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alphalogs2016-11-15 06:03 pm
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Entry tags:
- [daycycle 116],
- allison argent [teen wolf],
- bucky barnes [mcu],
- cisco ramon [the flash],
- derek hale [teen wolf],
- emma swan [once upon a time],
- isabelle lightwood [shadowhunters],
- jack harkness [torchwood],
- lydia martin [teen wolf],
- primrose everdeen [the hunger games],
- steve rogers [mcu],
- tony stark [mcu]
Charity Ball
WHO: The well dressed and ready to party of Alpha Complex
WHAT: being well dressed and partying?
WHEN: daycycle 116, 1800-2200 hours
NOTES: There will be dedicated threads for the big pillars of the Ball, but feel free to make your own top level if you want to. You can use the accountsweetcharity to RP as NPCs at the ball. The Game NPC journal is also been made available by Sam. Information on how to access both can be found here.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: All raffles/auctions/sign-ups/whatever will end when the daycycle is over. All basket raffles, dance raffles, and the winner of the dance contest will be decided with RNG and I will comment with the winners.
NEW! The dance auctions seem to be wrapping up on their own as they reach a natural conclusion, so we'll just use that method. If you need an NPC, let me know and I will try to find you one.
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The mingling portion of the ball lasts for about half an hour. The band playing light instrumental music that doesn't so much encourage dancing as it does give people ample opportunity to enjoy the buffet, browse the items available in the silent auction and the baskets for the raffle, and get a good eyeful of the various Specials in attendance, who they're with and what they're wearing. It'll be important later on.
On one side of the room, tucked out of the way but under a prominent sign, is a table where couples can register to be part of a dance contest with the promise of an exciting mystery prize for the winners.
Along a back wall, small round tables are lined up and showcasing items donated for a silent auction. There are a mix of actual physical items, as well as less tangible experiences, and bids are made on electronic input pads set up in front of each item, and using a citizen's ME card. Funds will be automatically deducted for each item won. Groups can bid on items together that the individuals might be otherwise unable to afford on their own. Physical items and vouchers for experiences will be delivered next daycycle.
In addition, there are a few baskets that will be raffled off during the evening. Winners need not be present to claim a raffle prize. Each basket has a theme, and tickets can be purchased at any time for five credits each using your ME card.
At 1830 hours, Stiles silently slips through the crowd, placing a lavish setee in front of the stage. Once Stiles is gone, Morgana makes her way over and sits on it. As soon as she's settled, the pre-recorded music dies down, then swells again in a new song. There is no formal announcement of the beginning of the entertainment, Jack Harkness simply crosses the dance floor, moving through people when he has to, and he and Morgana perform a choreographed waltz routine. Half way through the routine, a curtain on stage is pulled back to reveal a bandstand of actual live musicians, each wearing a suit jacket or dress of their clearance level. Yes, it's a bit of an eyesore, but they sound fantastic. Besides, people are meant to be watching Jack and Morgana.
Once the routine has got everyone's attention, Jack will activate a lapel mic and welcome the crowd to the evening's event. Someone will bring him the jacket for his suit, a suit so orange it's almost painful. He thanks Morgaga, kisses her hand, and then the band takes their cue and the music abruptly takes a turn for the upbeat. Jack encourages everyone onto the floor to learn a few line dances. Volunteers (including Stiles) will move through the crowd, encouraging people to join in as those in attendance are taught the hustle, the time warp, the YMCA, and yes, the unkillable chicken dance. Stiles will start a spirited conga line around the room while Jack sings Copacabana.
Around 1915, now that the crowd is good and energized, Jack will draw attention to the area available to sign up for the dance contest, and remind everyone that the silent auction and raffle tables will be open until the end of the evening.
He'll also be joined on the dance floor by Isabelle Lightwood, and the two will perform a tango routine in order to encourage bids for the auction prize of a private dance lesson with the pair of them. Anyone who doesn't want some one on one time with Izzy after seeing her in that dress is obviously insane. Jack will also follow this with the exciting news that the celebrity judge for the dance contest is none other than Alpha's beloved Teela O'Malley. All couples who have signed up will receive their numbers, and be asked to take the floor, giving spectators the chance to eat and to spend even more of their money on bids and raffle tickets. Couples will be eliminated by Teela, moving through the crowd, until only one remains. Their prize is an appearance on Teela's show, during Jack's opening section, on daycycle 118.
At about 2000 comes the part that quite a few specials won't enjoy. They haven't quite raised the funds he was hoping for yet, and Jack is auctioning off dances with Specials. As bidding progresses, he may attempt to persuade them to give even more of their time in an effort to drive the bidding higher. A few Specials have agreed to help out in this way ahead of time, and quite a few more will be talked into it on the spot. The rest of the evening will be peppered with Jack stopping the music to auction off a few more dances.
