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royal_musings2023-09-16 12:22 pm
callmeles) wrote in royal_musings2023-09-16 12:22 pm
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Meme - Welcome to Rose Red
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You find yourself being helped out of a coach in front of a large majestic mansion. Inside is a party in full swing with people you may know, others you may not and some may even be celebrities from a time before who you swear mysteriously disappeared. Music is pouring out of the open doors and inside is a variety of foods and drinks to consume, dancing to be done and endless entertainment. At the end of the night, complimentary smokes and party favors are given out (if you make it). The garden is lit by tiny lights and has its own fully stocked bar should you prefer a quiet and intimate conversation with someone special.
Beyond the extravagant decor and party, is something much more sinister.
If you choose to explore, you might want to take a friend or bread crumbs (or rope) because the way you came may not be how you return. Windows, doors, and hallways tend to appear and disappear at the whim of the house. Rooms the owners may not even be aware of suddenly appear and others disappear. Ignore everything that rational thought tells you about a house being an inanimate object. This house is alive and it loves to play. It isn't only rooms, doors, and hallways that disappear - people do as well. Ghosts are rumored to haunt these halls and perhaps be responsible for the number of disappearances and deaths reported in and around the home.
If you're "lucky", you may even receive a welcome from one of its illustrious hosts, Ellen and Sukeena. If you're "really lucky", you may even get an offer to stay... permanently.
How to play
1 Tag in (use the prompts, don't use the prompts. up to you!)
2 Tag around
3 Have fun
4 Don't fuck with the house
Prompts:
1. Arrival Welcome to Rose Red. You'll be assisted out of your coach and led to the front door where someone will take your coat and welcome you in. From there, you are free to roam to your heart's content. Please stay a while, won't you?
2. Schmooze with the Rich and Famous There are people everywhere - the who's who of now and maybe even of a bygone era. Maybe you see someone you think you know or someone you swear mysteriously disappeared in the 20s or 30s. Go, introduce yourself! What's the worst that can happen?
3. The Garden We get it, you need to take a breather. Why not stroll out into the conservatory or into the garden? There are twinkle lights to set the mood but plenty of shadowy corners to disappear with a special someone. A fully stocked bar is ready for guests to stop by for a drink. You may want to stay clear of certain plants though, they have thorns and they really love blood.
4. Exploration The lure of being invited to an estate like this is exploring and you should definitely do so. The house seems welcoming and invites you to explore its depths. But, you may want to bring a rope or bread crumbs with you, you don't want to get lost, do you? Hallways and doors can be very misleading and you could end up in an entirely different part of the house than you expected. No one knows quite how big the place is and it just keeps adding on. Is that hammering you hear in the distance?
5. Apparitions and Ghosts Lore has it that a number of people have either died here during its construction (and after its construction) or have simply disappeared. If the locals are to be believed, it now requires blood to sustain itself. Who's to say, really? But, in between the music, the talking, the endless food, and the flowing alcohol, you swear you can hear a faint hammering in the distance. The bartender that you were just chatting up suddenly disappears and now there is a woman there offering you a tequila shot. Where did the young man go? Are there suddenly more or less guests?
6. What is This Feeling? The longer you stay, eat, drink, and be merry the more... your thoughts change. You were happy, you were enjoying yourself and now you're... what? Angry? Feeling overcome with guilt? Feeling betrayed? Or are you lustful? These feelings may not be your feelings but the emotions of the house. Just what are you doing to do with these feelings?
7. The Escape / Leaving Leaving so soon? Just when things were really getting good? Well, if you must. You'll be met outside with decadent party favors and smokes as you go which may or may not disappear as soon as you leave the premises. After all, were you really attending a party at the infamous Rose Red? When it's been run down and/or even demolished years ago?
For extra spice, use rng to determine if you stay or if you go. Evens: you make it out safely. Odds: Go back to #1
8. Choose Your Own Adventure!
Zayne | oc djinn | ota and open to all prompts
So when he finds himself exciting the cat sent for him and finds himself standing before an old mansion, he isn't sure what to think of it. Given his family, this could well be a game.
Given what he is, it might mean a trap.
