green grass, small squares and hemmed in places that were tiny oases in a desert of glass, iron and stone )

Who: Jocelyn Makepeace
What: Waiting for the Circus to come Back.


( the windows wide and the curtains drift and drop like dead things at their sides )

Who: Jennifer Warda (oathandshield) and Jocelyn Makepeace (dreamsinday)
What: Books. Lots of books, a little confusion and a dash of crazy.
Where: Incantare's office/bookshop front.
When: Saturday morning.
Warnings: TBA, but doubtful.

( To bedlam and part way back. )