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    It's that time of year again, folks! The season where spooky, scary skeletons, bloodthirsty vampires, mummies, ghouls, werewolves, and more are out in full force. A month of carved gourds guarding every doorstep, pumpkin spice lattes in every coffee shop, and pint-size superheroes collecting candy from door to door. The chilly autumn air brings with it as much terror and dread as it does joy and celebration within the Nexus, however. Those monsters are very much a reality for the people of this world, and as sweet as those Kobold Krispins, Affy Taffy, Hershey's Curtains, and 3 Magtokeers bars may be, one must always have an eye out for the danger lurking in every dark corner and crevice.

    In fact, those same monsters are the reason why this thread showed up a day late. Yep, monsters, not this player's own ineptitude and OOC issues. Magtok had been hard at work trying to spruce up his evil lair, to get it ready for the big spooky party. Fake cobwebs were hung with care next to the real cobwebs, real abominable science projects were shooed back down to the basement with a broom so he could set up a bunch of fake ones as decoration, and all sorts of crumbling architecture was fixed, not completely, but just enough to maintain that decrepit Halloween vibe, you know? Yep, everything was going fine until a bunch of stupid rotten werewolves actually normal wolves because he left the front door open broke in and ate half the snacks!

    Fortunately, Mag remembered to actually seal the door this time, so everything needed for the party is finally set! Come one, come all! The legendary supervillain (or so he claims) Lord Magtok has returned to the Nexus, and he's inviting you, you, (not you, you know who you are) and all of you to his fiendish mountainside cavern for the Shocking, Spine-Chilling, 2018 Spooktober Spectacular! There's spooky music; he's got all the bone-rattling classics, from Ghostbusters to Thriller to Spooky Scary Skeletons to anything even remotely connected to Halloween. There's spooky decor, with a fog machine maintaining a pale misty shroud over every floor tile and cyberjack-o-lanterns and a corner of the room with a magical aura that projects a worrisome sense foreboding doom! There's even spooky food and drink! Monster Mash margaritas, candy corn-themed jello shots, pumpkin punch, blood orange Sangria! Anything and everything you can imagine, because Magtok went above and beyond this year! So much so that I think he might go bankrupt when this is all said and done. Yikes.

    tl;dr version: It's here! At long last, it's here! A new excuse to break Magtok's stuff, consume all of his food and drink, make out with a skeleton in his broom closet, and pass out drunk sprawled out on the giant laser cannon in the foyer (actually just a giant prop to make people think he still has a giant laser cannon)!

    A few notes and guidelines first and foremost, however. Please keep violence to a minimum. This is a party, and if you absolutely must start killing people, please take it outside. Secondly, costumes are not absolutely required, but you're still strongly encouraged to wear one, and anyone who goes without is liable to be shamed and bullied relentlessly by everyone in the room. Seriously, you were thinking of going to a Halloween party without a costume? Really? Why? Why are you so lame and boring?

    The foyer's been decked out with tables, snacks, drinks, and a small stage for anyone who thinks they're halfway decent at performing for the crowd or has had too many drinks to know better. Magbots Some NPCs Mag hired from a job listing posted on the Wall have been painted up as skeletons, and they've been tasked with providing escort to bathrooms, keeping the peace, and taking note of everyone who enters. Anyone and everyone is free to come and go as they please, but the undecorated parts of the MagCave are off-limits, and spooky skeleton surveillance is everywhere. Cause trouble, and your mangled corpse will be politely asked to leave. But enough about that, on with the fun!
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    Showing up exactly on time is Magtok's favourite bald male coworker with a goatee - Nigel! He's dressed in a slightly cruddy plague doctor outfit, holding a bag of store brand corn chips and some salsa in one hand, silly cane thing in the other. He's using his dumb bird headed cane to rap on the door as he walks through, calling out. Hey, I'm here! He motions with the bag of chips and salsa as he walks in.
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    "Welcome to the party, SCP-049! Snacks table is right over there, the help will find a bowl or something to pour the chips into," Magtok The Phantom of the Opera welcomes his overly punctual coworker, privately wondering if Nigel was hiding in the bushes or something, waiting for the cyborg to unseal the entrance and officially begin the festivities. That would be such a Nigel thing to do, probably. I think. I mean, Magtok doesn't really know Nigel very well at all, but I'll bet you, once we get to know him better, he'll turn out to be exactly the kind of guy who hides in bushes and shows up early for parties.
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    Is that like a... TV show, or something? Nigel says, passing over the chips and the salsa. He spends his leisure time drinking in bars, not on obscure horror/fiction websites. I'm a plague doctor, get it? He waves his hands over his outfit, before taking a solo cup of sangria from the snacks table.

