Islington Nest Christmas Party, Dec 17 [Open to all Nest members and their guests]

[vampire_barbie_girl]

Caroline has worked hard to put together the evening's event, which is not only a Christmas party but also hopefully a chance for the Nest to celebrate its new leadership. The room at the Angelo has been decorated with a winter wonderland theme which, while not exactly original, is quite lovely.

A string quartet is playing a selection of Christmas and other classical music. Any attempts to feed on the musicians will result in the perpetrator getting thrown out the party, or worse. But feeding on any of the hired help or performers should be unnecessary, since several varieties of "blood punch" are available to drink. There is also food and other drinks available for non-vampire guests and anyone else who wishes to partake.

There is a strict black tie only dress code and Caroline will tell anyone who is under-dressed to go home and change.



[The event is happening on Dec 17th but I wanted to get it up early so everyone had time to do get involved if they so desired.]

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Re: /better late than never?? :')

[emotioneater]

Cooper has been struggling mightily with the temptation of the fae blood. On the one hand, he was determined to remain clean and sober. Memories of almost feeding off Nancy and tearing into more fairies than he cared to think about danced in his head. On the other, this was a whole lot different. It was a controlled environment and surely someone would stop him if he got too out of control. If he just had one cup, surely that wouldn't drive him into the frenzied state he'd been in before. Right?

By the time Jean-Claude finds him, Cooper's already drained half of his second cup. He's doing a very fine act of acting sober, though the little signs are there: the pupils blown out wide, the jerkiness of his head as he turns to look at the Nest's leader. He's slurring his words just a little. " 'Ey there, monsieur! Enjoying yerself?"

[baisant]

Jean-Claude sees the signs -- even if he is not quite familiar enough with the other vampire enough to be able to tell his behavior might be off, the slurring of his words is a pretty obvious tell. Especially knowing that the punch had been spiked.

He shakes his head slightly as he approaches, placing a hand on the other vampire's elbow to steady him as he slows to stand beside him, a fond if somewhat exasperated (these kids and their hobbies these days) look on his face. "Mon ami," he says, gently. "I see you are enjoying yourself."

[emotioneater]

"Too true. This little shindig has been a lot more interestin' than some of the others." He waves the glass of blood around and it comes dangerously close to simply sloshing out onto the floor. He stumbles for a second before regaining his footing, leaning heavily on Jean-Claude.

"Remind me t'wallop whoever came up with this punch." Oh, he's going to regret this in the morning. That's not going to prevent him from taking another sip. Self-control, thy name is not Cooper.