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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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[The boy's eyes light up when he got a good look at that.]

Oh man, those look incredible. Where did you find those?

I think... by the thing on architecture maybe? I forgot, but they kind of look like bricks, so-

[He shrugs.]

Do those displays make any sense to you?

I'll get a look there in a bit, then.

[When Toki asked, the boy's eyes darted to the nearest display, something about sailing and traversal.]

Kinda? Some of the themes with the food are a little... pushing it? But it's kind of a weird setup for a prom buffet.

It's hard to see the connection between some of them, but at least the food's good!

[He's probably already eaten too much, but there's too many things to try.]

Have you made any more interesting weapons lately!?

Oh, you bet. Well, one weapon for myself, and the rest are pretty much utility items or improvements on existing ones! Stuff to help improve mobility on the battlefield. I found something nice at... uh... a museum... that helped with that.

[His grin became a bit more wide and proud.]

The weapon though, it's a lightning sword. And I don't mean a sword charged with lightning. I mean a sword blade made of lightning!

That's awesome! I'm sure people appreciate all your efforts~!

[He looks confused for a second at the mention of a lightning sword.]

Like the daemons in the fortress had, or were theirs just shaped like lightning!? I can't remember! Anyway! It it's actually lightning, how can you like set it down anywhere because it will just burn through things, right!?

You ever seen Space Wars, where they have those cool laser swords? It's more like that, but with lightning. So yeah, you turn it off, and the blade vanishes.

[...Gunvolt did you really just design a weapon off something you saw in a movie.]

Also, if I drop it or something, it'll lose power and turn off so it doesn't zap people nearby.

[That makes sense, and didn't occur to him even though he has seen Space Wars and the laser swords that turn off.]

Oh my god! Do they make like those humming and zwoom noises like the ones in Space Wars!? Can I have one!?

[He briefly pictures he and Rex in a lightning sword battle over Adelaide's affections, her hair in those iconic swirly side-buns.]

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to make the noises work like those... it just buzzes and crackles a lot. Kinda like a live wire, I think.

[Not for lack of trying, though. He did. He'd probably need a sound box to make that happen.]

Ah... well, there's a problem with that. The sword works on the same principle as my Dart Leader. My own Flame powers it, and it uses a ton of energy. I haven't miniaturized a battery for it yet. That might take awhile.

Hmm... You know, I just did a project for Alchemy and Artifice with sound projection, so maybe that kind of thing can work if you can record some cool noises like right from the movie!

[Gunvolt seems to use his own Flame to power things a lot, and maybe that's not such a good thing.]

You're not working too hard on these things, are you? If it takes so much energy just to use them...

Hey, you know... that would probably work! Especially if you can get to silence the electric crackling while it's at it! Good thinking!

[Toki's concern is quickly noted with that question, and GV's expression softens a bit.]

I'm taking more breaks than I used to, to make sure I don't overdo it. ...But it's strange. If you can believe it, my Flame's actually getting much easier to use. Just a year ago, I was having problems with using the Dart Leader. Now it's... almost second nature. And I can use my power a lot more without getting tired.

...I think that's a good thing?

I'm sure noise cancelling could be worked in too!

[Toki doesn't have a Flame, so he's not sure how things work in terms of gaining more power or control.]

I think it's good, yeah! Like training a muscle or something, what used to be hard is now easier because you've built it up!

[His analogy might be off, because he's also never built muscle nor has any idea what he's talking about.]

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