    So this is your crib huh? Jeez they must pay you better than they do me. He pauses, apparently lost in thought. Was there a clause against collective bargaining on that thing? They oughta form a union. Surely they can get better benefits out of Kram than they have already. Maybe a microwave for the break room.
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    "Nah, I used to be rich once," the Phantom admits. I suppose that's as good an explanation as any. "Herr Krammler would probably send the Inevitables to cut your head off if you so much as whispered about dental, though." They've already scheduled an appointment with Magtok for plotting violence and doom; what kind of lame nerds get bent out of shape about something as minor as that?
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    Someone is here! A young man clad in a white tunic and a pair of sandals, with a large round hoplon shield and a spear slung across his back, as well as a short sword belted to his waist, arrives. Jason Fisher, aka Recoil aka Phalanx is here, and dressed as an ancient Greek hero of old (of course, many universes don't have Greece, so his appearance might be utterly alien to some.
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    She's coming.

    Alone.

    Myrrh Balm had been insistent that she have a bodyguard with her, which, as far as she was concerned, is silly. No one is going to be assaulting her at the Spooktober party. And even if they did, she wouldn't need a bodyguard to make them immediately regret their life choices. Besides, who comes to a party with a bodyguard? Doesn't that send the wrong sort of message? That you don't think the host can provide a safe place to meet? Silly. The goal was to make her as approachable as possible. And being all imperious doesn't fit that picture at all. Nor did having a some muscle glaring at everyone who got close to her.

    So.

    That's why she's coming alone.

    As for her costume?

    Well. That was easy enough. See, she decided to have some fun with this. Especially in light of the less that friendly undead riders that her little ponies spotted Outside. She's wearing a delicate golden bridle, more decorative than function. And with a bit of cosmetic magic, her coat and pinions have been bleached a snowy white. And the last touch? A rather realistic looking mannequin astride her back, decked in a flowing toga, bronze armor, and a laurel crown. Clutched in the prop's hand is an intricate, pale golden bow humming with scarcely contained power. Telekinetic magic licks along her horn, discretely manipulating her rider to give the illusion of a living person. It isn't perfect by any means, but convincing enough for a good costume.

    Apparently Sunder decided to attend as Conquest, the Rider of the First Seal.

    "Good evening, a spooky Spooktober to you," she calls to the Greek hero in white, moving her own head as well as her prop's in unison with each other. She enters the MagCave at an easy trot, admiring the decorations. Looks like she got here early? Not too many guests just yet. Upon reaching the mostly empty table where guests unload their own snacks, she levitates out several bowls filled with confections. Mostly chocolate covered pattes of fall fruits, cranberries and pumpkin in particular. Her little ponies equipped her well to provide sweets for the festivities.

    "So. This is the shindig? When does the shindiggery start?"
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    Somebody else arrives!

    They're a young woman, apparently human; possibly twenty, maybe a little older and maybe a little younger. She's wearing a black dress and a tall black hat, with a fake beak on her face. She's got black feathers in place of hair, and black feathers growing along her arms. Her feet are a jackdaw's corvid talons, and she's got a fake bird-tail behind her.

    Those who know enough about pokemon might be able to recognise the desired effect of a Murkrow, but Jack didn't have a lot to work with and it might not work too well. She's holding a large bag of salt and vinegar crisps and a large bottle of lemonade.
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    From out of the treeline that totally still exists beyond the MagCave's entrance, a black cloaked figure dances out of the treeline.
    A bit like a weird, pirouetting ballerina sort of dance, that somehow seems to be making pretty good time to the door and the party.

