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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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[Laughs...]

Okay, okay! You better step up your game this time!

I will, I will!

[ and actually, she's dancing a lot less...stiffly? probably because she's drunk, but she seems to not be letting insecurity hold her back. it's nice! though she does stumble a little and needs to put her hand on lance's shoulder to catch herself. ]

[Well, it's nice to see she's not as stiff. Lance laughs, reaching out to steady her as she stumbles.

He uses that to dance with her, moving to the beat of the song.]

[ that works. ana is all too happy to dance with him, and she laughs because she's just having so much fun!!!

and then things slow down a little, and ana pauses. sure, she's drunk, but also... ]

Edited 2019-07-09 02:20 (UTC)

[Oh. He wasn't anticipating this.

He giggles, softly, but he keeps dancing with Ana. He doesn't mind the switch to something slower, something more...intimate? That sounds wrong. But he sways on the spot, buffeted by giggles.

This would...probably be romantic if he wasn't too drunk to realize how much this would fluster him normally.]

[ pffft. lance makes this a lot easier when he just starts swaying, and she starts giggling too. she really doesn't think much of it when she turns to face him with her hands on her shoulders. ]

And I was just startin' to feel the beat, too!

[ yet, here they are. ]

There's still a beat!

[Not so much dancing any more, but Lance thinks if he does anything more intense then this he's going to fall on his face.]

It's just slower, now!