Topic: Beltane 2017: The Fires of Beltane

JewellRavenlock

Date: 2017-04-16 12:26 EST
Date: Saturday, April 29th Time: 9:00pm RST Location: The cliffs, southwest of Dockside (RDI—Southern Glen)

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Rhy'Din city's eternal pulse is spurred on this night by something else. A primordial beat that resounds in the bones and sets the blood running. It can be felt in the air one breathes, the earth beneath one's feet, skimming across uncovered flesh at the nape of the neck and the tips of one's fingers. It beckons the populace to leave the city walls behind, if just for the night.

The sounds and sensations grow louder in unison, revealed to be the report of numerous phantom drums the further from the city's southern exit one travels. The darkness of the forest is illuminated by the faint red-orange glow of firelight, spreading from a focal clearing in the distance. Along the way, short stacks of oak, ash, and birch pallets burn steadily, just the right height for leaping, arranged in such a way to lead one on.

Burning rubies strung on spider silk sew their way through the trees, casting their heady, passionate light upon the travelers below. Miniature flames rest in crimson glasses, attached to thicker branches, flickering in time with the drums. Musicians and vocalists traverse the canopy of foliage with ease, their faces and hair painted red, allowing them to blend in, seamlessly, with the dark and primal lights. The treeline falls away, too abruptly to be brought about without supernatural assistance, several yards from the edge of a cliff. Beyond its craggy edge, the ocean is a great mass of black nothing, lapping at the beach with its own lazy rhythm.

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The pyre of oak, ash, rowan, birch, hazel, willow, hawthorn, holly and alder that will be the evening's bonfire stands tall upon a spit of rock jutting out over a one hundred foot free fall, dead and dark until the May Queen and Green Man set their torch to it. Her dais and throne, hewn roughly from the fat trunk of the same oak tree, rise east of the pyre. Fresh willow garlands and swags loop the head- and armrests, a pillow of woven ivy form a cushion for comfort.

A large gathering of cut tree trunk rounds stands uneven at the throne's right hand side, laden with red pillar candles, and trays upon trays of food and drink. Most mortal, some of Faerie, and the goblets of fey wine are never in short supply to refresh the evening's royalty. Gatherings of the same displays of decadence are scattered throughout the clearing, always well supplied and maintained by unseen hands.

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A stone's throw from the throne's left side, two birch trees tangle together in full bloom. Their dripping flowers are hung with pieces of clear quartz and silk ribbons, forming an arch over an oak altar standing upon a blanket of moss. A single, white pillar candle waits, unlit, between two lit tapers, in the center of an ivy runner, at the ready for any couples wishing to make public their declaration of unity and commitment.

Those looking to split away from the evening's festivities are given the choice of braving the forest in search of one of several modest sized tents fashioned of lichen and birch bark, or encouraged to follow the string of garnet torches that guide a "harmless" trek down the cliffside to the beach. Once closer to the ocean's waves, one notes the eerie, cyan glow of the foam lapping at the sand. The revelry from above reaches even down this far. Warnings scratched upon the rock and filled in with the juice of red berries read: "Do not follow the blue lights."

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Beware ye, wallflowers and idle lurkers, lest you be dragged by the hand and made to dance around the flames by any number of red painted nymphs. They can be seen demonstrating feats of naturally impossible acrobatic skill, gravity and flexibility to rival even the most seasoned performers throughout the clearing. Whether it's the shyness and uncertainty tied to the truth of one's feelings, fear over the season to come, or guilt over the one that's past, there is no room for it here, tonight. They beckon with their twig-thin fingers and sinuous bodies, their red skin gleaming with the fever of their dance, perpetually in sync with the drumbeats overhead. Their mission is to promote harmony, loss of inhibition, and the hospitality of the Fae in light of this year's earlier tragedies. But there is a cruelty to their good cheer. A serrated edge to the brightness of their smile, a chill to their ruby tinted gazes. For while this is a time of new beginnings and fresh starts, Mother Nature rarely forgives, and She never forgets.



((Written by the amazing Crispin!

Get in the mood by listening to the music for the evening here and post those polyvore sets below.))

JewellRavenlock

Date: 2017-04-17 12:58 EST
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Canaan

Date: 2017-04-17 16:29 EST
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Claire Gallows

Date: 2017-04-17 16:56 EST
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Addie MacKenzie

Date: 2017-04-17 16:58 EST
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Janie

Date: 2017-04-17 17:57 EST
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Sheryl Resendei

Date: 2017-04-17 18:00 EST
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Issy

Date: 2017-04-17 18:07 EST
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Delahada

Date: 2017-04-17 21:28 EST
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Lirssa Sarengrave

Date: 2017-04-17 23:32 EST
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Vaeluthil Whitevale

Date: 2017-04-18 14:47 EST
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Riot

Date: 2017-04-18 18:33 EST
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Senka

Date: 2017-04-18 20:22 EST
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For the night she'll have wings that for all intents and purposes appear completely real with varying colors of peacock like plumage. The wings even move and respond to her mood and emotions. They are a gift from Jewell.

