THE MOD ACCOUNT (noexitsmod) wrote in noexits, @ 2022-06-26 14:43:00 |
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Entry tags: | !event post, marvel (tv/movies): loki laufeyson, star trek: orlin dax, → week 039 (pilot - the green) |
the ball | ic/ooc event | day five
🌹 Death before dishonor 🌹 Chivalry still lives. Personal honor must be kept stainless. (C'est moi!) Sometimes death is the only way to erase dishonor.
🌹 Love conquers all 🌹 Courtly Love is the best expression of love: its highest form, though familial love and love of friends also serve as pure embodiments. Anything is permitted in the name of True Love.
🌹 Beauty is life 🌹 Beauty is a timeless, objective quality that cannot be defined but is always recognized for itself. Beauty is the muse of creation; and when it is found it must be protected for it is both fragile and eternal. To die for beauty is an honor and privilege.
🌹 Never forget a debt 🌹 One gift deserves another and the recipient of the gift is obligated to return the favor. In the same way a curse should be returned in kind. An Oath of friendship should be returned in kind. Never refuse to help someone to whom you are indebted. Never forget a kindness or a cruelty.
🌹 Change is good 🌹 Security doesn't exist. The smallest circumstance can turn a king into a peasant or vice versa. Change is the only constant in the world so nothing is certain. One must embrace change or fall before it. Chaos and discord rule the universe. Adapt or die.
🌹 Glamour is free 🌹 Don't let limitations limit you. Take what you want, you can always get what you need from somewhere. Hording resources is a fool's errand, might as well spend what you have when you need it.
🌹 Honor is a lie 🌹 Honor has no place; a faerie tale constructed to cover the essential emptiness behind most traditions. It is only through enlightened self-interest that truth can be attained.
🌹 Passion before duty 🌹 Passion is the truest state of the fae spirit. Follow your instinct and act on impulse. Live life to the fullest without regard for the consequences, which will come about no matter what you do. Youth passes quickly so have fun while you can. Death can come at any time so live without regret.
Neil Gaiman'sInstructions poem were used in the cut-tag text and some of the sub-headers. It's a beautiful poem, you can google it. Maybe it'll give you some inspiration.
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell miniseries that aired on the BBC, based on the novel by Susanna Clarke.
This was getting long, man. But essentially if you arrive without a date, your perfect match shows up. The match is a lie, obviously. It can look like a person from your canon or even the game. The creature is called a "fetch", a construct imbued with magic and glamour to look real. Its job is to keep your character at the ball past 3AM. So write up your character's dream date!
They can either stay back with the smart people that decided not to go, or they can track the carriages and crash the ball. They won't be assigned a perfect (fake) date. They won't be in danger of transforming themselves, which might make them especially useful in helping others escape. If they stay until 3 AM, the ballroom and those who did not make it out will disappear around them and they will find themselves back in the woods, a little lost.
More will be added based on any questions asked in the comments section!