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

skdgjkgj saber is odd.

[pendragon]

"I only taught someone how to dance. My dancing isn't exactly compatible with Frenzy's taste in music."

Considering she had more walking to do, Saber decided against drinking for the moment.

"I did, however, get quite a bit of discussion in.."

The knight shakes her head momentarily, as if to say, she too, had some socially strained situations. Not all of them were like that, but..

[vandalization]

Saber is regarded with a wry smile.

"S'okay. Dancing isn't actually my thing either. But I'll do it with friends and stuff. Just kinda like being surrounded by giant robots honestly."

It's become something of a comfort, between spending most nights curled up in an alt-mode or just sprawled out over one of them, she's been exposed to mostly positive things with them.

"Yeah? Who did you talk with?"

[pendragon]

"Ah. Mirage, Blurr.. a few others very briefly. I'm glad I was able to find you here. I figured perhaps you'd have experienced something amusing throughout the night?"

Saber had been either lucky or unlucky, depending on how you saw it; nothing eventful had happened for her in particular.

[vandalization]

"Ahh they're good people." Mirage is stupidly charming and Blurr is one of the sweetest mechs around.

"Oh, me? Nah, I just danced poorly with a few people and got drunk." Vandal isn't a deep person, that's for sure. Without the Marker's influence, she'd pretty much be the biggest simpleton you'd ever meet.

[pendragon]

"I see. I'm about to go do one more round of the dance and then I need to had to Vector's quadrant to do my patrol here."

Saber pauses and then looks at the woman closely.

"You don't seem drunk?"

[vandalization]

"Sheesh. Still all business, aren't you?" She chuckles, leaning back. Saber's observation gets a wink.

"That's because I'm usually drunk."

True enough, really. It's how she copes with-

Well. With everything.

[pendragon]

"I know you drink regularly, however, I didn't think you were that intoxicated as to be able to retain such a level of coherence."

Vandal had an exceptional skill, then. Pausing, Saber thinks for a moment.

"..Did you have something on your mind, Vandal?"

The knight wonders if the woman came to the bar to drink and ponder, as that was usually a safe assumption to carry.

[vandalization]

"Oh, it's kind of a learned skill, really." And tolerance.

"Who, me? Yeah I got plenty of things. Nothing to worry about, though." Vandal didn't come to ponder as much as she came to forget a few things.

"What uh, do you?"

[pendragon]

"At the moment, no. I was.." the knight trails off, thinking, "merely offering an ear, should you want one."

Although those unpleasant events had happened a while ago, Saber had no doubts that there were still lingering memories and feelings in Vandal. On top of that, whatever else she may be carrying with her from before. That, itself, Saber could relate with. Even though the two were quite different, that alone made it quite easy for Saber to empathize with Vandal.

[vandalization]

"Ah. Thanks. I wouldn't want to trouble you, though. Seriously, don't worry about it."

She waves a dismissive hand.

Think of something else. Change the subject.

"Wanna dance?"