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Leslie St. Peter: 25/25 – Talking Alexis and Finn

Leslie swallowed a little and shrugged. He looked towards Aleksy and was tempted to give up and move away from the small group, but that'd be even more rude than what Alexis just basically did to him. Oh well.

He turned to Finn now and held out his hand to him. “...Hi? I'm Leslie.. I work in Aleksy's shop.” Aleksy wasn't caught up yet, so awkward introductions were up to himself.



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Vega Hardy: 25/25 – Talking with Autumn

Awesome! Autumn remembered her name. Vega's chest puffed up with pride that she left an impression. Or at least her name did. “Yeah! You got it. Vega.” She dusted off her short skirt and just looked around one more time.

Autumn asked how she was doing and Vega smirked. “Yeah. Got back to the van I call home and this guy showed up. I guess ...he must have for everyone, if they're all here, yeah?” She went to turn to look behind her, making sure she wasn't in anyone's way, but her ankle once again decided to hate her. She stumbled, and her arms got thrown out for balance. Vega didn't fall this time and she just let out a hard sigh.

“I didn't come in this! I came in like, what I thought'd be OK, and.. Ugh. Stepped onto the property, basically and got turned into this freaking nightmare of a dress.”

Jordan Miller - 25/25 - talking to Temperance and Ashton

Jordan looked down at himself and tugged at the ruffles on his shirt, looking a little sheepish. "I guess I wasn't fancy enough for the venue. You seem to have passed inspection, though," he said, smiling a little. Following her lead, he glanced around, but he didn't see anyone who looked immediately familiar under the masks and splendor.

"You know, that's actually where the custom of giving people middle names came from. Being able to give your name to identify yourself without having to tell the other person every part of your name, just in case that would give them power over you," he offered.

The cats hissed when Temperance leaned against the pillar, and he hastily offered her his arm as she jerked upright. "Sounds like a good idea. Do you see anyone you know? It's hard to tell who's who under all this fanciness."

He nodded politely to the other man who'd addressed the cats, asking if they had names. "I guess they're the security," he commented.

Hux Keighley ┈ 25/25 ┈ arriving

Hux returned the cheshires' grins as he approached the gates. His teeth seemed particularly white- incisors just a tad too long- and his eyes glittered with a certain mischief as he observed the scene around him. He'd taken his time preparing for the night ahead. His dark locks were pulled back into a bun that hung loose at the nape of his neck, his face half-obscured by a heavy golden mask, and his suit had been meticulously ironed. It fit his muscled figure in all the right places, and looked as though it'd been tailored for him specifically. He felt energized, and the buzz in the air only proved to escalate that. Everyone, it seemed, was excited and alert. Ready for whatever their host had in store for them; and Hux was no exception.

wil azevedo: 25/25 - wandering & being trouble

Wil tugged Nasir to a corner where there was something he could sit on. Standing around for long periods of time were not actually his style. Nasir got a kiss (because he did look good and it was kinda fun sneaking under that veil to snag one) when they were away from people to not seem gross.

"I had a joint in my pants..." Wil was patting down his harem pants, running his fingers along the waist band and finding a folded over pocket. He snickered and whispered, "Still got it."

It would be saved for later.

The blonde tangled hands with his boyfriend and sat to the side to wait for them all to be allowed in. He was a bit of a people watched by nature. So many of them looked familiar but with the masks it was hard to tell people who weren't as obvious as the Professor and Detective. They were the oldest in the room it seemed.

"I think I met that guy-" Wil was staring and pointing at Jordan and Temperance. She was also familiar but her mask was so big it was hard to tell. Hadn't alot of these people been at the library during the were-creature thing?

He sported a sudden frown over it, "Detective Mercer told me the best way to stay safe is to avoid the magic stuff-" He sounded worried now.

jeremiah mercer || 25/25 || conversing with algernon and marcus and zac

"'lo," Jeremiah replied to Marcus, lips twitching in amusement as he stumbled to cover up his name. "Not that there's little that could not give away my identity." His eyes were glowing, of all things, and his hair was usually a dead giveaway.

There were not many others that he knew of that were part of this that had hair like he did. Entirely silver and entirely obvious. "Perhaps I should have done something with my hair," he mused.

"... but then again, the magic may have had said something about that." Jeremiah nudged Algie with a shoulder, more certain the other man would have said something. He glanced back over to Marcus. "I didn't know that you would actually come."

