End-of-Year Prom

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END OF YEAR PROM

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Every year, as the school year comes to a close, Daybreak Academy holds its Prom, an immense gala for the students to dress in their finest clothing, dance, mingle, and make merry. This year’s prom theme, selected by the outgoing student council, is “The Unyielding Spirit of Man”. Held in Soleil’s performance center, the enormous stage has been pulled out to make a huge dance floor, with the seating rearranged around the floor on all sides for onlookers to mingle, eat, and enjoy the festivities.

In keeping with the theme, the hall is decorated with tributes to mankind’s ingenuity, with various exhibits tastefully marked with museum-like plaques surrounding it. Exhibits celebrating all manner of inventions from fire, to the written word, to spellcraft, runecraft, and flight, all are commemorated here.

Of course, no prom, or indeed any Daybreak event would be complete without food. While each exhibit serves as an educational tribute to mankind’s accomplishments, each station is also a themed food dish. The tribute to fire, for example, hosts a variety of roasts and barbecued meat of the finest cuts, while the agriculture exhibit holds a bevy of fresh fruits, vegetables, and salads. Some of these pairings are a bit of a stretch (the tribute to flight, for example, holds sandwiches and peanuts, a reference, perhaps to airline food) but all are made with the finest of ingredients.


A - So about that airline food?
Mingling at the banquet table is a good way to be social without worrying about stepping on anyone’s toes. While proms and the herald may dull the appetite for some, it would be a waste to let all the food go untouched.

While there are Faculty and Grad students volunteering to keep these particular drinks spike-free, they cannot be watching it the whole time. However, if one plans to do this - do not get caught.

B - Dance! Boogie Wonderland!
As part of the theme, the variety of music has expanded greatly from the usual prom fare - long as it’s danceable, it’s being played, and sometimes the results are jarring going from a disco classic to a regal waltz, or a crooner love song to a bouncy k-pop chart topper that will get stuck in one’s head. Can you keep up with the mad pace? It’s enough to get even the most seasoned dancer hopping mad.

Or will it be viva la music revolution to get some sanity on the dance floor?

C - A Collection of Wallflowers
Maybe socializing isn’t your thing, or dancing isn’t the kind of activity you enjoy. There’s plenty of seating around the room for you to shuffle into a corner and spend the evening holed up with a plate of food. And for those more interested in poking and prodding at the exhibits, there’s a few little themed trinkets and prizes hidden away for the keen-eyed. Elegant wands that produce sparkles, bubbles and smoke, miniscule instruments, sparklers and colorful torches that never go out (and notably can’t set anything on fire) - all made to produce flashy effects, to spice up your experience on the dance floor - or someone’s experience, anyway.

D - Wine and Beer
As is typical of Daybreak, there’s an open bar with rich, well-aged ales and wines from all over Europe. And it is, of course, open to just about everyone. After all, this is France! For those who want to take a bit of an edge off the night, their worries about what is to come, or just generally be more sociable, there is plenty of libation to help you get there. Just be careful, nobody’s going to be counting your drinks but you.

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[lovebreaker]

[ Aiko's sort of milling around, taking a break from food (somehow) and dancing. She can never stay quiet and in one place for long, and a burst of light catches her attention. Immediately, she goes to investigate, and there are two things here: One-- ]

Ruby!! You look incredible!

[ And two-- ]

Oh, can I join in? The bigger, the better!

[ no ]

[rwbyrose]

Heeey, Aiko!

[ ruby gives her a grin at the compliment. ] Thanks! You look great yourself.

[ but more importantly, sparkles. ruby nods and shows her the weird thingamabob she's made with all the trinkets. ]

Here! Feel free to add onto it! Make it brighter!

[lovebreaker]

Thank you!

[ She beams, before she goes to study the different things. Hmmm... ]

We're going to make this prom the sparkliest and brightest!

[rwbyrose]

Yesssss!

[ why does she sound so excited... ]

I was hoping to make these our disco balls for prom! Since, y'know, they didn't provide any for the dance floor. They should've!

[lovebreaker]

[ please stop them

Aiko gasps, her eyes widening, because clearly she didn't think of that. ]

What a great idea! And if we find some way to hang them up, I can totally do that with my power!

[rwbyrose]

Really?! That's a great idea! What kind of powers do you have?

[lovebreaker]

I can control air! When I jump, I can use it to boost me up really high!

[rwbyrose]

That's gonna be perfect for lighting up the dance floor!

[ sorry james, they're gonna make chaos with the blinding lighty thing over here. ]

[lovebreaker]

Yes! No one will be able to ignore them!

[ that's.... probably not a good thing.... ]

It's just figuring out how to hang them up!

[rwbyrose]

Huh...you're right... Do you think there's any string around here?

[lovebreaker]

Hmmm... or some thick cord... I don't know for sure!

[ She taps her chin. ]

Oh! Maybe in the janitor's closet!