Ukay, I started the thread. Clicky!!

And now I started an OOC-one for discussion. Effective and practical me.

Alice: I didn't say whether or not your chara's there. You may decide if you want her to be "introduced" in a while, or whether she's already there with the hosts.

Um, I s'pose the introduction thing would be good. I just don't know exactly how it would happen. Do you know?

Hmmm...

Balls were often held for this purpose alone, while this one is a public Easter Ball and merely used as an occasion for her to come out. - Partly 'cause they are all impatient I'd guess, and partly cause there are a LOT of people there and it's a good chance to show her off to everyone. :)

Maybe post a bit about her being in the wardrobe or something (she'd have attendants that fussed over her and gave her tips on how to move and stuff, and she'd be wearing a white -or at least soft-colored- dress) and then the Lindemans can come to get her? She has no father to escort her to the dance-floor so I guess the Earl would do that.

Goodie! Nice posting, everyone! (And ooo-the pretty dresses!!!)

I've started a post, Alice, but I won't have it finished tonight, sorry (It's 1:00am where I am). So you'll have to wait until tomorrow. *Pets the debutant* Be good.

Aww, that's okay. Sleep tight!

Gracias! I'll be good :devil:

Okay, sister and I cooked up a plan to get some of the middling-people in.

Alastair would be able to get an invitation if he wanted, because he is not altogether poor now, and he is the son of a Welsh lord. So, because Miss Townsend wanted to go, he took it upon himself to get one, and now he's going to be there.

Anyone staying at the Townsend boarding-house can consider themself in his party. Currently, that means that if Julian Augustine, Eir T. Fjelde, Rachel Grant-Freeman, and anyone else who's there but I'm not recalling right now, want to go, they can. Just say you came in with him.

A little extract from my msn-convo with Liz:

Kris sier:
I can have the manager of the theatre do a Welcome
Kris sier:
and then introduce her
Kris sier:
argh
Kris sier:
stupid Victorian customs
Jeg er FANTASTISK!! sier:
Like welcome al of you to our fine theatre blah blah blha thank you to ou gratious hosetse the lindemans blah blah blah and it is my very great pleasure to introduce the person whom this party is held in honour of, Miss Alice Alexander?"
Kris sier:
something like that
Jeg er FANTASTISK!! sier:
Sweet
Jeg er FANTASTISK!! sier:
:)
Jeg er FANTASTISK!! sier:
v.v It would be so much easier if they had just shouted things like "YO YO PEOPLE LOOK ALIVE! MISS ALEXANDER'S AVAILABLE NOW!"
Kris sier:
yep

Hehehe. It WOULD.

Ack. Dammit. Alice and Marie, can I mod you? Down the stairs and to the door? The girls would follow him, wouldn't they? He's too talkative for you peeps to say much really anyway, but can I also mod that you introduced Marie?

Edit: Never mind, posted what I had up to that point.

Well, in your next problem I have no problem with it if you mod Alice downstairs. I mean, I'd probably sort of write Alice's interpretation in my own post but you can say in yours that he escorts her downstairs.

I hope that made sense :P

Haha! "YO YO PEOPLE LOOK ALIVE! MISS ALEXANDER'S AVAILABLE NOW!"

Yeah, I gettit. Some after-interpreting is always okay. ;) Will do. Have it up in a few moments now.

EDIT: There we are. Now feel free to move the Earl ahead in the waltz. He wouldn't suddenly turn around and bolt on you or run anywhere or start hoppping or anything so I think you're pretty much safe just saying you're dancing (and he's a decent dancer).

EDIT again: Ooops. Now, you don't HAVE TO dance with the Earl. He just escorts her to the dance floor. But he'd probably ask for the first dance (you can mod that too btw, if you want) and suchlike. But if you don't want to, just let someone else have it.

Hope y'all don't mind. Dorian loves a party.

Mind? No one MINDS. We LUUV. Nice post.

Danke.

Woot! I love the post!