    The image is jarringly similar to one of those cheap ghost decorations, that isn't really anything but a ball with a couple sticks poking out of it, with a cloth tossed on top to look a bit like a ghost, and is now being twirled around on a string or something.
    Other than a bit of black hair hanging out of the darkness of the cloak's hood, and what look like fairly realistic cat ears poking out of the top of it, there aren't a lot of other identifying features here.

    "Tra la la la la. Ha-lo-we-ee-ee-ee-een. Tra la la la la."
    But hey! Pretty excited about the party! So excited they're badly singing about it on their way in.
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    A woman enters the MagCave for the Halloween party, and she looks pretty awesome, if you ask me. She's got long blonde hair in pigtails and a pink mushroomy dress with large lighter dots. There's a large bow on her chest, and on top of her head there's some kind of mushroom crown.

    This woman thinks this costume is Halloween-appropriate because she thinks she's dressed like an international terrorist who supports an authoritarian royal-princess. Well, it makes sense when you're Kuriko.

    Kuriko looks pretty happy and excited to be here. Being in the MagCave and rubbing shoulders with all these major movers is a HUGE opportunity! Sure, she no longer needs this info for her thesis, but there's all the post-grad research papers she can be working on. A couple of her (potential) ideas include "MagTopia: How early Nexitizens determined future culture", "Integration of high-magic and low-magic worlds and how they influence the hodge-podge culture", and "Behavior of recently-assimilated groups and how the assimilating microculture affects the adoption of values".

    She looks around, grabs a notebook, and quickly starts writing observations of the party.
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    Greeting the Guests

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    "So. This is the shindig? When does the shindiggery start?"
    "You'll know when we've got like six or seven different conversations going on at once and everyone's posts have a bold location tag above them," the cyborg explains, boredly waving everyone in, pausing briefly to peer at his wrist and check the time. Things should be getting a bit more exciting soon enough, I imagine. By the time everyone's had a few drinks and the sound system's done the Time Warp again, we should have a real show on our han-

    "Wha-no, that can't be..." The Phantom of the Opera feels a faint glimmer of hope in his chest for a moment, before he immediately crushes it to death with cold logic and reason. Don't be stupid, Magtok. That's not her, it's just some cat lady dressed up as Death. It couldn't be her, that wouldn't make any sense. Don't pay the stranger any mind and just keep waving people in. Maybe get a cup of that sangria in a few minutes from now, to help you take your mind off of this.
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    "Posts?" Sunder replies, somewhat thrown by Magtok's choice of language. She isn't one of those fourth wall savvy characters, apparently. Maybe if Zee weren't as dead as Uncle Ben, she could have appreciated Magtok's metahumor. "I'll just have to start making some conversation, then," she reasons, taking in the sights of the gradually arriving guests. Too bad none of the foxes are here.

    Or Punch.

    Or... any of her old friends.

    One of those too bad sorts of situations where all the people she was closest to are locked in heaps of dead time.

    Ah well.

    Just have to keep moving forward.

    Getting stuck in the past is an undead thing and she isn't falling for that trap.

    "You were absent for quite a while. What brought you back to our wonderfully dysfunctional little city, Magtok?" Sunder inquires. She's trying really hard here to maintain the 'proper' accent and poise that Myrrh Balm has hammered into her. Maybe after a few drinks, the Buckland accent she got from her dad might start slipping through.
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    I'd do my own dental if I could bend my wrist the right way. Nigel says, waving his metallic hand at Magtok. I'm talking leave, I'm talking retirement plans, accident insurance... he counts them off on his fingers as he talks, before drinking from the sangria. He pauses, looking at it with a frown, before shrugging and slamming the rest. Whatever, it's sangria, you don't put the top shelf stuff in it. He says, mostly to himself.
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    A woman walks into the party, probably attracting a bit of attention. She seems to be in her twenties still, and in good shape. Her hazel eyes take in the decor, and her expression says she likes it so far.

    Her costume consists of a tight, black leather corset with a white lace frill at the top, just barely enough to keep it legal. At her waist is a red cloth sash, and below that is a purple skirt, falling to the floor, with a slit up each side, reaching all the way to the sash. Showing a lot of leg there. Her feet are covered in purple cloth shoes. On her head is a very large, black witch's hat wrapped in purple ribbons. The brim of it goes beyond her shoulders. She also wears black leather sleeves, ending halfway up her biceps, with an amount of white lace on top to match the corset. Completing the costume is a long wooden staff, the top of it shaped into an angular hook.