2100 brings a new idea from Steve that the specials aren't going to like any more than the dance auctions, the last dance raffle!. Which is really just an excuse to get the maximum number of Specials up on stage, through all of Jack and Steve's combined charisma and manipulation, for one last big fundraising push.
[[OOC: It should be noted that everyone who has helped Jack with the planning and execution of the Charity Ball, including anyone who took part in a choreographed dance routine, will not only get into the Ball for free, but will be able to come to the wrap party the next day after Teela's show, where even more real food and alcohol will be available. If you want your character to have a choreographed routine, or to otherwise contribute to the evening, you still have plenty of time to let me know.]
Formal Wear! In alphabetical order: Cisco Ramon, Jack Harkness, Lydia Martin, Natasha Romanoff, Primrose Everdeen, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark
WHAT: being well dressed and partying?
WHEN: daycycle 116, 1800-2200 hours
NOTES: There will be dedicated threads for the big pillars of the Ball, but feel free to make your own top level if you want to. You can use the account
sweetcharity to RP as NPCs at the ball. The Game NPC journal is also been made available by Sam. Information on how to access both can be found here.ADDITIONAL NOTE: All raffles/
NEW! The dance auctions seem to be wrapping up on their own as they reach a natural conclusion, so we'll just use that method. If you need an NPC, let me know and I will try to find you one.
The mingling portion of the ball lasts for about half an hour. The band playing light instrumental music that doesn't so much encourage dancing as it does give people ample opportunity to enjoy the buffet, browse the items available in the silent auction and the baskets for the raffle, and get a good eyeful of the various Specials in attendance, who they're with and what they're wearing. It'll be important later on.
On one side of the room, tucked out of the way but under a prominent sign, is a table where couples can register to be part of a dance contest with the promise of an exciting mystery prize for the winners.
Along a back wall, small round tables are lined up and showcasing items donated for a silent auction. There are a mix of actual physical items, as well as less tangible experiences, and bids are made on electronic input pads set up in front of each item, and using a citizen's ME card. Funds will be automatically deducted for each item won. Groups can bid on items together that the individuals might be otherwise unable to afford on their own. Physical items and vouchers for experiences will be delivered next daycycle.
In addition, there are a few baskets that will be raffled off during the evening. Winners need not be present to claim a raffle prize. Each basket has a theme, and tickets can be purchased at any time for five credits each using your ME card.
At 1830 hours, Stiles silently slips through the crowd, placing a lavish setee in front of the stage. Once Stiles is gone, Morgana makes her way over and sits on it. As soon as she's settled, the pre-recorded music dies down, then swells again in a new song. There is no formal announcement of the beginning of the entertainment, Jack Harkness simply crosses the dance floor, moving through people when he has to, and he and Morgana perform a choreographed waltz routine. Half way through the routine, a curtain on stage is pulled back to reveal a bandstand of actual live musicians, each wearing a suit jacket or dress of their clearance level. Yes, it's a bit of an eyesore, but they sound fantastic. Besides, people are meant to be watching Jack and Morgana.
Once the routine has got everyone's attention, Jack will activate a lapel mic and welcome the crowd to the evening's event. Someone will bring him the jacket for his suit, a suit so orange it's almost painful. He thanks Morgaga, kisses her hand, and then the band takes their cue and the music abruptly takes a turn for the upbeat. Jack encourages everyone onto the floor to learn a few line dances. Volunteers (including Stiles) will move through the crowd, encouraging people to join in as those in attendance are taught the hustle, the time warp, the YMCA, and yes, the unkillable chicken dance. Stiles will start a spirited conga line around the room while Jack sings Copacabana.
Around 1915, now that the crowd is good and energized, Jack will draw attention to the area available to sign up for the dance contest, and remind everyone that the silent auction and raffle tables will be open until the end of the evening.
He'll also be joined on the dance floor by Isabelle Lightwood, and the two will perform a tango routine in order to encourage bids for the auction prize of a private dance lesson with the pair of them. Anyone who doesn't want some one on one time with Izzy after seeing her in that dress is obviously insane. Jack will also follow this with the exciting news that the celebrity judge for the dance contest is none other than Alpha's beloved Teela O'Malley. All couples who have signed up will receive their numbers, and be asked to take the floor, giving spectators the chance to eat and to spend even more of their money on bids and raffle tickets. Couples will be eliminated by Teela, moving through the crowd, until only one remains. Their prize is an appearance on Teela's show, during Jack's opening section, on daycycle 118.
At about 2000 comes the part that quite a few specials won't enjoy. They haven't quite raised the funds he was hoping for yet, and Jack is auctioning off dances with Specials. As bidding progresses, he may attempt to persuade them to give even more of their time in an effort to drive the bidding higher. A few Specials have agreed to help out in this way ahead of time, and quite a few more will be talked into it on the spot. The rest of the evening will be peppered with Jack stopping the music to auction off a few more dances.
