Truth or Dare: Side Party for Servants and Scoundrels

[faderifting]

WHO: Anyone!
WHAT: A party for people who might scare the nobility, are deathly afraid of chandeliers, or fled the soiree with cheeses hidden in their clothes and need to make a clean getaway.
WHEN: During (and after) the soiree.
WHERE: The valley beyond Skyhold.
NOTES: Drinking, revelry. People might make out or something. We're not responsible for your actions.

The soiree might be fun, if you're into that sort of thing, but that isn't what it's for. It's for impressing the powerful and opening their pockets—and, necessarily, some people aren't invited. In some cases that's personal. In others, it's just understood. When they're done helping to set up, most of the servants and workers who aren't needed to serve make themselves scarce. The usual trickle of refugees to and from the fortress slows. Some people used to sleeping in the stables may find their "beds" occupied by nobles' horses or the rooms they had been squatting in cleaned and prepared for someone else to stay in.

There's no resentment. (Or at least very little.) That's how these things go. And in the valley outside the fortress' walls, there are foot soldiers and refugees and a number of miscellaneous exiles who welcome the company with large fires, cheap but freely flowing alcohol, and whatever music can be wrung out of instruments exposed to such low temperatures. The crowd thins and dwindles as the night wears on, but even after the last person has left the Great Hall in Skyhold, there's still a sizable gathering near the river with no intention of going to sleep before sunrise.

No masks allowed.

Comments

[aintwejust]

"And yet we always have a good time. How 'bout that?" One dance where he gets swung about instead of having to do the swinging, when he's this tipsy? Has it's own appeal. Only thing they're missing now is Asher but he's not about to say he misses the guy. Not when he's got Korrin smiling and ready to dance with him.

[gatheringstorm]

Seeing the appeal as well, Korrin hurries to finish off that pint and set it aside with all due haste. More can always be savored later on, after all. A wide smile forms as a reel begins and she draws him closer to the music, now ready to do more than be unmovable for his amusement.

"True enough, and it's always worth it, whatever the fallout. Let's show them how it's done."

[aintwejust]

"Your lead." He gave up trying forever ago. The music kicks up and he takes a moment to remember how to do this backwards and drunk- Korrin's a good hand. She'll make sure he don't hit no one he shouldn't.

[gatheringstorm]

"Just remember, you asked for this." So, no blaming her. That teasing grin is the only further response before Korrin energetically takes the lead, bringing him along for the ride. She will mind Mal as much as she can, making sure he stays more or less upright since stumbling may be funny, but it's a quick way to end a dance. And she'd like at least one without interruption.