Jeremiah had not been certain Marcus was all that thrilled with other ashdown, aside from stuff that had showed up in regular Ashdown.

Shun Kuroda 25/25 | Talking to Chel/Juniper, approaching door, and greeting Jer's group.

With that, Shun began to make his way towards the door quietly. Though, he wasn't too keen on standing too close to it whenever it did end up opening. He really wasn't sure what to expect from the Sorrowful One.

"How about not. Let us try not to pull anything this early on."

Getting kicked out or experiencing some worse fate when things hadn't even quite started did not seem like an ideal way of going about this.

On the way towards the door, he passed up a small group that had several familiar figures. He turned to give a curt nod towards Jeremiah and his crew, pausing upon seeing Mercer's eyes. While he knew that was a thing with the older detective, he wasn't exactly used to seeing his eyes do the reflecty-thing.

Lily Babineaux: 25/25 - Arriving with Nathaniel, receiving henshin magicks

"So there's a chance I won't be talking much at this party, so just to set the record straight, I will be fine no matter what things look like," Lily had explained before she'd used the key to usher their entrance into the otherworld. Chances were she was going to be spending this party wearing paws, but she didn't want to prompt all the questions from her date that would inevitably arise if she outright told him she was a shapeshifter, so for now she kept her spiel cryptically brief. It was fitting, given that she'd been wearing a long black dress that looked like some Morticia Addams knockoff, complete with some plastic skull mask that had definitely come from a discount Halloween store. The most intricate parts of her costume weren't actually costume at all, but those fangs and claws and ears couldn't be real...could they? Sometimes those fuzz-covered ears that poked out on either side of her head twitched, but it had to be the wind.

As the experienced otherworlder, Lily did her best to look unimpressed as they walked through the gateway, preparing instead for the draw to the ground where her body would contort into something inhuman. Instead, she held her breath to the sounds of glass clinking and mirthful conversation until she looked down at her hands, surprised to see them as still...hands.

"...Huh," she muttered, looking back to her date. "Guess it's false alarm on everything I said--" she began, choking on her words as her dress began to writhe, red pinions unfurling into a bell shaped gown at her hips while her torso glistened with the soft clinks of glass sequins, painted the same ruby color. The magic didn't even bother reshaping her mask--it simply popped out of existence while a full mask of ivory crept over her face, wrought into the shape of a crescent moon that curled over her ********," she hissed in surprised, her voice muffled until half of the mask crumbled away at her lips, showing bright red lipstick that hadn't been there moments ago and very much accentuated her fangs. "Never mind, this s**t is full magic status, jumping straight in," she remarked grimly, arms out like and wary to touch the newfound puffiness to her dress. Her new attire gave room for her tail (where she'd kept it tucked in the original gown), and it thrashed behind her in agitation, a think black stripe that danced between the fiery down.

"So, uh, yeah," Lily frowned, her eyes scanning the rest of the crowd. Were those tentacles? She immediately began to think that this was the wrong place to introduce her date to all the spookiness Ashdown had to offer. "Just...stay nearby, my apprentice, it'll be fine." She really didn't want to be responsible for the next student disappearance, and looked at the pair of cats like they might be probable suspects for a kidnapping.

connor hill- 25/25- approaching chel, shun & juniper

Around him, Connor caught glimpses of outfits and costumes that rippled and changed before his very eyes. It was actually quite mesmerizing, and he spent several long moments just watching everyone around him, while not noticing that his own outfit had changed, but only very little, with ornate black embroidery added here and there, and the fake rubies in his mask darkening to match the color of his suit much better. His top hat, however, which he had only just been holding under one arm, vanished and simply reappeared on top of his head, which was quite a bit more noticeable of a magical change.

"Well, alright then." He muttered, finally wrapping up his look around the room and coming to a mental decision of who in the area he should approach. Over near the closed doors, a familiar figure with very recognizable hair was moving, along with two others who he vaguely recognized, but would need to get closer to in order to confirm identity. He thought about letting Jack know that he was going to head over, and then mentally shrugged. The green giant was a big boy, and could figure s**t out for himself.

Moving towards Chel and her little entourage, Connor reached out when he was within range to do so and gave the woman a sharp pinch on the a** just as he moved up beside her.

"Hey, darling, who in their right ******** mind would invite you to this little shin-dig?" He asked, with a grin, before giving Shun and Juniper each a nod in greeting, the latter a little more curtly than the former.