COSTUME
A mask worth looking at, and formal clothes that can survive a dance on grass.
GAME VOICE LIVEMountain to Shore
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NIGHT 17 OF 31
Masquerade Ball
A cinematic ball on the inland ground. The lighthouse is a different walk tonight.
The mountain’s story tonight is the lighthouse. This ball is inland. They are not the same walk.
ACCESSORIES
Gloves. A sports stripe hidden in the formal, if you want the baller joke.
DECORATIONS
Gold masks hung in a row. The fire banked low so the cloth reads.
ATMOSPHERE
A cinematic ball on the inland ground. The lighthouse is a different walk tonight.
FOOD
Small rich things on sticks, and bread for people who danced too hard.
DRINK
Pear fizz. The glasses are the costume as much as the mask.
MUSIC
A waltz that becomes a stomp and then apologizes back into a waltz.
ACTIVITIES
One dance with a stranger’s mask on, then give the stranger their mask back.
THE PARTY
Midnight is not this night. The ball ends when the waltz gives up.
AFTER DARK
Masks off for the last song so people can find who they came with.
OF THIS OCTOBER
Esme hides a sports stripe under the formal and thinks no one sees it. Everyone sees it. Of this October.
EVENTS
- One borrowed-mask dance
- Waltz that becomes a stomp
- Masks off for the last song
A FRAME, IF YOU WANT ONE
You in formal clothes and a gold-edged mask on a mountain festival dance floor, fire banked low, cinematic, no text.
STALL
Ball mask
Light, gold edge, ties on. Does not belong to the lighthouse.