And the fact that you're at the ball. :)

Awe. -feels loved-

And I'm in too. :D

We got alotta women now... where's the MEEEEEN!!! We have EVEN more women on the way, gonna have a shooooooortaaaage of meeeeeen! Actually we already do! We're at a 6/9 ratio of pc men to pc women!

Lonny? Daniel? Tristam? Inspector? Help us out with the man-lack, piiiiiiiiz?

Have no fear. Lonny will arrive, if fashionably late. I've just got to find him something pretty to wear... the girls can't have all the fun. :P

Caroline's in. :) yay, love the ball!! :wub:

Haha! From a dancing etiquette manuel:

Charles is going to ask Sarah for every single dance (She's going to refuse every time he asks :) ). Poor hopeless baby...

Oh MYYYYYYYY!!!! Madeline and Jack were both fourteen when they slept togeeeether! ÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆ!!!!

Just so there's no confusion (okay, okay, this is mainly a note to myself, because I'll get confused if I don't note it down somewhere :( ) the ballroom is in another bit of the Theatre than the Auditorium and the stage. :)

Yeah, thas right.. :)

;)

Heheh, does that upset you, My Lord?

BTW, Liz, I IMed you...I am IMing you now, actually, but you don't seem to be noticing it... ;)

ÆÆÆ?? Are you sure it's mine? I'm on MSN but not getting any IMs. mjingasafi@gmail.com?

I'll pop on AIM too. Mjingasafi. :)

Oh, Kris, I was just wondering if you wanted to post as Rupert or if you just wanted me to mod. If you do post feel free to say that them dancing is over at some point.

Sweet, then I can dance with you!

Edit: Er, I mean, John-me can dance with you. Not Anna-me. :P

Ahaha they did the dirty at 14 man I didn't even know that lol. Maybe Jack wasn't fourteen when that happened.. maybe he was like 16 or something. :thumbsup:

I'll seek permission to retroactively up your charry's age. :)

Unless you wannim to stay having lost his virginity at 14?

Well, it doesn't really matter to me. But I'd like to keep Jack the age he is now. I don't think it really hurts for him to have been two years older than Madeline when they .. de-virgin-ized does it?

He's the same age as Madeline. 19. :) She said it was five years ago. Ergo, you were both 14. Hehehehe. :puke:

But yeah, it's fine you were 14. Don't matter too much. :dead:

Many people do it when they're fourteen. Not in Victorian times, though, maybe... And not as many guys do it at fourteen as girls...

Anywhooo: Alice; I was planning to post for Rebecca and have her nod you and Rupert over to her, cause she's standing with Lord Wothersham. If that's okay?

If not, then you just let go of Rupert any time you like. ;)

DUDE...

I won't have much chance to post IC this weekend. So I've been posting LIKE HELL today to make up for it. I'll be online and stuff, just no tme to write.

Good Golly the topic moves fast. *scrambles to catch up*

It only started on the 27th and it already has four pages...

Nice posting Kris!

Ehehe, Marie needs some action. Not like that! xDD Just.. ya know. :wub:

Come talk to Nils when he comes. :)

Oh! He should come soon then :D

He will :)

And Alice, if you decide to dance with Haverhill, feel free to just mod him out onto the dance floor with you.

Hehe! Cool post.

Oh, BTW, would it be possible for Alice to dance with Jack at some point or would it totally ruin her reputation. Of course, she'll dance with the lovely Haverhill now but sometime later in the thread. Just curious. :D

Thanks!

Naw, at a ball you can dance with whoever. It's actually considered rude to not dance with someone who asks you, unless there's a very good reason not to. And if you refuse, then you can't accept an invitation from someone else for the same dance. :)

The reason you can dance with anyone is because dancing with a man does not entitle him to claim your acquaintance later; you can be introduced for the purpose of dancing only, and after the dance he will be considered a stranger again (and be rude for greeting you before you acknowledge him and all thos lovely other restrictions they had back then ;) ).

So, after my longwinded explanation, the answer is yes, you can dance with Jack and it will not ruin your reputation. :thumbsup: