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« Who: Anthony Bridgerton ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
meetatdawn, Daphne Basset sheening, Simon Basset alwayspullsout, and you!
« What: A Very Valentine's Scandal
« When: 2/14-2/28
« Where: Event at the Community Center, otherwise all over
« Content Warnings: Open to all ; please feel free to ask OOC questions here ; the event's invite your character could have seen. Use this post for speed dating, the dance, and your trope shenans! If characters keep any food/drink from the event, they will not maintain their effects after the two weeks.
💖 getting to know you 💖
It is good to make more friends, to get to know your fellow LIER a bit better, isn't it? A little romantic holiday cheer after that horrible blizzard seems appropriate (a much needed distraction!) The community center is dimly lit, candles in pinks, reds, and white scattered strategically around. Pink roses and tulips, red roses doting the space, are in vases. There are long tables with chairs on either side, enough room between them that people aren't knocking elbows (unless they want to? go nuts.) There are cards for each person to take upon entry, a brief outline of how the day's events will go. Each pair will have seven minutes for their "date." There are tins with cards of standard and saucier icebreaker questions on the tables, in case you're curious or can't get a conversation started. Soft instrumental music will play throughout, livelier tunes playing once the dance begins.
The hosts will be participating, of course, but will be up and around to answer any questions before the dating kicks off!
💖 getting to feel free and easy 💖
Along with the dating and dance that follows, various refreshments are up for the eating and drinking. Cookies with real flowers. Different kinds of sweet and sour candies in heart shapes. Glasses of wine in all varieties. Innocent lemonade and even more innocent water! A bowl of rum punch with strawberries. Without anyone's knowledge, all of the refreshments carry a scandalous effect that will have people in quite a state for up to two weeks. There's even a display of kraft wrapped boxes, tied up with pink ribbons -- three cherry macaroons! Take them home, enjoy, share them with your unsuspecting friends :') (The packages of macaroons cannot be stored for later use and will lose their effects with the end of this plot.)
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💖 suddenly I'm bright and breezy 💖
Well look at you, in love and, oh, does it feel like you're in a romance novel all of a sudden? Whatever the effect that's befallen you, the only path you can see is straight through! The effects will last up to two weeks, but a romantic trope has fully consumed your life.
Perhaps you're 'dating' someone now with some intent behind the relationship that's anything but romantic. Maybe you're starting to fall in love with your worst enemy (can you believe what So and So did or did not do!) You may be inclined to fight against the system you see around you with your best friend. And, designations be damned, you know who you love and you're going to go after them! Did you receive or write a letter and suddenly butterflies abound and you must be nearer together? Oh, oh love triangles are dicey...all you need is Duplicity to make them even wilder! You love someone and you're going to show them just how much by (trying) to commit a heist together! So and So really doesn't deserve the person you love, you should step in and get them to be yours, contracts be damned!
Here are the romantic tropes (lasting max 2 weeks) along with possible citation** examples:
♡ fake dating (acting against one's designation, or engaging in illegal relations)
♡ enemies to lovers (submissive acting out against a dominant)
♡ doing seditious activities with your bff, who you've realized you're in love with (seditious acts)
♡ forbidden romances (dom/dom relations, housing citations)
♡ epistolary meet cutes (housing citation, after you finally decide to be together in person)
♡ especially complex love triangles (illegal relations, housing citations)
♡ heists! (theft or other crime against a SIN Guard, etc. any characters do heists for important buildings will fail. they will also be caught, and must submit a citation request.)
♡ interrupting other people's perfectly good contracts (illegal relations, acting out of designation)
These are just examples, so feel free to play with the tropes/possible citations however you like!
((**Please note: Remember to submit a citation request related to heist attempts on important buildings. Also, characters who fight a SIN guard or gang member, or Submissive characters who attack a Dominant character, must also submit a citation request.))
At the end of the event (or before), any lingering effects will wear off and characters will be left to sort out any emotional fallout or just laugh it off. Rumor has it apology bouquets work pretty well!
meetatdawn, Daphne Basset sheening, Simon Basset alwayspullsout, and you!« What: A Very Valentine's Scandal
« When: 2/14-2/28
« Where: Event at the Community Center, otherwise all over
« Content Warnings: Open to all ; please feel free to ask OOC questions here ; the event's invite your character could have seen. Use this post for speed dating, the dance, and your trope shenans! If characters keep any food/drink from the event, they will not maintain their effects after the two weeks.
It is good to make more friends, to get to know your fellow LIER a bit better, isn't it? A little romantic holiday cheer after that horrible blizzard seems appropriate (a much needed distraction!) The community center is dimly lit, candles in pinks, reds, and white scattered strategically around. Pink roses and tulips, red roses doting the space, are in vases. There are long tables with chairs on either side, enough room between them that people aren't knocking elbows (unless they want to? go nuts.) There are cards for each person to take upon entry, a brief outline of how the day's events will go. Each pair will have seven minutes for their "date." There are tins with cards of standard and saucier icebreaker questions on the tables, in case you're curious or can't get a conversation started. Soft instrumental music will play throughout, livelier tunes playing once the dance begins.
