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it's a hot night, the natives are restless—《 LOG DRAFT｡ 》

« Who: Jack Rackham ([personal profile] calicoat), John Irving ([personal profile] extramuralise), Anne Bonny ([personal profile] brimmed), & YOU!
« What: Victorian Halloween!
« When: October 29th-30th
« Where: The Neptune Lounge
« Content Warnings: Alcohol/drinking, altered mental states, probable smut, ghost stories and an Ouija board, and other Victorian bullshit.



☠︎ —HAVIN' AS MUCH FUN AS YOU CAN IN YOUR CLOTHES ✘
(  WELCOME / MINGLING!  )

🕯 Welcome to the newly opened Neptune Lounge! 🕯

Renovated from an abandoned casino, it still carries evidence of what it used to be: wide open spaces, card tables, and a full bar to tend to your every need. They’ve done away with all the noisy, gaudy slot machines and replaced them with cozy leather furniture, lit it with soft, sparkling lanterns instead of bright flashing lights. During the day, sunlight streams in through large picture windows, but this is a Halloween party, so instead of that cheery fall sun there are ghouls lurking around outside -- courtesy of Nate Hawthorne’s Midnight Theater -- knocking against the glass if anyone leans too close, popping out from behind curtains and sofas, and even under beds if you’re inclined to take a friend into one of the private rooms.

Ghosts in Victorian dress, rotting ghouls more akin to zombies, and flying jack-o-lanterns with candles in their mouths, eager to light the way for polite patrons or to play pranks on naughty ones. Step right in, check your phones and devices at the door, and just remember the Lounge's dress code! Costumes are allowed and encouraged tonight, but only if they're scary, not scandalous.




✘ MARGARITA HAD ME FEELIN' ALL RIGHT— ☠︎
( FOOD & COCKTAILS )
☠︎ CW | food ✘ alcohol ✘ altered mental states ✘ aphrodisiacs ✘ hallucinogens ☠︎
🍷 Victorian Halloween parties were largely devoted to fortune telling and matchmaking games, so tonight we’re keeping that spirit alive. Have a cupcake! Hidden inside are tokens with holiday-appropriate symbols like skulls, black cats, and cauldrons, which you can take to one of the private rooms with the corresponding symbol posted to the door. When two matching tokens are in proximity, the door will lock for ten minutes. Nobody’s making anyone fuck here, but if you want to do more than simply enjoy a private conversation in there together, then by all means, enjoy your new friend.

And don't forget to avail yourself of the bar's specialty cocktails for the occasion!


🍸 COCKTAIL MENU 🍸
🎃 TRICK OR TREAT ⎰ ???
50/50 shot; might be aphro, might be a hallucinogen. There will be signs posted in warning so that nobody is drugged without accepting the possibility.

🎃 PUMPKIN SPICED RUM PUNCH ⎰ spiced Apple Cider, Regular or Spiced Rum, Cream Soda, Whipped Cream, cinnamon, Pumpkin Pie Spice

🎃 MULLED WINE ⎰ wine, brandy, oranges, cinnamon, mulling spices

🎃 CIDER SIDECAR ⎰ angostura Bitters, Apple Cider, Brandy, Cointreau, Lemon Juice

🎃 CORPSE REVIVER ⎰ tequila, blackberry syrup, hot sauce, lime juice, salt

🎃 ZOMBIE ⎰ vodka, prosecco, lemon juice

🎃 AFTER MIDNIGHT ⎰ spiced rum, licorice liqueur, crème de cacao, chocolate stout, muddled blackberries

🎃 BLOODY (GOOD) HOT COCOA ⎰ milk, heavy cream, vanilla extract, diced white chocolate, chopped into tiny pieces, mini chocolate chips, red food coloring, (optional:) rum


Patrons are also encouraged to help themselves to the festive spread that's laid out across a long table which extends along one of the bar walls: confectioneries upon even more confectioneries -- a generous assortment fit to rival any pastry or sweet shop -- cover the table, such as candied apples; bowls of black licorice; spiced peach hand-pies; several different varieties of cupcake; and a large, self-serve bowl of mulled sangria-- as well as fruit punch, for those who'd prefer a non-alcoholic alternative. It isn't all just sweets, though, as evidenced by the various bowls arranged throughout the table which are filled with salted almonds; walnuts; roasted chestnuts; olives; and finally, mixed raisins and cranberries.

