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Club Medusa's Haunted Attraction - Open Mingle Log
Who: Lust - OPEN
Where: Ecruteak, Club Medusa
When: Until Halloween
Summary: Club Medusa, the burlesque nightclub run by Lust, is putting on a burlesque themed haunted house!
Rating: PG-13
Log:
About a week and a half before Halloween, Club Medusa in Ecruteak undergoes a transformation. The little outside drinking and dining area out front is gone, replaced by temporary fabric walls patterned like the expanse of a dark forest. The main club room has been divided with temporary partitions, making a ring of small rooms around the stage and center of the floor, where the tables and chairs have all been relocated. A sign outside proclaims 'Club Medusa's Haunted Castle', an attraction that's been advertised for the last week.
From the sidewalk one pays the doorman and enters through a flap and suddenly finds themself in a forest. It's dark, the illumination coming from a large golden 'moon'. Fog drifts among the stage trees and underbrush. Thunder rumbles as though in the distance, thunder and drums. There's music playing, something heavy and pulsing. Something moves through the fog, humanoid figures that move in time with the music.
The werewolves are coming. Club dancers with furred wolf ears and tails and dramatic makeup appear from between the trees. Furred gloves and shoes give the impression of paws, and their costumes are ragged clothes that have been very strategically ripped to show a good deal of skin. There's a certain wild frenzy to their dance, but it's all expertly choreographed. It's as much a display of acrobatics as anything else, each of the lupine dancers well muscled and athletic.
But they fade back into the fog as the song fades out, and the door of the club opens to invite guests inside.
The first room is an old candlelit library. Skulls and eerie curios sit amongst the books. Unsettling portraits grace the walls. Curtains billow between the bookshelves. There's only one dancer in this room, that emerges suddenly from the falls of fabric that make the curtains. In black feathered bustier and dancer's bustle and a crown of black feathers, the whole thing invokes the idea of a bird. Opera length gloves with long talon-like claws and a fall of gauze and even more feathers give the impression of wings. The illusion of a bird is only furthered as the curtains turn out to be aerial silks. This performance takes place in the air.
The next room is the classic dungeon tableau, all chains and swords and axes on the wall. A dancer in fanciful red with elaborate curved horns dances around a rack on which is chained a scantily clad man who writhes and twists in time with the music. The fabric of the demon's costume is shimmery and colored in an ombre to mimic flame. Bursts of fire appear overhead the two at intervals - provided by Pokemon hidden cleverly - and at one point the demonic dancer grabs a torch and lights it with the overhead burst, incorporating it into the dance.
Through there is a sumptuous bedroom with a trio of vampires that rise from the bed, this performance slower and more blatantly sensual than those that came before it. Form hugging black and red are the dominant costume colors, each a very minimized version of formalwear that shows off legs and shoulders and abdomens. They dance both alone and together, languid and evocative. Occasionally the dancers will reach out towards the audience, but never actually touch. Until a crack of thunder signals the end of the performance, and they slink back to the bed to prepare for the next audience.
The final room is a little kitchen with a steaming cauldron. Here two witches in purple and green lace and veils have a 'victim' tied to a chair. Each has a ribbon baton made to look like wands, which they use with skill as they spin and leap around the cauldron. And sometimes the audience, whirling about them with high kicks and twirling their baton-wands overhead.
Finally the haunted attraction gives way to the center, with stage and tables and waitstaff bringing drinks and food. Here guests can mingle and dance and enjoy a party-like atmosphere. On stage is the hostess herself, Lust, all in white lace and ghostly makeup, with streaks of white in her hair. As well as a dance, she's providing her own music and singing a variety of very old-time sounding, jazzy Halloween songs.
Where: Ecruteak, Club Medusa
When: Until Halloween
Summary: Club Medusa, the burlesque nightclub run by Lust, is putting on a burlesque themed haunted house!
Rating: PG-13
Log:
About a week and a half before Halloween, Club Medusa in Ecruteak undergoes a transformation. The little outside drinking and dining area out front is gone, replaced by temporary fabric walls patterned like the expanse of a dark forest. The main club room has been divided with temporary partitions, making a ring of small rooms around the stage and center of the floor, where the tables and chairs have all been relocated. A sign outside proclaims 'Club Medusa's Haunted Castle', an attraction that's been advertised for the last week.
From the sidewalk one pays the doorman and enters through a flap and suddenly finds themself in a forest. It's dark, the illumination coming from a large golden 'moon'. Fog drifts among the stage trees and underbrush. Thunder rumbles as though in the distance, thunder and drums. There's music playing, something heavy and pulsing. Something moves through the fog, humanoid figures that move in time with the music.
