HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[paradisamods]

All that clamor from the lion dance prancing down the halls should be enough to draw attention to the party, even without actual invitations. If not the noise, then perhaps the delicious smell wafting under every door and leading back to the ballroom.

The castle is vain, if nothing else. It has decorated the ballroom in the deepest red and brightest gold with auspicious greetings in the common language tastefully posted about the hall. May your happiness be without end, one says, while another goes May all your wishes be fulfilled. Small order, all things considered.

Round dining tables (with the turning glass part) are set up in the middle of the hall, each with about ten chairs and piles of food fit for a whole village. There are two more lion dance teams hopping about the hall and making a racket while occasionally nabbing that dumpling straight from your chopsticks. That should the least of your concerns, however, with many residents still aiming to settle their grudges before the new year.

Watch your back.

[ ooc; IC mingle log for Lunar New Year plot, feel free to make your own threads! ]

Comments

[unmanned]

Five, six years now. You?

[eaglet]

[Whoops, awkward. Connor fidgets just slightly, then holds up his wrists. No hidden blades.]

Um... I am only training. It had been six months with my Mentor in Massachusetts Bay, and six months here.

[unmanned]

[James makes a thoughtful sound.]

Auditore ever let you grow accustomed to the weight of a blade at your wrist?

[Perhaps no blades of his own, but still...]

[eaglet]

[He shakes his head. Not being taken seriously is pretty pervasive.]

No.

[unmanned]

We'll have to get you started on that.

[Assuming this boy isn't entirely incompetent. Here's hoping Auditore would have no patience for that crap.]

[eaglet]

[Connor just smiles a little, maybe kind of excited. An Assassin closer to his age who isn't an enormous asshole? James is already great in his book.]

I would like to know more about where it is you come from as well. Um, if you do not mind telling it.

[unmanned]

No harm in it. Ask, and I'll tell you.

[Curiosity is healthy.]

[eaglet]

[Wow, exciting!]

What is your... [He was going to ask about James's Mentor, but then he realises that they are at a party. Filled with a lot of people.

Shifty look.]

Perhaps we should discuss these things when I see you for training, after all.

[unmanned]

[James looks so very amused at that shifty look. Promising!]

Very well. Maybe I'll have a few questions for you, also.