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applesaucedream2016-03-25 10:38 pm
applesaucemod) wrote in applesaucedream2016-03-25 10:38 pm
From the Left, Calpurnia, One Serves from the Left! [Open]
Tonight, the dreamers will find themselves at a dinner party. It is an elegant dinner party, for the most elegant people in all of New York. That seems to be the general idea, at least, going by the upscale interior, immaculate table settings, mood lighting, and the small fact that the dreamers are all dressed to the nines. There's even an open bar! Look, they've had worse dreams. It's hard to complain. If anything, they ought to be thankful. That's the reason for the season, after all.
Which isn't to say they'll have nothing to complain about. It won't take the dreamers very long to realize that their thoughts and actions are accompanied by a steady stream of mild, audible narration. It politely cuts out whenever they speak, but if they fall silent, it picks up again. The mystery speakers' voices vary from dreamer to dreamer, but all of them are generally pleasant and inoffensive to the ear. They don't seem inclined towards arguing with their assignees - in fact, they don't even seem to notice when they're being addressed. Are they even conscious? It's not clear. What is clear is that they just. won't. stop.
The good news is that the dreamers won't be subjected to everyone's personal narration at once. The only disembodied voice they'll be able to hear with complete consistency is their own. However, they will find that if they engage in conversation with someone else, they'll start to pick up on their partner's narration, as well.
It probably won't be awkward at all.
[OOC: the usual dream party rules apply. Characters do not have to be apped to the game to play, and dreamers can remember or forget the events of the dream at the player's discretion. For the sake of clarity, audible narration will be enclosed in colons as opposed to quotation marks :a-like so: - this will keep it from getting muddled with the dialogue or confused with the non-audible narrative phrases you'd typically use in a tag.]
Which isn't to say they'll have nothing to complain about. It won't take the dreamers very long to realize that their thoughts and actions are accompanied by a steady stream of mild, audible narration. It politely cuts out whenever they speak, but if they fall silent, it picks up again. The mystery speakers' voices vary from dreamer to dreamer, but all of them are generally pleasant and inoffensive to the ear. They don't seem inclined towards arguing with their assignees - in fact, they don't even seem to notice when they're being addressed. Are they even conscious? It's not clear. What is clear is that they just. won't. stop.
The good news is that the dreamers won't be subjected to everyone's personal narration at once. The only disembodied voice they'll be able to hear with complete consistency is their own. However, they will find that if they engage in conversation with someone else, they'll start to pick up on their partner's narration, as well.
It probably won't be awkward at all.
[OOC: the usual dream party rules apply. Characters do not have to be apped to the game to play, and dreamers can remember or forget the events of the dream at the player's discretion. For the sake of clarity, audible narration will be enclosed in colons as opposed to quotation marks :a-like so: - this will keep it from getting muddled with the dialogue or confused with the non-audible narrative phrases you'd typically use in a tag.]
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"This is the worst," she says, her tone caught somewhere between mortification and delight. "Gods, what a frigging shitshow."
:And speaking of - Sunshine decides she's going to make an attempt at scaling one of these barstools. Given that her only two options are 'sit on the skirt' or 'hike the skirt up to indecent levels to avoid sitting on it,' she's going with the former. There will probably be some extreme wrinkling going on, but a) if the rift wanted her to keep the dress looking nice, it would have given her a less impractical dress, and b) she's been a lot harder on a gown. She doesn't want to jinx anything, but it's probably safe to say that this one won't have to pull quadruple-duty as a dress and pajamas and a box of tissues and a tablecloth.:
"Tablecloth's already included," she mutters. The aside about Johnny and Gabe makes her raise her eyebrows, but after about half a second's worth of deliberation, she decides she doesn't want to know. Instead, she focuses on Eliot's questions. Specifically, the parts that don't involve how she's been doing, because 'vaguely terrible' is just going to get her Concerned Looks and questions she can't answer. "Vampire's good. I'm not sure where he is, but I haven't searched my dress thoroughly enough to rule it out." She props her hand beneath her chin. "There could be a completely different party going on in there."