The werewolves are coming. Club dancers with furred wolf ears and tails and dramatic makeup appear from between the trees. Furred gloves and shoes give the impression of paws, and their costumes are ragged clothes that have been very strategically ripped to show a good deal of skin. There's a certain wild frenzy to their dance, but it's all expertly choreographed. It's as much a display of acrobatics as anything else, each of the lupine dancers well muscled and athletic.
But they fade back into the fog as the song fades out, and the door of the club opens to invite guests inside.
The first room is an old candlelit library. Skulls and eerie curios sit amongst the books. Unsettling portraits grace the walls. Curtains billow between the bookshelves. There's only one dancer in this room, that emerges suddenly from the falls of fabric that make the curtains. In black feathered bustier and dancer's bustle and a crown of black feathers, the whole thing invokes the idea of a bird. Opera length gloves with long talon-like claws and a fall of gauze and even more feathers give the impression of wings. The illusion of a bird is only furthered as the curtains turn out to be aerial silks. This performance takes place in the air.
The next room is the classic dungeon tableau, all chains and swords and axes on the wall. A dancer in fanciful red with elaborate curved horns dances around a rack on which is chained a scantily clad man who writhes and twists in time with the music. The fabric of the demon's costume is shimmery and colored in an ombre to mimic flame. Bursts of fire appear overhead the two at intervals - provided by Pokemon hidden cleverly - and at one point the demonic dancer grabs a torch and lights it with the overhead burst, incorporating it into the dance.
Through there is a sumptuous bedroom with a trio of vampires that rise from the bed, this performance slower and more blatantly sensual than those that came before it. Form hugging black and red are the dominant costume colors, each a very minimized version of formalwear that shows off legs and shoulders and abdomens. They dance both alone and together, languid and evocative. Occasionally the dancers will reach out towards the audience, but never actually touch. Until a crack of thunder signals the end of the performance, and they slink back to the bed to prepare for the next audience.
The final room is a little kitchen with a steaming cauldron. Here two witches in purple and green lace and veils have a 'victim' tied to a chair. Each has a ribbon baton made to look like wands, which they use with skill as they spin and leap around the cauldron. And sometimes the audience, whirling about them with high kicks and twirling their baton-wands overhead.
Finally the haunted attraction gives way to the center, with stage and tables and waitstaff bringing drinks and food. Here guests can mingle and dance and enjoy a party-like atmosphere. On stage is the hostess herself, Lust, all in white lace and ghostly makeup, with streaks of white in her hair. As well as a dance, she's providing her own music and singing a variety of very old-time sounding, jazzy Halloween songs.
Re: OTA
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Felix glances at the other man's costume, then down at his own. "I suppose. This event's costumes are more garish than I'm used to. I dislike them." But then he nods. "I have been working with Lust for roughly a year, and have never had cause to complain. Quite the professional."
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He smiles at Felix and adds, "I am Jarlaxle of the mercenary company Bregan D'aerthe."
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Then the mild curiosity turns to actual interest, as he gives this man a second look. "Felix Fraldarius. So, you're a mercenary. Tell me, what style of combat do you prefer?"
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"One in which I have time to prepare and outwit my opponents," he answers readily. "Or do you mean which weapons do I prefer? A rapier, wielded in the duelist's style, is my preferred blade in melee, or if we are talking as to ranged combat, throwing knives."
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Felix nods, satisfied. "Versatility is a boon on the battlefield. Though I do hope your study of the blade extends beyond dueling techniques. Such a style is far less effective when you must engage many foes at once. I prefer to keep as many styles honed as I can to suit the wide variety of combat situations that may arise."
He sure does have a lot more to say about this than about this dancing gig they share, huh.
His training is headcanon based on drow fighting styles and what he's done in canon
"We do, as well as we can with such limited weapons as Johto affords us, which unfortunately seems to be camping knives and wooden rods. And yes, I do know other styles beyond that of the duelist. As a boy, I was lucky enough to train under the then-weapons master of House Baenre, whose shadow I was raised in. I learned four styles from the old drow."
He starts counting them on his fingers. "First, bautha z'hin or 'dodge and walk' to take advantage of my natural dexterity. Second, kyorlinn plynn or 'watch and take' to learn how to capture my enemies alive. Third, orbb alur or 'superior spider' which combines the best parts of both and is useful for fighting multiple enemies, though I only truly mastered it later, with the guidance of my great friend Zaknafein. Fourth, I learned the basics of draa velve, the two-sword technique, which is highly prized by my people, though I have not the gift of being double handed, as all the truest masters of draa velve are. Zaknafein was one such. Oh, but he was grace itself in battle: brutal and beautiful. I will never forget the first time I saw him fight."