The Embassy, even though it has only been on the Deck for months, has managed by sheer dint of its height, to be an indelible part of the skyline. Or so it has seemed.

Until today.

Today when the Tower and Magician fought......and the Embassy fell, leaving only a pile of gray rubble and bits of colored glass where once stood a tall edifice of ( Read more... )

At the appointed time, set up during the Spade Ball Asarlai may be found waiting in the shadow of the Embassy for Burke to arrive. He is not wearing a suit, for once, but instead loose, comfortable clothes that are easy to move in.

Just in case.

Whenever you're ready Turis.

The week-long Deck event draws to a close, culminating in the Midsummer Night's Dream Ball sponsored by the Spades. Liveried footmen greet party goers, who begin to trickle in after sunset, and usher them into the winding wisteria arbor draped in fairy lights. Music of unseen fountains sings to them as they stroll through the arbor until at last ( Read more... )

He's been so quiet. He's been so well-behaved and kept so close to the walls, the way he'd been told to. Really, for the longest stretch of time, the Tower had been essentially a piece of the landscape. An architectural element ( Read more... )

Saturday dawned brightly on a flurry of activity down on the Green. Last minute booth-building, people bringing whatever items, foods, and music they'd chosen to use to represent their particular cultures and decorating their booths ( Read more... )

There’s a woman coming up the path from Outside. You’d be hard-pressed to guess in which direction from Outside she came from, not that that anyone has ever bothered to find that out about new arrivals to the Deck. The Deck is for secrets, after all. It tends to be a last resort ( Read more... )

Noah's pretty much been focused on his school work recently but with the summer fast approaching, he's out and about a lot more. He's been hearing a lot about the arcana for a long time now but he doesn't have the first clue about it. So, he's going to be curious again and ask you: What's the arcana?

ooc: The location can be anywhere therefore it's ( Read more... )

It hadn't taken too long for the news about the latest attack on the Deck to filter over to the Embassy. And, more to the point, about the loss of their Jack of Clubs.

Which is, of course, what has Gustave stalking through the Embassy tower until he finds Burke. "Are you out of your mindJust try and pretend you don't know what this is about, Turis ( Read more... )

Someday, thinks Sophie, she'll learn not to talk to herself. If she never talked to herself, she never would have spoken to the Fool in town, never would have mentioned the dratted Mary Poppins movie, never would have taken him to an electronics store to purchase a television so he could watch said movie. But it's not her bad habit that's put her ( Read more... )

So Elani's taken Victor's "cultural festival" idea to heart and is deep in the throes of planning. And, after making up a list of people with Tegan who they might be able to shanghai talk into participating, she's walking all over the Deck in order to find them and see what they think ( Read more... )