    She saunters over to the bar, grabs a glass of rum, and starts wandering around, looking for somebody to talk to. She notices the woman in lots of pink and white, taking notes. Curious, she'll walk over to her.

    Hey. It's a party. What're you taking notes for?

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    Even when the witchy-dressed woman talks to her, Kuriko-dressed-as-Peachette keeps on writing as if she didn't even notice. Must be talking to someone else, obviously, she thinks.

    Having finished the long and complicated sentence she was writing, Kuriko looks up for another observation...and realizes she was being talked to. "O-Oh! You were talking to me!" she exclaims.

    "U-um...." she stammers, and looks at the notebook and pen in her hand. She apologizes. "I'm sorry. I was just so absorbed in writing that I thought you were talking to someone else." As she says this, she searches for her pockets so she can slide her pen away (but keeps the notebook in her hand).

    "It's not really anything important," Kuriko-the-totally-human-not-a-goomba says. In fact, to demonstrate how little import it has, she waves her hand. "Just...some ideas for a research paper. Haven't really decided on what topic would be the best, so I've been trying out different sentences and arguments and ideas for grants and so on."
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    Ivaz takes a sip from her glass as she waits for the student to realize she's being spoken to.

    She raises her eyebrow and nods a bit as Kuriko explains herself.

    Yeah, okay, sure. Research papers are good. Very important. Then she goes to snatch the notebook away.

    You're at a party. Do the research later. Have fun now. She gives a playful grin, and if she got the notebook earlier, she'll give it back now.

    Come on. Let's get you a drink.

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    Precisely five minutes after the celebration officially begins, a dark vehicle appears just outside, gliding effortlessly through the inky blackness.

    The vehicle parks, remaining utterly motionless for several seconds, motors running silently. Finally, there's a blinding flash of white light as the car door opens wide, bathing the surrounding area in a pale white light, the harsh, glaring light intense enough to daze and disorient. A cold, white mist pools out from the vehicle, revealing a pair of individuals shrouded in the white fog. The first exits swiftly, a tall, pale man.

    Tidy locks of well-groomed, white hair have been slicked back and perfectly styled over the pale man's face, peppered and lined with gray streaks, while bright red, almond-shaped eyes peer out at the world from behind ornate circular spectacles of silvery siccatite, with lenses of a shimmering crystalline material. His unhealthily pale skin is perfect and unblemished, and gratuitous makeup has allowed for a perfect contour. In addition to his sunken and uncomfortably focused crimson eyes, the man possesses gaunt cheeks and dark red lips permanently set to smirk, flanked by two white fangs.

    He is dressed in what appears to be a vampire-esque Victorian suit-piece, all glittering white cloth wrapped tightly to his frame and fastened by glittering crimson buttons. A voluminous white cloak cascades past the man's angular shoulders, its inside a bright red shade.

    After a moment, he gestures towards the woman in the vehicle with him, offering a hand, nails painted perfectly.

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    Ugh, this was a stupid idea. Blanche thought as she shuffled into the party, tugging at the zipper of her costume for what must have been the billionth time that night. Nope, it still wasn't budging... the jacket wasn't actually supposed to be this open, was it? The catgirl shifted slightly, folding her arms in a vain attempt to obscure the rather generous cleavage left on display. That didn't work either.

    Really, this whole awkward scenario was her dad's fault. If she hadn't let him convince her that she could use some socialization, Blanche certainly wouldn't be standing in the foyer of a complete stranger while in such an embarrassingly revealing ensemble. Supposedly, it belonged to a video game character she looked like... what did he say her name was again? Swiper Woof? Yeah, Swiper Woof, that sounds about right.
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    "H-hey!" Kuriko says as her notebook is taken away. "It is actually important research!" Sure, it probably won't influence tech or push the boundaries of physics or things like that.

    She reaches out to grab the notebook, finally glad when she gets it back. If Ivaz had bothered to look at it when she had taken it, she would have seen several sentences and partial-sentences describing how people interacted with Magtok and the MagTek around the cave, observations and guesses on magic levels of the partygoers, several descriptions of microcultural groupings, and various descriptions of how to define "microcultural", but all these sentences spiced with technical jargon.

