Masquerade (Social RP) (Open)

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Times felt dark and everybody had their little secrets and the like. Well, almost everybody. There were some that were just so... 'there' that they weren't even seen as a threat to Kraft's rule. This happened to include most of the remaining nobles who were just content to indulge in their parties and sins. That was the beauty and appeal of masquerade parties. There was no real social pressure to be a certain person when nobody could see who you were under your mask. Plus, many things didn't carry consequences. Indulge in food? Who cares? It's just a party. Have a one night stand? Even you don't know who the person you slept with was. Unless if someone was drunk enough to remove their mask, nobody would know who made a fool of themselves either.

Irenes was invited to one such party by a young noble who had taken a liking to her in the past. How he had managed to locate her outside of Etruria was a mystery to the purple haired girl, but she had no reason to turn it down. Getting into the country hadn't been nearly as hard as people made it seem, though being someone from there who actually worshiped Elimine and was just a girl with a healing staff, she was waved through quickly.

The lord had provided an elegant dress for Irenes to wear to the party, a mixture of black silk and gold finery to make her look like she fit in. It was likely worth more money than she would ever even be able to make. The matching mask was a simple, yet elegant design as well, swooping feathers on either side. It would leave from the tip of her nose and down uncovered while concealing the rest of her face from prying eyes.

After bathing in a rather nice, provided place, she would eventually get her way into the stuffy dress with the help of the lord's maids. Something like this was rather.. extravagant for one like her, though she would admit that she was enjoying it if she was asked. A quick carriage ride lead to where the party was held, ready to spoil all comers to a night of earthly delights. Irenes took a deep breath before leaving the carriage, presenting her invitation and heading inside to mingle.

[Liam]

Liam had spent some time in Etruria recently, he had helped out some man along his journey. He didn't do it out of kindness, he did it out of pity. The poor fool was being attacked by much larger men for his wealth, Liam had saved a noble without knowing it. Many months later the lord had finally tracked down his savoir only to invite him to a masquerade. Liam wasn't the type to socialize with humans much, but it had been a few decades since he mingled with humans outside of trading. It was going to be ironic that he wore a mask, seeing how he's been doing that for the past thousand years, wearing a mask over a mask, how "fun" that had sounded.

He had the perfect mask in mind, it had two openings for his eyes and two holes near his nose. It was white and had a long beak which he had filled it with some ambergris, lemon Balm, mint leaves, camphor, cloves, laudanum, myrrh, rose petals. He didn't enjoy the stench of humans these days, with a large number of them he had hoped that would mask the smell. He also wore a white top hat, he had thought of them as a fancy thing to wear to a fancy event, as well as a white cloak.

He was among one of the first guest to arrive, the lord had almost instantly recognized him because his larger than man frame, the man had hugged him and asked for his name since he never really got it the last time they saw each other. "Wouldn't that ruin the meaning of a masquerade?" was his response. The lord replied with a laugh and invited him in, Liam was spending his time wondering around looking at the man's material wealth. Liam was never fond of buying fancy stuff because you could, but it didn't stop him from marveling at some of it.