2017 Winter Holiday Party!

[sailor_v]

WHO: OPEN TO ALL!
WHAT: Holiday party! Date auction! Shenanigans.
WHEN: December 15th, 2017 - Evening
WHERE: Fairy Tale HQ - Fayren
NOTES: The auction and the kissing contest are time sensitive! Bids close and the last kiss will be accepted on Friday, December 22nd, at midnight PST!

Fayren didn't have electricity, but it had something even better.

MAGIC!

There were twinkling colored lights that burned, flickered, and floated in an ethereal way, enchanting the building in a way that fluorescent lights never could. Branches of evergreen were hung here and there to give the air a fresh pine scent. There were also pinecones doused with cinnamon and nutmeg near the doorways.

Except near the kitchens, because the food smells were more than enough to entice the senses. There were mini-sausages swimming in a thick and spicy sauce, sweet and tangy meatballs on toothpicks, vegetables and dip, bite-sized cream puffs, iced sugar cookies, cheese and crackers, mulled cider, and eggnog in alcoholic and non-alcoholic varieties.

The main room, expansive as it was, had plenty of room for music, dancing, and mingling. There were some tables and several chairs set up, and a small stage where musicians were welcome to perform to their heart's content. To the side was an even smaller stage where a sprig of mistletoe was suspended on a loop of scarlet ribbon, with a sign that reads: "Test Your Passion! Win This Arcade Game!" And next to that was a full-sized arcade game version of Alley Brawlers. Might be worth checking out!

But there were more games than that, and more than a few maps set up on easels of the headquarters and where to go to play certain games. A single lane bowling alley (with manual set-up of the pins), a "fishing" booth where people toss a clothespin on a fishing line over a curtain to have a little prize attached by someone hidden on the other side, a ring toss for cans of soda, a cake walk (with full-sized cakes for the winners and cupcakes for the losers), ornament decorating, pin-the-tail-on-the-unicorn, face painting, a pool of rubber ducks with numbers corresponding to prizes on the bottom, goldfish scooping... Almost anything one would find at a carnival was sure to be found here.

As for the auction? Step right up, right past the gauzy white curtains into a big room lit with twinkling golden lights. Anyone was welcome to come in, but if someone wanted to participate as a bidder, they'd have to make a donation at the door. In return, each donor would receive a packet of 100 red tickets with the same number assigned to the bidder name: one roll of tickets with 101 for the first donor, a roll of tickets with 102 for the second donor, and so on.

Cookies and punch were available in this room, with several tables and chairs set up before a large stage with a microphone. Along the wall was a line of clear plastic boxes, with slots on top, set in front of each auction date's face. A card that indicated the name of each person, their age, and a brief description of what they were all about was pasted onto the front of the boxes. People were welcome to look at the line-up if they wanted, or even use some of their tickets prematurely if they wanted, as they were clearly for a drawing. Until the auction starts, soft piano music plays from a stereo running on batteries.

Comments

[orlokbutterfly]

[Of course. Of frickin course someone signed him up for this. If he could roll his eyes any harder, his eyes would do somersaults in his skull.

At least whoever did it didn't make it blatantly obvious who it was this time. He can't pin the blame on Ayame for this one.

He still struts up to the stage anyway in a sweet pair of high heeled boots, dressed in his Holy Diver outfit since he'd planned to swing by that club after he was done here. For a bit of an extra show-off factor (not that this will amount to anything, he figures), he waves his hand to make a chair of purple ice appear for him to sit in, crossing his legs in just the right way to really show them off at a good angle.]

If anyone thinks that doin' this is gonna get free booze out of me, sorry, but it's unlikely.

And I don't suppose just straight up buyin' myself out is an option? I got plenty more cash I can throw to the charity.

[princeliers]

What magic! What splendor! Do not fret, no need to buy yourself out! Someone great will bid on you so you won't have to feel that way! I believe in you!

[he waves his arms from his seat!! have more fun my dude!!]

[orlokbutterfly]

[He looks a bit puzzled when he hears that sudden yelling, but it does put a grin on Gale's face. He points his thumb in Sidon's direction.]

I like that guy.

[That kind of enthusiasm is contagious.]

[wonderland_vogue]

[Sorry, Gale, there's a rather amused grinning elf watching that whole display before just depositing about, oh, twenty tickets in to see where that might get her. Before she's casually moving back about a foot or two to watch this whole thing play out.

Might as well do something nice right now, huh? Totally not to get on his good side or something, that'd be cheating, after all.]

[orlokbutterfly]

[Well, that was certainly unexpected. The other two auctions he got suckered into were wastes of his time, but his luck at least turned around a little!

He lowers his glasses and winks in her direction. Maybe he won't hate this whole mess after all.]

[moviemagic]

[Twenty tickets. Krista was pretty sure he should honestly be worth more. Time to up the other to potentially use all of their tickets. She raised her panel.]

Sixty tickets.

[wonderland_vogue]

[Oh come on, now, it's not like she had anyone else she cared to use them on, given she's huffing softly and is just going to drop the rest of her tickets in for a nice and neat one hundred. Once she's stepping back again she's narrowing her eyes a bit at Krista, arms crossing over her chest.]

[sailor_v]

Going once!

Going twice!

SOLD -- to Lydia!