Les Escaliers de la Butte Sont durs aux Misereux

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5-6; La Bohème
L'année est 1899 et les âmes d'une génération fêtent. Er, no maybe the year is something else. Well regardless of the year, the City has transformed to look like turn-of-the-century Paris during the Belle Époque. Corsets and can-cans tempt passersby into red light establishments and the green fairy offers a taste of special elixir to anyone who'll have her. Painters, writers, and musicians continue to hone their craft while searching for the perfect muse. Network devices might take on the appearance of the indispensable typewriter and voice posts may sound like they're coming from a phonograph. Whatever the case, the spirit of truth, beauty, freedom, and love is here and the show must go on. [The Deity Office will maintain the appearance of the elephant building throughout the curse. Afterward, on the 7th the Deity Office will remodel itself to look like this. Each tentacle tip is a laser. Yes, a laser.]

And herein is an organizational post to share fictionalized and temporary backstories for characters for the curse, plan out plots and situations and romances, and figure out who's tightening whose corset strings (no, no, no: control your own corset strings).

Please remember that the City has not turned into Paris (there's no Arc de Triomphe or Champs-Élysées, for example), but it will look like it--think of it as AU!Paris, if you will, like Moulin Rouge set in even more of a fairy tale city, exuding the spirit of the Belle Époque.

So for truth, beauty, freedom, and love and a hard-boiled egg, go forth!

Comments

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Need I go so far as to say that Cain will be the visiting Englishman--and a nobleman at that--slumming in the dance halls and the bordellos and the seedy bars and the artists' garret flats...

Well, that is precisely what he'll be doing. And if you or yours would like to join in on this--perhaps as a lady on whom he pays a call, a friend, an artist seeking patronage, &c.

Did I mention that this English lord might just have a supply of opium with him? Oh, well. About that.

[basstardchuck.livejournal.com]

Honestly, what English nobelman would be without a good good friend to accompany him on the quest to get out, get drunk, get laid??? Right? RIGHT?!

/Cala jumps up and down yelling 'pick me! pick me!'

/Chuck rolls his eyes and offers Cain a cigarette

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! And all three parts of that quest must be fulfilled.

/Caru points and chooses you, Cala!

/Cain doesn't usually smoke, but...just this once, for the effect

[fatespoken]

Amory may be of nouveau riche background, but all money speaks the same language. A friend happened upon in a bordello, perhaps? Or the cabaret?

He will also want some of that opium.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Sob--Cain may be a little "bitch, please" in regards to the nouveau riche, but he does like a few friends to slum around with. I'll take either or all!