2100 brings a new idea from Steve that the specials aren't going to like any more than the dance auctions, the last dance raffle!. Which is really just an excuse to get the maximum number of Specials up on stage, through all of Jack and Steve's combined charisma and manipulation, for one last big fundraising push.
[[OOC: It should be noted that everyone who has helped Jack with the planning and execution of the Charity Ball, including anyone who took part in a choreographed dance routine, will not only get into the Ball for free, but will be able to come to the wrap party the next day after Teela's show, where even more real food and alcohol will be available. If you want your character to have a choreographed routine, or to otherwise contribute to the evening, you still have plenty of time to let me know.]
Formal Wear! In alphabetical order: Cisco Ramon, Jack Harkness, Lydia Martin, Natasha Romanoff, Primrose Everdeen, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark
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The sound of a confident voice outbidding her throws her off, but it's honestly the way Goals has been gently and more subtly goading her on with his quiet gratitude that keeps her from slinking off immediately with defeat, rolling over and giving it up to someone who sounds a lot more composed than Lulu feels.
"Two thousand five hundred," she counters, clearing her throat.
Someone else entirely off to Lulu's left ups the ante even further shouting a five thousand credit bid. "Five five," Lulu asserts, looking slightly more affronted than shy for the moment.
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But she doesn't let any of this rattle her. They all walked in here tonight know that Rogers was going to be popular. She'd set her own cap for the night, and they weren't even close to it yet.
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"Seventy five hundred!"
"Eight!"
"Ten thousand!"
Lulu feels her face getting red, too embarrassed to speak up and too frustrated with the fact that she's got competition that actually feels like competition now.
"Eleven!" someone else calls out. Lulu looks back at the stage and suddenly feels so very tiny, willing the words to come out of her mouth to give another bid, but each time she tries, no sound comes out and someone else places a bid over her silence.
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So she takes this as her cue to come out strong and shut some of the other bidders out.
"Twenty thousand credits. Let's stop incrementing at one or two thousand at a time, shall we?"
And yes, okay. She's jumped much closer to her cap, but there's immediately a pause in the tempo. Which is exactly what Addy wanted.
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Twenty thousand is a lot for three minutes of someone's time, even if that someone is Steve Rogers.
It's the latter part that gets Lulu's goat. The implication that the lower increments are somehow beneath her and Lulu can see the color of that woman's dress. It's quiet for a long moment and Lulu realizes as the auction continues in spite of the lull in the crowd that she's about to lose this fight.
Maybe it's all the years of conditioning in spite of her shyness, but before she realizes that the words are actually coming out, she stutters out, "fif-fifty thousand!" as she raises her hand a little, just barely, and wiggles her fingers to indicate that she's the one making the bid.
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Fifty fracking thousand.
Yeah, that's- That's twenty thousand credits over Addy's budget. And she's not so impulsive as to throw in everything she owns just to win three minutes in heaven. She needs at least sixty minutes in heaven before even considering it.
She's out, and her expression makes that painfully clear to anyone who's looking.
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Her eyes move around the room, searching for any other rogue Alphas that appear to be preparing or are already making a bid and then she looks back at the stage, heart beating so hard in her chest that it almost feels like it'll beat right out of her.
Waiting to hear the outcome is the longest thirty seconds of Lulu's entire life.
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The rate at which the price is rising, for one. But maybe more importantly, the way that he finds himself always looking back at her — the woman with glasses who had so shyly placed her first bid. It feels ... maybe just a little unfair that he isn't giving anyone else that much attention, but there's something that strikes him about how nervous she seems.
It reminds him of a lot of things, including how nervous he'd always been, as that little kid from Brooklyn. The guy who was so short sometimes, dames in their high heels would look right over his head.
When a woman in blue declares twenty thousand though, Steve can't help but look over. It's clear that the room does too, and the hushed silence that follows has Steve's gaze wandering back to Lulu. Are you going to bid again? he asks, silently, with a small tilt of his head.
And for the first time, she isn't paying attention to him. She's working through something in her mind, and when she reaches her hand up and says fifty thousand, Steve's expression turns to shock. He glances over to Jack even, to confirm that everyone here just heard that.
Then the thirty full seconds of silence from the crowd begins as going once, going twice ... and the announcement makes it official. She's won.
Steve can't help but crack a smile. The nervous girl with the glasses — she won.
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He doubts she will. Poor shy little thing. So he nudges Steve with his elbow, leaning in close as though he's only talking to him, though he doesn't move the mic away. "I think she might be tapped out. Maybe we should go to her?" Jack won't make her get up on the stage if she can't take it. He doesn't particularly care. As long as she pays.