The story so far....
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Lena: You know, Kris, I'd have more sympathy for the bored little rich girl act if I didn't know you. You'll make your own excitement.
Kris: Point. So what are your plans for Masquerade?
Lena: Oh, I don't know. Do some dancing, go up to the Rue del Monde maybe. Only time of year it's safe to be on l'Monde.
Kris: I never got that. I mean, they're horrible cutthroat gangsters, but once a year they suddenly throw a giant party? What's their point?
Lena: They fear the dead. They've made so many, after all. Be a lot of candles lit to Mary Mercy come Saint's Night. And parades, and fireworks, and music... all pretty tawdry by Uptown standards, I guess. But I bet we have more fun.
Kris: Well, you'll be able to compare after you come to our Masquerade party.
Lena: Mmm, I suppose.... Wait, what?!
Kris: Ooh, is that the time? Gotta run! See you at Masquerade!
Kris: Point. So what are your plans for Masquerade?
Lena: Oh, I don't know. Do some dancing, go up to the Rue del Monde maybe. Only time of year it's safe to be on l'Monde.
Kris: I never got that. I mean, they're horrible cutthroat gangsters, but once a year they suddenly throw a giant party? What's their point?
Lena: They fear the dead. They've made so many, after all. Be a lot of candles lit to Mary Mercy come Saint's Night. And parades, and fireworks, and music... all pretty tawdry by Uptown standards, I guess. But I bet we have more fun.
Kris: Well, you'll be able to compare after you come to our Masquerade party.
Lena: Mmm, I suppose.... Wait, what?!
Kris: Ooh, is that the time? Gotta run! See you at Masquerade!
When last we saw... Lena - Kris
April 22, 2009
L'Rue del Monde
Masquerade happens from the 30th of October to the 1st of November. As you might guess from the name, costumes and masks are still traditional, but in other respects it more closely resembles the Latin American Day of the Dead than Halloween -- a time to remember and respect one's friendly dead, and to appease or scare off the unfriendly ones. The rise of l'affaires has seen the holiday turn from celebration into essentially a three-day pageant, the gangsters being generally (as Lena suggests) both extremely superstitious and possessed of a large number of potentially angry ghosts to appease.
Mary Mercy is a death-saint, one of the more formidable ones. She is said to particularly watch over those who died violently and those who were made to suffer in dying. Candles, incense, and small offerings are traditional when appealing to (or appeasing) a saint -- for vows, one uses blood.
April 22, 2009
L'Rue del Monde
Masquerade happens from the 30th of October to the 1st of November. As you might guess from the name, costumes and masks are still traditional, but in other respects it more closely resembles the Latin American Day of the Dead than Halloween -- a time to remember and respect one's friendly dead, and to appease or scare off the unfriendly ones. The rise of l'affaires has seen the holiday turn from celebration into essentially a three-day pageant, the gangsters being generally (as Lena suggests) both extremely superstitious and possessed of a large number of potentially angry ghosts to appease.
Mary Mercy is a death-saint, one of the more formidable ones. She is said to particularly watch over those who died violently and those who were made to suffer in dying. Candles, incense, and small offerings are traditional when appealing to (or appeasing) a saint -- for vows, one uses blood.
The holy women of Semay are dying. As a Moonchild, it's Drake's duty to find the killer, no matter what he may think of their religion. But pinning down the priestesses of Ava is harder than it looks...