That isn't going to stop him though. Even as he steps through the door, the music washing over him, and he considers just what this madness might mean. Raising one hand, he waves it over himself and it changes his jeans and a tee to a tailored suit, black on black, and he runs a hand through his hair.
"Bring it on."
(ooc: Open to any prompt, anywhere in the house. Let's see where things go.)
2, 3 & 4 (and we can go from there!)
She watched people laugh, dance, flirt... and a couple who were being very risquΓ© in the corner. Not that she was judging in the least, she was sure had it been her and David, they would have done the same. She pushed him from her mind quickly, she didn't need those reminders right now.
Not right now.
And, especially not here.
Out of the corner of her eye, she thought she spotted someone she knew but focusing in, it wasn't them, and hell, the person didn't look remotely like the person she thought they were. Honestly, this place was a hot mess and she didn't like it one bit. The next time she looked toward the doorway, she spotted someone different. Someone who felt different than everyone else here and dressed in a nicely tailored black suit.
She looked him over briefly, where did she know him from?
Had she met him before? Or was he famous? She couldn't remember and normally she was great at faces and names.
"So, how did you wind up here," she asks, deciding to take the chance and walk up to him. Piper may not know what or who he is but she can tell that he's not a normal human like the vast majority of those in this room.
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Not that he wasn't used to those two things combined but without knowing where he technically was - he remembered being in the cab but not the actual drive there - and who had sent the invite he isn't sure either of those things were good. No, he knew they weren't.
Someone actually acknowledges him though, speaking to him, and Zayne turns towards the woman. For a moment he's silent, giving her a long look as if she didn't quite fit in. Which was true. Her magic was there, brilliant and yet so different than all of it that surrounded them.
He smiles then, shaking his head.
"I was told it was a gathering of the rich and infamous and a good place to make connections. Not saying it isn't true but I prefer my schmoozing to be somewhere that doesn't feel like I'm waiting for Mr Boddy to turn up dead in the parlor with the lead pipe."
He pauses, taking a drink of his champagne while giving her another look. "Though if you mean literally how I got here, I'm still not entirely sure. You?"
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She snorts though at his comment about the place and nods. "You know, same," she agrees. "At least there isn't a thunderstorm otherwise that may be a little too spot on for a creepy house on a hill."
"I'm not exactly sure myself but all I know is that we should be careful. It has a very twisted sense of 'fun'." She assumed he wasn't like anyone or anything else here. He appeared solid and his magic felt different and yet brilliant all at the same time.
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Wouldn't surprise him in the least. Nothing about this place felt right, and at least mundane things would be better than how the rest of the place felt. Heavy and thick, like walking through water he couldn't see her feel, but it was pressing down on him nonetheless.
"Kind of weird to end up at a party where you have to wonder just how safe you are." He shifts though, offering her his arms. "Come on. Let's explore."
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The pressure in her mind from the house, a consistent presence since she entered the grounds, had left some but it wasn't entirely gone.
Her mouth curls up at his remark and glances at the arm he offers, taking it after a moment. "I'd like to say it's pretty normal in my life but that's debatable as well," she says and glances around.
"Where should we start? I'm sure each room is more creepy and benevolent than the next. The solarium and gardens seem innocent enough but I imagine will be anything but innocent."
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A brow arches at that admission. "Oh is it now? And why is that? What kind of life do you live where creepy haunted houses are the norm?" He pauses before his eyes go wide. "Do you do a ghost show on cable? Please tell me you do."
Because that would definitely make things interesting, that's for sure.
"Start with the innocent? Least start things slow before the oogie boogies maybe come out?"
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Her mouth curls up. "I am not featured on one of those shows though that would be fun," she admits with a grin. "No, I...," she pauses and looks at him. "I'm a witch with a questionable destiny now. And I may have lived in a semi or fully-sentient house like this. Only better because this place feels entirely wrong." Should she have admitted that out loud to him? Maybe, maybe not but he should know at least that she was capable of handling herself.
She nods in agreement. "So the solarium and gardens then," she says, walking in the direction she assumes would take them to said location. She keeps her eyes peeled on everything around her as they walk.