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Adrian Veidt ([personal profile] defenestration) wrote in [community profile] multiversallogs2011-09-30 05:32 pm

Costume Party in Honor of Lex Luthor's Birthday [OPEN]

As stated on the invitation, Adrian is throwing a costume party to celebrate Lex's twenty-fifth birthday at the Luthor-Veidt Building in Brock Marsh. Everyone is welcome, whether they know Lex or not. There's plenty of food and free alcohol (mostly wine, fancy beer, and champagne), music and a space for dancing, and room to mingle and make new friends. Some simple and classy decorations, purple of course, have been put up on the first and second floors to create a festive atmosphere.

(A note to those who might try to take the opportunity to go snooping: security is insanely tight. The elevators will not go beyond the first and second floors without a special code, and there's an elevator operator who is very obviously there to make sure you don't try anything funny. The stairwells are likewise under guard and the private areas of the first floor are locked and under camera surveillance.)



[ooc: Please wait until a few threads are set up before tagging! Party time! Everyone is welcome!

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rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (luxury is not a necessity to me ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-02 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Under the circumstances, it isn't bad- actually, under the circumstances, Ilde is more than a little curious to see how your average partygoer might react if they realize he isn't just tall and strange. It's mostly about testing limits, and only a little bit about watching humans scurry.

(A tiny, little, insignificant bit. She swears.)

"I suppose that'll do," she concedes, instead.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-02 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm so glad I have your permission," he says, with a wry smile. "Besides, you know me. I prefer spectator to participant anyhow."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (i will pack all my pretty dresses ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"You're a voyeur," she informs him, blandly, a little bit fond. The more she gets acquainted with Ivan, the less she thinks she actually knows about him - but that is one detail she'd feel comfortable swearing to.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
"A hazard of longevity I suspect." Or a means of preserving it. "Thank you, by the way. For the interesting reading material." His tone is just as light, considering they could be easily overheard.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Ilde is working on the assumption that it's safer to assume there are cameras recording everywhere in this building and if she can lipread, so can someone else; if Ivan ever finds out why she attended this evening, it won't be at the party.

"Did you get through it all?" She, admittedly, didn't.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Mostly. A bit dry, but not without its good points." He smiles, easily, but she knows him well enough to see it's probably a bit of a show. "It gave me something to do while I was convalescing."
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Are you feeling better under there?" It isn't strictly necessary to stretch up and press her thumb just under the bottom of his mask - an argument could be made that it is, in fact, not necessary at all - but evidently she considers Ivan to have already forfeited his personal space.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
He catches her wrist, but after she's already done so. "Back to my formerly handsome self, yes. Though you'll have to take my word for it for now. It wouldn't do to violate the rules of the party."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (i reserve the right to love many ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Obliging this so-called rule, Ilde swings her own white mask back in front of her eyes with her free hand. "We couldn't have that."
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Without propriety, where would we be?" he asks, more wicked than otherwise.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably about where you usually are, Ivan." It's obligatory, at this point.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
If he gives her that sort of set up, he'll be almost offended if she doesn't take it.

"You're no better behaved."
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Slander." Wait. Briefly diverted- "Is it slander when it's said out loud, or is it libel? I think libel is the one where you write it down. Is that right?"
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, that's right. Slander is spoken, you can remember it that way." He grins. "I could write it down, and then it would be both."
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (you be the beast ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Letting the mask drop back down against the back of the sofa, she makes a face at him quickly and straightens, leaning away from it with her wrists resting against the cushions.

"I talked to your friend, Njoki." Abrupt subject changes are just part and parcel.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh? Was it an interesting conversation?" He feels that 'friend' is probably generous, but he isn't going to split hairs.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd go as far as to call it productive." 'Friend' is sometimes rather loosely defined, particularly when it's Ilde using the word. "I think she's interesting."
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
"She is. And good at what she does, in my limited experience." And liable to be in a sticky situation, if the anti-crurovore sentiment kept going the way it had done.
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I noticed." He looks approximately as ridiculous as he did before he had holy water thrown at him, etc, he can presumably just fill in the blanks for himself- their relationship is not one that involves a great deal of flattery. "I nearly broke a heel in Mafaton last time I was leaving, you saw the paint they're throwing around...?" It's juvenile. It's PETA tactics.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Precisely. And while PETA is rubbish at saving animals, they're excellent at making the papers." Which is still what's bothering Ivan. What do they want on the right, while everyone's looking left?
rhinemaid: actress mia kirshner (say i'm bitten raw with pride ♠)

[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-03 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I think that makes you my fur coat," she informs him, absently, her mind on precisely the same problem that they both keep returning to; what is the point of it all? It can't be about safety. Nothing about any of this is geared towards protection, it looks a hell of a lot more like incitement. (Angled at cruorvores and the prey-in-potentia.)
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-03 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"A fur coat would flatter you more." Fair point.

"But I suppose there will be other times to talk politics, hm?" Other, more private times. "Would you like a dance, or is that the wrong thing to ask under the circumstances?" Would that be, in other words, less than perfectly casual?
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[personal profile] rhinemaid 2011-10-04 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
A slight pause follows the question; her train of thought derailed, she's taking a moment to catch up with his, but the correlation isn't clear to her and she's visibly unsure what he actually means. Erring on the side of 'doing what I like', she offers him her hands. "We could go back downstairs."

She rarely turns down the opportunity to dance.
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[personal profile] deservesadaisy 2011-10-04 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Even if she didn't understand it, her response answers his question, and he takes her hands, giving her a small tug up. "Come, then, let's see what we can make of whatever music they're playing."