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daybreakacademy2019-06-26 08:56 pm
thewatchers) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-06-26 08:56 pm
End-of-Year Prom
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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I want to be in the Rune Guard, too.
[ she pauses. ] Though I'd love to travel the world as well. Eventually.
Does that answer your question?
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[Gromnom chicken. He's looking more contemplative though as he chews and swallows.]
But what about being in the Rune Guard makes it that appealing to you?
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[ he's got a solid point. she just doesn't want to admit it to herself yet. she's not really ready to have her entire world changed just because someone questioned her motivations. ]
Is there a reason why you're asking?
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You just remind me of my roommate.
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[ she pauses for a moment. ]
Who is your roommate, if you don't mind me asking?
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James. He's also kind of a Rune Guard fanatic.
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[ though...she does tap her chin a little and hum pensively. ]
Interesting comparison to make, though. I can see it, but...
[ she trails off a little...before she shakes her head and goes back to eating her food. ]
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[He looks up curiously, then has another bite of chicken.]
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[ she laughs sheepishly. ] He's already slated to get in, so I suppose that makes us a little different in that regard. But, what do I know, right? I only just met him, after all.
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[WHY DOES HE SEEM DISAPPOINTED....]
He also wants to travel. ....Or well, he wanted to anyway.
[It'd been a strange thing, when the fae brought their child selves to life for that month. Their kid selves had talked about using runes to explore space and meet all sorts of aliens and see the galaxy. It's.... it's a little bittersweet in some ways to look back on that memory and know that those dreams have disappeared over time.]
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Interesting.
[ she looks down at her food and starts eating again. she shrugs. ]
We'll see if that assessment holds up over time.
[ hm. ]