As for the Halloween supper, served at 8PM at the large, elegant and atmospherically set dinner table guests may have already noticed set up and waiting in the parlor ( because believe it or not, there isn't usually a dinner table there ), the following menu has been provided:

Sitting down to supper, however, is not by any means obligatory, so any guests who would instead prefer to continue enjoying their cocktails and party games are more than welcome to it.



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☠︎ —IT JUST MIGHT BE THAT I FOUND RELIGION ✘
(  SEANCE & GHOST STORIES  )

☠︎ CW | references to / discussion of death ✘ spirituality ✘ religious themes ☠︎
🔮 After dinner, the doors open to what is usually the gambling room, but instead of wagering with cards and dice on this darkest of nights, you'll be gambling with your very souls. To many of the eighteenth and nineteenth century folks the Neptune Lounge is geared to, it's all quite taboo, crystal balls and fortune telling and attempted communions with the dead. But if ever there was a time for blasphemy, surely it's tonight.

Try your hand at communicating with the dearly departed with a Ouija board (seriously, who's moving it? probably just those mischievous floating pumpkins), or take a break from the cocktails and try reading your own tea leaves. If you're a little too God-fearing for all that, or would rather peek out of the corner of your eye, there's always blackjack.

Sometime late in the evening, everyone will have the chance to share some ghost stories next to the flickering candlelight. Your host, Jack Rackham, will choose the best one and award the lucky storyteller a prize.




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✘ I'VE BEEN ON MY KNEES— ☠︎
( MASKED MATCHMAKING )
☠︎ CW | anonymous sex ✘ masked/costumed sex ✘ semi-public sex ☠︎
🎭 This is not a costume party, per se, but there’s a room in the back -- normally the lounge's tea room -- that you’ll need one to get into, if you’re looking for something a little more anonymous than the cupcakes’ face to face matchmaking. Back here, the old-timey modesty rules don’t apply, and guests are free to flaunt anything they want – except for their faces. Looking for a discreet hookup, someone you won’t see again to unleash a shameful, dirty secret on, or even just excited by the idea of not knowing whose cock is in you? This is the place to be, a parlor filled with comfortable (and not-so-comfortable, if you’re into that) furniture, wheeled partitions that can be rearranged for as much or as little privacy as you desire, and romantic fireplace lighting.






☠︎ —FOR HALF OF THE NIGHT ✘
(  PARTY GAMES & COSTUME CONTEST  )

☠︎ CW | accident/injury ✘ tentacle monster ✘ drowning/death ☠︎
🍏 If you're a bit more in the mood for some non-sexual, non-blasphemous-occult fun and games, then fear not, because tonight, all bases have been covered.

CHESTNUTS ROASTING 🌰
    In search of a contract partner, or perhaps just looking to make new friends? Whichever the case, have a seat by the fire with your intended to give this old and well-loved compatibility test a shot. Each person selects a chestnut to baptize with their own name before placing upon a grate above the fire, and if the nuts proceed to burn quietly, it is thought to foretell a long and happy friendship kept up by both parties. If, however, they crackle, pop, and burst, then the union is an incompatible one, doomed to erupt in sparks similar to those now coming off the fire. The movements of both nuts should be closely watched while heating, as they are said to reflect and reveal the tempers of those for whom they are named.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT? 💡
    Or maybe you'd prefer a get-to-know-you method which is a little more coy and flirty, but for which you can still remain clothed? As a variant to the cupcake matchmaking game, guests may help themselves to a numbered card before sitting down to dinner, from out of a candy dish filled with them, and then have a seat in the correspondingly numbered chair. Should you choose to continue playing this game, then whoever has been seated opposite is your designated conversation partner for the duration of supper. The pairs may generally converse about whatever most suits them, but upon their cards shall be written 3 questions, one to be asked during each minor course (first course, entree, and dessert) of the meal, at which point it falls upon the players to guess whether or not their partner has answered honestly or told a lie. Anyone caught in a lie must then honestly answer a new question of their partner's own choosing.

APPLE BOBBING 🍎
    Well, you all know how this game works by now. Apples were a big part of Victorian Halloween, so have some good fun with it! Not to worry, there is no aphrodisiac within either the fruit or the water, nor are there aren't penalties, sexual or otherwise, for losing (unless you count possibly getting very, very wet as a penalty), but capturing enough apples between your teeth may qualify you for a door prize or two...


Finally and lest we forget, don't forget to keep yourself fresh enough for the costume contest! Judged by a consensus between your hosts Jack Rackham and John Irving, winners will be entitled to either a free drink or afternoon tea -- whichever is prefered -- during the club's regular hours of operation... in other words, on your next visit!



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