[h3]Plot Details #4
Waited Upon by Waiters While Waiting[/h3]

8:00PM – it’s time for the ball. Hopefully, you all look sufficiently fabulous at this point, but you can arrive in the entrance hall whenever you like, and however you like. You can go stag, some of you might team up to enter together, or you might be in a downstairs room, having lost track of the time. If you are in one of the downstairs rooms, Klara is locking them up, but she’s not stupid enough to lock you in: she’ll check, and politely get you out into the entrance hall.

The other guests are quite interested in you, but more or less leave you alone. If you pluck up the courage to initiate conversation with them, you find them far more interested in you than in talking about themselves. Even if you hold a full conversation with them, you leave it realising that you don’t know anything about them apart from maybe their name – or, if they have been talkative, they’ve totally been lying to you. This will be true later, as well. There will be plenty of chance to chat to them later, so unless your character would be super-inclined to integrate immediately, it might be worth leaving this option for now.

When the doors open, you probably instinctively follow the crowd to the ballroom, but you’re stopped by either Klara or Félix (who has now changed into a tux, so as to blend into the crowd), who hold you back subtly (use dialogue if you like – I’ll supply if you want me to). They’re not so subtle as to go completely unnoticed, but, beyond maybe stealing glances, the other guests obediently head through into the ballroom. For the sake of introducing the ballroom in my next post, you can’t see past the crowd of tuxes heading in. Why would you want to spoil the surprise?

You don’t have to post here if you don’t want to: predictably, the more interesting bits are going to take place after my next plot-progressing post: during the ball itself.

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