Milli-timed to Tuesday the 28th - New Orleans Mardi Gras

[mogget_cat]

The bar room of Milliways is always full of sound - the clatter of dishes and clink of glasses, chairs being scooted back or further in, footsteps upon the floor, rats squeaking, the background murmur of conversations overlapping one another.

But tonight the main door to the bar opens to the mouth of an city alleyway, to a caucophony of noise and music, full of seething crowds and colorful parade floats, the smells of food and sweat and smoke and beer and those colorful fruity drinks sold in yard-long plastic glasses with umbrellas in them. Mardi Gras is in full swing and New Orleans has outdone itself this time.

Yrael enters, trailing laughter from a section of the crowd on the other side. His white hair is decorated with purple, gold and green feathers, his pale face partially hidden by a sharp, glittery cat mask of gold, behind which his green eyes are bright. Over his white shirt this evening he wears a shiny waistcoat of purple, gold, green, and black. It's clearly party time, big time, show time -

"And then some!" he grins, seeing Milliways. "Fat Tuesday is upon us, Milliways! Welcome to Mardi Gras! Come, dance, explore! Laissez les bons temps rouler!"

Yrael will make sure the door stays open for any party-goer who would like to partake in the joie de vivre, and the Bar can certainly provide a change of costume...



(ooc: The post will be open all weekend and into next week as needed! Usual party-thread guidelines apply! Tag in! Threadhop! Meet new people and get into trouble! :D Yrael will be around, but his mun will not be able to tag much until Monday evening. <333333)

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Re: Exploring the French Quarter

[merryeccentricities]

Joly takes Combeferre's arm, and sets off in the direction indicated. "I haven't tried any beignets yet!-- Yes, someone on one of the floats was throwing beads, but I had my hands full, they just sort of landed in my drink. How about you, any trophies of the fair yet?"

Re: Exploring the French Quarter

[wings_of_a_swan]

Combeferre pulls out a pink sparkly strand from the pocket of his sweatshirt. "Oh yes, these fell on me somehow. Perhaps I'll give them to Prouvaire.--but you'll like the beignets, I think, they come with jam and melted chocolate--"

Re: Exploring the French Quarter

[merryeccentricities]

"--there's some!" He tugs Combeferre along with him to a food cart. Where there's a line, but there's a line everywhere.

While they're waiting, Joly is bouncing, lookng around at the buildings, the ground, everything. "Isn't it wonderful? This whole city I mean--well, what we can see of it! Those huge buildings over there!" He waves enthusiastically at skyscrapers in the distance. " How do they get power to them--and over here, too? And these roads! They're so smooth! Hah,I'd hate to have to tear them up! And even with this crowd, it's so clean!"

...That may be the 1830s talking. But New Orleans, even at Carnival, has a distinct lack of sewage running down the middle of the street, of garbage days old piling behind buildings and on curbs. To Joly, at least , it's a wonder, one that all the litter of the carnival can't hide.

Re: Exploring the French Quarter

[wings_of_a_swan]

"It's considered dirty by modern standards," Combeferre says, with the wonder and awe of a man who witnessed a cholera epidemic. "Well--in the so-called developed world, anyway. But can you believe it? This, right here, is dirty--people take such a standard of public health for granted."

Re: Exploring the French Quarter

[merryeccentricities]

If Joly were of a more melancholic disposition, that thought, the sheer contrast, might send him into a reverie.

Instead, he laughs. "They'd have nightmares if they saw our poor Paris!--oh, but it must be amazing to be here when it's not so crowded. I would love to know how they do it! I mean, we can read about it in Milliways, of course, but I want to see. It's always different in person-like a real operation after studying diagrams."

Re: Exploring the French Quarter

[wings_of_a_swan]

"What, you mean the infrastructure? The sewers, the garbage collection systems, the recycling, all of it?" Combeferre's eyes light up with keen interest. "Those would be marvelous to see, in motion--the coordination and the planning involved is wonderful."