SouthernDaylight

Date: 2017-04-18 20:40 EST
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set/.sig/lqSSJisqMn5ccNIV0eqAAw/cid/220299583/id/THZ9-Jck5xG0Ty3hpAKH7g/size/c600x522.jpg Luc's Beltane 2017 getup

Crispin

Date: 2017-04-19 02:26 EST
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Sabine

Date: 2017-04-20 00:40 EST
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Nicanora

Date: 2017-04-20 07:38 EST
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Fields of Violet

Date: 2017-04-20 14:41 EST
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darling

Date: 2017-04-20 15:31 EST
In the event that Charlie is able to make an appearance:

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The Redneck

Date: 2017-04-20 15:43 EST
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Eden

Date: 2017-04-20 19:10 EST
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Ransom

Date: 2017-04-20 20:47 EST
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Josette Wheeler

Date: 2017-04-20 20:53 EST
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Asharra

Date: 2017-04-21 00:49 EST
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Mist Gul

Date: 2017-04-21 14:31 EST
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Against Descent

Date: 2017-04-21 14:47 EST
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Chryrie

Date: 2017-04-22 12:56 EST
Chryrie would be there with her wings out and dressed pretty much exactly as how one would expect her to on Beltane....barely.

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Jezebel Calient

Date: 2017-04-22 20:02 EST
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Traeline Helston

Date: 2017-04-22 23:31 EST
While Trae wasn't as inclined to bare all as her mother, she decided to express her elven side more than usual.

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Calix Aleta

Date: 2017-04-22 23:42 EST
Calix showing up along side Chryrie in one of his many suits. http://i1004.photobucket.com/albums/af168/ZackAlcar/Beltane%20Calix_zpseohantc1.jpg

Kane Darkwing

Date: 2017-04-22 23:51 EST
Kane being Kane as he arrived with Trae. http://img09.deviantart.net/5e47/i/2015/311/b/e/aesthetic_nero___devil_may_cry_4_se___aesthetic_by_lissygudiya-d9fxgmy.jpg

Grace Low

Date: 2017-04-23 10:20 EST
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NorseLady

Date: 2017-04-25 17:27 EST
Shy finally decides which gown she is going to wear:

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Carlen

Date: 2017-04-25 18:32 EST
Carlen decided that he would venture out to the Beltane festival.

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AoifeDuggan

Date: 2017-04-25 21:49 EST
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Antonia Skinner

Date: 2017-04-26 02:20 EST
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Ducii

Date: 2017-04-26 13:42 EST
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The blonde bombshell may be spotted here and there in sparkly darkness, the flames glinting off the rhinestones so that she appeared to be a red haze.

Fae Pendragon

Date: 2017-04-28 04:00 EST
The mischievous imp didn't really have to dress up all that much, to blend in with the Fair folk. In fact, she just came pretty much as herself.

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ValentinaEglantine

Date: 2017-04-28 18:40 EST
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Because of course Val wasn't going to miss this - not for the world.

Ebon Ilnaren

Date: 2017-04-28 23:32 EST
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Phen Seer Ilnaren

Date: 2017-04-29 00:09 EST
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Mach

Date: 2017-04-29 01:15 EST
For Beltane this year the schmooze opted to show up in a little of something new:

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...as well as a little of something old:

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Rhiannon Brock

Date: 2017-04-29 08:58 EST
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KhaoticBliss

Date: 2017-04-29 11:46 EST
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Lucy Mitford

Date: 2017-04-29 15:07 EST
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((Lucy has been bestowed with the gift of celebrating and remembering the dead. She will wear a marigold garland throughout Beltane and will gift the blooms to any interested character. Any character who receives a gifted marigold from Lucy will be filled with warm memories of loved ones who have died. These memories are not artificially warm—-they are only memories of the beloved dead and only when the memories are truly warm—-there is no evil or cruelty involved.))

Shae Stormchild

Date: 2017-04-29 16:38 EST
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Layla Wasem

Date: 2017-04-29 17:49 EST
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Yasmin

Date: 2017-04-29 19:20 EST
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Inspired by her new title of the Jasmine Knight for the May Queen's Court, Yasmin decided to go with a white jasmine themed look for her evening attire. Her white cocktail gown had several layers to its skirt, mimicking the soft white petals. The straps wrapped around her ankles from her white slingback pumps echoed the climbing flower. Unbeknownst to the shapeshifter, the faint scent of jasmine followed her throughout the evening.

Elessaria

Date: 2017-04-29 19:50 EST
Eless' Gown: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/93/1b/92/931b9232aa44183e12da71f1bfe63b4f.jpg

Hair (but w/freesia blossoms instead): https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/dc/26/cb/dc26cb232c1e161dd8c96bc786ea387a.jpg

Accessories: http://cfc.polyvoreimg.com/cgi/img-set/.sig/cHa5lvtHWtvDoFv35xkA/cid/220878415/id/3DOFMzUt5xG8RJmYzT2nyA/size/c600x554.jpg

Mallory

Date: 2017-04-29 20:38 EST
Newly knighted as the Belladonna Knight, Mallory arrived at Beltane with amethyst earrings, and what appeared to be a matching teardrop necklace, to go with the vine of Belladonna that grew around her right arm when she willed it. Her legs had been glamoured for the evening, appearing to be clad in finely detailed black vines that wound their way around.

But the glamour wasn't the only magic: the vine on her arm crept up her sleeve and around her neckline, with a vial of essence of nightshade dangling from it. On request, she would gift revelers with a drop of the draught, and with it a dark warning:

The first drop for a dose of lust; The second, for a waking dream; The third, to dance with death.

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Ed

Date: 2017-04-29 20:44 EST
LOVE is in the air! And the Rose Knight is in attendance to help spread it around. Should you wish to gift your sweetheart with a symbolic representation of your affections, he'd be happy to oblige. There are so many colors and each of them has their own special meaning. Tonight, the Knight of Roses himself embodies joy and prosperity. Happy Beltane 2017!

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