The hosts will be participating, of course, but will be up and around to answer any questions before the dating kicks off!
Along with the dating and dance that follows, various refreshments are up for the eating and drinking. Cookies with real flowers. Different kinds of sweet and sour candies in heart shapes. Glasses of wine in all varieties. Innocent lemonade and even more innocent water! A bowl of rum punch with strawberries. Without anyone's knowledge, all of the refreshments carry a scandalous effect that will have people in quite a state for up to two weeks. There's even a display of kraft wrapped boxes, tied up with pink ribbons -- three cherry macaroons! Take them home, enjoy, share them with your unsuspecting friends :') (The packages of macaroons cannot be stored for later use and will lose their effects with the end of this plot.)
✧✧Well look at you, in love and, oh, does it feel like you're in a romance novel all of a sudden? Whatever the effect that's befallen you, the only path you can see is straight through! The effects will last up to two weeks, but a romantic trope has fully consumed your life.
Perhaps you're 'dating' someone now with some intent behind the relationship that's anything but romantic. Maybe you're starting to fall in love with your worst enemy (can you believe what So and So did or did not do!) You may be inclined to fight against the system you see around you with your best friend. And, designations be damned, you know who you love and you're going to go after them! Did you receive or write a letter and suddenly butterflies abound and you must be nearer together? Oh, oh love triangles are dicey...all you need is Duplicity to make them even wilder! You love someone and you're going to show them just how much by (trying) to commit a heist together! So and So really doesn't deserve the person you love, you should step in and get them to be yours, contracts be damned!
Here are the romantic tropes (lasting max 2 weeks) along with possible citation** examples:
♡ fake dating (acting against one's designation, or engaging in illegal relations)
♡ enemies to lovers (submissive acting out against a dominant)
♡ doing seditious activities with your bff, who you've realized you're in love with (seditious acts)
♡ forbidden romances (dom/dom relations, housing citations)
♡ epistolary meet cutes (housing citation, after you finally decide to be together in person)
♡ especially complex love triangles (illegal relations, housing citations)
♡ heists! (theft or other crime against a SIN Guard, etc. any characters do heists for important buildings will fail. they will also be caught, and must submit a citation request.)
♡ interrupting other people's perfectly good contracts (illegal relations, acting out of designation)
These are just examples, so feel free to play with the tropes/possible citations however you like!
((**Please note: Remember to submit a citation request related to heist attempts on important buildings. Also, characters who fight a SIN guard or gang member, or Submissive characters who attack a Dominant character, must also submit a citation request.))
At the end of the event (or before), any lingering effects will wear off and characters will be left to sort out any emotional fallout or just laugh it off. Rumor has it apology bouquets work pretty well!
ooc things
Character(s): Daphne Bridgerton
Plot Type: Group (I think?) with effects for those who participate (open to the whole game)
Dates: 2/14-2/16 (or a week? 2/14-2/21) whichever the mods think is best!
Plot Description: A Valentine's Day speed dating event gone wrong. Daphne plans it (with Anthony's and Simon's help, of course, for funding and setup/making it operate) and orders in a variety of sweet goodies for refreshments. The sweets and drinks are laced with magical effects that warp the thoughts of the person who consumes them and causes them to play out a romance novel trope (inspired by the the tropes in the Bridgerton books). For example, they might suddenly fall in love with someone they would never expect, or have the inexplicable desire to go on a daring heist.
Citations would be optional, but encouraged to play into the dystopic nature of the city (paralleled to life in Regency times, since there IS surveillance there at balls and such but it's more subtle.) Suggested citations will accompany each trope.
The tropes options are as follows:
> Fake dating (acting against one's designation, or engaging in illegal relations)
> Enemies to lovers (submissive acting out against a dominant)
> Fall in love with your (secretly seditious) best friend (seditious activity)
> Forbidden love (dom/dom relations, housing citations)
> Epistolary Relationship Blossoming Into Something More (housing citation)
> Love triangle / Falling in love with your lover's friends or family (illegal relations, housing citations)
> Committing a Heist* To Prove Your Love (theft or other crime against a SIN Guard, etc.)
> Dramatically Trying to Interrupt a Contract (illegal relations, acting out of designation)
*Yes, really, that's our Hyacinth (':
It would be up to players to decide how long and how intense the effects last, and they are free to play with them with whatever interpretation they wish. At the end of the weekend/week, any lingering effects will wear off and characters will be left to sort out any emotional fallout or just laugh it off. We hear apology bouquets work pretty well!
Mods answers:
Limit the effects of the sweets and drinks to linger for up to two weeks only. They may run out sooner, but no longer than that. The affected sweets and drinks (etc) cannot be stored and kept for future use unless another player plot is requested.
Ensure that any characters who do heists for important buildings will fail. They will also be caught, and must submit a citation request.
Any characters who fight a SIN guard or gang member, or Submissive characters who attack a Dominant character, must also submit a citation request.