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allthekeys) wrote2016-04-29 08:52 pm
allthekeys) wrote2016-04-29 08:52 pm
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MIDNIGHT 006
As midnight approaches the Grey Maids appear in the rooms of the women who have agreed to attend the party. They are armed with fine dresses, and other jewelry to match the ornate jewelled collars the women received at the beginning of the evening.
They women will be washed and dressed, their hair braided with many small stones. Then they will be taken upstairs. A foul smell lingers in the air, though someone has lit incense and fine smelling candles to try to mask it. They will each be seated at a fine table made of a deep red wood; the white cloth thrown over it shows signs of red, blood-like stains beginning to seep through from below as the night goes on. The table sits within easy view of a large window, although there is little outside save darkness and fog, surrounded by plushly padded chairs of the same rich red wood. A grand fireplace with carved stone gryphons forming part of it brings warmth to the room, aided by brass vents also stylized with images of gryphons. The room has an intricately embroidered carpet covering the stone floor, while a chandelier lit by small enchanted stones that nearly drips crystals provides more light over the room. For the moment, their host is not in attendance, though two of his guards stand at one of the doors, leering at them with eyeless, black marked faces.
In the Kitchen the cook is still busy sliding food onto trays, clearly irritated with how short handed they are due to the fact that the Grey Maids are otherwise occupied now. Any help offered will turn into a half wage for the helpers in the morning. It will also allow any characters who refused and males to see the dinner.
Outside in the hallways, , the Sirens have gathered along the hallway near the stairs up, only warded from following upstairs by a couple of nervous guards and a pair of growling gargoyles; they are agitated and potentially dangerous to men in that stretch of hallway, although they will keep an unhappy distance from anyone running errands for the kitchen. The Tyger occasionally pauses in the hallway to watch them, which seems to only agitate them further.
They women will be washed and dressed, their hair braided with many small stones. Then they will be taken upstairs. A foul smell lingers in the air, though someone has lit incense and fine smelling candles to try to mask it. They will each be seated at a fine table made of a deep red wood; the white cloth thrown over it shows signs of red, blood-like stains beginning to seep through from below as the night goes on. The table sits within easy view of a large window, although there is little outside save darkness and fog, surrounded by plushly padded chairs of the same rich red wood. A grand fireplace with carved stone gryphons forming part of it brings warmth to the room, aided by brass vents also stylized with images of gryphons. The room has an intricately embroidered carpet covering the stone floor, while a chandelier lit by small enchanted stones that nearly drips crystals provides more light over the room. For the moment, their host is not in attendance, though two of his guards stand at one of the doors, leering at them with eyeless, black marked faces.
In the Kitchen the cook is still busy sliding food onto trays, clearly irritated with how short handed they are due to the fact that the Grey Maids are otherwise occupied now. Any help offered will turn into a half wage for the helpers in the morning. It will also allow any characters who refused and males to see the dinner.
Outside in the hallways, , the Sirens have gathered along the hallway near the stairs up, only warded from following upstairs by a couple of nervous guards and a pair of growling gargoyles; they are agitated and potentially dangerous to men in that stretch of hallway, although they will keep an unhappy distance from anyone running errands for the kitchen. The Tyger occasionally pauses in the hallway to watch them, which seems to only agitate them further.