    The ex-goomba holds the notebook close to her chest. "My research could be used to explain and analyze cultural tensions and develop tools that reduce the detrimental effects of culture wars..." If you listen to the way she says it, you could tell she's had to defend her study as "actually important" to a lot of people over the past couple years.

    Regardless of her protestings, she submissively follows Ivaz to where the drinks are, or wherever else she wants to lead her.
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    Ivaz might've found any entries on her mildly interesting. Or entertaining. As for the rest...eh. She's not particularly interested in that stuff.

    Ivaz smirks a bit at Kuriko's mumblings. Hey, never said it wasn't important. I'm sure it could be used for all kinds of stuff. But this is a party. Everybody's gotta take time to relax. Have fun. Let loose.

    Ivaz guides them to the bar.

    So, tonight? No notebook.

    She'll order whatever Kuriko wants to drink.

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    It does look like her, insofar as any black cloaked figure looks like another. Right size, at least.
    Really sounds like her, though wowee is she a bad singer.

    At least at some point the singing cuts out to be replaced by entertained laughter.

    Twirling is abandoned for lithely veering around the creepy Kram-mobile and then they're at the door, right in front of Maggy, seeming to almost vibrate with poorly contained glee slightly too far into his personal space.
    They were probably supposed to actually walk through the intervening ground to the spot before him, but they didn't.

    From the darkness of the hood, mysterious, echoing, suave:
    "Hey."
    Not suave or echoing or mysterious at all.
    More of a fragile, apprehensive whisper sort of thing.
    "Fear and creativity are conjoined twins."
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    [By the Drink Bar]

    Kuriko smiles, and relaxes a little. She doesn't hold the notebook to herself as tightly anymore. "You know, I'm just going to get back to writing as soon as I leave your sight. Parties are the best time to write."

    She looks over the drinks. Hmmm...something with alcohol would make it harder to write later, and there's less than a 50-50 chance that the punch has been spiked at this point in the party, so that's what she decides to go with. She places her notebook on the table so she can scoop herself some of the pumpkin punch without spilling any.

    ...
    then, of course, after she has the cup adequately held in one hand, she reaches down with her free hand to get the notebook again.
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    [By the Bar]

    Ivaz grins widely.

    Parties are the worst time to write. You're usually too drunk to hold a pen, let alone put it to paper.

    Ivaz takes a long pull from her glass, clearly working on her own inability to write.

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    The woman takes the vampire's hand, bowing out of the limo as she steps gracefully onto the pavement. A white gown trails behind her, its lacy fabric swirling and flowing around her eye-catching form as if some faint and otherworldly force held sway upon it, and the same can be said for the simple veil hanging from her head. The snowy shade of her bridal garments barely differs from the flawless skin of the lightly tanned woman within, her blonde hair pinned in a braid and her green eyes aglimmer with curiosity as she looks towards the Magcave. Ruby red lips contrast the deathly pale makeup tinting her face and the dark detailing around her eyes, and a crown of ash-grey roses wreathes the ghostly maiden's bridal veil.

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    There's someone else entering the party, and she's rather hard to miss, if only because of how uniquely awful her outfit looks. Her look consists of an unbuttoned, snakeskin patterned jacket, as well as black leather pants, boots, and gloves, and not much else - though she's at least covering her chest with a white sports bra. What's far easier to notice, though, is the eyepatch over her left eye, with an image of a snake embroidered upon it. It's the kind of outfit that you feel sleazier just looking at, let alone wearing. Just about nobody could pull it off, and Cassidy, unlike her source for this particular costume, is no exception. But she doesn't appear to care, and she even carries an old baseball bat with her to complete the look.

