A formal dance.

[pendragon]

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: The Atrium, Haven's Hub.
WHEN: Today! The dance will go on from the late afternoon until the early hours of the morning.
WHAT: Have your top hat and cane? This is a formal ball. The origination is a drunken Vandal and battle-worn Saber.
WARNINGS: Could be anything from bar fights to drunken swearing to people tripping over their own feet or people making out in a corner.

Welcome to the dance!      The Atrium will have its doors open in the late evening. For the first two hours, Vandal and Drift will be acting as receptionist and bouncer. After that, the doors close. At the reception desk, you will be required to sign your name and also hand over any weapons that you are carrying. (Within the building there is an inhibitor placed. No one will be able to use any weaponry on their person.)      The Atrium is decorated in royal purple and black, with accents of white and pearl. The decorations are standard fair for a ball. There's hanging draperies, table clothes, and colored lighting. Towards the outside of the circular Atrium, everyone will be under a glowing white light. Towards the middle of the dance floor, there is a much softer lavender that illuminates the immediate area.      Vandal and Saber organized and planned, and then helped with decorations. They will also be over seeing the event throughout the entire night. Vandal will be handling the reception desk and registration. We have Frenzy as our DJ in the Atrium, and Miko will be playing electric guitar for those who decide to visit the bar. Saber, Ironhide, and McCrane will be acting as security. They would be the best to contact should you have any.. safety concerns. Our bouncer, Drift, will be "on call" for security once his primary assignment is done. Kay organized and lead the decorating, and Ravage and McCrane helped with placing them. Melan and Joe gathered needed materials. Skidaddle is the one to blame for having the supply of available hats at the doors for any Cybertronian who tries to get past the one piece of attire rule.      Feel free to post in any sub-forum area you think your character would be present in (with or without an opening post), or merely tag others. Prose or action-spam is okay (and you may want to include this in your initial posts if you want others to tag you). Bonus: include links to garments your character may be wearing. This is entirely up to you! Have fun!      Make sure to add your character to the tags! (That's the registry.)

SHORTCUTS TO THE SUB-FORUMS:
Reception Area
Dance Floor
Lounging Areas
Bar
Walls

Comments

[youdiedagain]

[Sissel puts a hand to his chin, looking back up at the being in front of him. He couldn't say Melan was exactly strange, because who knows? Maybe he just forgot about this...race. Maybe they existed back home. Who knew.]

That's...great! I don't really know a lot of people here, so any kind of alliance is pretty beneficial to me.

[There's a smirk.]

The same in return. I can't promise anything spectacular, but--


..yes. I can manipulate objects. However, I have to leave this body to do it.

[knightinbluearmor]

[Well, at least Sissel wasn't freaking out because of him. The humans at home, except Marin and her family, has always been afraid of his weapon arms and armor. It always made him feel... happy when people accepted him.]

I will do my best to help you. However, if you begin to attack people here, I will have to stop you.

You said this body was a... puppet. And you are inside of it. You just can... leave it? Just like that? Where do you go once you leave?

[It's... fascinating. Marin would be disturbed, but for Melan it's just interesting. He had never met any creature that could do that before!]

[youdiedagain]

You don't have to worry about that.

[He straightens his jacket idly, gaze casting itself down to the ground.]

I'm a friendly ghost.

[A little smirk soon creeps across his face.]

Yep. Think of it like a suit of armor. I can only inhabit one thing at a time. And I can't -NOT- be inhabiting something. It's how it works.

[knightinbluearmor]

[Well. Melan hadn't wanted to make the... ghost, sad. Bad guys weren't supposed to be sad. What to do? A little lost, the Knight stepped closer.]

I... didn't mean to bring back bad memories...? Sorry.

[That was a strange concept. Couldn't not inhabiting something? Weird.]

I see. So what I am seeing right now isn't really you. Hm. Well. It's unusual.

[youdiedagain]

[Sissel gives a dismissive hand wave. True, it'd bothered him earlier, but now...it didn't really matter here, did it.

He watches Melan step closer, easing up a little.]

That's right. Just a body--a fake body--given to me. I'm inside it, controlling every part.

[knightinbluearmor]

[ Melan tilted his head on the side, considering. Sissel was not the person he was facing. He was inside. Hm. Oh well, it wasn't the first strange thing he had seen here.]

Very well. I understand. [And that's it. The sky is blue, the sun rises from the east, and Sissel is a ghost.]

Are you enjoying the... dance?

[youdiedagain]

[And that's just how it should be. He's grateful Melan doesn't really question it, and eases up, a smile creeping across his face.]

I can't complain. It's the first one I've ever been to. I think I'm even going to learn how to dance at some point.

[knightinbluearmor]

Ah, it's your first dance as well? I can't say I have ever seen one before.

[Melan looked around, a little lost. Give him a giant monster to fight, no problem. But crowd? Nope.]

I don't know how to dance either. And I don't really see the point...

[youdiedagain]

[Well, you two can be lost together, Melan! He's just as confused as you are.]

Well, I guess people like to forget about the bad things that have been going down recently. Something like this alleviates it.


Maybe.

[knightinbluearmor]

[It's always better to be awkward together. You feel... somewhat less awkward. He hopes.]

Hm. It's a good idea. And I think it works. I mean, I liked going to look for material so they could wear "formal" clothes. It was... fun.

Though I wonder how people unable to fly do to go around. It's really... big out there.

[youdiedagain]

I can't really vouch for anyone...since I have unlimited stamina, but I think the ones who can turn into vehicles chauffeur the others around.

It's really nice, if you think about it.

[knightinbluearmor]

Many people around here can transform? I only saw Kagerou doing it once. I didn't know other could do it.

But if you want to get somewhere fast, you can ask me. I can fly with a passenger.

[youdiedagain]

Can't say I've ever met Kagerou...but a good amount of the robotic species here can transform into SOMETHING.

...

[Melan, you get a genuine smile.]

Thanks...I hope you don't mind if I take you up on that in the future. I don't run out of energy, per say, but it makes things quicker.

[knightinbluearmor]

He is a very nice robot. Most of their kind seem nice enough, but him more than the others.

We are friends.

[Melan tilted his head. How could people even live without being able to fly? He couldn't understand. Fighting on the ground was slow and clumsy. Oh well.]

It's not a problem. I could observe you more like that. You are the first ghost I see.
And this place is be. You didn't have a 'chauffeur' before?