    Cassidy twirls the bat a few times before letting it settle across her shoulders, then strolls on in like she owns the place. "Spooks, eh? Kinda reminds me of the Halloweeners. Just need some molotovs to spruce up the place," she says, to nobody in particular.
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    "You were absent for quite a while. What brought you back to our wonderfully dysfunctional little city, Magtok?" Sunder inquires. She's trying really hard here to maintain the 'proper' accent and poise that Myrrh Balm has hammered into her. Maybe after a few drinks, the Buckland accent she got from her dad might start slipping through.
    "Oh, you know, the usual. Nostalgia, boredom, foolishness, arrogance, self-loathing, true love...I'm sure you can find a dozen or so motives to ascribe to my dangerous pattern of self-destructive behavior," Magtok answers bluntly. He's talking to Sunder, but his eyes are entirely on the dark hooded figure. He shrinks back an apprehensive inch or so from the mystery guest, refusing to believe what his eyes are telling him is right here in front of him. The reaper is an exceptionally common costume, and he wouldn't put it past some trickster fey or Libra or some other cold-hearted freak to put on some kind of enchanted robe that disguised you as whoever the viewer misses most. It's not Libitina, our conversation with Affidavit made that terribly clear, and if it was, I think she would've worn a costume or something, probably.

    "Hey," he echos in response, trying his best not to call security to kick the stranger out right here and now for this personal affront. Show up to our party, dressed like that? Who dares?! Who the hell does this person think they are?! Even Kram over there had the decency not to show up as...I dunno, a genderbent Pat or Happy or something.
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    [By the Bar]

    Critical success! Kuriko successfully picked her notebook back up!

    Kuriko laughs and rolls her eyes. "Yeah, sure, whatever you say, Mom." Seems like Ivaz's attitude towards writing reminds Kuriko of something she's heard growing up.

    Given how much Ivaz associates drinking with partying, the ex-goomba expects to be back to writing within the hour. "If I can't hold a pen in my hands, I could just do it with my mouth." Then, under her breath and as she raises her drink to her mouth, she says, "Wouldn't be the first time."

    Meanwhile, Kuriko decides she's okay with how pumpkin punch tastes. I mean, it's not the best, but it's not terrible. Sure, some of the other drinks probably taste better, but the pumpkin punch is okay.
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    [MagCave Front Door]

    Up close like this, the shadow of the cloak's hood diminishes ever so slightly, enough to at least see the suggestion of the face inside.
    That slight glimmer of familiar eyes and the shape of a hopefully remembered smile.

    And with it all, a sort of nervous energy that evolved (devolved?) from that excited vibration of earlier.
    Possible one of those sleeved hands twitched, in a vaguely-towards-Magtok's motion. The hand doesn't proceed though, seeming to be very barely restrained.
    Doubt? Maybe doubt there.

    Her lips part to speak, pause, close again.
    There's the impression of her gaze very briefly flicking to Sunder, and beyond the rest of the party, before it slides back to Magtok's face.
    The excitement in the smile softens somewhat.
    "Find me when you're ready."

    And then she's totally going to glide off to the refreshments way over there, rather than monopolize the host while he's doing door greeting duty.
    Definitely nothing to do with fleeing nerves.
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    [Front Door]

    Taking Aurelia's offered hand, Kramolagh pauses. With a charming grin, the fanged figure plants a small kiss upon his partner's hand, before stepping forward to the entrance, escort at his arm. Once near the familiar cyborg, he offers a curt nod before gesturing with Aurelia's hand.

    "Good to s-see you again, Magtok."

    "Zhis is Aurelia, Aurelia Lou'vre. I don't believe you've m-met, hm?"

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    "Well, I hope your return is pleasant for you rather than heartbreaking," Sunder replies with a curt nod, raising one eyebrow in a very princessy way at the hooded figure that exchanges a few brief words with Magtok. No doubt there's something important going on here. Truth be told, Sunder never really paid a great deal of attention to Magtok, nor to any of the important big names of the Nexus. Back when that sort of thing was relevant she sure wasn't. She takes her leave for now, trotting over to the refreshment table and offering polite compliments on people's costumes.

    She was never that great at the whole social thing.

    Her job was so much easier when it consisted of being pointed at stuff her friends needed smashed.

    Really...

    She's half-way expecting that reporter Myrrh Balm told her about to show up and start grilling her.

    Like...

    Try catching her when she's doing something else.

    Catch her with her guard down. Or whatever it is reporters do. Report on stuff, Sunder thinks? Gotta talk to people first before the actual talking head on TV part happens.

    But now? Now she's got important stuff to consider.

    Mostly how much alcohol she should put in her punch.
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